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What Are Mixers

Mixers are a best friend of a DJ. They help you to control, and manipulate the sound which is going out to the speakers and what people will be hearing. The basic feature which differentiates the studio mixer with the DJ Mixer is the presence of Cross fader and an ability to redirect a non-playing sound to a headphone so that you can pre listen the song before putting the fader up.

Knowing Controls on Mixers

A DJ Mixer has several feature s which makes work of a DJ easier, interesting and creative. While working as a DJ you will be encountering many kinds of mixers, and trust me it’s not a difficult deal to get along with any kind of a mixer when you know the basic features of a mixer which are almost same in every mixers.
In all the mixers there are few:
- Input Points
- Output points
- Channels
- Faders
- Equalizer Knobs etc.

INPUT POINTS

There are at least two input points in every mixer, and if your pocket allows you to buy a Digital mixer which are usually expensive you even end up having a USB and Firewire inputs to connect digital sources (such as CD, MiniDisc, and PC inputs) and keep the music playing at the best possible quality. The three Input points are:
- Phono – This is used for connecting Turntables.
- Line – This is used to connect anything else, such as CD Players, Decks and so on.
- Mic – This is used to connect Microphones to a mixer so that you can talk to the people while playing.

OUTPUT POINTS

Every mixer has at least two output points but if you buy a good piece of mixer you’ll probably be getting three output points. These output points are:
- Master Out – Master out is used to connect to amplifier so that it can send music signals to the amplifier to send them to the speakers. The LED display on the mixer shows you how strong music signals are sent to the amplifier so that you can track on the music output and do not burst the speaker by any chance.
- Record Out – Record out is used to send the music signals to the recording device such as tape recorder, CD recorder, PC, and so on.
- Booth Out - Booth out is used to send the musical signal to the speaker situated in the DJ console which is used to monitor the sound that is being played.

CHANNELS IN MIXERS

Channels are used to connect CD players and Turntables to a mixer so that you can use them and produce some sound or music. A simplest mixer would be containing at least two channels but what if you want to use two CD decks and two Turntables. Yes you are right, you can connect CD Decks to Line input and Turntables to Phono input and switch the knob which is used to switch over between Line and Phono mode. But it will be a good idea to use a different channel for each CD deck and Turntable. It will be good if you always prefer to buy 3 or 4 channel mixer at least.

CROSS-FADERS

Cross fader is a horizontal slider which enables you to change the output from one input device to the other. The main function of it is to switch over between two input devices.

FADERS

Faders are the vertical knobs present on the mixer there are one fader for each channel i.e. if you have a four channel mixer you will be having four faders one for each channel. Fader lets you throw the sound from the mixer in to the speaker if you move your fader upward the music signal from the input device will be sent to the speakers. Remember if the fader is upward and still there is no sound out from the speakers check your Gain and master knobs.

GAIN KNOB

Gain are present above each channel their job is to control the volume output of each channel. With the help of Gain knob you can make one channels voice higher than other.

MASTER KNOB

Master knob is use to control the overall sound output from the mixer for all the channels.

EQ KNOBS

According to your mixer you will be having different sets of EQ knobs but most of them provides you with Three knobs that are:
- High – This knob is used to control the heights from the sound signal
- Mid – This knob is used to control the mid from the sound signal such as vocals and so on.
- Low – Low knob is used to control the bass line of your sound signal

HEADPHONE CONTROLS

There are one headphone jack present on a mixer to connect it to a headphone. There are few controls present there on the mixer so that you can control the output of your headphone like there is a volume control knob to control the volume of your headphone, then there are PFL (Pre Fader Listening) button present on every channel so that you can listen to a single channel at one time.