Watching various courses on DJing that shows how to use the equalizer to for example substitute the base (lows) from one track for another. I went into settings and put the EQ type to Isolate. I then play a track and turn completely off the mid and high. Leaving the low. Yet, I still hear the mids and highs. They still bleed in.
Is this normal behaviour? I find it hard to do all the EQ tricks and substitution from one track to another when I cannot isolate the lows.
I think it’s worth saying at this point that you don’t have to do that. Some “instructional” videos may show it, and some DJs may do that, but there are no hard and fast rules that say that’s how you must transition from one track to another.
It’s entirely up to you how you transition. Beat mixing is not a requirement, neither is adjusting the EQ.
I totally get what you are saying. There are so many styles of mixing and transitioning.
But my question was not about ‘hey is this the way to DJ’, but rather ‘is my equipment supposed to work this way’.
At this point I still do not know if this is a bug or not, or just a known limitation or plain simply that you can never effectively isolate the highs and mids from the lows on the Prime hardware…
Thank you. That is precisely the answer I was looking for.
I suspected that but wanted to confirm. I know it’s a newbie question and appreciate your answer.
The results will vary from track to track, as the frequency band that each EQ knob covers is fixed (although crossover points can be adjusted via settings). If the frequencies you’re trying to cut are outside of the range that the knob covers, then they won’t get completely cut.
Better to cut the bass rather than isolate it (by cutting mid/high).
Hi Nikdo, this is the thing you can do on your Prime gear to better suit it to the way you are mixing.
To make it very simple, move the low/mid crossover freq to a higher setting. That way, the low eq knob will affect more of the bass freq.
This is one of the advantages of digital mixers/software and Prime gear in general. You can even google various analogue mixer’s crossover points to emulate their eq behaviour if you want.
This is not available even on Pioneer gear, along with 12 position knobs for crossfader and linefader curves (makes me sick when I’m forced to use that 3-position switch on pio)
@SlayForMoney Thanks for the tip. I sort of understand how the ISO EQ XOver works.
However the High Xover has no effect on filtering out the mids and highs when only low is on.
As for the Low Xover, the higher I put the Hz, the more actually I have the mids bleed in.
I’m sorry to say I experience the opposite of what you describe.
I want to make clear this post is not about bitching about Denon or Engine software. I was just trying to understand what is possible and what is not. I do find the Xover setting interesting.