DJ Spin Back Cut up Move Demonstration

0:00 This is the spin back cut-up move

Alright guys, this is the spin back cut-up move. I'll give you a demonstration first, then the explanation. So here we go!

1:06 Alternatively, what you could do is you can move the crossfade

Okay, so very quick move. First and foremost, very important here, the jog adjust I've got set to the light position. What that means is that the jog wheel is more sensitive and it will move more. There's more freedom for the track to spin back. Also, I've set a hot cue in time with the track. So I've set it on the one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two and so on. Then of course, the next move is to make sure that you use the up-fader and you cut the up-fader up and down. So what you're doing is you're moving it up and down quite quickly. Alternatively, what you could do is you can move the crossfade. So this move can be looked at in many other angles, but I'll leave the angle like that at the moment.

Sorry, just being really silly there. Okay, so again if you think about it, you could have a track playing on the other side, that tracks playing, you then spin back on the side, left or right doesn't matter. So of course while the one tracks playing, you can move the crossfade over. So instead of just the up-fader and only using that track while that track is playing, you have the other track playing, you then spin this track back and crossfade.

2:09 Spin stop, simple

Like so. Now again, you may have noticed that I didn't just spin the platter back once and then hit hot cue. Sometimes I moved it two or three times because what I wanted to do, I wanted to make sure that while the spin-whack was in progress, it was in the count of one bar, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4 and so on. So while I was listening to it, slowing down, if I felt it was slowing down before the end of the bar, I just made sure I'd just give it a little bit more of a spin so it did stop or I was able then to stop it at the end of the bar instead of that spin-back stopping before the bar finishes which means you would get a bit, there'd be a bit of a defect in the timing because you'd end up listening to a little bit of

The track in the wrong position. But of course you can change that slightly if we delve into the workings of this player. If you're in slip mode, then of course as soon as the platter stops it would go back to its original place that the track would be playing anyway. So it is simple but it isn't. It's simple when you just got to spin it back, stop it at the right place and make sure you hit hot cue. It isn't simple when you look at maybe the more in-depth technical side of it. So I'll give you another demo again. One, two, three, four. And so on. Alright, hope that's been helpful. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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