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Originally posted by nchs09 what?

I don't know how how to explain it any more clearly.

When you get good at beat matching, you don't need to listen for an extended period of time to detect if they drift, you know straight away.

Your ears can differentiate between the two overlaid tracks, rather than just hearing a jumble of noise, and then hear if one is faster or slower within a second or so.

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Originally posted by spolitta How about for the rest of us who do it in zero second? Your pool sucks

wow you're as good as Tiesto!!

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Originally posted by starboy five billion hours

better hurry up and practice before next weekend then

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Originally posted by Beat Blog I don't know how how to explain it any more clearly. When you get good at beat matching, you don't need to listen for an extended period of time to detect if they drift, you know straight away. Your ears can differentiate between the two overlaid tracks, rather than just hearing a jumble of noise, and then hear if one is faster or slower within a second or so.

yes, what i am saying is that the track IS beatmatched... and after 15 seconds it drifts a bit. how can you tell it is drifting when it is not drifting magic?

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Originally posted by nchs09 yes, what i am saying is that the track IS beatmatched... and after 15 seconds it drifts a bit. how can you tell it is drifting when it is not drifting magic?

WTF that last part confuses me ever so

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Originally posted by nchs09 yes, what i am saying is that the track IS beatmatched... and after 15 seconds it drifts a bit. how can you tell it is drifting when it is not drifting magic?

i would say i'm still at the 20-30 sec range... but my guess to that answer would be that you can start hearing when a song is not beat matched by the tiniest of a fraction. then you can notice it's off within just a couple seconds.

i mean if a song isn't beatmatched in the sense that it starts drifting after 15 sec, then it was never beatmatched to begin with. it's not like the tracks were in perfect time then suddenly after 15 seconds it falls out of place. after 15 seconds maybe it's more noticeable, but i guess the more experience you are the sooner you can notice. tried explaining it the best as i am on like 10 hours of sleep for the entire week

i tried keeping track as I did a one hour set tonight, and most mixes were set under 10 seconds. Some took longer, and one I never got.

I guess it pays to be good at correcting

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Originally posted by Boomer187 i tried keeping track as I did a one hour set tonight, and most mixes were set under 10 seconds. Some took longer, and one I never got. I guess it pays to be good at correcting

sometimes when im feeling really lazy i dont even beatmatch and it still sounds fine..but thats only on a day where im just lazy or its been really long

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Originally posted by Stu Cox I disagree. I know quite a few people who can get it pretty much perfect in 10 seconds. I'm not one of those, but I can usually get it near enough in that time to throw straight in and ride the pitch from there on out And being able to mix quickly doesn't make you a good DJ in the slightest, so the cover of DJMag comment is just silly

I re-read my post and I think it came across wrong. I don't mean that there aren't a lot of people who can beatmatch in less than ten seconds - rather, I mean that there aren't a lot of people who can lay down a perfect match every time in less than ten seconds. I mean, sure, you can match up a few beats before it starts to drift... but I've yet to meet many DJs who can lock them in perfectly in ten seconds and have them stick for the full transition.

I guess it also depends on what genre you're spinning, though. Some are definitely easier to beatmatch than others.

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