Reduces the basic sound, the voices. Activated usually a button, but there are models with automatic switching. In the console with no level adjustment, as a rule, lowering the main signal is approximately doubled. Sampler Sampler dj mixer thing very required. Sampler allows you to record short sound bites that are played by pressing a button or looped mode loop. The duration of recording in different consoles is different, but 12 seconds is usually quite enough to record and broadcast a small portion.
Some boards have the ability to accelerate or slow down the playing piece with no change or a change in pitch. The big downside samplers inexpensive remotes is playing with a slight delay, making it difficult to start the passage at the right time to get used to it, or do not use this function at all. Cue Cue – function plays a specific channel or channel pair. In practice, dj plays are produced primarily through the headphones. Cue function in different consoles implemented differently and very often when we look at the options of a remote you can stumble on such concepts as pfl and afl. pfl – Pre Fader Listen You can listen to a single channel signal to the regulators, and afl – After Fader Listen – after. Number of separate panels has a function of Cue Mixing, which allows more convenient and smooth channels to listen on headphones.
For this function provides additional krossfeyder. feature called Cue Split to divide separately to each plays in the headphones: in the right earpiece, for example, will go to 'master', and the left – to listen to the selected channel. Effects gives the music expression and change it beyond recognition, called sector effects console. Even in low-cost consoles usually there are several effects – reverb (emulates the acoustic properties of the premises) Delay (digital delay), shifter (raising or lowering the pitch). Quality built-in effects are usually enough for use in clubs, but the spectrum of effects settings, even for professional consoles is very low, otherwise to console adorned a 'forest' handles and switches. Much wiser to buy consoles with access to the circuit effects and connected to the chain rack, or small desktop effects. Can be dramatically win as, to achieve any sound coloration, including this 'space'. Display and light Each additional led screen, led – this is additional information for the dj, which greatly helps in work and warns about possible errors, so the more indicators on the console, the better. All this helps to navigate in the dark club where you can not always see at what angle turn potentiometer, or what situation fader. The big plus is the presence of many remote jacks for backlight. The lamp uses a standard, such as 'Goose', these lamps are widely used by sound engineers and operators. If even with time to get used to the console and does not require constant illumination, the lamps, including a few seconds to change a disc or drive forever to get rid of unpleasant mistakes and situations. For those who are just entering the world of dj, hardly it reasonable to buy expensive consoles with multiple adjustments and effects. Over time, the number of 'bloat', possibly useful, but given the modest budget beginner dj better to focus on the principal amount of buying a player, headphones and switching.