Before starting the development record, let’s quickly understand what DJ is doing. In simple termsDJing connects each song together. Most people call it “mixing”, and DJs call it “joining songs”., the smoother the reception, the better, and even the audience won’t notice you changing songs. So before you start DJing,You have to have music first.
Where did the music come from?
Most DJs will buy songs to perform. This is not only to let the ears of dancers enjoy good sound quality, but also to help musicians create more and better music, promoting a virtuous cycle.
There are many places to buy songs, such as electronic music songs.Beatportmainly foreign hip-hop musicDJcityitunes which mainly contains pop songs.
Itunes has the cheapest single price. Special reminder: Apple Music is streaming, not iTunes!
Does sound quality matter?
There are several audio file formats, such as the familiar mp3, Apple’s m4a, lossless wav, aiff, and lossless compression flac. But to be honest, it is hard for the public to tell whether the sound quality is good or bad. As long as they are used to listening to music on Youtube, the sensitivity of the sound quality will indeed be reduced a lot. So we directly use the “watch” to compare the difference in sound quality.
This is lossless sound quality, the sound Hertz reaches above 24k
This is the most commonly used sound quality for DJs: 320kbps. Hertz above 20k will be cut off.
This is Youtube sound quality 128kbps, and the frequency above 15k Hz is greatly cut off. Instruments and vocals in high and high frequencies will sound weaker.
We all know that the hearing range of the human ear is 20-20kHz, so using 320kbps music performance will not affect the auditory enjoyment of dancers. But the sound quality of Youtube is dangerous, and players who usually listen to high-quality music will easily recognize it.
But I’m just practicing singing at home. Do I need to pay so much attention to the sound quality? Wouldn’t it be fine if I didn’t take it out for a performance?
It sounds reasonable, but the sound quality will still affect the details of your pick-up songs. The timbre elements with poor sound quality are cut off, and you can’t hear these timbres when you practice pick-up songs. When you buy the same song and try to practice it, you will find that the connection is weird?
But I don’t want to spend money on songs to practice on, and I don’t want to use poor sound quality. What should I do?
Next is the focus of this article, you can go tosoundcloudDownload free mixes from DJs.
Two songs are provided here for download, which are also used as materials for this topic class.
First song:Skrillex, Missy Elliott & Mr. Oizo – RATATA (LUSSO & RION Remix)
Second song:Skrillex, Fred Again.. & Flowdan – Rumble (Ben Dro & SATØS Remix)
Soundcloud download process (illustrated version)
Click the red box to Free Download
Click DOWNLOAD in the red box on the right
Leave a comment in the box and CONNECT your Soundcloud account (registration required)
Follow their IG again.
Finally link your Spotify account to track them.
The next step is to press Download to download the song~
Although the free download process is cumbersome, tracking these music producers also gives them the motivation to affirm and support them in continuing to compose songs!
The teaching in this article ends here. In the next chapter we will use the two songs mentioned above to practice, so be sure to grab them~
