Basic Tips for Two-Channel Mixers

Video Transcript

" What's up? This is DJ Colione with expertvillage.com and in this clip we are going to look at a 2 channel mixer and see what it can do in the features that it has to aid in vinyl Djing. So in this mixer which is a standard SK2-F there are a number of features. The first thing and the most important thing we got to take note is a cross fader and up faders. These control your turn tables in 2 different ways. The up faders individually control the volume for this turntable and the volume for this turntable. So if we start these we will see that this turntable here controls the volume for that right, up and down and this one here shows the volume of that. We have both of these up at the same time. We are going to hear them both which is not what we want. Now the cross fader does a similar effect but it goes from side to side. So in combination with these two, the cross fader what it is going to do is when it is on this side it is going to play that turntable and when it's on this side, it's going to play this turntable and when it is in the middle, it is going to play both. So if we have these up we hear both of these in the middle. When it is on the right side it just plays the right turntable, when it is on th left side, it just plays the left turn table. Now part of an important feature of a cross fader is the cut. Now that turn is how far off of the right side am I going to have to move the cross fader in order to hear the left side of the turntable. Now with this mix particularly the cut is very sharp. So if I have this turntable playing, the fader is on the right and I inch this over just a little bit and you get the full volume of this left turntable Now that is important for scratching so. You need a tight cut if you are doing a lot of scratching which is lot of vinyl Djing just do. You have an adjustment on a lot of faders where you can make it sort of more gradual. The next thing we have on this mixer are the EQ's; The top two are the gain the next is the high EQ, the mid EQ, the low EQ and the bottom is a angles. So if we listen to this record here, the gain turns it up and down , right. The highs take all the high hats up so we turn this up we can here the high hats. Mid takes the mid section out which is where a lot of the vocals lie and lows takes the base out. Angles left and right. So knowing what these do, knowing what your cross faders and up faders do, you can do a lot of different effects and trick mixes in combination with the vinyl that you are spinning."