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Pioneer DJM-800. efect with sweep, crush, filter & harmonic

Lesson Intermediate Stage 4: Mixing & Transitions November 2009

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0:00 On it, sometimes known as

Alright folks, now this particular video is all about in a sense I suppose taking you on a bit of a journey. Now that guy there first of all, that is the DJM800 mixer and the cover on it, sometimes known as the skin, is from a company called StyleFlip. Now first of all I'm going to explain exactly what I've done. Now this guy here is a four channel mixer. One, two, three, four. Crossfade, you can assign... Each channel to any side of the crossfade. But I have now made this, converted it, I haven't opened it up or anything, but it is now a two-channel mixer. What have I done? OK, I'll explain. Two CD players, one, two. This guy here is now in channel 1 and 2, this guy here is now in channel 3 and 4. I've done that by doing this. You have from each one of these a stereo RCA lead, red and white.

Right and left. So what I've done, I've gone from the left hand side out of here into channel one, into the left of channel one. I've gone from the right here into channel two. So now I've gone, if you think about it, that's the right side, that's the left side. I've done exactly the same with the other one. Left and right. And then, if you're all of a sudden thinking, well what's the point, you can't use it anymore, well again, you still can use it as a mixer because all you need to do is put the channels up like that, you can use the crossfade and it will work exactly like a two channel mixer. The only difference is, of course, is you can slightly adjust either side if you want to. You can do something similar to this if you've got pan control, but what I'm going to concentrate more on with this particular video are these effects here.

1:48 He also covers harmonic, sweep, crush and filter

He also covers harmonic, sweep, crush and filter. Right now what I'm going to do so you can get a very good quality stereo sound is I'm going to plug from out of the record using this. I'm going to put that into the side of the camera. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to take you on a bit of a musical madness journey here. Now the track I'm going to be playing, let's have a look, is where are we now? No it's not that one. Where is it? Ah, here it is. Beg your pardon. Right, it's Martin Borden, a track entitled Siberian Transit. Okay, so this should be quite a lot of fun and I highly recommend you have headphones on. Here we go. By the way, practice and enjoy.

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