In Mayday, I noticed that PVD likes to pause his sets. How is this done? Does he kill the volume, or does he actually stop the record.

This is my hypothesis:
My mixer has a switch to change from phono to line. At the instant I want to pause the record, i switch phono to line and stop the record with his finger to avoid hearing the record slowing down when stopping. Right before I want the record to come back in, i nudge the record forward to compensate for the torque and flip back to phono. Ive been doing this for about a month and still doesnt sound perfect and all of this happens in a split second so its not a simple task to do.

Does anyone know how this is done?

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just cut to line for the 3rd of 4 beats and bring it back right before the first of the next 4. Don't stop the record at all. He's just cutting out the last beat of the phrase.

it seems to me that he paused the record instead of killing it. You think so?

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maybe he killed it for 4 beats then?

Maybe, but I doubt he stopped the record. I've seen him line switch before and he doesn't touch the record.

is there a specific set or song he does this in? let me know so i can hear it, thanks

Last edited by djmorph on Oct-10-2002 at 22:35

he does it several times in mayday.

I think he does it near the end of Rhythm Gangstar - Crowd song (first song).

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Originally posted by DJ-Kuza just cut to line for the 3rd of 4 beats and bring it back right before the first of the next 4. Don't stop the record at all. He's just cutting out the last beat of the phrase.

yes i think this is exactly what he does



ive done it a couple times myself!

and also you can use the volume faders as well

neat trick!

Ah yez, i just listened to a PvD set, I think i can do that with my kill switches on my mixer. Couldn't that do the same trick kinda? they kill Highs, Mids or Lows, or all if u want.

Last edited by djmorph on Oct-10-2002 at 22:37

No, he doesn't pause the record.

As mentioned above, what PVD does is cut the line (using volume, or x-fader, or whatever, it's all the same if you do it fast enough) for a bar, then puts it back up.

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Originally posted by djmorph Ah yez, i just listened to a PvD set, I think i can do that with my kill switches on my mixer. Couldn't that do the same trick kinda? they kill Highs, Mids or Lows, or all if u want.

No, cos if you just hit the kills, you are still going to get a bit of volume still coming through. You just either flick the line selector switch, or as they've said, the channel fader or cross fader if you don't have anything playing on the other deck. It sounds better with techno

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if you use the xfader, youd hear the sound fade in if youre not quick enough. I think he uses the line switch.

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