Of course, the classic DJ set-up is a pair of vinyl turntables with a hardware mixer sitting between them.
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So nowadays in a pro DJ booth, you’ll typically see a four channel mixer (so called because it has four main inputs, plus various microphones, auxiliary inputs, etc.) sitting between a pair or more of DJ media players (think CD players with extra bells and whistles). Physically, a mixer usually sits between your input sources. The basic controls are the same on any size or type of mixer, including those in DJ software. A hardware DJ mixer, in this case, the Allen & Heath Xone:43. To DJ well, you have to be able to audition the next track to decide for sure that it’s what you want to use, to get its volume and tone settings right before the audience hears it, and to get it playing at the right speed, the last point being an essential part of the DJ skill of beatmixing. Thirdly (and crucially for DJing), your mixer lets you play something different through your headphones to what the crowd is hearing. There will always be an overall volume control, too.
Secondly, your mixer lets you adjust the volumes of those inputs, and often the tone as well (bass and treble, or lows and highs, at a minimum for the main inputs – there’s often a mid as well which sits between the two, giving you three tone controls at least for the main input channels). Something’s got to take all of these inputs and give you one unified output that can be amplified and sent to the speakers. Usually these are two music sources, but they could include a microphone or two, a back-up music source, a live bongo player… be our guest. A mixer does three things: Firstly, as you may guess, it lets you mix the different elements of your DJ set together.
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