https://mixplained.com/Short animated explainers on DJ gear, mixing technique, studio craft and the business of dance music, for DJs on the way up. Every claim sourced, every sound original.en-gbhttps://mixplained.com/episodes/62-how-a-dj-deck-workshttps://mixplained.com/episodes/62-how-a-dj-deck-worksEvery function on a club DJ player, zone by zone: loading, the screen and countdown, play and cue, needle search, the jog wheel, tempo and master tempo, sync, hot cues, loops, beat jump, slip and quantize.https://mixplained.com/episodes/61-how-the-edm-industry-workshttps://mixplained.com/episodes/61-how-the-edm-industry-worksLabels, distributors, Spotify, collecting societies, promoters and agents: how the $15.1 billion electronic music business fits together, where a stream's money goes, and why most DJs earn on stage.https://mixplained.com/episodes/52-half-timehttps://mixplained.com/episodes/52-half-timeHalf-time: move the snare from beats 2 and 4 to beat 3 and a 140 BPM beat feels like 70 – dubstep's trick, and why DJ software sometimes reads it as 70.https://mixplained.com/episodes/51-house-vs-technohttps://mixplained.com/episodes/51-house-vs-technoHouse vs techno: the same kick on every beat, two cities and two sounds – and the 1988 album that nearly called techno house.https://mixplained.com/episodes/50-the-law-against-repetitive-beatshttps://mixplained.com/episodes/50-the-law-against-repetitive-beatsSection 63 of the UK's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 says “music” includes “a succession of repetitive beats” – the rave law, still in force.https://mixplained.com/episodes/31-how-djs-get-paidhttps://mixplained.com/episodes/31-how-djs-get-paidFlat fee, door deal or versus deal: the three ways a DJ gets paid for one night – and why the fee on the contract isn't what the DJ keeps.https://mixplained.com/episodes/21-delay-towershttps://mixplained.com/episodes/21-delay-towersWhy the speaker towers out in a festival field play late on purpose: sound needs about 0.29 seconds to cover 100 metres, so the towers wait for it.https://mixplained.com/episodes/11-sidechain-pumphttps://mixplained.com/episodes/11-sidechain-pumpSidechain compression: a compressor on the bass that listens to the kick, so the bass dips on every kick and swells back – the pump of dance music.https://mixplained.com/episodes/4-phrasinghttps://mixplained.com/episodes/4-phrasingPhrasing: most dance tracks move in phrases of 8 bars – 32 beats – and starting the next track on beat one of a phrase keeps the changes, and the vocals, from colliding.https://mixplained.com/episodes/1-what-sync-actually-doeshttps://mixplained.com/episodes/1-what-sync-actually-doesThe sync button matches tempo and locks beatgrids – and nothing else. Why a bad grid still trainwrecks a synced mix.