Using the Rev Direction Feature on Some DJ Kit for the Best Effect in the Mix

0:00 This is one of those videos that's really simple

Right guys, this is one of those videos that's really simple. There's not much going on but there is indeed a lot to take in. Tune amusing by the way is from Karmic Power Records' Lenny Fontana track entitled Holler using the XDJ-XZ. I'll give you a demo first then I'll explain what I was doing. OK, some of you are probably scratching your head thinking yeah and others are going well what is he doing? Right first of all I've got the slip mode engaged and I'm using the reverse feature. Now the thing is when slip mode is engaged and you use reverse when your fingers on reverse the track will of course go backwards while your finger is on the reverse but as soon as you take it off the track will go backwards.

1:32 It's like when you press

The track will jump to the position where it would have been playing if you hadn't heard the reverse. But what I was doing that was very subtle but different, I wasn't pressing the reverse on the one on the beat, I was pressing it on the and slightly after. Now I'm going to show you what it's like when you press the reverse on the one on the beat first and then slightly after and you will hear a definite difference. So I'll just put it forward a bit, get a hot cue. OK so slip mode and now this time on the one. Sorry I'll do that a bit better, hold on. One. What I'm going to do now is I'm always going to hit it on the beat, either 1 2 3 or 4 listen. So even though that sounds relatively good what I want to get is I want to get a natural reverse sound without being in the reverse.

3:09 Again, the first time and second time I'll do it on the beat

Without taking away the beat itself, the one, the two, the three and the four. And we do that by pressing the reverse button just after the one. So some people class the terminology as the accent, you know, just after the beat because if you look at a beat grid 1 2 3 4 You haven't just got 1 2 3 4. There are gaps in between the one and the two. The two and the three, three and the four. And then back to the one. And there's actually a lot going on inside those gaps. So 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 or 1ch, anch, 2ch, anch, 3ch, anch, 4ch, anch. There's a lot going on. So by using the slip mode and by hitting the reverse slightly after the beat what you're doing is you're allowing the beat to play But you're getting much more of a nicer and smoother reverse sound

Instead of it being quite clunky. And that's in my ears. Have a listen now. So again, the first time and second time I'll do it on the beat. The third and fourth time off the beat. Here we go.

It's very subtle but I reckon it sounds so much better slightly off the beat and not on the beat. What do you think? Big shout out again to Karmic Power Records for letting me use their tunes. There will be a link to Karmic Power Records in the description. Please don't forget to like and subscribe and all the bell notifications and all that sort of paraphernalia. But thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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