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Pitch Bending (again)
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| spacetrip |
Thanks to everyone who replied to my original pitch bending post - I found it useful but I have some more questions.
1)I got the bpms roughly matched using the pitch fader. When the beats started to drift I moved the pitch fader and I could not get the slider back to its original 'matched' position. Am I right in thinking you put the pitch fader back to its matched position by ear?
2)How fast should you move the pitch fader?
3)Do you move the pitch fader up or down?
Thanks. |
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| Dervish |
(sorry for the hijack) But I was thinking of making a indication mod for technics so that it read out the pitch, then when you pressed a button re-zeroed it to where the pitch is now. Then when you pressed it again it went back to a pitch readout. So you could zero it, bend then go back to the point where you started precisely.
How many people would be intrested in that if it cost say £60? It would involve a fair bit of work, and the pitch readout would be highly accurate and active. That is not based upon how fast the platter should be turning but how efast it actually is turning.
(obviously I realise the "if I get used to it and then goto play in a club which doesn't have it" situation but for intrest) |
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| Dj_Es-Dva |
| I memorise where my slider was by looking at the notches, i'll find i pitch bend by either moving it very quickly, thats if the beats are far apart aka trainwrecking, but if its minor il slide the pitch up/down maybe .5% and leave it for a moment then slide it back. And its up to the DJ to know which way to move the slider :stongue: dont be angry mate you'll improve i remember when i started i also pitch bended the wrong way hehe |
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| DOOMBOT |
| This is what I have learned from my own Pitch Bending post and mixing almost every day since then. First off, you wanna get the beats match between both tracks almost exactly. If you can't then you really have to listen to both tracks playing and once the one track is about to go out of sync you want to slowly pitch bend. As soon as you got it kept in beat slowly bring it back to where it was before. So far this has continued to work for me. :) |
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| Low Profile |
Ok lemme' get this straight. First of all, I've never touched vinyl in my life, not many ppl. spin vinyl in Iceland (feel bad for me, please! :p ). But when your beats are slightly off, you quickly juggle the pitch slider up and down to adjust beats??
The way I was told to do it was to gently touch the vinyl with your fingers, and either press down on it to slow it down, or push it forward a little to make it go faster... Is this not the "normal" way of beat syncing beats when using vinyl?? (I thought that was why cdj's had jog wheels, to imiteate the way you pitch bend with vinyl :conf: )
sorry for my stupidity for asking :D |
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| spacetrip |
| The question refers to vinyl. A lot of DJs use the pitch control because it's less noticable. When you touch the vinyl you can sometimes hear that it's being touched. |
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| Fearless One |
| you touch the vinyl only when you wanna do some small changes (at least i do it in this way)... but you gotta beatmatch tracks first (maybe not perfectly but as accurate as possible), using pitch bending and next when record starts to drift a bit you can push it a bit or slow down by finger, and adjust pitch once again... after a few seconds you should feel is it matched properly or need some more work |
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