Dj Tutor, Phase on turntables without an expensive mixer!

0:01 In this one I'm going to show you a bit of a DJ tip

Alright folks, in this one I'm going to show you a bit of a DJ tip. It's a tip how you can phase records without using those really expensive mixers. You know the expensive ones, they've got that little button there, you press it and it all goes sort of a tunnel effect. Well I'm going to show you how you can do it by means of just a basic simple mixer. The one I've got is Gain, EQ... High, mid, low, balance, very dodgy faders and that's about it. Two very important things you need is good turntables and they have to be in the same position, same speed position. By this I mean with the Technics in the green part where the green light lights up. On both of them. The second and just as important thing is you need the identical records, okay? I'm using at the moment Whistle Just Bugging from years ago. Also they have to be the same pressing so they're identically the same. There's no point having one at 33, one at 45 because they will eventually glide and go off, okay? So what I'm going to do is start them off at exactly the same time.

1:10 You can hear a bit of an echo

Okay, you can hear a bit of an echo. That's because they're not exactly at the same position. Now what I'm going to do, I'm now going to start moving the pitch control until I start to hear it phase. Not that way, the other way. It's getting there. It's getting there. Can you hear it going higher? Getting higher. There you go, we're in phase mode. And I bring one of the sliders down. Other one back up. Ready? Okay, right, how are you going to use this? Right, simply this. You've got one record playing. You play that one, you bring another one in. You slowly mix this record in, okay? After about 30 or 40 seconds, or almost as soon as you've brought this one in, taken this one out, What you need to do is you need to get an identical tune that you're playing, put it on the platter. It has to be in exactly the same position vocals beat as this one, so you're going to have to move it until you get exactly the same place, okay? And then when you're ready and you've got it in exactly the right place where you start to hear it phase a little bit on the headphones...

2:45 You can bring it in and you can mess around with it

Then you can bring it in and you can mess around with it. Now, stereo, okay? The beauty about doing it this way as opposed to the other way on these little mixers here where you've got a button, if you've got a balance on either side what you can do, you can actually have the right turntable on the right speaker The left turntable on the left speaker. Now what does sound brilliant is if you slow this one down a little bit, yes you can touch the platter or move the pitch control, but what the punters actually hear is an echo, not just an echo from both speakers, they hear an echo from individual sides, so left and right echo. And then what you can do is you can actually swap them over. So now...

You've got the echo, the opposite direction, back forwards, back forwards, you can really mess around and then put them both in the centre again, put the pitch down, back so you can hear that phase effect and away you go. There's a very, very simple way of getting a good effect off a very, very cheap mixer. Believe me, try it, it's good fun. Enjoy.

This transcript was produced automatically from the audio of the video and may contain mistakes.