Phasing tutorial with a set of vinyl Turntables.

0:00 I did do this video earlier on and it was perfect but guess what?

All right folks, Jonathan here. Now I did do this video earlier on and it was perfect but guess what? No one could see that area which is the most important area so got to do it again. Right, I've shattered as far as I can speak the telephone. Right now there's a user called 0612, I think that's the name, it could be 0612, and what they've asked for is a tutorial or something on phasing. Now I did a video ages ago on how to phase on vinyl turntables but all I did I just said well... You play two records and you make them phase. First of all, what is phasing? Well, phasing is the sound that you get from a mixer or from when you have two pieces of vinyl and you get that... It's almost as if the sound disappears. But why does it disappear? I mean, you know, someone take it away? No. What happens if you imagine... Well, first of all, let me explain myself. You need two identical pieces of music. You need to start those pieces of music from the same point and they need to finish at the same point.

Now what happens is you've got the beats, bam, bam, bam. Now what happens as well is those beats have got to be precisely working at the same time. Because they're working at the same time, the one cancels the other one out. So all of a sudden it's disappeared. But what this user's on about is that's all well and good. But what they want to show, and what I would like to show, in other words, what they wanted me to show you guys is... First of all you get them phasing. In other words, I will start these two tracks off, they'll work in tandem together. Then what I will do, I'll move the pitch control down very slightly and what you will hear is you will hear almost that phasing start to disappear and drop. Then what I will do, I'll bring the pitch back up to the centre position so we will be back in true phasing mode.

1:50 It's on Sugarhill Records

DJ tutorial by Ellaskins By him or by herself with two turntables, or in essence really two CD plays as well. It can be done. Right, now let's give it a go. We'll start this off just to let you know as well the track I'm using is a bit of a classic. It's on Sugarhill Records. It's Pump Me Up by Trouble Funk. Now a lot of the turntablists in the DMC finals rip these geezers apart in the mid-80s, so here we go. No phasing at all because they're very slightly off beat. So I need to find where they are going to be in beat. No, it's the opposite way. Get in there, you listen to the sound. It's going higher. Phasing. Simply exactly the same piece of music at exactly the same time. Let them finish at exactly the same time. Now here's the beauty about this. Alright, if you're a vinyl DJ, you have to have...

Two pieces of vinyl. But if you're a CDJ, if you use CDs, here's the deal. If you've paid for that piece of music, bung it in your hard drive, or should I say bung it in your CD player? But sorry, I'll start again. Bung it in your PC, burn a copy, put them in your CD players and have a mess around and do some phasing. And also, here's another tip for you. If you're finding it difficult to actually just beatmatch, then... Copy one of your favourite tracks because it's your best track. You know it, I mean you love it, so it's your best track, you know it, therefore you shouldn't really have any problems with it. And then bung the one track on the one CD player, the other one on the other CD player and phase, have a bit of fun but at the same time learn to beatmatch with your favourite track, it could help. Now I'm going to sit down and have a cup of tea soon, practice and enjoy.

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