Video 1, The FX on the DJM600 mixer

Alright folks, this is video number one in a selection I'm going to be doing on the effects functions of a mixer. Now in this case we're looking at this guy here, it's the DJM600, but before we even touch the actual mixer, let's talk about effects in general. Now you may have a CDJ and you may have certain effects buttons on that. You may have a different mixer and you may have certain effects buttons. You could have a PC program, you've got effects buttons. What are they there for? What do they do? A producer, a remixer, they will make a record in the studio. They'll make a song, a track, a tune, anything. And then all of a sudden that's put onto a CD, to a piece of vinyl or MP3 PC program. Then that will be played as it was made in the studio. Now utilising the effects you can change the sound of that particular song.

But, the beauty about it is, you're in control. Now then, the producer has made that track, but now you've been given the option of messing around with it again. Now then, take this tip one, in video number one, and that is, if you've got effects, there are right ways and wrong ways of using them. In other words, don't go mad and just press buttons all the time because you can actually make the song sound worse than it originally was. Even though I'm not saying it's bad, but what I'm trying to say, duh, what I'm trying to say there is that the song is good. You start messing around Video number one is all about experimenting, spending time and don't go full on bulletergate and just dive in and press every single button. Just one or two.

Thanks for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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