Make Sure You Keep to Within 3 Percent of the Pitch if Not Using Key Lock Master Tempo DJ

0:00 We've got track 1, house releases, CD1, Ridney and Andy Joyce, Reachin

Alright guys, I'm going to call this video 3%. I will explain.

2:29 Vinyl turntable, say for example, Technics

Okay, so, we've got track 1, house releases, CD1, Ridney and Andy Joyce, Reaching. Levels are all over the place, I do apologise. Glass Slipper, Brighter Days. Okay, so the idea again with these videos, you get a general idea of what is on the new releases. And also there's usual sort of demo tutorial, that kind of stuff. I'm just going to turn the screen off so I don't look at the screen. I should be looking at that lens. Right, so the 3%. Now, if we have a look at a vinyl turntable, say for example, Technics SL1200 Mark II. The daddy of all decks by far. Anyone disagrees with me, put something in a comment and you'll probably get hounded by a million and one people. Because they're just like the daddies.

Anyway, the 3%. Now, a vinyl turntable, SL1200, you slow it down, you speed it up, you will slow down the track. You'll also lower the key, you speed it up, you'll speed the track up, you'll also increase the key. But there's that 3% margin. Plus and about minus. 3%. When you stay in that zone, you don't or it's very difficult to hear the change in key. But when you go above or below 3%, you start to increase or decrease by semitone. So it's a little bit like if you imagine, you know, one key and the next one. Instead of going from one to the other, you sort of slowly increase into the next one. Instead of stepping, you're almost... Instead of... Hope you get what I mean. So, I'm going to demonstrate that now.

So, I'm just going to put the camera back down in that direction and turn the screen so I can make sure that you can see exactly what's going on. But let's stick to this track here. So, I'm going to press play again. This is with master tempo on.

You see, we can hear that it's staying at the same key. It's slowing down. Disengage master tempo.

See, it dipped.

4:33 Wide, this is where the fun

Now, that's at 10%. Let's have a listen now to 16%. Even more of a difference. And if we go to wide, this is where the fun begins.

Now, that's at plus and minus 6% with master tempo. Engage.

Master tempo. Disengage. Engage.

10%. 16%. Absolute nightmare. Okay, and a lot of people can get their mix messed up completely by first of all having the pitch set at the wide feature and also with master tempo disengaged because they think, hold on a minute, it used to work, it doesn't anymore. Why doesn't it anymore? It's because you're moving the pitch. You're moving it out of that 3%, so it may be in beat, but it might now start to sound a little bit off. So that's where you've got to be careful. All right, so let's just take a chance. Go to track number two from disc number two, which is Tom Jr., Never Know.

Now, also as well, you need to make sure that the pitch variation is the same on both decks. That's with decks like this or even soft. Well, because again, I still give one-to-one tuition and a couple of people over the course of the time I've been teaching was a long time. They seemed, well, they said, listen, how come the decks aren't working properly? It's like I'm moving one a lot more than I'm moving the other. And the first thing I say, go and have a look at your screen. What is the percentage of pitch on both sides? And more often than not, it's because one is higher and the other one. So that's it. Okay, track two here, disc number two. See if we can find something that will go with this.

Just going to put it forward a bit.

7:16 I want to start it just after the next break

Yeah, six is a nice good lift.

Forward. I want to start it just after the next break.

9:28 A Diva remix in and out of my life

A Diva remix in and out of my life. Michael Gray remix. So now I'm only going to probably play a little bit of this because I can just pitch up right now. Those YouTube Shazam bots going, you're playing music you shouldn't be allowed to play. We're going to slap you on the wrist with a wet piece of cod. So you get the idea of that track. I'm going to go straight to track number four here, which is Heartbeat. Now, anyone out there who says, how come you get to play loads of music and you don't get any issues with YouTube?

I do all the time. In fact, sometimes when I do a live stream at best, I will get. Probably 20 or 30 messages via email about just a heads up. You're playing copyrighted music. Don't worry, there'll be adverts on your video. That's the best that can happen. The absolute worst is that while I'm doing a stream, it'll just say stream stopped. There you go. All right. So Heartbeat, Ben Coleman. Let's find something we can put into this. J Paul Ghetto remix. Top of track six, this one, which is Leave It On, Joe Pacellio.

Liking it. A little bit of jazz in the house. Really works well.

11:59 Nice funky bass line

Nice funky bass line. Got a nice little smooth bass line coming in with it.

Bit of a build there. All right, I'll leave it at that, ladies and gentlemen. But what I'd like you to do... Is have a mess around with your master tempo. You know, sometimes it's a good idea to just press buttons you don't know what they do. And just have a listen to how it sounds. And you will find that when you do indeed start going above or below 3%, you will definitely start to hear that change in key of the track. All right, finish off with track six. Don't forget as well, I still give the one-to-one lessons. These are private tuition. Online, by myself. No personal information is given away. There is an email in the description. Practiceandenjoydjtube.com Send me an email. Also, there will be a link to CD Pool.

So if you are a DJ in and around Europe, and you're into tunes like this, go and check it out. Terms and conditions apply. But it depends on what you get. But for the first two months, you will get 50% off your first bunch of downloads. Not everything, of course. Ask, please. But I'll leave it at that. Funky house music, big time. This is February 2021. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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