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[Ben]

A new chapter in my DJing goings on is about to happen, with my new CDJ 1000's orderd, along with ****ty mixer and speakers, I can finally start to take things serious, after Ive topped up on more practice that is.

Just started my Legal MP3 collection, just wanted to know how everyone sorts out there tunes, regarding MP3's ?

Cheers

[Reece Duncan]

wicked mate. As for mp3's theyre all stored on my hardrive in a library sorted alphabetically by Artist. Then i burn them to disc, bout 5 to a disc when i get new ones, making sure that i don't put two tracks on the same cd that i might want to mix together.

[Ben]

Arrived Today !

[Ben]

Christ whats up with everyone, Ive got 1000's for ffs, aint no one going to congratulate me

[James Beaton]

LoL sorry mate only looked at the thead now.

Nice one mate, i bet your deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelighted!! haha

I need a set of those babies next to my 1210's.

[Ben]

Yeh, but frigg me Im a pile of toss on mixing didnt think I was dis bad, so its practice, practice, practice for me

[Chris Powell]

Fairplay Ben! Pioneer all the way mate

Originally Posted by James Beaton

I need a set of those babies next to my 1210's.

I'll have mine the beginning of next year sometime (hopefully, if all goes well) I can't wait!

[Ben]

One hell of a tool and easy to pick up, I picked it up in 10 mins, if only beatmatching took so quick to grasp

[Reece Duncan]

Love them, congrats Ben mate. Beautiful pieces of kit

[DJ Luc Lorenz]

congratulations ben

[tOM]

Originally Posted by Ben

Yeh, but frigg me Im a pile of toss on mixing didnt think I was dis bad, so its practice, practice, practice for me

what you need to do is calculate the %pitch it is per 1 bpm ( ithink it's 1.4) then you can sync the bpm's really quickly and perfectly and hey presto beatmixing is a thing of the past

just make sure you sit bang in the middle of the bpm you want otherwise you can be up to half a bpm out

[Ben]

How would u calculate that, also how can I find out the bpm of the tunes ?

[Reece Duncan]

count the beat over 30 secs, then double it

[tOM]

cdj's will tell you the bpm of a track on their lcd display, it also gives you a % pitch readout at the same time.

put a tune on it will tell you the bpm, pitch it up til you hit the next bpm look at the % pitch - this amount is the key - do it again to the next bpm just to check it's the same amount. Now you know exactly how much to pitch it up by to get a 1 bpm increase. Makes beatmixing soooo simple

[Reece Duncan]

personally i find it easier to just mix by ear though

[tOM]

Originally Posted by Reece Duncan

personally i find it easier to just mix by ear though

i used to agree but honestly if you get this method sorted with 2 cdj's you only need the phones to find your cue point and you don't have to beatmix at all you just sync your tunes straight away. i learnt it from some psy trance mates of mine who have been using cdj 800's since they came out

[Reece Duncan]

is it really that accurate??

[Ben]

Cheers will look into that tonight

[Ben]

So Basically

1. You check the bpm one the track ur playing
2. pitch up the next tune you want to play so that its the same bpm

And thats it, or am I missing something, sorry Im a rite dumb twat lol

[Paulie_p]

The bpm is a help, but done relie on it! the cdj's can give you the wrong read out, but this is mostly for dnb and some breakbeat house is usually spot on.

Even if you have both cds at the same bpm, it doesnt mean they are matched perfectly because its to the nearest bpm, if it told you the tune bpm down to a decimal place (like 127.4) you could relie on it to be pretty much perfectly matched.

A good little trick for smooth blends on the cdjs is to have the master tempo switched on, when you go to slightly speed up or slow down the tune on the jog wheel. If you do this you dont get the pitch change when you speed up/slow down the , which can make a mix sound awful, especially if the tune has a constant synth or string on it!

your tunes cant be to different in bpm tho, if you go over +/- 3% the tune starts to get that double beat effect, which is naff

hope you understand