The origin of DJ

DJ The term was first used to describe a radio peyiar who will introduce and play popular gramophone records. Records in this medium, also known as "discs" which in this industry-peyiar played by radio broadcasters, hence the name disc jockey and then more familiarly known as DJs or Deejays. Now due to a variety of factors, including the selected music, the audience, the performance tuning, the media used and the development of sound manipulation, have produced various DJ techniques. A radio disc jockey is someone who selects and plays music which is then broadcast via radio waves.



What is done by a DJ

Physical action rather than a DJ is to select and play sound recordings called deejaying, or DJing and scope of the play is simple perfection of a series of recordings (related pengacaraan, or putting together a playlist, to manipulate recordings, using various techniques such as audio mixing, cueing, phrasing, cutting, scratching and beatmatching, or often also referred to compose original music.



Equipment

The most basic equipment needed for a DJ to carry out the action consists of:


· Sound recordings in a variety of mediums (such as LPs, CDs, MP3 files, etc.

· At least two kinds of tools have to roll back (playback) sound recordings for the purpose of selecting and playing back recordings back and forth (like record players, compact disc players, mp3 players)

· A sound system (Sound System) to strengthen and increase the volume (like portable audio system, radio wave broadcaster)


Also supporting equipment such as a mixer (mixer) used to mennyelaraskan two or more playback devices. a microphone is used to amplify the human voice, and the headphones are used to listen to while playing the player to another, without losing control of voice listeners heard, is very necessary. Various kinds of equipment can also be added, including samplers, drum machines, effects processors, slipmats, and Computerized Performance Systems.



DJ techniques in

There are various techniques that can be applied by a DJ to manipulate the music that had been recorded previously. This includes mixing sound (audio mixing), cueing, slip-cueing, phrasing, cutting music (cutting), beat juggling, swipe (scratching), equating knock (beatmatching), dropping the needle (needle drops), phase shift (phase shifting) , and many more.