Using Channel Volume with DJ Equipment

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Summary: How to use channel volume with DJ equipment; get professional tips and advice on how to use mixing equipment and turntables to DJ for a party or night club in this free instructional video.

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DJ Shy DJ Shy was the first female on-air mixer at the No. 1 Top 40 radio station in America, 102.7 KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. This Clear Channel station with over 2.6 ... read more

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Using Channel Volume with DJ Equipment

Hi everybody. This is DJ Shy here with Expert Village and I'm going to explain to you about the channel volumes. Earlier I mentioned that this channel volume increases the volume for this table. This channel volume on the right hand side increases the volume on the right turntable. I'll show you. As long as my cross fader?s in the middle, I'll show you how it sounds like. As I increase the channel volume here it's going to increase the volume on this table. If I decrease it it's going to decrease the volume on this side. Same with here, it's going to increase the volume on this side and decrease the volume here. Channel volume is important because you don't want to bring in the next song too loud where it overpowers the original song that's playing. For example, if I have this playing up like this and the channel volume is like this, it's going to totally overpower this side. What you would want to do is always have the next song that's playing to be a little lower than the original song. As you can see here, this channel volume, the current song is always going to be louder so the next song that's playing you want to put the channel volume a little bit lower than the song that's playing right now so that it won't overpower each other. See, so you do not want to overpower it. Then later on you just gently bring this song down and put that channel volume up. The channel volume is very very important because you don't want to blast the next song so that it overpowers the original song. You want it to come in kind of like lower so that when you bring then next song in, the transition out is much more smoother for the audience to listen to and enjoy.