If you are a beatmatching professional, you know your top DJs Melbourne equipment inside out and words like bar and breakdown are part of the daily DJ vocabulary. It is now the right time to move on and learn how to mix your tracks. We will get a taste of what mixing is and how to set your sound levels.
Setting your sound levels
In most cases, two tracks from different records will have a different volume level. They will also be recorded in different tempos. One record may be louder than the other when you play them on the same turntable. This means you can cause distortion to your audience and this can affect their experience.
The job of a DJ is to provide a uniform level of volume for all the tracks played. It is, therefore, important for DJs Melbourne in Victoria Australia to know how to balance their sound. The rule thumb is to set a channel level so that in the loudest parts of a record, the channel meter touches on the red from time to time but doesn’t stay there to avoid clipping.
If your mixer doesn’t have channel meters, you can monitor the level of the sound using the master volume or the cue meter.
Setting the volume of the channel
You can set the channel’s volume using its gain. The gain of the track should be set beforehand before you start bringing the record in.
For top DJs Melbourne in Victoria Australia who has channel meters on their mixer, this is a breeze. You can adjust the gain of the track as you are beat-matching with the new record in your headphones. This can be done by adjusting the gain in the loud parts of the song, its channel meter will touch on the red occasionally as we had already described.
