Deejay dictionary A-Z

Deejay Dictionary

33 & 1/3 Rpms

The speed of a 12" record

45 Rpms

The speed of a 7" vinyl record.

Aux

Auxilary channel, often accepts rca connections and are unbalanced audio signals on a device

Break

Section of a song, often just drums

Bpm

Beats per minute

The tempo of a track

Crossfader

The horizontal placed slidepotentiometer used to control the intensity between tracks.

Cue

The listeningchannel where the signal only is outputted for the discjockey and this is where the testlistening is made before the record is finaly mixed.

Dubplate

Vinyl record often produced as a single copy direct engraved by a dubplatemastering engineer.

Drop

The break in a song, or often a bridge inbetween a chorus and the verse.

Eleven

This is an expression for the highest gain on a potentiometer. Full volume or intensity. On max.

Fader

The Slide potentiometer that controls the volume of a channel or the crossfade between tracks

Filter

Low pass filter that filters out the high frequency. High pass filter that filters out the low frequencies or band pass that filters out the low and the highs leaving the mid.

Gain

The intesity of volume on a track

High impediance

The signal strength of a audio source

Velocity

intesity when hiting a key on a keyboard. How fast the key is beeing hit is the same as mesuring how hard it is beeing pressed.

Mixtape:

A blend of songs made on a cassette tape, sometimes just a songs without mixing.

Used today as an word for a mix.

Public adress

Paradise garage

Night club where the garage scene was invented

Phono

The phonegraph. Often indicated on a inputchannel for a vinyl record player. Those have a different level than auxchannels.

Rpm

Revolutions per minute.

The amount of revolutions of a record every minute. This is the standard of how fast the speed of a record is.

Selectah

Jamaican word for a dj

Send

A signal can be sent thru a auxsend from a mixer to a audiosource such as a effect device.

Slipmat

The feltmat placed inbetween the record and the vinylplatter.

Used for making the platter spinn freely as the vinyl is held when cueing/backcueing.

Studio 54

Legendary disco club

Sync

The syncronizationbutton on a dj controller that adjustes 1 track so it plays on the same beat and tempo as on the other channel.

Tonearm.

The arm where the cartidge styli is connected on a turntable. The are s-shaped tonearms and there are straight tonearms.

Pitch

The speed of a record. Can also mean the tunesetting for a musical source.

Urei

An old mixer often used in disco dj setups. The most famous model was the 1620 urei mixer.

White label:

Comes from those unsigned records. Means, the record is released without a music publishing and is by the artist or the group himself.

Warehouse

Legendary nightclub in chicago where the house music genre got is name

X-fader

the crossfader

Add some vocals to your mix.

Add some vocals to your set. With a microphone you can easily add flavor to a mix. You can use the vocals to transition to another track, with a small paus between the songs you can drop the vocal just before the next song comes in. Most DJ-mixers have a microphone input. But make sure not to overdrive the microphone when speaking, or the sound might go into cheap karaoke style. There are useful techniques when speaking into a microphone by holding your thumb inbetwen the microphone membrane and your mouth, this is to reduce the "pop" sound or just by turning the mic at a 45 degree angle. Using these techniques will make your vocals sound cleaner. Have a notepad with some words are maybe rhymes written on it, just to know what to say when you want to drop the vocals. If mixing and speaking is not possible at the same time, then wait until after you transitioned the track into the other, the intro to the next track is often not as busy as a Chorus section. Also do speak

DJ Rasoul 1998 (Large)

DJ Rasoul 1998 (Large) Super record from the later end of the 90's. This EP has 3 songs, Let the music, Slingshot and Francisco Nights. Side A with "Let the music" has a dark bassline and acoustic piano, togheter with strings and the classic house rythm. Dub echos and analogue synth sounds. The song isnt just a 4-bar loop. It has lots of variations. In the middle of the song a soul vocal is heard. Also percussive elements. The later end of the song seams happier, like the minor chords are swapped with major scale instead. What I dont like about this song is the tb303 "like"-sounds towards the end. It gives the impression of a comedy sound. On side B on "Slingshot" the quality is high on the production. With groovy basslines and arpeggio-like elements. The rythm is more disco on this song. 1/3-into the song the loopy groove evolves with a acoustic piano. Then 2/3- the song goes back to the loopy status again. I like this song, its groovy and has catchy

using as few records as possible in your dj mix

Most of us wants to have a giant record collection, but when a gig is coming then you have to carry all the records to the show. This article is about using minimum amount of records in a dj mix. Lets say you play a 2 hour dj show. that means you need +- 50 records in a crate. If you only have 10 records, would you make it thru a dj mix then? If a housesong is aprox 6 min long and you want to make a 60 minute dj mix. then you'll need 10 records for the dj set. 10 records is not much for a mix. What you can do is mix in the b sides too, but then the same artist will appear again in the playlist. You can also play certain songs to the 3 minute point, then mix in another record and then a few song in the set you can reuse the previous song from the 3 minute point again, from a break of the song. Or play the best song first and last to extend it. Playing both the b-sides and reuse the same song as earlier will stretch the length of your mix. Buying an EP costs about the same as a 12&q

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