DJ Riding the Pitch Technique and a Few Other Mixing Skills

0:00 Few mixing techniques

Alright guys, in this video I'm going to show you a few mixing techniques. Now, if this track here was an animal, it would be a Tyrannosaurus Rex, male version of, with the most biggest testicles you've ever seen in your life. This track has got balls. It's taken from the underground releases. So, now what I've done here as well is I've covered over everything to do with the BPM because I'm going to show you how we do something called riding the pitch, alright? Now it's where we don't use the platter, all we do is old school style, alright? So there's no sync, there's no looking at the BPM at all. It is pretty much using your ears. The track I'm going to be bringing in is Low Stepper. The low step tune is from the underground releases as well. Don't forget, CD Fall October 2017. Check out the link in the description right down there, alright? Let's go in with some bingy-bongy-bangy tunes. Now straight away, the low stepper, okay, is slower than...

The 4XXX. And I know that because I'm having to speed up low stepper quite a bit. Now my movements on the pitch, my sort of abrupt movements are because I'm hearing the beats colliding, getting close together and then they're drifting apart again. And depending on how fast they drift apart is of course dependent on how much I move the pitch. Now these kinds of moves take maybe years to refine, but they're sort of in now. Too sudden. 4xx2, very basic, low stepper's got a lot more mid, so that mid-dig sort of pushing a little bit too much into the mix. Too soon. Now I've got two bass lines curving over each other. Okay, I'm going to try something different. Let's go back a little bit. I'm going to wait till the break on 4xxx and then bring in low stepper over that.

3:09 I started Low Stepper exactly at the break

I started Low Stepper exactly at the break. Now, I would either have to be very quick at mixing this track in or mix it in on the headphones and slowly bring it in. So how can we eradicate both of those? How can we get it so it will come in exactly in time? I'll show you. It's slightly out of phrase there but never mind, let's go back a little bit. Okay, so what I'm going to do, I've got a loop now in Low Stepper.

So I can now beatmatch that loop, and then as soon as I'm ready to bring the track in, come out of that loop. Now the loop I used was one bar, so I need to make sure I come out of that loop in the one bar, not after. Because if I come in after the first loop, you'll get another loop play, and then it will be out of time by one bar. That's better. Now we're in phrase.

4:32 We're going to slowly take the bass out for Triple X

We're going to slowly take the bass out for Triple X. I'm happy with this. So it's visibly else on this side now. What I've done, I've got crib notes there. What I've done, I've taken a bunch of tunes from the underground, the global, the club and the dance releases. So I'm going to go over there. I'm not going to play Pink. No offence, Pink. Actually, lots of offence. Oh dear. Okay. Yeah, Danny Howard tune is very good. Uh, the, where are we now? The Danny Howard, uh, Wallace double remix. Danny Howard, come on, where are you? James, Danny, Dimitri, Danny Howard, 2-3. Why is it on there? Why didn't I put it there? Alright, well I'll tell you about the Danny Howard in the description. Nice good chugging kind of start to this one. I'm going to do a slow transition. Now what I'm doing with my headphones as well, this is quite important.

8:13 The same drum pattern lifting and rising

The sound pressure level in my right ear is equivalent to the sound pressure level coming from that speaker. So even though that speaker's a lot louder, because my headphone is right next to my ear, that is sounding at the same sort of level as the speaker. 2-3-1, Wallace and Dub Healy, 2-3-4 remix, Danny Howard. Very nice tune. Alright, I'll just have to write the names down. Right, this is from the club releases, this one here. So this one's going to be slightly more sort of uplifting. Wait for the next break. They both got that same kind of rolling beat, which is another thing to listen for. The same drum pattern lifting and rising. When you do your transitions as well try and keep them in phrase because it just makes so much difference.

11:07 You've got to check it out

Instead of like chopping one track in anywhere, try mixing phrase. Top three. Top three must-dos. In key, in beat, in phrase. And the one where it's in beat and in phrase is probably like two, both at number two. But the primary way, best way of mixing is of course in key. Otherwise you're going to have a terrible sound clash. Now this one here, there was a track a while ago entitled Waves. And then I think what they did, they took a sample from, I think it's an old Chic album. And now this track here, Jamisha Trice, So Tight. They've taken that same sample. It's beautiful. It's like this sort of warm kind of, it's not a bouncy sound.

It is literally as though you're on the sea and you're just being... Because the last kind of half phrase or so is only a few seconds, I'm going to form a loop. But I mean, what I'm going to do as well in this video, I did another video with my drone where I used the track I'm on about. You've got to check it out. The video's great and the track is insane. This tune, oh, just got that lift, it's beautiful. Yeah? Same sample. Okay, so this is a little sneak preview into the new releases from CDPool October 2017. Don't forget to subscribe to the CDPool YouTube channel. Also check them out on Facebook and if you're not doing anything in October be at the BPM show NEC 2017. CDPool will be there.

They're also going to be doing something hopefully very different. Well, not different, but if you would like to mix some of their tunes and go live over the web, then try and get there because there could be a little bit of a back-to-back tag team DJ set going on there. There's no prizes or anything like that. It's just get in there and have some fun, alright? I will be there as well. BPM Show NEC and also check out the link to this tune as well as... When I say this tune, the video I did using another track, using that sample as well. Alright, practice and enjoy. Love you, thank you very much. Right, bugger off. Love it. Begin, this is the beginning. Tune, tune. Thank you, practice and enjoy.

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