Bring a Loop in to Your DJ Mix or Use It as a Bridge for the Second Track

0:01 First of all, my disclaimer, I am using CDs

Right, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, my disclaimer, I am using CDs. I've got a loop on the left hand side, which isn't perfect because again, I'm using, well, the crazy thing is, you know, you could class this as old or new technology. It's new considering the fact that a lot of people just still use vinyl, but it's old because they've been superseded many times by the Nexus series. But CDJ-1000 Mark III, oldies but classic turntables, CD players, whatever you want to call them. And the tunes I'm using very quickly, I've got a couple of tunes here from Club Dune 2022, got track one from disc number two, Armour de Van Helden, a track entitled The Promoter, it's the club mix. And over here, I have on where a disc one

Disc two, yeah, it is disc two, yeah. Disc one again, track number one, Move Your Body. So the only reason I've sort of given that disclaimer is because the loop isn't brilliant. So let's have a listen to this loop I've made.

So let's just, let's just imagine that that's perfect. It isn't, because you'll hear in a bit, it does go off. But now this is where we can sort of almost do like a remix. And if you're not familiar with making loops, then you can just start piling your brain with information on loops. Because you can basically remix an entire track and you can make completely new tracks. It's so much fun. So if you're one of these DJs who just takes track A, mixes it into track B, then tracks C into track B, and so on, then there's nothing wrong with that. But if you want to stretch those boundaries and start doing remixes, then try something like this, because I'm going to show you a little bit of how it's done in a minute. But if you're not familiar with making loops, then try something like this, because I know it's really cool. And if you don't know anything about what track A makes, then you've watched it and you'll know exactly what track B makes. And you might think, okay, this is going to sound great. But if you just typically mix the same thing over and over again, you might be able to do the same thing over and over again and over again because, well, you can't ever stop working with

Now with today's technology you know you can become a producer just by downloading ableton on the other hand if you haven't got ableton but you still want to remix tracks then doing something like this but taking it sort of four or five levels higher you can start to do your own mashup and remix so all i'm going to do you can hear it slightly goes off once the loop finishes so let's listen to either side by itself nothing wrong with them okay so the two of them work well by themselves sound a little bit different together but again you see there are many levels to adding a loop to your mix first of all you make the loop depending how long it is you could do a one beat loop two beat not three definitely four which is what i'm going to do today and then i'm going to add a little bit

One bar two bars and so on just a dry loop but then add some effects so for example also what a loop can do is it helps you form a mix from one track to the next track now i suppose i should have really thought about this video before making it so i will try and explain in sort of great detail now let's imagine we're coming towards the end of this track

I haven't got a headphone well i haven't got them on at this point here i've got my loop in and what i could do now is find another track on this side now uh okay uh let's let's do that all right i'm gonna uh no maybe no no let's do that one there so i think it was that one yeah okay may not be in perfect key but so right let's just go back then to track number one so

Let's uh put this one again not the sort of tracks i would use for the third one definitely together with the second one with the loop but hopefully you get the general idea here so if let's say you're bored uh i won't use the word at itless uh try s in front of that with just forming a mix one track into the other just try this you've got track you bring in track which is a loop and then you let that loop play then over the track you're bringing in so the loop in essence is track number two but it's not track number two really now where it can get even more exciting is if let's say you've got with your controller some of the denon series some of the actual controllers and the software as we know are you don't ever need the secure systex feature anymore but i am thinking now honestly attending content

Here on youtube would do a good job of using the putt control link so if rid of the stupidness in these容 but hey that was super effective over here and there were a lot of shots coming up two days later doesn't make much difference to what might happen next for example proposals in particular and you're using where you can indeed have three or four decks so you can have three tracks playing at the same time now this is where you know I'm not someone who really likes sync but this is probably a good idea where you use sync because it means you haven't got to concentrate on keeping the tracks in beat your concentration is more on the overall flavor of the mix so track A is playing you'll bring in track B which is the loop that's playing over track A as you're slowly

Bringing the first track out you're bringing the third track in which is of course over the loop because the loop is track number two so give that a go in comments after you've tried that let me know what you think all right thanks for watching practice and enjoy thank you

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