subject: Disc Jockeys For Ultimate Entertainment Experience [print this page] A party without a disc jockey is unimaginableA party without a disc jockey is unimaginable. If you take disc jockeys out from a party, you would have taken out the soul of the party. He is the person who would be selecting and playing a recorded music for the guests. The discs are nothing but the compact discs which store the music or songs. For musical entertainment in parties where people like dance on the dance floors, the disc jockey can electrify the environment, drive the guests crazy and make them have a go at their famous dance numbers.
There can be disk jockeys of different types. The radio jockeys play the music which is played over the different types of radio stations. The radio stations employ them to not only give the audiences the songs that they like but also to be very articulate and creative in their interactive communications with them. Then, there are the ones which play the music or songs in the nightclubs, discotheques, bars and other places with happening nightlife. The disc jockeys which give you the musical entertainment with the turntables and their scratching to produce peculiar sounds are called the hip-hop artists. Yet another DJ is the Reggae artist who is actually a vocalist who raps over a pre-recorded track while the one who is choosing or playing the record is called a selector.
In order to be a disk jockey, a person needs to have a very keen interest in music and shall possess the sense to know what will work to make a person dance to his mixes. Whether a person wants to take guitar lessons or become a DJ will depend on the ability of the person to be able to handle one or more of the instruments. If he is good at handling more than one and wants to use his skills of mixing the sounds and songs and entertain the people, then being a DJ will be a good option. However, if he is more interested in playing the music himself than he shall better take the guitar lessons.
Disk Jockeys require a variety of equipment for playing the music. Some of the main equipments needed are:
1. Recordings: A DJ might prefer to have the recordings in different media with which he or she is quite comfortable.
2. At least two playback devices which have to be used for the alternate playing of the music to make it a continuously played music track.
3. Amplifiers: These are used to amplify and broadcast the sound recordings. These are of special by a DJ working in a radio station.
4. Headphones: How would the DJ know which is the next recording one to be played, after this one? For this, he would need a headphone with the help of which he would be able to listen to the music on the second device when the first one is being played to the audiences.
The disc jockeys make use of the different types of mixing techniques like cueing, audio mixing and equalization to bring out the best music for entertainment.
