How to Mix , Keep your eyes on the pitch and headphones on.

0:00 Smaller smaller, heavy soul, position

Alright folks, in this video what we're going to be looking at is my sort of technique of using the actual pitch controller. Now what you'll see to begin with, I have done a similar sort of video in the past. But what you will see is you'll see very, very sharp movements to begin with, whereas what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to find that beat. I'm trying to bring it back forward, back forward, finding the actual beat and then eventually the movements will get smaller and smaller and smaller, okay? I'm going to talk you through what I'm doing as well. Two tunes we're going to use is one you can see, it's the Rhythm Masters track entitled Heavy Soul. It's the black and blue test pressing.

And then the other side is the Boogie Pimps, Somebody to Love. Okay, so we'll play the Boogie Pimps, get that started and then we'll bring in the Rhythm Master's Heavy Soul. Okay, okay. So what we'll do now is we'll put the volume down a little bit there and that's ready. There's pitch control. Now just show you know this is a sort of setup. We'll just speed that up over there, okay? What I'm doing now on the headphones, I can hear it just being cued up. Now I'm actually listening to it through the headphones.

2:38 Let's slow it down this time

Now, I'm fine-tuning it now. It's roughly about here. So I've got my eye on near enough that sort of position. But because I'm fine-tuning it, I'm actually keeping my eye on that particular position and every time I slow it down, I always just go then. If I know it has to go slower than that position, there's no point bringing it back to that position. It has to go a bit slower again. Now, it's sort of about here. Very, very fine-tuning there. Very, very fine. Right, let's see what we're like.

See, all the time I'm trying to keep my finger on the pitch control, because if I leave it off for a certain amount of time, all that will happen is perhaps it will eventually go off beat and then it's more difficult to get it back into beat. Okay, right, I'm going to take it off, we'll do the same thing again, but this time what we'll do, we'll just change the actual speed of the boogie pimps, so we'll put it back on. Right, let's slow it down this time. Okay, that's quite a lot slower. Now then, it's going to be a different place, isn't it? So think about it now. If I start this one off at the beat, bang. Now straight away, I'm going to have to lower it so while I lower the pitch, the beat's going to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb until they match. And as soon as they match about this point, then I'm going to have to start speeding it up again because if I left it down here, all that would happen, it would just be too slow up. Because if you think about it, I'd have to slow the speed down

4:48 Speed it up a tiny bit

For the beat to almost catch up on this record, but if I left it where it was, this one here would just get too slow. It would just go way, way over and then I would have to start, well actually because it's gone too slow, it's gone out of the way. So what I need to do is I need to then increase it up until it catches up again, but still maybe at this point it's still too fast, so I'm going to slow it down again and then it's going too slow, speed it up, slow speed, slow speed, till eventually the The movements are so tiny, they're almost miniscule. But what I'm doing, I'm noticing a point here and a point here. And I know that in between those two points is roughly where it's got to mix. So eventually the actual place where the pitch control must go is minuscule. It's almost fraction of a millimeter bang, all right? So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to just wang this back here a little bit and we'll give it a go. Now what I've got to do, because I'm holding the microphone,

We've got the actual volume control up on the Rhythm Master, so let's see what it sounds like. Slow it down. Speed it up. It's around about there. Now put in that sort of position. Speed it up a tiny bit. And bearing in mind my right ear headphones, left ear with the actual monitor, but you could have it the other way round. And also what I'm doing is I'm making sure that the sound coming into my right ear It's exactly the same level as the sound coming into my left ear. In other words, the monitor is almost the same sound, the same level as my right ear, as though I had a set of headphones on my head. Even though I've got only one side, the right hand side on my head, the left side I'm listening to, basically I'm listening to the monitor. Okay, we're sort of there. This one needs to speed up again. But you see, by keeping your fingers on that pitch control and just...

Fine-tuning it. There is no reason at all why you cannot keep this in beat continually. Once you know it's going to be around about this sort of place, then all you've got to think of, you don't have to keep on doing this. All you've got to do is keep it in this sort of position. Let's get it completely off beat and see if we can bring it back in. Okay. No, never mind. Okay, alright then. I hope that's been a help. We'll do it one more time, but this time what we will do... Thank you for watching. Here we go.

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