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Posted by Essential_Mixer on Jul-16-2001 03:10:

Beat Matching? Please Help

Can't Get It. Need Help. Any Tips. Please for the sake of GOd, help i wanna mix so bad, buti can't get it. drop tips

cheers........

Posted by KevinExcite on Jul-16-2001 04:13:

it's your ears man

key terms: pitch control
EARS ( use em )
volume

Hold the record on a beat and drop it when the other beat matches

Posted by esskeh on Jul-16-2001 13:05:

http://www.recess.freeserve.co.uk/beginning.html

Posted by WeasiL on Jul-16-2001 15:49:

Definatly check out the website esskah gave you, it has a good amount of info!

As for some good advice don't get discouraged, at first I couldnt beat match for the life of me. Then one day it will just click!

Posted by dazzed on Jul-19-2001 00:37:

yah same here i sucked shit then it came one day.

my advice is to ofcourse beat match by ear. but i find it easier to get the records close to matched, then feed both inputs to the earphones together to perfect the match. i find it easier than matching the beats in the headphones to the beats in the speakers.
oh yah and get a good pair of headphones. if ur mixing with some 5$ pieces of crap the base will probly be so damn destorted u cant distinguish them to begin with

that helped me cuz the sound is allot cleaner in your headphones.

Posted by Spin Doctor on Jul-23-2001 00:33:

The only advice I can give is practice. As they say "pratice makes perfect"

Just keep at it - at first it will seem like your going backwards but eventually it will just "click" and it will be come a whole lot easier.

Also don't expect to be able to mix seamlessly overnight - I don't think there is one thing that anyone could tell you that will make you mix perfectly straight away......it's gonna take time I'm afraid mate!

Good luck and keep at it!

Posted by asafac on Jul-23-2001 02:26:

Gotta have a pitch...

Hi there,

I understand that you have some trouble with your beat mixes...

First of all you must have a pitch controller on your turntable
or your CD player... so i will just have to persume you do...
what you should do is practice a lot on which channel to go
"faster" and after a while you will get used to it... if you
notice that one song is faster than the other just make it go
slower.... it`s simple logic... the rest is just practice...
you will certainly sometimes get mad but at the end you
will get the point
I hope I helped you

bye bye, DJ DoL-B
Click here for my tracks

Posted by Serp on Jul-23-2001 03:04:

i learnt off two winamps with the pitchfork plugin

you can auto match the pitch from one song to another after clicking in the bpm.. but that's cheating.

so i do it manually.. good way to learn i think.. (I have never used a real mixer in my life mind you), it would be intersting to see how good i am on a real one, since i aint bad at mixing music on the pc.

and vinyl beatmatching, the same theory but a lot different than pc/cd mixers (obviously).

Posted by OscarP on Jul-23-2001 05:55:

Actually there is a great program named MixVibes that you can use. It looks exactly like a double cd with a mixer connected and you can mix up to 16 channels if your soundcard supports it... Great program and I learned to mix by using it! My only problem is that the "response time" when I press the play button is not good enough, I think it's my soundcard that fucks it up coz it was better before with another one, anyone know what kind of software tweaking I can do to get it better? Anyway it's a great program, get it at www.mixvibes.com if ya' want!

Here is a screenshot:

Posted by asafac on Jul-23-2001 15:03:

Don`t tell me you work with a PC!!!

I don`t believe it!!!

I have never worked with PC`s my whole life!... how can someone
do that??? I know how to do it... but I don`t want to because
(with all the respect to you DJ`s...) working with PC`s SUCKS!!!
I don`t think that a person that work with a computer can`t call
himself a true DJ because with the right software it`s so easy...! (no offense)
I myself work with two CD players and two turntables and a
killer-2-double-channel-mixer... and it
is the best thing in the world... (to my opinion of course!)

So see ya... and tell me what you think here`s some of My music [/U]

Posted by OscarP on Jul-23-2001 21:34:

Don't tell me not to work with a PC!

hmmmm, think for a while, don't you think I would like to work with "two CD players and two turntables and a
killer-2-double-channel-mixer" but I simply can't afford it as the poor student I am. I really dont think mixing whith a PC sucks that much, it's a great way for us not so wealthy people to practise and maybe someday when we get the money will be abel to buy "two CD players and two turntables and a killer-2-double-channel-mixer"... of course I have mixed some with cd players and turntables and it's a lot nicer BUT as I said, I can't afford that kind of equipment at home...