How to do a spin back on a VINYL TURNTABLE video 6,

0:00 Another video for you on something called a spin back

Alright folks, another video for you on something called a spin back. Now in this video we're going to be mainly concentrating on this guy here, it's a vinyl turntable. Slight difference to a CDJ, one of the main differences is of course the actual platter is a lot bigger. Also another very very big difference and that is that this guy here will spin a damn sight faster than a CDJ turntable. Fact, an absolute fact. The reason being... It's because it's dependent on how fast you spin it. Now quote me if I'm right or wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that after a certain amount of speed, a CDJ turntable cannot go any faster. But a vinyl turntable, just so long as the needle, the stylite doesn't start jumping all over the place, basically if you spin that as fast as you can...

It will go super fast, so that's one main difference. So I'll give you a demo, well what we'll do, I'll actually just spin this forward, have a listen. Okay, there you go, I'm going to do exactly the same thing now with the actual CDJ player. And again, what I did there, I was spinning it very fast, but I was spinning it from very fast to even faster, and you could actually hear the difference between very fast and even faster. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to do exactly the same thing on this guy here, I'm going to spin it fast. And let's see if we can actually hear the difference, or if there is a difference. So we'll play the music, here we go. That proves a point, and that is that after a certain amount of speed, this particular CDJ can't go any faster. The main reason for this video is to give you a few demos on actual spinbacks on vinyl turntables. So what we'll do, because I've actually got...

2:12 Both the vinyl turntable and the CD player in channel 1

Both the vinyl turntable and the CD player in channel 1. What I'm going to do, I'm going to take out the CD from this guy here, swap it over to this side, we'll go back onto track 2, and I'll switch over now to phono. So now this side is on the phono, on the vinyl, and then this guy here is on the CD player. So let's have a whang of this one, here we go. Right, let's just get these two beatmatched. Now, I'm going to give you a couple of demos and a couple of ideas on certain spinbacks. Now again, a spin back isn't just spinning it as fast as you can or forward as fast as you can. Sometimes small subtle moves can enhance the mix and also they are still spin backs. So here we go. We'll play the music on this side again. Now just pretend hypothetically now I've got headphones on. I'm cueing this one up. Just pretend. Okay, so what we'll do... All we have there...

4:54 I'm just going to pause the camera

Tiny, tiny subtle sound. But that was it. That was enough. It was still a spin back as such, but it was enough just to enhance the actual mix. Now I'll do one, but we'll spin this one slightly faster. So let's put the music on again this side. Start this one off. Okay, both going. Okay, now what I actually did, I was cutting from this side to that side, this side to that side, this side to that side. And then the last thing I did... I was on the CDJ, vinyl turntable, straight back to the CDJ, and then vinyl turntable, whoop, a spin straight back. Alright, I'm just going to pause the camera. Right, the reason I paused the camera is to set these guys up and of course change the actual angle. Right, this is what I'm going to do. I've got the end of this track set up so there's about a minute left. I've got this guy here cued up on the first beat ready. I'm going to have the crossfader over on the mixer so we can only hear that actual side.

What I'm going to do, at a certain point I'm going to start to bring this one in. When it's beatmatched, I'm going to put the crossfade in the centre so we can hear both of the channels, so they'll both be mixing together. Then as this one, the track on the CDJ, is just about finishing, I'm going to spin it back and then knock the crossfade straight over onto the vinyl turntable. So basically there's quite a few moves going on. One is this guy playing by itself. Two is getting this mixed in. Three is bringing the crossfade into the actual centre. Four is having them both mixed together. Five is spin back and then as soon as I've actually done the spin back, crossfade over. So it's not a case of spin back, crossfade over. It's literally spin back, bang, like that. Straight into this side and that's it. So here we go. Let's give it a shot.

Alright, so there you go. So the actual spin back was almost like the end of the bias. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, wow! Straight back and then crossfade straight over onto this side. And then, of course, that means channel one is ready to bung another track in, so we can just take that one out and away we go again. So there you go. A little bit of an insight into more spin backs. This time we're looking at a vinyl turntable. More coming. Practice and enjoy.

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