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Originally posted by Jah yeah i mix by touching the platter too. im thinking i should learn the other method tho for when the record is mixing so its not extremly obvious if you have to make a quick adjustment? is that basically what the pitch way is for?

touching the plater is ok to cue up but for in mix u want to avoid this ... its hard ..i dont know what u mean pitch way....but if you look some of the best technical djs out there they will mix with the pitch control on the turntable rather then touching the plater...cuz when u do need to speed it up or slow it down it will do it naturally and smoothly not a dirastic change.. it made me a much better mixer by far....cuz for a clean mix u have to hold a beat some time and u have to adjust the pitch throughout the mix cuz youll rarely will have a set cue locked in and you wouldnt have to change the pitch through out the mix or ur mixing only for a 30 sec mix

for me it really depends on how much adjustment i need

if i have the tracks beatmatched and both tracks are live and one slowly starts drifting slightly, then ill just adjust the pitch a hair and they'll slowly go back in sync

the problem i find with this is you have to move the pitch down a hair after they're in sync to compensate for the fact that the record you're adjusting is faster (because it caught up to the other records beat)

if the tracks are both live and i hear a slight gallop, then ill touch the label to speed it up, or ill touch the smooth part at the bottom of the platter (under all the dots) to slow it down...
i figure by then people can hear that the mix is drifting, and they'd rather hear a track speed up for an eigth of a second, rather than hear the 2 tracks slowly go back into sync