Dj help,Mix on a citronic cd-1x

0:00 We're going to do a bit of CD mixing today

One. G'day folks. Right, we're going to do a bit of CD mixing today. The CD mixer we're going to use is quite a cheap one, Citronic. It's a CD-1X. Just to prove a point, excuse me, that you can actually mix on quite cheap dual CD players. This one's pretty good. It's got this guy here, which is like a jog wheel, similar to the philosophy of touching... Sorry. Similar to the idea of touching the platter to slow it down and, you know, twiddling with the turntable to speed it up. You have here, it's very difficult to see with this camera, I do apologise, pitch bend. What that does, it actually just slowly increases and decreases the actual speed of the track. Similar to this, the only difference is with this guy, as soon as you let your finger off, OK, it will go back to its original speed. Pitch, of course, logically when the light is on.

You can use the pitch control when the light's off, you can't. This guy here has minus 16 and plus 16. The light here is on the BP tap at the moment. Basically what that does is when we play a track, if we have the pitch off, the reason you have the pitch off when you do the beats per minute is because you want it to be at the right... Proper speed. If the pitch is on here, and you've increased it, listen, if you do the beats per minute here, you're not actually getting the true beats per minute of the particular track because you've speeded it up. So beats, BPM there, and then tap here, now watch. Hopefully you might be able to see. I don't know if you can or can't, but this track is roughly 127, 128 BPM, OK?

Right, we'll go to the next one. By the way, the tracks you're listening to are from the Stereo Sushi new dual CD entitled Sashimi and I'm actually giving this away as a competition prize in the last video along with this guy, the Head Candy track. Alright, what I'll do is we're going to bung this one in, okay, to track four on this one. So I'm going to click to track four. We just flick, you have flick forward, flick reverse also on this guy. You've got a plus 10, okay, which is quite handy because if you quickly want to get to say track 15, instead of going 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 like a madman, you click on plus 10 so if you're on track 12, track 2 originally, you'll go straight to track 12 and then another 3 and you're on 15, okay? So we've got a 4, what we'll do, we'll play, we'll start playing 4.

2:51 This is the track four

And we'll flick on search, so we'll get it halfway through or something like that. Okay, now this is the track four. And then this is what we're going to mix in. Okay, so I'll press cue, okay, and it's ready to start. That's how it's going to start, okay? Now I haven't got any headphones on, so I'm going to try and monitor it just using the actual monitor itself. So we'll press cue again and it starts off as normal. Okay. So we're going to listen now to track four. I'm going to count the bars, remember. If I'm halfway through the track, which I sort of am, I wait for a break or somewhere where the music changes and I'll start counting from there. Like so. One, one, two, three, two, one, two, three, three, one, two, three.

4:49 I'm going to start getting the melody in a minute

4, 1, 2, 3. 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3. Okay. Slow it down. Speed it up. Now we're getting there slowly. So this is the one. This is the other one. That's the one. The one we're mixing in. The other one. The one we're mixing in. I'm going to start getting the melody in a minute. Here it comes. Listen. That's the other one. Now, remember, I haven't pressed pitch bend or this, which is similar when you would touch the platter or speed the platter up. I haven't needed to do it. Just listened. Alright, let's get some more melody here. Baseline. No, bassline's gone on the first one. And on the second one. Knocking the melody off. The first one. So after the second one, bringing it back in. Need to speed it up a bit. Speed it up. Oh, pitch isn't on there actually. Right, that was actually a bit manic, okay? But it just shows you that you can get...

Well, when I say a pretty decent mix, that was adequate. From a scale of 1 to 10, that was about minus 5. But I didn't have any headphones. It's actually very difficult to have headphones, monitor, hold a camera, because I'm holding this guy here, and do everything. Right, what we did is we played around with the pause. We made sure we had it exactly in the right position. You know, we counted 1-1-2-3, 2-1-2-3, 3-1-2-3, 4-1-2-3, bang. We went in here, bang. If I'd have taken more concentration and listened to this track in its entirety initially, I would have known precisely where to bring this in at the right point. Again, here, if I'd have had it on the perfect pitch, and tapped this guy here, if this one would have been 125 and this one would have been 127, I would automatically know straight away the pitch here needs to slow down

To get to 125, with this little beauty here, on slowing this down and then tapping this again, because it slowed down, I should end up getting 125. If I'd have slowed it down even more, it may have gone to about 118, so I would have known I would have had to speed it up. Think about it, if you've got it near enough at 125, then that's the time to use the pitch bend to get it perfectly... See you folks, bye bye.

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