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Ladies, please... put your handbags away.
I think 'appropriate' use of FX is a very good skill for DJs to learn. So many people on here especially say FX are for clichéd mickey mouse DJs etc, but I think any effect you might find on an FX box has a time and a place if use right. Doesn't mean you have to, but it's all part of knowing how to get the most out of your kit - which is a concept which reaches far wider than knowing when to press the orange button.
The simple example is filters. I now feel strangled without them, but that doesn't mean I just want to do big swooshing effects over every breakdown with a silly grin on my face. With the resonance turned down, a slight high-pass filter (~200Hz) can remove bass rumbles which the EQ would have let through, which can two tracks sit side by side much more harmoniously. Similarly, a slight low pass (~5kHz) can keep an incoming track on the down-low as it comes in, which you can then turn off to add back in that nice sizzle and make it sound like a line of hi-hats has just been added in.
Flangers, phasers, echo, delay, reverb, pitch shifting and bitcrushers can all have their place, even in a deep house or acid jazz set, but subtlety is the key.
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