I'm starting to get better with my beatmatching, so I was sondering if someone could explain this whole 32s thing. In some tunes, as I beatcount, I hear cymbals or similar at 32 beats. How do I beatmatch using 32s?

i think of it this way...
4 beats are like sentences
16 beats are like paragraphs
32 beats are like chapters

so a song can be thought of as a book

i dont count but i know theres usually a pretty big change every 16 beats and when im mixing i like to listen for the cymbol or whatever that you hear every 32 beats or something. so yeah if i push off another record at 16th beat it sounds ok but i know i cant go wrong with the 32nd beat becuase thats when i get the big structures to follow together within two songs.

sometimes it sounds good with 16 beats..just experiment. you will know when you have two songs and one naturally ends pefectly inline with another one picks up without having to do much eqing.

i love it when i can get two songs to match perfectly like that. alot of times though you dont have time. i think as long as you stick with the 16 you can pull it off.

like i said..i dont count but... is this what youre talking about?