No matter what you think, you will never master beatmatching. Mastering it means you will never screw up and everyone screws up here and there. Even the greatest of them all. Never think you master anything, cause then you have nothing left to shoot for! Shoot for perfection but understand that you can never get there!

peace.

Steve

Replace the boxes, put them in the other corner of your room. it will sound a little bit different, and that will just improve your mixing-skills. dunno if you have ever spinned in a club, but it wil sounds really different out there.

try to mix just in your headphones, put the tune which your public is hearing at the cue and the tune you want to mix in at the cue and try to mix it. just don't listen to your boxes, keep your headphone at your both ears during the transitions (actually just the whole time you're mixing)

try to spin at some other equipment, I think your TTs are technics, but maybe you will spin at a time at a place, where are some other TTs than technics. The same about your mixer.

Experience with backspins and other turntable-tricks. learn to do backspins at the right time, at the last beats from 4 x 8, or sometimes even better 4 x 8 x 4. (it's difficult to explain it, my English it's not that good )

listen to other DJs and try to pick the good things out of their mixing-skills and learn them.

have fun!

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Originally posted by PVD fanatic So i've mastered the basics of beatmatching. I can obviously match two songs, and fade one out from the other, and make it sound pretty good. What exactly do I learn to do next? How do I start to really "mix" ?? As in having 2 songs playing, and take the bass out of one, and turning up the other, and than vice versa... I'm not sure where to head to next.... Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

You have only just begun...

Phrase mixing as mentioned earlier will give your mixes a new dimension without doubt. Learn good ways of getting out of tunes that might only be good for one break (Sometimes this is necessary to get the crowd excited).
the one thing that I would say will change your DJing for life is learn to mix harmonically. You can't beat it... once you know how to do it... everything else just sounds wank. This however can't be done to best effect until you have learnt how to phrase mix.

As Evan Almae said... you can never be too good at beat matching. I heard John Digweed drop mixes once... so you can never stop practicing. So many different factors play a part such as monitors etc.

Although you make is sound almost as if you don't enjoy it now? In which case get new tunes. But I would also recomend that you don't go out and bulk buy as it's easy to loose the plot in a heap of unfamiliar stuff. Get the ones you really want and try to picture how they would fit in with your current tunes.


Best of luke anyways
Nem

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Wise words said to me once when i was starting out:

6 scoring points available to you when djing:

1 point for your mixing
1 point for having the right records in your box
2 points for your programming (tune selection and order)
2 for being able to read the dancefloor/crowd/room

Wise words.

As you get better you will find beatmatching becomes second nature and you will find it will be the least of your concerns.far tougher things to deal with in the middle of a set

Last edited by Freak on Aug-29-2003 at 13:53

i like this topic .. i now think 4 myself i can take the next step beyond beatmatching

01 beatmatching
02 phrase match
03 harmonic mixing

must do all...

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