A look at the Filter fx on the Pioneer DJM-700

0:00 In this video we're going to be looking at something called the filter

Alright folks, Jonathan here. A few people have seen I've got the DJM700 mixer, so over a period of time and over quite a few videos because this is quite a nice piece of kit, I'm going to show you what you can do with all of the effects. In this video we're going to be looking at something called the filter. So what I'll do, I'll pan the camera down, look to the side of the video for all relevant information regarding the track. So here we go, let's just move the camera like that. And we'll try and get it a bit closer, and hopefully it won't get blurred. Okay, you can see there, frequency, and this guy here, the filter. And when it's pressed and flashing, that means it's being used. So what we'll do, we'll play the track, and we'll have a little bit of a go with it. Now again, sometimes people, when they press the filter, they're all over the place. And yeah, it sounds alright, but it's like I've said so many times before, if you've got effects...

Use them subtly, tiny little amounts and I'll tell you what, it's so much better than just wanging it into phase effect or reverb and just letting it go for about 10 years. So here we go, we'll play the track. Put it onto the beat. Now this is what it sounds like without any effect at all. Now I'm going to press the filter and we'll just go around to low pass filter and then to high pass filter. So here we go. Filter's on. But because it's at 12 o'clock, nothing's happening. As we move the filter to low pass, what happens is that we get rid of all the high frequencies and we're just left with low frequencies. And then if I move this now to HPF, we will get all high frequencies and no low. So you can hear there, we're slowly getting rid of the low. We've only got high frequency.

1:59 Very quickly as well, alright, I'm using a piece of vinyl

Stop the music. Right, how can we use that effect subtly in the mix or even while you're just playing one track? Now very quickly as well, alright, I'm using a piece of vinyl. You do not have to have CDJs to get good effects from these guys here, okay? So for all the turntablist out there who religiously will only use vinyl, it doesn't matter, you can still use vinyl with... All kinds of mixers that have got effects. So we'll start the music again and I'll show you how you can have that subtle, little use of the filter just to give that particular track you're playing that sort of take it to the next level. Here we go. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to set the filter just above the lowest position. Now watch. Now then, watch the movements on the actual dial. Again, that was in time. What I mean by time? It was in bars, in phrases.

But I was using it very subtly, only tiny little amounts. Now by doing that and not just going meh-meh-meh-meh all over the place continually. Alright, what I mean by meh-meh-meh-meh, I'll show you, here we go. I guarantee you if you did that, the dance floor would be looking at you thinking, what the blinking heck are you doing? But small, subtle movements are fantastic, alright? A very quick video, and in this video we're looking at what is known... As the filter button here, or the filter effect with regards to the DJM mixer, alright? DJM 700. Practice and enjoy.

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