DJ Mixing on Vinyl Practice & Some Venues I Will Be Playing at Soon

0:00 George Morrell featuring Heather Wildman, Let's Groove from Morrell Gr

Alright guys, there it is, a bit of vinyl for you. George Morrell featuring Heather Wildman, Let's Groove from Morrell Grooves Part 4 on Positiva. This is the promo double 12 version. I had this when I used to work on Radio Carradigian in West Wales, Aberystwyth in the 90s and this was actually released promo 30 September 1996, quite a while ago. Okay, so first of all the demo then I'll explain what's going on. I've got the tripod right in front of me nose as well so it's a bit difficult to concentrate on the mixer completely but there you go, I'll do my best. Okay, so first of all I just want to tell you a couple of things that's going on very very soon. On Saturday 6th February 2016 I'm going to be in The Mill, it's the takeover, it's myself Jonathan Lewis and The Residents will be playing as well.

Sean P, Burt Harding, Mart 2, that's M-A-R-T 2 and then Dan Gray so I will put a link in the description and also you know where you can get more info. And then also as well if I just go here because my spelling is atrocious and dyslexic. Right, I'm going to be in Argentina next month on the 13th, Saturday the 13th of February at Exhill. And then I'm going to be in the Multipacho, I think that's what it's called, the nightclub, do apologise, in Ariote, Corbada, Argentina. I'm really sorry, I'm very ignorant there but I just, I'm sorry, do apologise about that. Okay, but the nightclub there in Argentina, approximately 8,000 people and the opening times are from 1.30 in the morning until 6am. That's what you call a bloody nightclub fellas and ladies.

Okay, so let's go back to the job at hand. What's going on? Now first of all of course we're using vinyl. Secondly, absolutely no bloody BPM readout in sight. Nothing, oh, hold on. No, it's all gone. No, nothing there. Okay, so first and foremost, I don't know if you saw but when I first started playing I had to press the 45 because sometimes with double vinyl you may get one vinyl that's 33, one that's 45 or it could be 33 one side 45s. The other just depends on how the producer feels if he's pissed off or whatever but so small mistake there. Now what I was doing, I was bringing the vinyl in, in time, in phrase. So I'm trying to match the two now they're pretty much the same except the one on the left has vocals.

The one on the right does not. So what I was trying to do is cue them in in time. Now I'm going to do exactly the same thing but this time I'm gonna have the volume up on the left side. On the left hand side and on the right hand side while I'm bringing them in now. Also, I don't know if you noticed, I didn't touch the platter. I was using the pitch. Now this is a great way of practicing beat matching to perfection because if you think about it, if I've already beat match them, yeah, you know what? All I've got to do is chuck it in and if it's a little bit too fast or slow, you know, you could slowly move your finger around the top clockwise of one of the pieces of vinyl to speed up very slowly. Or maybe, as you've seen quite a few DJs,

They put their finger on the platter against the side of the platter to slow it down a little bit. That's easy. The difficult bit is getting back in beat by just using the pitch. This is where the master plan happens here. This is where you are separated wheat from the chaff. So okay, so let's put that back on. Let's go to this side. Like I said, volume up to prove a point. Let's unplug the headphones as well. Put the headphones there. Let's just bring the camera back slightly.

Okay, so let's just put that there. Camera's gone all over the place. Okay, so this is what we're going to do.

Okay, pretty much got it in anyway.

4123 same thing on the other side. Don't even need that now. So I'm gonna go over here. Find the beginning.

There it is.

Offbeat. Back in again. Don't let the needle jump on the record with the needle on the record. When the jump beats go like this. Sorry, completely off. Did you hear just prior to me stopping the two tracks? It was almost as though the sound fluctuated very slightly. Rewind. I'll just wait.

7:25 They're phasing one was canceling the other out

That is actually quite funny. No, it is seriously. It's very funny. You don't get it. Oh, no. Okay, so at that point what happened is the sound seemed to vanish or a part of the sound vanished. Now that is because the beats were perfectly aligned and what was happening? They're phasing one was canceling the other out. That is the sort of sound you need to listen for now. Also I'm mixing the same track. So of course the sounds the drum machine it's all going to be the same. But you imagine if you've got different tracks. So what you're listening? For you're not listening for an open big sound of a lot disappearing. You're listening for subtle hints in that track that may slightly fluctuate a certain part of the beat,

The baseline, but mainly really the kick or the snare will phase. It will seem to like disappear if you tune your ear to that sound, you'll find out eventually that. That is when it's in perfect time. So we'll do it one more time. That's been a help check out the info in the description. I'll put info on the place in Argentina and also the mill, which is in Sandbach, which is where we are. The Mill High Street Sandbach Cheshire CW 11 1 A H doors open from 8 p.m. to late free entry before 10 p.m. £4 on the door afterwards. So go up to the door and you should see £4. On the top of the door, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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