it took me 3 days to figure out it was ok to put your hands on the record while it was on the turntable.

it was fun trying to cue a record by pressing the start button on a stanton str8-60

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after you beat match say a 139bpm track to a 136bpm track. you have lowered the new track by 3bpm, do you throughout the course of the new track raise the tempo back to the native bpm of the track? cause eventually you will run out of headroom if you keep messing with the tempo if it is not set to 0% to begin with. i dont have my tracks coded with bpm info, but sometimes i just want to play a certain choon regardless of the bpm just because i think it complements the current track nicely.

I started off collecting as many burned cds of techno I could find. Napster is how I was introduced to EDM and then I started taking a personal interest in a specific genre, trance. wasn't long before my collection was well over 100 cds that I joined the Marine corps and moved to Okinawa japan, but that didn't stop me. I beagn clubbing there at twenty years of age in late 2001 and my favorite part of clubbing was watching the dj intently , learning everything i could just by watching. Meanwhile my cd collection of trance and other genres was getting bigger and bigger and I finally had enough money to get some equipment. So I started off with a pair of Pioneer cdjs and a DJM 500, mixing together all my favorite tracks and recording onto the only media I could come up with, tapes. I really taught myself alot of what i originally learned on those cdjs, which I still have, but they don't work worth a shit anymore. Eventually I came across a steal of a deal in the newspaper on a set of technic MK2s for 400 dollars, some hip hop dj was calling it quits so I was up on that deal faster than you can say "Sheeeeit!" so now that I had turntables it was time to start buying vinyl.... a whole new world was opened up to me, but a lot of what I learned form the cdjs i was able to apply to vinyl mixing methods, but even though I practiced everyday and notice significant improvement I still didn't know a damn thing about counting beats. Thats when i meant DJ Glimpse who was my first mentor who for three months before I left Okinawa taught me all the fundamentals in mixing like conting beats. I began getting much better and after I started buying vinyl i noticed I began to poject a particular style rather than just mixing a bunch of ccopiled dj mix cds together. Ever since then I've learned things here and there but its been four years now and there is still room for improvement, so practice, practice, practice!!!

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Originally posted by etazbaz after you beat match say a 139bpm track to a 136bpm track. you have lowered the new track by 3bpm, do you throughout the course of the new track raise the tempo back to the native bpm of the track? cause eventually you will run out of headroom if you keep messing with the tempo if it is not set to 0% to begin with. i dont have my tracks coded with bpm info, but sometimes i just want to play a certain choon regardless of the bpm just because i think it complements the current track nicely.

i don't return tracks to zero. if i had to pitch a track @ -4 to be able to mix it. then it will stay at -4 for the duration of the song. personally, i think it would sound wierd if the tempo is constantly wavering through out a mix.

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Originally posted by sr126 i don't return tracks to zero. if i had to pitch a track @ -4 to be able to mix it. then it will stay at -4 for the duration of the song. personally, i think it would sound wierd if the tempo is constantly wavering through out a mix.

the thing is though if u never change the tempo of the track playing u will play ur entire set at the same bpm.
Theres nothing wrong with changing the tempo while a track is playing u cant tell ur changing it if u move it slowly anyway

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Originally posted by sleepydragon the thing is though if u never change the tempo of the track playing u will play ur entire set at the same bpm. Theres nothing wrong with changing the tempo while a track is playing u cant tell ur changing it if u move it slowly anyway

of course there isn't anything wrong, w/nudging records a little bit to increase the overall tempo of a set.

i was trying to answer his question about playing tracks at their native bpm after the blend. i usually play deep house. i have tracks that are about 110 bpm, others that closer to 130. i think would sound odd if tempo is changing that much, and going back and fourth during a course of set, especially if every song = a tempo change. if one track is playing at 0% @ 115bpm, the next track is at -7 to mix at 115bpm. finish the blend, then add the +7. the track after that is playing +6 to match the record that is playing at 0 (was @ -7) then go -6 to get it to zero... and repeat this over the entire length of your set. i don't think that would sound right.

starting at 115, then ending a couple hours later at 125bpm, ok. but a constant speeding and slowing... nep, i don't think so.

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Originally posted by etazbaz cause eventually you will run out of headroom if you keep messing with the tempo if it is not set to 0%

Headroom??? Not sure what you mean here, headroom relates to sound levels before the onset of clipping.

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Originally posted by sr126 starting at 115, then ending a couple hours later at 125bpm, ok. but a constant speeding and slowing... nep, i don't think so.

Agreed.

I bought 1200's in Jan 92 and I am still learning.
Only just started looking into harmonic mixing over the new year.

congrats on getting good starting gear, unlike most people.

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Originally posted by punjabi congrats on getting good starting gear, unlike most people.

Wasn't really an option back then. They are cheaper today too. Even with inflation.

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Originally posted by Basstard it took me 3 days to figure out it was ok to put your hands on the record while it was on the turntable. it was fun trying to cue a record by pressing the start button on a stanton str8-60

at first, i used to cue the record by holding the platter instead of the record