Right guys last Saturday went to a summer fair in the afternoon,
there was this dj there and he was setting up (mackie srm 450s) nice :-) but anyway before he kicked off the music he played this jingle that went something like:

'Sound test, left speaker, right speaker, bass test now lets get ready to party in 3,2,1'

and then he went off into his main set. But as it said left speaker it only came out of left etc. I thought it was quite funky, when I asked him about it he said 'he'd had it for ages duno where I got it'

Anyone know what it is, where to get it?

its on 1 of the early 80s mastermix ..not sure which one but theres alot of other funny sound effects on the same disc.

Paul

Sounds very cheesey and stereotypical late 70s or early 80s Hit jock to me "Not arf mate"... Do not start your gigs like this .. Espesialy a wedding ugh....


Nik

"bachman and turner into overdrive and lets rock!!!"

LOL

I'm sure it's the intro to a song, but I've no idea what. Something from late 80s I seem to remember.

There are several useable intros, such as this one: "Let's get ready to kick some ass" - Sucker DJ by Dimples D

Or at the end of Spinning Rock Boogie - "Gotta stop but keep rockin' kid"

Any more?

The effect of the output switching from left to right speakers is "Panning".



Some mixers have a PAN control on each channel to allow you to set that channels postitioning within the Stereo arena. I've seen this used to quite good effect where more than one DJ/presenter/speaker (human not speaker cabinet ) is present - the person with the mic on the left of the stage has their channels PAN set may 30% to the left, and the person on the right...their mic channel is panned 30% to the right... it gives the person speaking a bit more "prescence" and, whilst still clearly audible through both left and right speakers, is less loud through the speaker furthest from them - which helps, I think, with making the scene more natural.



Auto Panning is a feature which can be used on music tracks for effect from time to time - much in the way you've described above - I only use it at clubby type nights and birthday functions for younger (sub 21) crowds - the Auto-pan effect syncs to the BPM of the playing track and you can set it to bounce either the whole music, or just certain freqeuncies on-the-beat, from left to right to left to right etc... Best used in short bursts covering maybe 4 or 8 beats.



Panning/auto-panning features on many of the effects units which are available seperately from mixers, and can be a nice effect if used sparingly.

I was at a wedding the other week and the DJ finished off with 'that's all folks' jingle (looney tunes) I just wanted to shout NO NO NO NO NO.

Any credibility he did have went right out the window imho!

David