DJ Tutorial, Demonstration Roll, a mix, some fx and 3 tunes at once... confused?

0:00 A bit of a demonstration stroke tutorial for you

Alright guys, a bit of a demonstration stroke tutorial for you. This video is all about taking a few tips, a few tricks and maybe bunging it into your mix. This guy here is the Pioneer DJM800 mixer. The skin you see is from a company called StyleFlip, Technics SL1200s, some B&D in your face, also known as drum and bass. And my personal opinion, these pitches here are the best in the world. There are companies out there that have got fantastic bits of kit. Believe me, they're brilliant. But you know what? Some of the pitches they've made, and please, if you are a company and you know who you are, and you've got the pitch controls that you can move with a feather. In other words, you push a little feather and go tickle, tickle, and it moves about half a mile.

I'll be honest with you, a lot of DJs don't want that because, why? You've got your fingers there, you've just about got it in the mix, and if you move your fingers slightly, off at an unusual angle, let's say, then you know what? The pitch moves a little bit and you have to be so careful. You've got to move it up and down. These guys, I can do that and I can just move away and I know it's going to stay there. So please, if you're going to start bringing players out, try and make the pitches a little bit more user friendly. Right, what are we going to do in this video? Right, this guy here, we can set for the channels. So whatever channel we're on, and also the microphone and master, we can set that according, or should I say,

We can set the effect according to what channel we're on. Now, I'm going to be on channel 2 because that is what that deck is on. Channel 2, we're going to use a roll feature, and we're going to transfer the roll to another channel. We're going to bring the tune back in, we're going to do a bit of wiki-wiki with this one, and goodness knows what. So again, it's about watching this video. Maybe taking a few tips and tricks from it. Alright, now first of all, let's say for example, the track you're playing over here is towards the end of the song and you're thinking, shoot, I haven't got much time, I haven't got another tune ready, what do I do? Well, this is what you can do. Set this guy here to channel 2 because that deck there is on channel 2.

Set it to roll, and let's play the tune. By the way, this guy here is Serial Killers, a track entitled Good Enough Killer Dubs. So we'll play this, end of the tune.

Tap.

2:35 Pioneer does have, sorry, does, they do have some software called Reko

Beat, set it over to 4 over 1. And listen, what I'm going to do now, switch this to 1, and now it's gone from channel 2 to channel 1. Alright, you know, I suppose there is a slight irony here, and that is if you haven't got much time, you've got to try and get that loop perfectly in time. It may be slightly off, but if it is slightly off, you know what, it's a fail-safe, isn't it? Because it means then you've got that extra bit of time to try and get the next tune in. Pioneer does have, sorry, does, they do have some software called Rekordbox. And you can, in that software, quantise the loops. In other words, they're perfect. Delve into that, and I believe it's a free software as well. Alright, that is the tune there.

So let's imagine now we've got that sample, or the loop should I say, which is in a way it's a loop, but also it's a sample because I've sampled the tune because no tunes, nothing's playing. Look, needle off the record like this. Put the needle off the record when the drum beat, no, put the needle off the record when the drum beat goes like this. Put the needle off the record because there's nothing there. Sorry, right, so think about it.

Right, let's try and get that better so it's in perfect time. So let's just go back over here again.

4:33 I mixed in this deck here on channel three

Oh, missed it.

Okay, there you go, take that off. Been sweet.

Okay, so what did I do there? In not so many words, we had a track playing, here we took a tiny sample or a roll, we transferred that from channel two to channel one. Then I mixed in this deck here on channel three. Then at the same time, I mixed in the original track on channel two while not only the roll was playing but this track and then we brought in the channel two and then I knocked that one down and then I did some really dodgy spin back and I forgot to bring up channel three. Right, so, sorry, and I used the sooty. Do-sweep, and I used the sweep to give it that effect on this guy here, all right? Now please try and make note if you want to take a few tips and tricks and have some fun. That's what it's all about.

Practice and enjoy. By the way, this one here is a new tone featuring Natalie Williams' System Matrix and Future Bound remix and it's quite a nice tune.

Practice and enjoy. I do. Thank you.

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