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It’s important to create an index of your songs that includes the style, beats per minute, and type of sound. It’s good to a cross-reference<\/strong> and keep notes, like “this style is good to use after this song.”<\/p>\n Making this list takes time, but when it’s done, it’s invaluable to professional and amateur DJs alike.<\/p>\n The mixing table contains mono and stereo channels. Each stereo channel has controls including:<\/p>\n Want to change how fast people groove to your beats? You can adjust the tempo by changing the beats per minute<\/strong> (BPM<\/a>) through compressing or extending the amount of time your selected track plays.<\/p>\n You can also switch the pitch, or key of the music. This is particularly important when shifting from one song to another.<\/p>\n Audiences expect to hear different kinds of tunes when at DJ events. Here are a couple unofficial rules to follow to be sure to mix it up:<\/p>\n When you want to mix up your mix, there are all kinds of effects to choose from today. There are low-frequency oscillators, flangers, phasers, reverbs, and loops, each of which provides different listening and sensing effects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Reverbs<\/a> add a dense richness to lighter, less complex tracks, while grind effects re-sample a loop and are cool on higher-pitched passages, but not on lower-pitched and percussive instruments.<\/p>\n By experimenting with sound effects, you’ll find the ones that you, and your audience, like best.<\/p>\n Don’t forget to check out Mobile DJ<\/a> for more mixing fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So you want to be a DJ but are not sure how to get started? Mastering a few simple techniques will have you mixing and laying down beats that keep people dancing the night away. Here’s a look at some of the basic skills and tools to master. Selection It doesn’t matter if you’re using … Continue reading “What is DJing?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":89945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-89940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328911,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89940\/revisions\/328911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89940"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=89940"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=89940"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=89940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mixing<\/h3>\n
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Tempo and Pitch<\/h3>\n
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