Practisenjoy, 2008, video 4, A look at the Pioneer DVJ-1000

0:00 Basic idea

To this day, when I do shows, everybody's singing along to that Journey song and then they're dancing along to Sexy Back right after it because it goes one to seven. And it's just, for me, that's the fun for me when I'm doing remixes and stuff at home is to take two things that people wouldn't expect to have mixed together. You know, take two hip-hop tunes that a lot of people may go, yeah, I expected to hear those two, they do sound good together, but take a guitar riff and play it over a hip-hop or a dance beat or whatever it is and give them something different. When I first got them, my family didn't see me for a long time. I locked myself in the basement and said, leave me alone! I'm working! And just kept playing with them. Trying to figure out all the features and the beatmixing and everything else. Yeah, except that it seems to

1:44 Really just talk through it in a sense

Can you show me now, video it, a very basic idea of let's say for example you've got A track playing on there. Okay. And then you, you know, a very basic idea of then how you would go from that track through to this one over here. Yeah. What I'll do is, it's going to be a little difficult just because... Sorry, let me just get this right. And of course, I do apologize folks because we haven't got any audio so... Yeah. So really just talk through it in a sense. Yeah, well what I'm going to do is I'm going to have, see I use these monitors to preview everything. So for instance I've got a song queued up here and that's the preview of it. What I'm going to do though is this one, I'm going to make my main video output. So you won't see the preview track here, what you're going to see, that's what you would see on a bar TV big screen. Okay, sure. So I've got that one going and then let's say I want to mix in the next song here.

2:15 What I do is everything's set up separately

So what I do is everything's set up separately. I've got my audio through my audio mixer, my video through the video mixer here. So when I do the mix, I get this next song ready. So now what I can do is start to see the other video signal coming in. And I can do different effects depending on how I have it set here, different transitions. And I can also put it on automatic, kind of like an automatic pilot where it'll go through a different... DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, Thank you for watching.

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