DJ Mixing Demonstration on the Echo Drop

Right, ladies and gentlemen, a bit of a demonstration first on using the Echo in a mix over the same track. The track I'm using is Diamond Skin Snakes, Pretty in Black. There is a little bit of swearing here, so it's up to you if you want to carry on watching. Not much, but, you know, I might as well say it anyway.

Because it's a really simple move, it's hopefully going to be a very simple and quick video. All you do is you have the same track, you make sure they're both at the same speed and what you do then is you need to make sure that the same track that's playing has a hot cue so they will both work in tandem. So let's just go back a little bit and how do we get to this stage first? So imagine you have a track playing on the left-hand side, then you mix in the track on the right-hand side where you want to do the echo drop. As soon as that's started to mix in, what you do is on the left-hand side, you find exactly the same track and you set a cue point just before maybe 4 or 8 bars or 16 bars before the point where you want to do the echo drop.

Of course, on the right-hand side, that track is still playing while you're fiddling around getting the cue point on the left-hand side. When you get to the point where you've set your cue, you start the left-hand track off. But of course, you're still playing the track on the right. During this time or prior to that, what you've done is you've made sure you've got echo engaged, you've got echo on the right-hand deck and you can either have it in 1 over 1, 3 quarters, half, it depends what echo you want. All I did then is I waited till the drop came in until the track came back in after the break and then I engaged the echo, let the echo play and then just sweeped straight over to the other side. Again, this move can be done,

Maybe in other ways, but this is one good way of maybe going from one track to the other, going from one deck to the other. You know, very simple, but you can elaborate on this by maybe using some filter. Anyway, I'll leave it entirely up to you. Diamond Skin Snakes track Pretty in Black and I'll finish off with Practice and Enjoy. Thank you very much.

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