Beat Matching Question

**moyo wilde** · 03-24-2012, 12:21 AM

dj matt good advice. i do that, move the headphones away and/or i turn up the mids high so that the sound is very distinguishable. so that if the drums sound similiar they won't after you do that and you will be able to do the whole track b as an instrument that has to be timed.

also something else that i learned is to stop touching things. you have time once you think it is beatmatched let the track play, in headphones. if you think it is slipping off beat but are not quite sure leave it alone, let it fall off, you will know which one and you will know how bad it is. also if you run out of time. you know if the incoming track is slower/ faster and that you will need to make what adjustments on that track. also it give you time to know how the tracks sound together. also good info to have when making adjustments or making up for a sloppy cue.

also for tighter mixes once i have it beatmatched i let the cued track play. sometimes i am not paying attention to it. but if it falls off after along time i can make slight adjustments.

good luck and remember to have fun.

**BurntToast** · 03-27-2012, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by sense

If you mix in your headphones use the cue pan on your mixer and adjust the cue pan so you hear the cued track louder then the live track helps with being able to separate the two tracks easier.

Unfortunately, my mixer (DJM 400) doesn't have this. I've been trying to mix using the "one cup on, one cup off", and then just checking them together on the headphones to confirm. Thanks for the heads up on how headphone mixing can get difficult in a live setting. Don't want to stick myself in any ruts early on...

**Hausgeist** · 03-27-2012, 11:55 AM

Use the "2 girls 1 cup" method.

**BurntToast** · 03-27-2012, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by Hausgeist

Use the "2 girls 1 cup" method.

Haha I saw that coming when I wrote that last post... didn't even try to stop it

**BurntToast** · 03-27-2012, 08:47 PM

Update: This shit is A LOT of fun!

**Fred McLovin** · 03-28-2012, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew B

Lots. Why is that an asshole thing to do?

A lot of people make half decimal BPM song ?? Which kin of music are you listening to ?? LOL bro I have over 2000 songs scanned in rekordbox and there's no track with a half decimal BPM... and when bpm is at like 128.15 its only because of an analysing error.... It would be completely stupid to do a song with a non rounded decimal !

**Andrew B** · 03-28-2012, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by Fred McLovin

A lot of people make half decimal BPM song ?? Which kin of music are you listening to ?? LOL bro I have over 2000 songs scanned in rekordbox and there's no track with a half decimal BPM... and when bpm is at like 128.15 its only because of an analysing error.... It would be completely stupid to do a song with a non rounded decimal !

I guess I just don't understand why it's a big deal?