Help with Getting Your Vinyl Track Bang on Time on the One in a Mix

So as we all know or maybe you don't know it's very easy to start a track on the one if you're using a laptop a controller a CD player for that matter but if you're using vinyl it is actually quite difficult if you want to start that track on the one and slam it in straight away because of course virtual vinyl but you can't with real vinyl so in this demonstration hopefully I can help you now I am going to be using tracks but for copyright issues I can't use all of the left-hand side but the right hand side I'm just using a loop now that's my metronome now if you are in a position to have a metronome like this great alternatively all you need is another track and then explain what I was doing why I'm doing it how I'm doing it and the price of cheese in out of Mongolia oh god blimey there it is okay let's change the speed again let's do that again so now it's not in beat that's in beat just about okay let's repeat the process now third time just going slightly off okay there you go all right so we'll stop

Okay now first first of all very important I do have a slip mat underneath the turntable now the platter itself is going to be moving at its own speed so of course if you're on 33 it's going to be moving 33 and 1 3rd rpm or 45 it's going to be moving 45 rpm revolutions per minute rpm but what's actually happening is while I have my hand on the piece of plastic itself and there needs to be a needle on the record I am moving it back just slightly and then when I'm ready for the one I'm not just letting go I'm giving it an almost like a bit of a nudge forward now if you think about it this is where we get into sort of science and inertia you know this this record isn't going to go from stop to start to turn just like that all right it has

To start its own motion so it can't just automatically like a car you can't get in a car turn the key and straight away you're at 60 miles an hour it doesn't matter even if you're in a hypercar it still will take two or three seconds give me to get to 60 miles an hour and it's exactly the same with a piece of plastic so two things are happening here firstly I'm moving the vinyl back very slightly from the one from the first beat secondly I'm giving it a nudge forward so what's happening is instead of finding that beat that beat that just that one I'm moving it back slightly and then when we get to that one my forward motion is giving the record the chance to pick up the speed it needs to start its motion based on the speed

Of the turntable itself so what I'm trying to do I'm trying to nudge it forward to let it be at the same speed of the turntable not too fast or too slow too fast its career is gonna go too far too far forward too slow and it's still going to have to creep up which means it's going to be out of beat and so on so let's repeat process start that put the needle in the record when the drum beat goes like this off their bit just take a bit of practice there you go okay hope that's been a help practice and enjoy thank you

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