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Getting the "fresh" sound
On YouTube this video is called CDJ TURNTABLE/ HELP WITH SCRATCHING, The Fressshhh sound!
What this lesson teaches
A short lesson with two separate things in it.
The jog wheel against a platter
Two differences, and both change how you scratch.
It is much smaller. A 12-inch record gives you a long arc of travel for a given rotation - so a small, precise hand movement covers a short, controllable piece of audio. A jog wheel gives you far less distance for the same angle, so the same movement covers more sound and precision is harder.
It does not turn. On most CD players the surface stays still while the music plays; it is a sensor rather than a platter. So there is no constant motion to work against, and the four relationships from the vinyl lessons - with it, faster, slower, against - have to be produced entirely by your hand rather than by modulating something already moving.
That is the mechanical reason a CDJ feels different, and it is more concrete than "vinyl has better feel".
Where the sounds come from
He mentions software for downloading videos as a way of getting the famous samples, and flags the legal side himself - that it is up to you to check whether you are allowed to.
That caveat is doing a lot of work, so the practical advice is: there are better sources. Battle records and scratch sample packs exist precisely for this and are cheap. Check what each one's licence actually allows before you put it in anything you publish. Most of the classic sounds are available that way, at better quality than a ripped video, and with no question about whether you are entitled to them.
If you are only practising at home it matters less. If anything you make ends up published, it matters a great deal, and starting with properly licensed material means never having to go back and check.
Contents of the video
0:00 In other words, you're allowed to download the videos, but that's up t
Alright folks, this particular video is a bit of a tutorial demonstration, but hopefully it's going to give you some information as well. Now first of all, did you know there's a program out there called Real Player 5? If you download that, that will enable you to download videos. Now first of all, you need to just make sure that you've checked through all the legal sides. In other words, you're allowed to download the videos, but that's up to you. Now also, if you put two and two together... With regards to this video, then you'll work out quite a lot of things. Stereo audio. Think about it. Of course, everyone out there has been wondering where they can get that R sound from. Hmm, need I say any more? Anyway, right, what I'm going to do now, I'm going to take the actual fisheye off the camera and we'll go into the demonstration stroke more tutorial side of this particular video. Right, that there is the jog wheel on a CD player. It's slightly different from a vinyl turntable.
1:59 I'll say practice and enjoy
Two main facets, one is that it's a lot smaller, the other one is it actually doesn't turn. That just stays there continually, won't move until you actually move it. Now very quickly, what I have found, this is my own personal opinion, when using a vinyl turntable, I find it's a lot easier to use your whole hand like so. But with a small jog wheel, it's a lot more difficult to get your whole hand on because... Now, a tip for you. Just try one finger. Check this out. Here we go. Start it up. So there you go. Basically, this video is just showing you, instead of having a whole hand on the top of a small jog wheel, get used to maybe just using your finger. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to pause the camera, I'm going to plug in the little microphone into the side of the camera so you can get that sound in good audio. And don't forget, if you download RealPlayer 5, you can download...
I'll say practice and enjoy.
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