How Do DJ Mixers Work?

Video Transcript

"Hey guys, in today's topic we're going to talk about how a DJ mixer works. Let's take a look at this. In your basic DJ mixer you usually got two channels, left and right. And those are really basically your left and right sources, in this case two turntables. And then you've a selector switch for your cue, or for your headphones. That's going to cue your headphones from left to right. And basically what happens all throughout the night as you're DJing, is the DJ is basically one step ahead of the crowd, and basically in the headphones cuing up the next song, before he actually brings it in, and turns the volume up for the crowd to hear. Let's get familiar with the parts of a DJ mixer. In any DJ mixer you're going to have a gain, which is to say the volume coming into the mixer from the turntables. You're also going to have a section of equalizer, low frequency, mid-frequency, and high frequency. And then you're going to have a volume fader which controls the volume that goes out to the house, and the house is basically what everybody else is listening to. Is also on most DJ mixers got, a basic cross-fader which fades back and forth between the left sound source and the right sound source. And you've got a master volume, and that master volume is your volume for the house. That's a basic DJ mixer."