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Tuition videos for the Kam LC01 ILDA editor software
As the videos are quite detailed, we recommend that you download the full resolution versions
LC01 Introduction view on YouTube / right click here to download full resolution version (10mb)
LC01 Tools view on YouTube / right click here to download full resolution version (12.5mb)
LC01 Animation view on YouTube / right click here to download full resolution version (19.5mb)
LC01 Morphing view on YouTube / right click here to download full resolution version (7.5mb)
LC01 Tracing view on YouTube / right click here to download full resolution version (5.5mb)
Edit Config software view on YouTube / right click here to download full resolution version (7.5mb)
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Kam DJ tuition
Life is all about learning, so we've put together a couple of pdf documents rammed full of useful information intended to help you fill in any gaps in your knowledge. There is an awful lot of extremely useful information in here... more hard facts than you will find in quite a lot of books on the subject in fact and it's FREE!
The documents cover everything from detailed descriptions of what the various facilities on all sorts of Kam products actually do (and how to get the best out of them) to different types of cables and how you use them to connect up your equipment... to the boring technical stuff you can't be bothered to learn but really will help in the long run if you do! There is even a beginners guide to beat mixing
We also highly recommend the FREE online tuition videos of www.DJTutor.com
The Kam guide to getting to know your DJ gear (right click to download)
The set up (at home)
Assembling your decks
How to hook up a headshell
Fitting the headshell to the tone arm
Fitting the stylus
Balancing the tone arm
Slipmats
Wiring up your decks into a mixer
Don’t blow it
White - left / Red - right
Turn it on right
Connecting your mixer to an amp
Connecting up to record your set
The set up (at a party)
Amplifiers and speakers
Positioning
Ohms and watts, resistance and power
Connecting up your dpeakers and amp
Audio cable types and input connections
Series and parallel
Bridged mode
Using parametric EQ
Basic anatomy of a DJ mixer
Basic anatomy of a CD player
Using microphones
Using standard vocal microphones
Using wireless microphone systems
The Kam beginners guide to beatmixing (right click to download)
This one is all about learning to mix... from what equipment you need and why, to basic principles to a series of exercises to practice.
Tools of the trade - the gear you’ll need and what it does
Decks – the different components on a DJ deck
1. Platter
2. Tone arm
3. Target light
4. Pitch fader
5. Quartz lock & strobe
6. Pitch bend buttons
7. Brake & motor off
8. Slipmats
Mixer – the different components on a basic mixer
1. Channel
2. Metering & setting levels
3. Monitoring
4. The crossfader
Headhpones
Basic techniques
Choose your weapones
Counting beats and bars
Getting a grip
Finger positioning
Basic manipulation
Cueing up
Releasing the platter
Your first mix
Performing a ‘drop mix’
Double jeopardy
Getting the feel of the crossfader
Using two copies of the same record to perform your first ‘beat mix’
Pushing on pulling back
Mix 'n' match
Tempo
Using the pitch fader
Getting two different records to the same tempo
The Kam safety guide to Class 3B lasers (right click to download)
