Dominic Alston thats honestly fantastic information! thank you for your insight. Please tell me where he specified that he was talking about house music.
I see lot of people use controllers and heavily reliant on the sync button, but when their tracks won't sync, if the computer has trouble processing it, then there puzzled, its why you should always rely on your good old fashioned ear, its makes you a better DJ and its much more of a buzz mixing that way, even with CDJ's, you don't gain completely accurate ear for mixing as using vinyl is the the most fundamental method way of mixing
yeah man. I dj only at home after retiring from the mobile scene, and I met this "club dj wannabe" that she went to a bar with 1200's and she didn't know what to do, but the club owner insisted on using their equipment. she ended up walking out of the club and people got pissed off.
orrr you could just beatmatch by putting the tune in, speeding up or slowing down the track using the side of the cdjs platter wheel and adjust the pitch accordingly depending on whether you had to speed it up or slow it down. Instead of taking like 4 mins to go through the whole pitch range lol
I don't do that spin on the jog-wheel to sync, simply hit cue button on every four count. Don't follow the CDj's BPM counters they are never accurate, the jog-wheel goes clockwise when trying to sync if turn back the jog-wheel your track needs to slow down if you have to move it up your track is going too slow, your tracks are ready to be mixed perfectly once your sync track can be beatmatched at least at a 32 count beat. real DJ's beatmatch by ear, anyone can mix with a computer. The mixing itself is another skill knowing how to work with Mids Highs Lows and Gain.
the bpm counters are usually accurate when you scan through recordbox first. but yea on CDJ 900s you needed to beatmatch by ears. These didn't even have a synch
Vinyl is much less accurate, cause due to air friction or something, the bpm of a song in a serato vinyl constantly changes by 0.1. which actually is a lot.
I normally post only positive comments, but I don't think this video explained the process, nor was the end result sounding very good. Perhaps a re-shoot with better explanation and a more clear result. This video seemed almost as if you were trying to figure it out yourself as you are trying to teach how to do it.
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***** What Is wrong with using the sync button! So narrow minded. It's the same principle as telling an F1 driver he's not allowed to use flappy paddle gearbox. I use the sync button to instantaneously get my tracks in sync so I can remix 4 tracks together with ease, where as manual beat-matching would not allow for this. Where some more modern DJ's lack skill in the art of beat-matching they use that time to make up for it in more creative ways, and often this translates to the crowd better!
Sam Taiwo ***** Yeah haha that thing is a 2000 right he has a fucking sync button, i mean yeah u should lear whats on the video, but everyone syncs is not cheating
Still there is a costly display which displays the BPM's, you can just move the pitch control to match the decks BPM's. Also this guy is teaching beginners how to essentially mix, it is most like they will using vdj's with a sync function as vdjs are cheap. Don't also give me, ohh you need to be able to beatmatch for oldschool songs with real drummers, because this DJ plays straight house!
Since when does beat matching distinguishes good Dj's apart from bad ones. Haha bad example since in the past it would be very much that. He has CDj's which display the tempo on the LCD screen, and this is correct 95% of the time and almost 100% of the time for house with a regular 4/4 Beat. This eliminates the need for using your ears for this, you can even use a sync button to get them in time near to 100% of the time. Instead of wasting time beat matching, use your time to be creative and mash up, scratch and live remix not to beat match. What separates good and bad Dj's these days is their creativity. ( I know this vid is made 4 years ago but still with his expensive decks he's lying if he says he beat matches, or he's and idiot or I'm mistaken that his decks have sync function)
Hallelujah ! someone is speaking the truth right here ! cause yeah , beatmashing is pretty cool when your only job as a dj is to switch from deck A to deck B and the track running is an 8 min long generic house track, but THEN when playing hip hop with 3 decks at once, have fun syncing the acapella while scratching and adding effects...
