Radius 1000, A fun Fx not in the instruction book!

0:00 I honestly think it sounds brilliant

Alright folks, now in my ever increasing quest to try and inspire you and give you new tips and tricks, I found a bit of a wicked trick here with the Radius 1000. Now what I'm going to be doing is using the in and out button. That's it. I'm going to try and use it in time but if you can master this, I'm sort of slowly getting there, it sounds fantastic. I honestly think it sounds brilliant. The track I'm going to be using is Real2Real, a track entitled I Like To Move It. And at the moment I'm talking to a couple of people on Facebook as well. We've got DJs4Life and we've got Teddy Farnworth. So this video is for you two guys, alright? So what I'll do, I'll pause the camera and we'll have a closer look. Hold on. Right, if you can hear pops and squeals it's because people are talking to me on Facebook. Alright, here we go. Radius 1000 by American Audio. What I'm going to be doing...

1:22 We've got one hell of a gap, but we can fill that gap

It's pressing these two buttons here, the in and the out. But I'm going to be pressing them very, very fast. Right, let's have a listen to the track first without anything else at all. Now then, I'm going to just put the camera in a different sort of direction and tell me what you think. Right, here we go. It's pretty bizarre. What the heck was going on? Well, if we imagine a bar, there we go, a bar in timing, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. But if we expand 1 and 2, so in other words, instead of 1, 2, we have like 1 and 2. We've got one hell of a gap, but we can fill that gap. So it's not just a case of 1, 2, 3, 4. We could almost start to count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, inside 1 and 2. So instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, we could have 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, and then 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4. I hope you get where I'm coming from. So what I was actually doing is I was tapping in time with the music. Now we can do that, well we can do exactly the same thing.

By doing this, but it doesn't look as good. Just hold tight. Right, now on this guy we've got something first of all that's known as key lock. Basically what that will do, it will keep the same tone, the feel of the track, but we will still be able to move the pitch, speed it up and slow it down. Now I've got this guy here on wide, so in other words when I slow it down it will go to minus 100%. In other words if I move that all the way down to the end it will stop. Literally it will stop. But if I bring it up, speed it up, it will speed up by 100%. Now first of all let's have a listen to exactly what happens when we do that. Slow down. Now let's speed it up. Right, now I'm going to put it to the centre position again. I'm going to start to slow it down. Now you will hear near enough exactly the same sound as when I was pressing the in and out.

3:45 I like to move it, move it

I like to move it, move it. I like to move it, move it. Again, it's practice. And while you're practicing, if you make mistakes, well, you just enjoy it. Oh, that's where the saying comes from. So what I was doing was this. I like to... In other words, you're doing that. You're doing very, very fast movements. OK, it will take a lot of practice. Maybe a bit of timing, but I have done this in time with some music as well and hopefully maybe in a future video I'll show you exactly what to do. Now, alright, it may not be perfect, but to be quite honest, the way I'm concerned, something like that looks a lot better than just slowing the pitch down. Now, I did this in the Mobile Beat Show. I was actually on the stage and I had a bit of a set. It was a crap set because the monitors were all over the place and I was playing to 500 DJs who just thought,

Can you play like, come on Eileen or Michael Jackson? But before the set I did, I just messed around during the day and I had a bit of a go and I thought, wow, what a wacky idea. Which brings on another point. If you've got a player, have a mess around with it. In other words, spend maybe an hour, not every day, but one hour before you do your set and press buttons you wouldn't normally press at certain times when you normally press them. Think about it, because you never know, you could end up with an idea like I've just thought of a couple of days ago. So, there you go. Have some fun and practice and enjoy, because guess what? I like to move it, move it. I like to move it, move it.

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