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Play your first set

Two CDJ-2000NXS2 players and a DJM-900NXS2 mixer, seen from above. Switch them on, plug in, and mix four Hood Politics Records edits by ear. Sound on.

Back · Player 1
LAN
POWER
USB
SD
SOURCE
BROWSE
TAG LIST
PLAYLIST
SEARCH
MENU
BACK
TAG
BEAT SYNC
MASTER
±10%
MASTER TEMPO
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
IN
OUT
RELOOP
◀◀
▶▶
CUE
▶Ⅱ
−+TEMPO
CDJ-2000NXS2
Back · Mixer
POWER
MIC
COLOR FX
SPACE
DUB ECHO
SWEEP
NOISE
CRUSH
FILTER
PHONES
PHONO
1
A THRU B
USB
TRIM
HI
MID
LOW
COLOR
CUE
2
ATHRUB
USB
TRIM
HI
MID
LOW
COLOR
CUE
3
ATHRUB
PHONO
4
A THRU B
CROSSFADER
FrontMASTER
BOOTH
BEAT FX
ON / OFF
DJM-900NXS2
Back · Player 2
LAN
POWER
USB
SD
SOURCE
BROWSE
TAG LIST
PLAYLIST
SEARCH
MENU
BACK
TAG
BEAT SYNC
MASTER
±10%
MASTER TEMPO
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
IN
OUT
RELOOP
◀◀
▶▶
CUE
▶Ⅱ
−+TEMPO
CDJ-2000NXS2
Step 1 of 30

Walk up to the booth

Two Pioneer CDJ-2000NXS2 players and a DJM-900NXS2 mixer: the setup in almost every club. Right now everything is off. You'll switch it on, plug in a USB stick and play a four-track set of Hood Politics Records edits. Turn your sound up.

Tap anything

Every button, knob and slider says what it is. Grey ones aren’t part of this lesson yet. Switch to Booth view any time to see the real thing.

Top view drawn for this page. Booth view photo: Fastily, cropped, CC BY-SA 4.0. Key wheel uses Camelot-style notation; Camelot is a trademark of Mixed In Key LLC. Pioneer DJ, CDJ, DJM and rekordbox are trademarks of AlphaTheta Corporation; djay is a trademark of Algoriddim. This page isn’t affiliated with any of them.