What are the best EQ settings for your mixing style?

In this tutorial Jamie Hartley breaks down the different settings available to change the behaviour of your EQ's. With certain styles of DJ'ing suiting isolation rather than EQ, Jamie explains how to change the settings and which modes you should be using!

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[mattwellsmusic]

Hey Jamie, thanks for all the informative videos! I used to DJ years ago, old school turntables and mixer, at the warehouse parties in London. Recently decided to get back into it after a 10 year hiatus and ordered myself a Traktor S2 mk3. While waiting for it to be delivered I’ve been watching your tutorials to get myself back up to date with the modern tech, so cheers!!

[RUsaderc]

Bro you are literally my teacher in these early steps I take in dj world, keep it up and thank you for all the videos, you are awesome

[djraub]

That moment when you get crossfader advertising on a crossfader video 😂👌

[janhumpolicek]

I was trying to do this one week ago and i could not find where to do it. This video helped

[antoinegagnon]

I have been looking for that function for so long ! Thank you so much, my tech house sets will sound even better

[jordanstevens]

You know what would be nice? Is if they had a mixer to where you could set the isolation on the individual frequencies so if you wanted to keep your highs and mids on the eq setting but set your low on the isolator mode that would be sick because then you could use and shape the different eq the way you want and you could filter in and out the different frequencies how you want

[JoDubu]

Thanks Jamie, I have the Prime 4 and noticed that these could be changed in the settings, but has no idea why I would need to change them: it all makes sense now!! :-) cheers

[vincentevans.sombre]

Thank you so much! I own a DDj-1000 and this vid changed everything! -isolator- Now I know forever!

[grantkh]

Wow. I didn't know this existed. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[jhdrummer]

Very interesting, I’m quite new to modern DJing and I never thought about that before

[CJDJSDiscos]

I also saw that setting underneath called eq type. It had the option for 900nxs or 900nxs2. What's the difference?

[theaverageguy]

Thanks for sharing. Im a bedroom Dj and have been playing with my eq on normal. But the sound and blend when mixing, sound much better on isolate 👊

[Incorrigible_Bastahd]

Thank you for including the Prime 4 and Denon in this video. I was wondering why my sessions were sounding "off" and assumed it was just a kind of learning-curve for different software/hardware than I've grown accustomed to.

[mamtoel]

I was about to record a dj set for my instagram, feel so glad you guys posted this video

[davidregalado]

Thxs Jamie..as I listened to ther DJs playing EDM I was wondering how the deep bass sounds disappeared while mixing into intro with vocals...Thanks..your tips always help..

[MikeBalk]

Cheers mate - good advice here. I checked out my DJ808 and, while Serato does not have the setting, I am glad to report that the unit is 100% kill.

[LeonEdwards]

Cool video, I have the Pioneer SZ and the EQ is full cut. So ISOLATOR setting.

[thesuperiorbench]

Tis a banging vid mate, I’m a DnB head at heart so this makes it nice and definitive what to go with :)

[TwinCityShredder]

Total kill is the only way to go. Pair that up with a 4 band eq and your set. I never noticed the difference, till I sold my DJM-800 for a XONE 92 a few years back. Now the DJM-V10 has implemented the 4 band eq, and I can't wait to use one.