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Club DJ Robert Hood Club DJ Ellen Allien at MAGMA festival 2006, in Tenerife, Spain DJ workplace in a nightclub, consisting of three CDJs (top), three turntables for vinyl records and a DJ mixer. A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.
On a DJ mixer, a crossfader is a control that slides on a left-to-right track. It allows a DJ to alternate between two channels, into which an audio input is plugged (e.g. a record player, CD player, iPod, etc.). The left-most position of the slider control gives only channel A. The right-most position gives only channel B.
In 1997 the DJ collective "Sister SF" was established. Born in San Francisco "Sister SF" served as the first and longest running women-centered DJ collective in the United States. The collective was created in order to create a space for female DJ's to have a community and support each other in their careers.
Maxanne Sartori was the first female progressive rock DJ on KOL-FM in Seattle and was subsequently hired in 1970 as an afternoon DJ for WBCN-FM in Boston. Sartori has been credited with influencing the success of artists such as Aerosmith and The Cars. [72] [73] In 1973, Yvonne Daniels was the first female DJ hired by WLS (AM) in Chicago.
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In DJing, phrasing, also called stage matching, refers to alignment of phrases of two tracks in a mix. This allows the transition between the tracks to be done without breaking the musical structure.
The DJ, who got his start playing at school functions, was called on when former President Barack Obama "needed a maestro," they called him to play at both of the president's inaugurations, his ...
The output from a DJ mixer is typically plugged into a sound reinforcement system or a PA system at a dance, rave, nightclub or similar venue or event. The sound reinforcement system consists of power amplifiers which amplify the signal to the level that can drive speaker enclosures, which since the 1980s typically include both full-range speakers and subwoofers for the deep bass sounds.