DJ Mixing Tutorial on Adding a Creative Echo to a Minimal House Track

0:01 I haven't really been, well I haven't been away from where I live

Alright ladies and gentlemen, yes I am back. I haven't really been, well I haven't been away from where I live. Just had a break from doing videos and we're back so you can expect more to come. So again, if you haven't watched my videos before, good for you. Well done. On the other hand, if you have, haven't you wasted your time? Not really. Okay, so in this demonstration what we're going to do is again, it's a bit of a tip, bit of a trick with Minimal House. Now for copyright reasons, I'm only going to use a little bit of each track. On the left, Holding On featuring Vanity J and on the right, Hose Before Bros. So, and again, I don't think it matters me using this track anyway because it's just a beat.

That could be anything. Alright, a bit dry. Let's just change that very slightly.

1:24 Yes, it is slightly off because I'm not using Rekordbox

Here we go again. Yes, it is slightly off because I'm not using Rekordbox. Although it did look relatively simple, there is actually a hell of a lot going on there because when you use the Echo, what will happen, of course, is the Echo will emulate, echo the entire part of the beat that you're allowing yourself to play. Okay. So you're allowing it to echo. Now, what does that mean? Well, again, it's a lot to do with the time signature of the Echo. So if I just do one beat now, that's just an echo. This time will actually count how many times you can hear that echo. Then I'll explain that into what I was trying to explain earlier on. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Okay. I could just about hear it. For 16 beats now, that's actually four bars. Okay. So if you can imagine, let's say you echo two beats. So of course the first beat you will hear and then for 16 beats and then the second one you'll hear. So that's why when you actually hear an Echo, you only tend to really hear or your mind seems to concentrate on the last beat. Okay. Or a couple of beats, yet the whole Echo itself is still in there, but fading in the background. So for example, if I was, let's say to let one bar form an Echo by the time I've reached the end of the Echo, the beginning of the Echo would have finished at the last bar, if that makes sense now also listen to this there or

4:31 Start to have fun using an Echo in different ways

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So I'll do it again.

That's what I meant to do. Sorry. Okay. So the first time I did it, I just had my finger on the cue and just let one beat Echo the second time I let two beats Echo the one and the two. So really what we could hear over the entire Echo is more the two are not the one now if you add that over a beat. Right? That's when you can hear it. Start to have fun using an Echo in different ways. Now, also you could get a little bit more exciting and maybe do something like this if you turn the turn the volume up first. All right now again, this is just a little bit of a trick and demonstration tutorial like this is all about adding this to your set. All right now there will be more like this and again I've done so many videos like this.

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