Pioneer DJM-5000 Sound Maximizer Explained

0:00 The top one here is clarity, underneath that we've got dynamics

Alright guys, now in this video we're looking at the Pioneer DJM5000 mixer and we're going to be looking at these two dials here. The top one here is clarity, underneath that we've got dynamics. Now these are part and parcel of the sound maximiser. You can find them just below the power on off button. Now you'll notice below these two dials we have an on off switch. When we have The blue LED shining, it means that these guys are ready to be used. When that's not shining, you can do anything you want with them and you won't get anything at all. The track I'm using is Alice DJ Better Off Alone. Now before we touch these, let me try and explain something. Now imagine you are in a cardboard box and... Yeah, big fish, little fish. Alright, calm down. Sorry. Right.

You're in a cardboard box and you're listening to some music. Now the music sounds fine, nothing wrong, perfectly sounding, but all of a sudden you open that box and you move out into an open space. You can still hear the music, but what's happened is the sound itself has opened out. You have more clarity, you have more contrast, you have more highs, more lows, there's more depth and there's more feel to the sound. Well that's near enough exactly what you can do with these guys. Now I'm not saying all of a sudden if you don't have these on the sound is going to sound terrible, it's not, it's going to sound very good. What will happen though is you will start to get slightly more depth, more highs, there will be more feel to the sound.

So what I'm going to do first of all is play the tune. Now at the moment I have not got a cable from this guy into the side of the camera. The reason being is because I want you to see if you can hear the difference in sound quality just by the microphone up there on the top of the camera. So first of all we'll play the track with nothing on here. So let's play the tune.

2:21 This cut is exceedingly cheesy, but it's a happy, vibrant track

This cut is exceedingly cheesy, but it's a happy, vibrant track. I love it. Really do. Right, what I'm going to do is press that guy on. Now you'll notice these two dials are set to 7 o'clock. Basically, that's telling me they're off. Alright? Nothing's going on. They're both set to minimum. Bearing in mind, up there is 12 o'clock, down there is 6, then 7, 8, 9, etc. Alright? What I'm going to do first of all is start to turn the clarity to maximum.

4:11 Leave it like that all night, turn it on and away you go

And again, now what I can hear is all of a sudden the sound has got more top end. It's slightly more crystal clear. Bring that down. Now we're going to mess around with the dynamics. Again, have a listen, see what you think. You could hear an emphasis on the bass frequencies. Okay, we'll turn that off. Right, so, now a lot of people may just... Turn it all the way up and think, there you go, we're done. Leave it like that all night, turn it on and away you go. But let's be honest, as a mobile DJ, we play modern day dance music, modern day hip-hop, soul, R&B, whereby a lot of that music is manufactured with PCs and top quality equipment. What you have to consider is we also play 60s, 70s, 80s...

Pop stuff. Now, take this into consideration. Your R&B, soul and hip-hop of modern day, let's say, formats has got good quality clarity with it. So, in a sense, using something like this is ideal for, for example, old 60s and 70s where maybe you need to just tweak it very slightly. So, in other words, you're almost being the person who originally made the mix But you're able to just tweak it slightly to give it that little bit more of an edge, a bit more bass, a bit more treble. This is sort of the same as bass, mid and treble but in a sense you've got your bass, mid and treble there so you can increase or decrease. What you're doing here is you're emphasising more of the tiny amounts of high frequency and low frequency. Bit of a demo on this guy here.

DJM 5000 from Pioneer. And by the way, practice in joy. And I do use this in gig logs and... Hold on. Yeah, it's finishing. No, seriously, I do like this tune. Alright, do you think I'm a nutter? Because I like this tune. I do like it. I think it's brilliant actually. You know what? I also like this guy as well.

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