How to Set Your Audio Levels as a DJ
On be half of TVlesson.com my name is Eric Roman otherwise known as DJ Empire.
In this clip I’m going to show you how set up your audio levels before you get started for your gig at a party, a house party, a night club or even of just deejaying in your bedroom as a practice set. If you come look over here, I’ve already preset everything to off except for the gains and I’ll talked about the gains in just a little bit. Right now, if I push play on my audio I get know no sound but I can equalized everything and slowly bring up audio.
If you listen right now I’m just showing bass, with bass you have no drum. But then you need vocals and your hi-hats and your cymbals and that’s where you come up here and you bring up your highs, which is your cymbals and your treble and your mids which is your voices and anything in between your tom tom drums anything like that. If you go to high on your levels, you start clipping your audio and you get distortion and I’ll show that right now by just killing the audio on the mids and highs and showing you bass. Too much bass can be distracting to your crowd and also painful to them, it’s not of audio that you hear from your ears but more feeling.
So you definitely want to keep that flat in the middle so that we have room to play and let’s go back to the flat all around and by doing that flat you have room to go higher. Some songs need more treble or lower, they require less treble as you can hear it goes away as I go up and down. So, you definitely want to keep an eye on that as you go along with your music. If you want to bring up the vocals and isolate it just your vocals, you definitely just kill your highs and your lows and just isolate the mids which is your voices, your tom toms as you can hear it going on now. It also it a good way to add emphasis on different part of the party if you want to just bring down the volume on your crowd you can definitely do it by equing instead of playing with your sliders and your master levels.
As I spoke about the gains earlier, the higher your gain is how you set the overall tones. So, you can definitely bring them higher or lower depending on the volume of the song. That’s something very important to remember at the beginning of the night instead of throughout your night.
On behalf of TVlesson.com this has been DJ Empire. Thank you for watching.
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