DJ Lesson on Mixing with Vinyl and Using the EQ BY Ellaskisn the DJ Tutor

0:01 Doing a bit of mixing on vinyl

All right guys, doing a bit of mixing on vinyl. We've got Nevin's unreleased volume number one and over here we've got another track that I'll tell you about in a bit when I turn it over. Okay, so what are we going to do? We're going to mix one track into the other. First of all, I'll do the moves and then I'll show you what was going on. Now that record jumped then. Wait for the next break. Okay, this video as well is mainly targeted for people who've never seen vinyl mixing or have maybe never had vinyl mixing explained. Now first of all, these are not mp3s. These are real bits of vinyl and they make noise.

1:50 You may have noticed me moving that back and forwards

Okay, so you may have noticed me moving that back and forwards. Now I did actually miss my point where I wanted to bring the track in. That's because the needle jumped. What you do find with vinyl, a good way of getting the beat ready, I'm just going to bring the weight forward very slightly, is this. That's the sound I could hear on the headphones. That's my first beat. Now you notice there it jumped. All right. Now that is a problem for vinyl turntablists when you're moving the needle back and forwards, the stylo back and forwards, getting it ready to bring it in on the count of one at the beginning and or end of a phrase. If it jumps, you've got to wait for the next one. So it's always a good idea maybe to just move it once, bring it back and just leave it. The more you move it, the more chance there is of it jumping. Also, if it does jump a lot, it's down to a couple of things. Maybe the deck isn't set correctly. Maybe it's wobbling. Maybe there's a lot of vibration from the sound system or more often than not, it is because the needle isn't set correctly. So of course that's when you have to set

3:28 Four, one, bass line is coming in

The tracking and also the weight. And you'll notice you can hear the forward and back motion. That's because the volume is up. If I just use the volume now, now you can only hear the forward motion. Jumped again there. All right let's just do that mix again. Bring this one back a little bit. Four, one, bass line is coming in. Very simple transition there. Now one thing you will find with using vinyl is that the sound itself is a lot warmer, is what I would class as big. It's full. So you may find that you will need to use the bass EQ a lot more. Now I don't mean as in turn it up. I actually mean as in turn it down to get a better sounding transition because there's loads of bass and loads of warm kind of rumble.

The last thing you want is to start doing very slow sort of movements. All right, yeah if you want to but what you do find a lot of vinyl turntablist, they'll just wop the bass out and wop the bass in because two bass lines on vinyl going over one another is a lot of sound going through your system. Alright just a quick tip and a trick there. If I just turn this over now which was that? We heard crystal ball. This is a track entitled Baby Boy. The Fonz, Fonzarilla Mix. Alright I hope that's been a help. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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