DJ Simple Guide to Mixing Cutting Acapellas Using the Cross Fade DN78

0:00 I'm going to start the acapella off at any point

Alright guys, a bit of a tutorial for you on mixing in, or cutting in should I say, parts of an acapella over a track. The mixer is the Super Stereo DN78 and the two tracks I'm using are Thomas Bangleterre Presents Tracks on the Rocks Vol. 2 vinyl. On the right hand side, over here on the left hand side, we have Blaze My Beat the Acapella. First of all, what I'm going to do is just put the crossfade center point. I'm going to start the acapella off at any point. I'm just going to start it up. Now, some, not all, not all acapellas. Let me just start again. Sorry, I'll just explain. Now, some acapellas, you can pretty much start them at any point and it won't sound as though they are out of time. Some acapellas, most acapellas, if you just...

As we dance to a beat that seems out of time, to the one you feel in the metronome of your mind. Does it offend you that our rhythm looks strange? Alright, now let's break this acapella up. I don't know if you've noticed, but it's almost as though there are sentences in this acapella. So, if we listen... There's one. There's two. That our rhythm looks strange? Three. Or causes your thinking to be rearranged? Four. Could it be that you would understand this beat to which we dance? Five, and so on and so on. Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to take one of those sentences, and I'm now going to incorporate that into the other track, but bring it in in time. I'm going to use the crossfade as well. Now let's see what happens, see what we can come up with. First of all, let's just find... More clearly had you been given a chance.

2:29 Needle may jump a little bit, do apologize, but let's give this a go

So as you struggle to find the feel with your feet... There. Okay, needle may jump a little bit, do apologize, but let's give this a go. Okay. So as you struggle to find the... So as you struggle to find... So as... So as you struggle... So as you struggle... So as you struggle... So as... So as you struggle... So as you struggle to find the feel with your feet, ask yourself, ask yourself, ask, ask, ask, ask yourself. Can you dance to my beat? Okay, so what am I doing? What am I looking for? How, what's going on? How am I able to do that? Well, what I'm doing is I'm capturing, like I said earlier, I'm capturing part of this acapella, one sentence. I'm working out the phrasing in the acapella itself and then I'm bringing that in time. So let's do this again and I'll talk you through it. So let's start the track. Let's go back to the acapella. Let's just find another random part.

5:09 This is what it sounds like with the crossfade

Now, I don't know if you've noticed as well, but while I was spinning the acapella back, Moved the crossfade to only, to the right hand side. So at the moment now the crossfade is only on the right hand side which means that you can only hear the track that's playing the beat. You can't hear the acapella at all. So what I, I'm doing that because I don't want to hear that sort of reverse sound while I bring the acapella, spit in there, while I bring the acapella back. That's what it sounds like without using the crossfade. This is what it sounds like with the crossfade. Okay, so a bit of a demo for you. By the way, this is a great mixer. I literally just got it. The sound quality is immense. It's built like a tank and you'll be seeing a lot more of this in the future. I'm also going to be doing a lot more tutorials on vinyl.

People are asking me all the time. Okay, so again, acapellas. It is very important to mix them in in time if the acapella sounds as though it's in time. But a random acapella like this, even though it does have its own time signature, you've almost got the artistic right to do whatever you want with it. But the first part, of course, of the video, you could do whatever you want. You can bung it in anywhere. But of course, the second part, what I was doing, I was more thinking about the timing of the track, bringing it in time with the track, also using the crossfade so we don't get that turn back sound. But again, this is about practice. Now, if you do find it difficult to use the crossfade, then you can always try this. So let's put the track on again.

I'm going to leave the crossfade there. Okay. Now what I'm doing there, I'm doing it in time. So, or even on the one. One, two, three, four. Two, three, four. Two, three, four. One. One, three, four. One, three, four. One, three, four. Three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Okay, now... Two different ways of doing that, but it's about the timing. It's about making sure the moves are in the correct time. Alright, I hope that's been a help. I will put a link in the description on this quite rather exceedingly large kind of mixer. Alright, have some fun, practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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