Dj workshop

23/09/2011

Dj workshop with Nigel

This Friday lesson 4 and 5 we had a Dj workshop with a man called Nigel. Throught the two hours that we had we had learnt the basic skills of being a Dj, and we learnt the different parts of the equipment we has using like:

- This is a Turntable

- This is a Mixer
It allows you to mix sounds from different audio sources together.
The mixer includes:
-2 Channels

                                     - Cross Fader

                                     -Phono/line switches
                                     - VU meters
                                     - Master volume fader
                                     -1/4 inch headphone socket
                                     - 2 Earth points etc.

- Headphones

You have to make sure that the Headpohones you buy are good enough to handle high volumes, and a long lead.

-This is a slip mat.

Slip mats are very important when it comes to mixing records as they allow the record to move independently on the Turntable platter. Without the slip mat preparing the record would be very hard and the needle would jump too much.

- This is a Cartridges/Needles:

This is what you need to be able to play the music on the Vinyls.

-This is how you connect all of the equipment.

After we had learnt about the different parts, and had learnt what we should do, we got started.
We picked two songs and we learnt how to go from one songs and fade it to the other song while its still playing and make it sound really good. I had some trouble in the begining getting used to it but after a while i got better and better. At the end of the lesson we got to take it in turns and Dj Nigel said i did it perfectly in time. I cant wait for my next lesson, because i really enjoy DJing.