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Originally posted by Photo_bot_2k1 how do u pitch up songs on your computer?

Goldwave can do this. www.goldwave.com SHOULD be the website to get it. After you get it and the LAME plugin for saving MP3s, open whatever song that you want to adjust. Then click "effects", then "Pitch". Now, if you want to for example, move it up by 5%, make sure that the dropdown box says "1.05" ("1.00" is 0%, which is defult) this means that the pitch will be moved up by 1.05 times (5%).

Now, click File, then Save As, then save it!

I think any Trance track sounds better when sped up (for a club setting). but sometimes i feel bad because maybe that's not what the producer intended when he wrote the track, but whatever. I speed up almost every track except for some of my hardhouse tracks that are already around 145-150bpm.

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You guys do realise that an entire set cannot be at +5%, alot of tracks are produced at different speeds, so one track's +4% might be anothers -1% (I've got tracks that do this)

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If you constantly listen to fast, sped-up songs, you will abuse the pleasure that comes with that, you'll become habituated, and you'll experience pleasure ONLY with sped-up records, at which point you'll want _even faster_ music.

It's much like drug addiction. First you get the kick out of one dose; then, in order to get an equal amount of pleasure, you have to increase the dose; and so on. This is also called "tolerance increase" or something like that.

Anybody see what I'm saying, or this completely crazy?

Oftentimes, I'll listen to a fast mix, and the pleasure factor decreases for some reason near the end. So I'll put on some slow track for 4-5 minutes, and THEN I'll listen to a really fast cool song, and the experience is unbelievable! You feel good when you sense a difference.

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Nope, your completely correct.
Last year, I was a Hard House Addict, and most of the tracks I liked were at about 158-160 bpm!!

I ripped a few from vynil then, and when I listen to them now, they are WAY to fast

My preferred speed is now 144-148 Trance and 147-152 Hard.

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i personally like to start a set off slowly and progressively increase the pitch as the set gets more energetic

like start off around 135 and finish the set at 143ish

this all varies on how long the set is of course

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Originally posted by Eugene It's much like drug addiction. First you get the kick out of one dose; then, in order to get an equal amount of pleasure, you have to increase the dose; and so on. This is also called "tolerance increase" or something like that. Anybody see what I'm saying, or this completely crazy?

No, not crazy at all.

I guess you could sort of equate it to listening to higher volume music ... eventually you become accustomed to the volume and want to listen to it louder ... same basic principles. Just pop in Chicane @ Palladium after a fast set, then you'll keep your balance

Ha ha, my pitch slider is sort of "slippier" in the plus area, below 0% its like new.

I enjoy playing my sets slightly faster than everyone else, I don't use or measure BPM for any tracks/sets but I would say its roughly around 145-147 I normally play.

As for on my computer I have a plug-in for winamp called "DJ Helper" which has a nice speed slider which does not distort the tunes like other pitch sliders can. Highly recommend it, I've had it for over a year now and can't imagine life without it, its normally cranked up to about 6% just so I can enjoy my MP3's!!!

I found a really nice winamp plugin called Chronotron.
It's great for doing speed ups/downs without changing the pitch of the song (hectic shifts cause it to sound clipped or to echo).
Its works by cutting out tiny bits of the track every few milliseconds to make it seem faster, or add to make it seem slower, hence it good for slight speed adjustments.
Can be sped up more without it sounding funny as oppossed to being slowed down.

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Originally posted by Trancer-adu I think that PvD actually plays all his sets at a higher pitch (something around 20%)... it gets the crowd moving more.. and obviously "faster" as well.

20%!!!
fucking hell, this isnt rave!
7-8% is fine

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Originally posted by davinox one question....does anyone SLOW the pitch of songs? i never do it.

You'll never get away with that with us fanatics around here unless you're spinning something deeply progressive...

A good example (that I often play at 138) is Katana - Fancy Fair, when it's normal bpm is 140.

However, on the subject of speeding up, the tempo and pitch variation of good songs is essential for moving a crowd.

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i used to spin at 7/8% at least, but my computer couldn't handle it so i had to slow down, now i usually do 4% give or take
never pitch down, just doesn't sound good

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