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As producers go into a DJ scenario we really like to have control over effects
and really kind of fine-tune things to where
we'd like them to be so with the V10 we have
much more options.
Many artists we all play on the same setups and sometimes I kind of feel like
a lot of us will use the same effects and now with this mixer I feel like you can
put more of your personality inside because you
can really change the effects how you want it and you can
really make it more personal. You are manipulating sound for
emotional impact creating drama with the music.
These are effects our tool for emotional manipulation.
I feel like having them within the box of the mixer is actually allowing you to
be way more subtle with what you're doing with them.
The four parameters you've got for those send effects is your Master Level,
the Feedback, Time and your high and low pass.
If you're a producer of any kind you know exactly what these effects do.
If you want to use a Dub Echo and create almost like a Flanger sort of effect you
could do so but then if you turn down the
tone a lot it will go towards the lower frequencies and you'll get a very
different result. Having three controls instead of just
the one that you had before gives you a lot more control over those
effects and how you can make them sound basically however you want them to sound.
There is more settings you can go way deeper and
really work on how the effect sounds. I like to use them also in production so
at home in the studio the mixer is going into the setup so I can creatively
route audio through it and then record it again.
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If you're a DJ that enjoys external
effects you can add them also and also map them
to whatever channel you want so the flexibility is extremely big in
this case. The great thing about Send and Return
using Send and Return for Pedals, Reverb whatever you can
make stuff happen you can filter the pedal out of it
and still be making reverbs happen. You can use these effects that you've
always had but you can use them in a different way
added to these really super clean sounding new effects
and you've got your Guitar Pedals as well. So you're you're adding Reverb to a
track and then being able to manipulate that
Reverb and then another effect over the top of that.
It's just multiple layers of creating moments.
When it's insert effect you know it's one thing it's good but especially for
environmental effects like Delays or Reverb you know it's much better to have
that standard churn opportunity you know
because it's more flexibility in a way and it sounds a bit
more musical.
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I feel like the beat effects are more
musical effects they can really add a lot to a track and you can make it sound
completely different. The way I like to use them is to just
really add variation in tracks or to create certain types of moments but
hopefully as subtly as possible. They put the Beat FX button on top of the
channel except instead of just under the effect so
I can set something and then if I just want to bring it in
and out it's just right there in front of me
so i don't have to constantly sort of do a lot of thinking it's just more
intuitive.
The Shimmer effect is basically a Reverb with overtones in it. It's one of those
Reverbs you'd put on something and it would immediately sound really good.
And one of the things I love about the Shimmer is that you can control the
parameter sort of like an X-pad now that you can control with your finger and
it's a lot more playful intuitive. You can change the depth of it so you
can either be kind of quite a moody Reverb to quite a wavy
dreamy Reverb just at the touch of a finger really. In
brakes or in very instrumental situations where you have
strings or a vocal or whatever you can add that to it and it just
livens it up the whole thing. In a breakdown if it's not
super melodic if you add the Shimmer I think it adds a lot of
like warmth to the break. It's like an extra layer it doesn't really sound
like an effect if you put it a little bit it really sounds
very natural.
You can just control every kind of aspect that you use in DJing.
You just have a lot more parameters with the built-in effects
so it just gives us more control over everything. Having these sorts of more
atmospheric effects like the Dub Echo, the Short
Delay or the Long Delay it just adds more texture to
the music that I'm playing.