Random DJ Vinyl Mixing Lesson Demonstration Tutorial BY Ellaskins

0:00 Got a bit of a random tutorial for you

Alright guys, got a bit of a random tutorial for you. Mixing using vinyl. No BPM readout, nothing like that. Check out the tunes first. Ian Pooley Chord Memories Daft Punk Remix. Check it out. Boom, there it is. Okay, on the other side we have Green Velvet, a track entitled The Stalker. Absolute classic tunes. Alright, what I'm going to do, I'm going to put my headphones down. I'm not going to use headphones with this so it's pretty obvious I can't cheat. Okay, so prove I haven't sort of set up the decks either. We'll just move that to there. There you go. So that's a little bit faster now. So I'm going to get this one ready. Very obvious that's too slow.

Right, let's put it to there. Let's try again. Oop, you don't want to do that. I actually brought that in too late. Try it again. Now this sound, you'll be hearing on your headphones. You can hear it's jumping as well.

1:51 A tiny bit too fast now

What I try and do is bring it back a quarter of a turn and gently bring it in. But there I did spin it a bit too fast. So, still too slow. Speed up a bit more. It's this time. Nearly there. A tiny bit too fast now. I'm being really critical here. Very close now. Okay, well let's just go back a little bit. Alright, you noticed when I brought this track in. Okay, now this is where practice makes perfect. The actual platter itself is moving direct drive turntable. So, in between the platter and the record is what's known as a slip mat. So, okay, I pushed the record forward very slightly, but from here... I pushed it very slightly. But with practice, you get to the stage where you can have the first beat and all you have to do is pretty much let it go.

It jumped again. I'm holding the camera so that I can't change the weight... Oh, it jumped again. So now you'll notice my hand sort of moved quite abruptly as though I was pushing it forward. But what I was doing... was just giving it that tiny little bit of a push. It's almost as though I'm trying to move it forward but get it in time with the platter so I don't want to like give it a spin forward because then it will speed up too much. It's almost as though I'm giving it that little bit of inertia to let it move with the slip mat and the platter because the slip mat is in between and some slip mats will move with the platter, others will hold on to the vinyl and then go with the platter underneath. Now some people also if I just take this off here won't

5:59 Practice enjoy, jump

Have a slip mat, they'll have a piece of paper and other people will just use a really thin piece of plastic as well and plastic even though it's really thin is probably one of the best things to use because it is exceedingly slippery. Alright so let's put that back on I'll just actually I can't move that forward anymore anyway so let's put this back on and also another tip for you here don't know if you can hear that there's a slight wobble inside here the spindle if there's a wobble that means as you move it you could potentially be moving the vinyl not around but left to right. If you're doing that then of course the needle is vibrating very slightly which in turn may make the needle jump out of the groove of the vinyl so let's find

The beginning there okay let's do that again from there there it is. Okay so let's try that one more time over here see if we can do it first time. Bit slow, there got a bit faster brought it up to the correct timing then brought it back down again now if I had my headphones on as well and get it perfect there you go hope that's been help just bit of a random footage here but classic tracks as well. Finish off with practice and enjoy yeah there's the jump right so it wasn't me it did actually jump that's on Relief Records. Practice and enjoy thank you.

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