DJ Tutorial , trick, double spin back with an effect in the mix... confused?

0:02 I just set it up ready to explain

Alright guys and geezers, this particular video is a bit of a demonstration. Now again, with all my demonstrations and tutorials, just sort of try and expand on them, take them to the next level, have some fun, elaborate, don't follow it step by step. Right, this is what I'm going to do. I've got two tracks, I'm going to play those two tracks, and by the way, all of this can be done on the fly while you're doing the mix. I just set it up ready to explain. Two tracks playing, track one, track two. What I've done then is, let's say for example, right, let's say we are in the mix, so of course I'm now going to explain this while we're in the mix. This one's playing here. I then will get this one ready to mix this track in. Once I've got this track ready, what I'm going to do then is cough. I'm going to get probably a nervous cough.

What I'm going to do then is, again, while this one's playing, I'm then going to find a third track and get it ready maybe at a cue point, halfway through the track or whatever, or as I've done at the beginning of the song. So have a listen. So there you go. So we've got the original track that we're going to mix in, which is this one. So this is track number two, and then track number three is this one.

So what's the deal? What I'm going to do, play this one. This one is going to be played. I'm going to mix in, and then I'm going to do a double spin back. While I'm doing that double spin back, I'm going to add an echo effect on this track, which is the first track that's playing, and then in time, I'm then going to bring the third one in. So what we're doing, if you think about it, you could say, for example, be playing this track. You could tease the crowd by a second track, so you've got the two playing, maybe do a mash-up. Of course... Of course, they think then track number two's coming in, do a double spin back, and you come in with number three. The mind boggles.

2:19 You imagine that echo with a spin back as well

Right, so both tracks up. Now, first of all, what I have done, I have got the echo ready on this guy here. So if I disengage the echo, if we just play this guy here, put the echo on, there's the echo. Now, you imagine that echo with a spin back as well. So really... What we're doing now, we're doing... Oh, by the way, yeah, a pair of socks there. I haven't got them on my feet yet. So I'll just put those on. And they're clean. Oh dear. Right, so regimented. Now, this is where the timing is paramount importance. Of paramount importance. Proper English-like. What? Hey, geezer.

Sorry. Right, so two tracks playing. Double spin back. As soon as they're spinning back, I hit the on-off on the effect. But then in time, I need to hit the cue point here, which is the beginning of the track. Alternatively, like I said earlier, it could be, let's say, a cue point halfway through the track. Here we go.

So we'll try.

Right, here we go. So we need to go back to track number one. And... Okay, so they're both playing. Track number... One. Number two.

4:11 We've got two tracks playing

That was terrible. I'm going to leave this in. Right, let's try it again. Make mistakes. Right, let's try it again. Here we go. Start as in... That's off there. So we've got two tracks playing. Make sure we've got my echo on here. Double echo. In other words, it's half-time echo. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. It doesn't sound much.

It's another little trick to bring into the mix. So again, what's happening? Two tracks playing. Double spin back on one of the channels then, being this guy here. I had an echo effect, which gave it that... What, what, what, what, what? The reason I had an echo is that if I bring both of them down, then the spin back has gone. So in other words, I bring both of them down. Shut up. Shut up. There you go. I bring this guy down. Both echoes have gone because, of course, I'm then into the third track here, which means no echo. Volume down. But when you... Sorry, no spin back. I beg your pardon. No spin back. But because I had the echo means you've still got that subtle effect of the spin back in the background while this track is coming in.

Now if you think about that, what on earth is he on about? You'll realise it's not rocket science. So let's imagine we haven't got this one playing. Let's just do the spin back and bring this one in. So we've got this playing here like so. Start this from off-sync. That's ready. Okay. So. Spin back. Spin back. Just spin it forward again.

In the background. All right, tiny little trick but have some fun and I will put the names of the description in the title. The title of the names... I'll get the description and I'll put the names in the title and I'll find the artist. And... Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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