The second you press sync is the second you stop you cease to be a DJ and start being an Ipod with legs. Real Djs do all that while beatmatching. It's the foundation you have to learn before those tricks are learnt otherwise everyone in the world would be a DJ because it takes five minutes with all the tech out today
This guy definitely used to play vinyl from the way he "throws" the track in instead of finding the first beat and cueing it up instead like most DJs do nowadays.
It's pretty easy to beatmatch when the CD decks tell you the bpm and and keep the grooves locked unlike records. So all the CD DJs talking shit about Traktor and the sync button should really STFU. Try riding the pitch while mixing on vinyl, completely different ballgame.
I own and use a Denon DN-MC6000 with traktor.... But I still fucking agree so hard. I always go to my neighbrs and mix on his Techs. nothing is better.
You can sneak away with a bout 10bpm variance max also if your using cdjs there is a pitch lock function on most of the pioneer ones so you can change tempo with out change. also you can do non beat matched mixes , use effects for example delay out one track as you filter sweep it and fade in the next track, use a turntable break then slam your next track on you dont always have to beatmatch your mixes but thats not an excuse not to learn to beatmatch either.
Um, if the left song is playing at 128 BPM, why would you go through the whole pitch range ? Just put the right deck to 128 BPM aswell, beatmatch a bit, and done! Jesus, no 9:35 long vid. needed for something simple as that !
CDJs are very fun. I also have a Pioneer DDJ-T1 controller and thats fun too. Very similar to CDJs. But there's nothing like going back to your roots and loading a record onto the platter, setting the pitch, licking your finger tips, back spinning, twisting the center...
I meant on your equipment setup? I have a denon DNx4500 Denon DNX500, now I don't think I am able to record since I have SL3, what would I need to be able to record my mixes etc?
i only ever see djs mix house music talking about different bpm. its all between 125 - 130. the problem without the sync button for me is that im going from 87.5 to 110 or 140 - 175 (87.5 X2) did you see how long it took you to find the beat? the other song was still not matched. That song may be over by the time you eve match the other one. I just dont know how you would wanna go into a club with the chance of not even hitting what youre trying to get???
Excuse me sir, If I'm in Thailand and wanna order DVD that teach me about how to be a DJ which one I should order ? $49 or $39 and How long it gonna come to my home ? and last thing do I need a DJ equipment ready like controller ? Thank you
@DJSHAPIRO usually i beat match on my own.. cuz i like doing it.. but when im trying to mash up a couple of songs or tryign to something complicated i use the sync button to have more time.. thats what it was made for
i see. i generally use sync on traktor 9 times out of 10 mixes, and thus the time i would've spent beat-matching goes into doing other things. what setup do you have with serato?
Hey does anybody know of any god djing programs to start with? Currently looking forward to start but don't really know what would be good. Any suggestions? thanks!
I taught myself to beat match using an old pitch adjustable tape player. Years ago. You can match things up within a few seconds with practice. Then need to leave them playing for longer to get them closer. Pretty much all of the big names adjust the EQ to kill the bass on one of the tracks. That tends to hide slightly out of sync tracks. Swap the bass EQ over at some point in the cross over.
Is it still DJing if I use a hardware controller with DJ software? I use a vestax vci 400 controller deckadance as a client inside FL Studio with an APC40 controller effects and master tempo...
i like how you show beginners overpitching, i think it is an awesome technique, it is how i learned to beatmatch. i think what you do here is awesome, i really really like and ejoy it, even though i don´t require help no more :) i mix with vinyl, i like how you don´t use the cue button because people might have turntables and there u got no cue right... i think this is about the best video about beatmatching out there. gratz, i will share this vid so you get recognized!
Depending on your equipment, you can beat match as many songs or loops as you have decks available. For instance, Traktor 2 allows four track decks or up to 16 sample decks which can all be beat matched/ synced
Glad to see an up and coming DJ. I actually just found these guys, and their advice is pretty sound. Just hit up their site and vids and you'll get a good basic understanding. Everything past that, though, is just actually doing it.
Can someone please explain to me the point of his last exercise? He's using pretty advanced cdj's i'm sure they show him the bpm up to 1 decimal point, cant he just match them from there?
