Idea for a dj mixer, Technics,numark. djtutor.com 20th Jan07

0:00 I had to do this video because I've just thought of a fantastic idea

Folks, I had to do this video because I've just thought of a fantastic idea. I'm not sure if there are any major companies out there who have actually thought of this. If you haven't, then watch this date because if you... Well, put it this way, this has got to be a copyright, hasn't it? Because the date's on here, so if anyone all of a sudden decides to bring this idea out, it's been on YouTube for ages. Right, it's regarding a mixer. Right, now then. Look at this guy here. This is your basic mixer. And if you imagine, crossfade, your sliders, and there's your master volume control, your gain, top, mid, bass or whichever way you want to put them. And the idea I've got is this, there is your LED counter. Now the idea is this, there would be some sort of button that you have somewhere around here. Now let's say all of a sudden this turntable, whatever, on this side is playing. What you would want is you'd want that little dot to get in the centre.

0:58 The idea, this is the idea I've got, okay?

So when it's playing, wherever the pitch is, you'd press a button and that dot all of a sudden would bang. It would line up there. Now then, why have this dot here? Because what happens is while this other turntable is playing, the dot, when you decrease the speed, the dot would move down. When you increase the speed, it would move up. Also the BPM, because you'd have a little BPM readout, that would change as well. Now the idea, this is the idea I've got, okay? Think about it. When the dot there, say your beats per minute of the left-hand turntable that is set is directly in the centre there and it's 122. And the one here is at 124. Now the idea I've got is quite simply this. As you've got your finger on the pitch control, think about it logically. This is the fantastic concept. All you'll have to do is slowly decrease the speed.

2:21 Move pitch, fine tuning

As you decrease the speed, this little dot will start to move. And as soon as it lines up in those lines, then that's when you know that you're in beat. So now not only would you have on your mixer a BPM counter, you'd actually have visual proof that it's in perfect timing. Okay, again, pitch, what did I say here? You will know to move the pitch down to get, hold on, what else did I write? The dot in the line. Okay, so you, in other words, like I said here, you've got to move the pitch down a little bit, follow that, so as soon as you move the pitch down, that will line up and then you know then, instead of some of the mixers, you know where they say sort of 120 and 120 either side, it's still very awkward. But again, then it's fine tuning, it's fine tuning that little...

If you've got any more ideas on this concept, Give me a shout.

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