Since I use a lot of DJ lingo I thought I might as well put up a dictionary of words used on this site. Written by me of course since the actually dictionary will give references to other lingos.

Mastering: When you master something basically what you are doing is making the song sound nice for speaker of lower quality and improving the quality of the song. I use very expensive high quality speakers, and headphones to master my songs. I don’t think everyone has a $60 headset and 2000wat speakers so I try to dumb the bass and the treble down enough so that the average speaker can output it.

The second thing you do while mastering would be to improve the song itself. I usually end up with a song roughly from 5-7 minutes long. I take out all the parts which I think sound the worst and make the song down to about 3:00 minutes for Drum & Bass, 3:30 for Acid, 4:00 Trance, and 4-8 minutes for Techno.

Gating: Gating is an effect used my many DJs. A gate is when a DJ uses a samples,effects and other “filters” to make a choppy sound. The best example would be the last bit of “Nasty Bass”. Using this you can create neat effects where you can only hear the end of kick, after the initial kick the ‘reverb’ :the end of the kick is what you hear. Gating can be used for transitions as well like in “Clubed” the begging is the best example, as the sample fades from nothing, and then I slowly increase the volume and the speed of every hit.

Sample: A sample is basically a sound. Sample can be kicks, snares, bass, anything,

Effects: An Effect is anything which changes the sound of a sample. This could be adding bass to it, making it scratchy, making it high pitch, and even mastering. An effect can even be used to gate something instead of having to manually adjust the master volume of a sample you can get a gate effect to randomly change, to add variety to the song. I usually keep aways from this since it is hard to sync to. Using effects for mastering is the quickest way to achieve high quality sound. With the addition of manually mastering the song can sound very good.

Treble: Treble of a song is usually the high notes and high pitch sounds of a song. If you look at a visualization in Windows Media and switch to “Bars” the last 3 are usually where the treble is. So even a deaf person can see the music. If you change to “Scope” the little ripples in the line are the mids and the whole line moving is the bass.

Mids: Mid is usually where the kick of the bass occurs and the vocals in a song, and the baseline.

Baseline: The melody of the song. The part of the song which carries through out the song, and is usually where the Theme is situated.

Bitrate: Bitrate is the quality of the song. The higher the bit rate the higher quality of the song. The bit rate is basically the way a program will export a song from a form the program can read to a form that we all know, MP3. WAV gives you the best quality but it is very unnoticeable to the average ear. The best example of bad bitrate is when you are watching a video on Youtube, and you can hear a crackling sound or a very filtered sound that has very high treble. And high bitrate would be listen to any of my songs on this site.

My base theme is usually something I invented called CHANGE-UP. What happens is the begging of the song and the end have very few things in common and the song changes very fast. East to get hard to master cause it has to be like a story. And the outlining theme is usually Drum & Bass. The Overall Theme of the song is anything I like such as Halloween, Bass, Club and so on.

I will update frequently. When I use new lingo. Please Comment on any of the post if you have any questions and suggestion for definitions.