(upbeat electronic music)
- In this Tips & Tricks
I'm going to show you
how to livestream your
DJ sets like a boss.
You might have even tried this.
You might have just hit Start Live Video,
propped your camera up,
and tried it before,
and realised it doesn't sound that good.
That's 'cause you're using
the built-in microphone,
and that's 'cause you haven't got
a proper stand for your phone.
With just four easy purchases,
you can fix all of that,
and that's what I'm going to show you
in the next couple of minutes.
So what are those purchases?
You're going to need
a TRRS-to-headphones adapter.
This is the Rode SC4.
Other adapters are available.
Hit Amazon for this, and everything
else I'm going to show you.
You're going to need a lead
to plug into that adapter,
and then to plug into
the back of your mixer
on any spare output.
I'm going to plug this lead into the
booth output on the back of my mixer,
and I've got the correct
lead for doing that.
Find the right lead
for whatever gear you've got.
That now plugs into your phone,
or to the adapter for the headphones input
if your phone doesn't have one.
That's the audio sorted.
You're going to get great audio,
in mono, but hey, it's
a small price to pay.
That's going to sound a lot better
than the built-in microphone.
Right, audio sorted, what
are the other things we need?
You need a tripod.
This is a little tabletop one.
You could go the extra mile
and get a little tripod like this,
or you could put it much
higher up in different places,
get a few more interesting
angles with that.
That's about $20.
One of these'll do to start with.
And you're going to need one of these.
It's an adapter that will hold your phone,
and then once it's done, that way,
you just screw it into the tripod,
and then you find somewhere to put this
to stream from.
So we could put it on top of
the speaker here for instance,
pointed down at our decks.
So now we have a crystal
clear, great view of the decks,
and we have awesome
audio going into there.
One more thing to do before we go live.
We want to test it all.
We don't want to go live and find out
that something was wrong.
Go to the camera app,
hit record on the video.
Once you've hit record on the video,
get a track playing nice and loud,
and then whatever volume
control is controlling
the input to there,
it's the booth monitor on this controller,
turn it all the way down,
so that means there'll be no audio,
and then slowly turn it up,
keeping a track of how far
into the recording you are
at different volume levels,
and then at some point
in that recording when you listen back
that audio will get too
loud, and start to distort.
At that point, work out where
you were on the control,
turn it down just a little bit,
and that's going to be nice
and loud without distorting.
So the volume is now cool,
you've also checked
the video when you were
looking back at that recording.
You're ready to go.
Open the app for whatever
service you want to use,
hit go live, and DJ away.
And that is how to livestream
your DJ sets like a boss.
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Meanwhile, get good, get out
there, and make the moments,
and I'll see you again very soon.
(upbeat electronic music)
