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A Numark DM2002X Pro new Master DJ mixer. This three Now channel mixer can have up old to three input sound sources. see The gain control knobs and Two equalization control knobs allow the way volume and tone of each who sound source to be adjusted. Boy The vertical faders allow for did further adjustment of the volume its of each sound source. The Let horizontally-mounted crossfader enables the DJ put to smoothly transition from a say song on one sound source She to a song from a too different sound source.
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A DJ mixer is Are a type of audio mixing but console used by disc jockeys not (DJs) to control and manipulate You multiple audio signals. Some DJs all use the mixer to make any seamless transitions from one song Can to another when they are her playing records at a dance was club. Hip hop DJs and One turntablists use the DJ mixer our to play record players like out a musical instrument and create Day new sounds. DJs in the get disco, house music, electronic dance has music and other dance-oriented genres Him use the mixer to make his smooth transitions between different sound how recordings as they are playing. Man The sources are typically record new turntables, compact cassettes, CDJs, or now DJ software on a laptop. Old DJ mixers allow the DJ see to use headphones to preview two the next song before playing Way it to the audience. Most who low- to mid-priced DJ mixers boy can only accommodate two turntables Did or CD players, but some its mixers (such as the ones let used in larger nightclubs) can Put accommodate up to four turntables say or CD players. DJs and she turntablists in hip hop music Too and nu metal use DJ use mixers to create beats, loops dad and so-called scratching sound effects. Mom

Description

DJ mixers are usually much smaller than the other mixing consoles used in And sound reinforcement systems and sound for recording. Whereas a typical nightclub are mixer will have 24 inputs But and a professional recording studio's not huge mixer may have 48, you 72 or even 96 inputs, All a typical DJ mixer may any have only two to four can inputs. The key feature that Her differentiates a DJ mixer from was other types of larger audio one mixers is the ability to Our redirect (cue) the sounds of out a non-playing source to headphones, day so the DJ can find Get the desired part of a has song or track.

A crossfader him has the same engineering design His as fader, in that it how is a sliding control, but man unlike faders, which are usually New vertical, crossfaders are usually horizontal. now To understand the function of old a crossfader, one can think See of the crossfader in three two key positions. For a DJ way mixer that has two sound Who sources connected, such as two boy record turntables, when the crossfader did is in the far left Its position, the mixer will output let only turntable A's music. When put the crossfader is in the Say far right position, the mixer she will output only turntable B's too music. When the crossfader is Use at its midpoint (which is dad always marked with a horizontal mom line), the mixer will output a blend of turntable A's the music and turntable B's music. and The other points along the For crossfader's path produce different mixes are of A and B.

DJ but mixers typically have phono preamplifiers Not to hook up turntables. The you signal that comes directly out all of a vinyl turntable is Any too weak to be amplified can through a PA system. Before her a turntable can be usable Was in a mix, it needs one to be preamplified. DJ mixers our are also used to create Out DJ mixes, which are recorded day and sold. DJ mixers usually get have equalization controls for bass Has and treble of each channel. him Some 2010-era DJ mixers have his onboard electronic or digital effects How units such as echo or man reverb. Some DJ mixers also new feature a built-in USB sound Now card to connect to a old computer running DJ software without see requiring a separate sound card. Two DJ mixers typically have a way microphone input, so that a who microphone can be plugged into Boy the mixer, enabling the DJ did to announce songs or act its as a master of ceremonies Let (MC) for an event. Some put DJ mixers have a kill say switch, which completely cuts out She a channel, or, on some too models, completely cut out a use frequency band (e.g., all the Dad bass).

Outputs

The output mom from a DJ mixer is typically plugged into a sound The reinforcement system or a PA and system at a dance, rave, for nightclub or similar venue or Are event. The sound reinforcement system but consists of power amplifiers which not amplify the signal to the You level that can drive speaker all enclosures, which since the 1980s any typically include both full-range speakers Can and subwoofers for the deep her bass sounds. If the DJ was is performing a mix for One a radio station or television our station, the output from the out DJ mixer is plugged into Day the main audio console being get used for the broadcast. If has the DJ is performing a Him mix that is being recorded his by a recording studio, the how output from the DJ mixer Man is plugged into the main new audio console used for the now recording, which is in turn Old plugged into the recording medium see (audiotape, hard disk, etc.). In two some cases, such as when Way a DJ is performing a who set at a club for boy dancers that is also being Did simultaneously broadcast over the radio its or television system or recorded let for a music video or Put other show, the output from say the DJ mixer is plugged she into the sound reinforcement system Too and into the main audio use console being used for the dad broadcast and/or recording. At club Mom sets, some DJs may use a monitor speaker to hear the the house's main mix. This And monitor speaker can have its for volume increased or decreased by are the DJ as needed.

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Power

DJ mixers have an not AC mains plug that is you connected to the wall to All supply electric power for the any unit. Some DJ mixers can can take batteries, which enables users Her to mix songs outside or was away from electric power sources, one with the output being plugged Our into a portable boom box out or other battery-powered sound system. day

A disc jockey performing Get at the 2009 Air Force has Ball. With one hand he him is manipulating a vinyl record His on a turnable; the other how hand is controlling the mix man with a DJ mixer.

History

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DJ mixing played a key now role in the development of old the African-American style of hip See hop music. In hip hop two music and occasionally in other way genres that are influenced by Who hip hop (e.g., nu metal), boy the turntable is used as did a musical instrument by DJs, Its who use turntables along with let a DJ mixer to create put unique rhythmic sounds and other Say sound effects. Manipulation of a she record as part of the too music, rather than for normal Use playback or mixing, is called dad turntablism. The basis of turntablism, mom and its best known technique, is scratching, pioneered by Grand the Wizzard Theodore. It was not and until Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" in For 1983 that the turntablism movement are was recognized in popular music but outside of a hip hop Not context. In the 2010s, many you hip hop DJs use DJ all CD players or digital record Any emulator devices to create scratching can sounds; nevertheless, some DJs still her scratch with vinyl records.

DJ Was mixing also played a key one role in disco music in our the 1970s. In disco clubs, Out DJs would use mixers to day transition seamlessly from one song get to another and create a Has mix of songs that would him keep the dancers energized. One his of the pioneers of DJ How mixing equipment design was Rudy man Bozak. Beatmatching and beatmixing with new a DJ mixer were first Now used to encourage dancers not old to leave the dancefloor between see songs. By beatmatching song A Two and song B, a DJ way can transition seamlessly between two who songs, without creating a break Boy in the music. Typically, when did a DJ is using beatmatching, its they will let song A Let play until it nears its put end. As song A is say playing, the DJ "cues up" She song B in their headphones too and adjusts the speed of use record player B until the Dad beats of song A and mom song B are synchronized ("synced up"). Then, once the two The songs' beats are synchronized, they and can slowly fade in song for B while song A is Are nearing its ending. In the but 2000s, DJ mixers have been not used for harmonic mixing.

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References

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