All right folks. We got a set of videos coming now and they are targeted at the complete total enough to novice. In other words, if you have never touched a turntable or CD player in your life and you have never seen a mixer, then these videos are for you.
Now then, I have had quite a few emails, people have been asking me what the people listen, what the DJs listen to when they are using headphones. In other words, if you see a DJ and he is like this, he got his headphones on, he is doing this or what is going through here. Now that, if you think about it and you are a DJ, you know. But then again, if you think about it on the basis of someone has never ever heard what was coming through here before, how do they know what is coming through here? Quite a logical question and there is a logical answer.
Now then, very quickly, where a DJ is concerned, quite often, they will have definitely two sources of music. Now, it can be anything. It can be a keyboard, it can be an effects, a drum effects unit, it can be a CD player, it can be a PC, it can be a turntable, a CD player, basically, anything that makes music. The whole concept of a DJ is that he can or she can mix two forms of music together almost to make one. Or, he or she can start off with one form of music then blend another one in and then let the second one play and take the first one out.
Now then, headphones, where we start to use headphones is where we have – the terminology that I described, blending. The usage of making the two come together. Now first of all, I am going to play you two different types or two parts of music. One from the CD player or the CDJ and the other one from the turntable. Now then, listen to these because I am going to have to mix these two together. First of all, here is the CDJ. [music playing]
Right. We will key that up and get that started ready. Start it from the beginning. Okay, here is the other and the other piece of music is going to be on the vinyl turntable [music playing]. Now then, if let us say that I have both volumes up on my mixer, I have the crossfade in the middle and I start the two together and I play them together without listening to beats, without queuing anything in, without doing anything just for a start, this is what it sounds like. [music playing]
In other words, it is absolutely all over the place. All right. Now, this is where we start looking in more into how to synchronize beats and beat matching. Go watch those videos. What we have here is what is going on in this guy here. All right. Now again, normal headphones are two, left and right. I only got a right side or a left side. It depends on which side you want to listen to. But the main thing is that you need one source. You need one headphone at least to be able to listen to one element. Now then, an easy way of describing it is this. Let us say for example that on your P8 system or if you are looking at the DJ, this is the easy way of describing it. If you are looking a DJ and you are listening to the music that he is playing, now then, that music that you are listening to is coming from the big PA. The speakers, the hi fi, what ever. But, the DJ will also have to listen to the music that you cannot hear yourself. Now then, for example, let us say that you are listening to the music that is coming out of this turntable. The music coming out from this turntable is going through this mixer and through the big PA. But at the same time, the DJ can hear what is coming through the CDJ through the mixer and he can hear that through his headphones. Not only can he hear that through his headphones, he could also hear the music that is coming out of the main PA. The reason being is because he will have his headphone on this ear like so listening to the CDJ. And then the other ear is going to be listening to the music coming out of the PA.
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