DJ Mixing Fast to Slow Tutorial Underground CD Pool July 2017

0:00 A couple of tunes here from CDPool from the Underground releases July

Alright guys, a couple of tunes here from CDPool from the Underground releases July 2017. Check out the link in the description if you want more info on these two tunes and also the others on the Underground releases. On my right, you're listening to right now is Hide From The Light, the original mix. On the left, Migo.

Demonstration first down the air, explanation. One, two, three, four. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four.

1:58 First of all, I did what's known as a chop

That was the first one, now I'm going to do the next one, spring forward a bit. Okay so that's number two and now I'm going to do number three. And a little bit again. Alright, I'm not trying to do the most wonderful wicked phrase mix here, these are demonstrations. Look, I have to admit very rough around the edges on all of those three but again, it's a good thing. These are demonstrations. Okay, so what's happening? First of all, I did what's known as a chop. I went directly from one track to the other. Why? Well they're both very different BPM. The one at the centre point is about 120, the other one's about 92. So you can't really beat match them at those speeds. So all I did, I waited for the end of a phrase and on the count of

One on the track that was playing the 120 BPM, I then chopped in straight away the other track on the left. Now I did not chop them in like this, I am now counting as imaginary on say the right hand deck. One, two, three, four, one. Left hand deck, one, two, three, four. That is not how it was. It's exactly like this. This is what I did. Right hand deck, one, two, three,

Four. So what's happening is on the one, I am not only stopping the right hand track, I'm starting the right hand track. So on the count of one, they're pretty much both playing. Now that's very important. If you don't do that then you can have an extra beat. The next mix I did, what I did was I used an echo and it wasn't the best of again, it's a demonstration but what I did, I tapped in time with the slow track but the echo was engaged on the fast track. So as soon as you engage the echo, the echo then isn't 120 BPM, the echo is for example here 92 BPM. So the echo is a little bit like the jam in a jam sandwich. So you've got fast track into a slow echo bringing the slow track in. Third demonstration was actually mixing the two tracks.

So the one track had to slow down quite a bit, the other one had to speed up quite a bit and I had the pitch set to plus or minus 16%. If you want to know what that's about, I will explain a little bit. Let's imagine you have your pitches set to plus or minus 10% and for example you have a track that is 100 BPM, 100 beats per minute. If you pull the pitch all the way towards you, you will increase that track by 10%. So it will no longer be 100 BPM, it will be 180 BPM. 10 BPM. If you move the pitch all the way from you as far as it will go to the minus position, it's no longer 100 BPM, it's 90 BPM. All right so I hope that's been a help. Two tunes I'm using by the way once again was Hide From The Light, the original mix on the right hand side. On the left hand side Migo

Original mix both from the underground releases from CD Paul July 2017. Practice and enjoy!

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