Dj help, using the pitch part 3.www.djtutor.com

Right, g'day folks, we're back on one of these very dodgy diagrams again, so I do apologise. But the idea behind this is very quickly fine-tuning it to get it beatmatched perfectly. So here we've got minus 2.5 where my pen is. Let's say that is the exact speed at which we need to get the pitch control at to get it in beat with the other record. OK, so say we're starting off at 2.8, we need then maybe... To speed it up to 2.2, now we're getting there at this point so we may have to slow it down again at 2.4, bring it up to 2.5. Now the reason I'm saying this and the reason I've actually got this diagram, chucking the camera about there, is this, right? This is what I do as well, this is, again other DJs may do this but this is what I actually do. I will look, there's the pitch control, okay, hopefully the camera's going to go into focus.

There's the pitch control with a very, very dodgy slider. Now what I'll actually do is where my pitch is there, I will make a note of that particular point. Now if I need to slow the record down, okay, yes, I'll move the pitch down like so. But because I've made a note where that line is on the pitch control, I've made sort of a mental line across like so. I will note that if I need to slow this down, there's no point bringing it to the same place. I need to bring it to there then, so I need to bring it a little bit further down. The whole idea behind this video is just to show you a little tip what I do. In other words... When I'm moving the pitch controller, I'm doing this, okay? I'm slowly, I'm fine-tuning it. As I'm fine-tuning it, I'm noticing a line across there, the line. There's my line where it's fine-tuned. But I need to, I'm listening and I think, oh, I've got to slow that down. So I'll go, whoop, down here. But when I bring it back up, I'm not going to bring it back up at this point again. I'm going to bring it back down a little bit lower. And again, maybe it needs to be sped up. So the opposite applies. Bring it up.

This is all about practice. A little tip for you, don't forget mixing when you're using that pitch control and you get it eventually in beat. This is the whole idea why I say keep your finger on that pitch control because at some point it might go off beat again so you'll need to speed it up or slow it down. If you then bring it up very slowly this Pitch, the speed has got to catch up so you need to whop it up quite a distance and then push it back down again but slightly above the original position and the opposite applies for slowing it down. I hope you've been, I hope, sorry, I've been a help. Practice and enjoy. Bye bye.

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