DJ Mixing Lesson 4 for Super Pink Zebra Girl

0:00 Lesson four for zombie pink zebra girl

Right, ladies and gentlemen, lesson four for zombie pink zebra girl. Is that right? No. Pink zombie zebra girl. No. Orange banana man dog. No. Checkered cat woman. No. Green jumping frog. No. It's four words. Blue green jumping frog. No. Bananas, apples, oranges and lemons. No. What is it then? Super pink zebra girl for heaven's sake man! Sorry. Right, so this is lesson number four. Now very quickly as well, these lessons aren't step by step so you should follow them and you class them as, you know, step one, two, three and four. These are just random lessons that I am showing my stepdaughter here, Sophia, how to DJ. So we're using... A track from Karmic Power Records, it's KPR 178 by Alex Aleem, a track entitled Filter. It's the radio version, there will be a link in the description to Karmic Power Records. What we're doing here is we have the same track on both decks and the objective is to use the jog wheel to get it back into beat. So, first of all, we're going to make sure if you move back a little bit, we have both decks at the same speed.

2:03 One, two, three, four

Now again, what I'm about to show you can do with controllers or CDJs, so I'm going to move the pitches directly to the centre, so it's 00 or 0.00, 00.00. Alternatively, if you do have CDJs like this, you can just press the tempo reset and it will automatically make them go at exactly the same speed. Why didn't you just press that? Because I just wanted to be really awkward. Right, let's make sure they're both the same audio level. Yep, they are, and you can do that... By using the trim on your mixer, alternatively you can just use the up-faders but it's better to have the up-faders all the way to the top as far as they can go and then set the trim at exactly the same position also known as the gain because we're using the same track. Right Sophia what I want you to do is press play on that one and then I want to hear you

As soon as you press play, count like this. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. And then on the one, I want you to press play on that one there. Now, you may be slightly offbeat. You may hear an echo. There may be some form of a... It's almost like a vibrating sound as though the two tracks aren't perfectly in time. Now we can rectify that by... Moving the outside, because we're in vinyl mode of the jog wheel, clockwise to speed this one up or anti-clockwise to slow that one down. Now what you, Sophia, are listening for is when you move that jog wheel, is the echo increasing or decreasing? If the echo is getting bigger... While you move the jog wheel in one direction, it means you're moving it in the wrong direction, so you need to move it in the other direction. Okay? Shall I give you a demo? Yes. Let's give her a demo. So, and I'm going to meaningly get this out of beat. So press play. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two. Out of beat. Right. That's even worse. So I'm going the wrong way. No, that's worse. It was. Bloody hell. I didn't say that really.

4:31 I want you to move that jog wheel

Now that's getting better. There. We're getting that sound, which is what we're after, which is that phasing sound. There you go. Do you reckon you could do that? Better than me. What? What? Pick your nose, you plonker. Right. Press play. Remember? Yeah. So one, two, three, four. So as soon as you press play, start counting one because the first kick will be the first one. One, two, three. Got that echo. No, you don't have to do anything now. Now I want you to move that jog wheel. A bit faster than that if you want to. Come on. Move it faster. Sort of like, move it, give it a bit of a jolt. Right. Can you hear that echo? Is that bigger or smaller? Bigger. Right. So you may have gone the wrong way. Try the other direction anti-clockwise. Go on, carry on. Slowly now. Bit more. Go on.

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