Dj Tutorial, How to Beat Mix , Without Touching the Platter

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Both song are suposed to have the same bpm, aight?

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This is time consuming because you would like to keep those two sources synced for at least a minute (so you can mess around with the mix levels and EQ and really make it "musically" without having to worry about sync). It is about fractions of a millimeter to get that pitch control set properly. Now, if you have it almost right (you can hear it in sync for about 30 seconds and then it starts drifting just a little) you know it's a matter of a fraction on the pitch control fader to correct it.

You are pretty good if you use the pitch control to correct off-beats. Respect.

Now here's another point of view:

You can look at beatmixing quite scientifically. You've got tempo or speed (frequency) and you've got synchronisation (phase). The pitch control is there to set the tempo or speed (frequency) of your two records equally.

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alri m8, iv been watching all ur vid's lol ur amazing at dj'ing lol can u tell me wat to do with the mixer wen i am playing the 2 tunes when i am mixing... like do i use the low, mid, or high nd wat do i do with dem.....

cool now to stop myself from touching the record when i mix,habits are hard to brake

ur my god

What kind of music do you most of the time playin ????

cdj1000 is the industry standard in 90% of clubs world wide!
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The man is 100% Right. If you train yourself for a couple of days to mix without touching the platter you will NEVER go back to doing it any other way. Touching the platter is a temporary solution that will only work for a few seconds while the way this DJ shows will work 100% percent of the time, more accurately and will hold the tempo longer. You can even leave the turntables alone and free your hands for mixing once the tempos are perfectly in sync.

this is not a comment on the video but i have a question...im a dj from trinidad and im confused on what to bye either the cdj1000 or the numark cdx which one do u think is better...please rite back

Agreed,agreed, as far as the format goes I love not having to lug 100 records around. I have CDX's, which I love except for the fact that it is REALLY picky about CD cleanliness and good burns. I'm upgrading my mobile setup (yey, tax time!) to the new DDM4000 (I know, it's a behringer - dodgy sometimes, but the featureset is killer) and maybe two DN-s5500's, with Ableton as a pure digital/live sampling solution. I'll post when it all comes in (the DDM is on the way!)

thats cool mate, do me a favour and check out our mixin skills, click on the profile please