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Along_the_Wire That’s likely true. I think most people can tell if two records sound good together or not.

Many, many years ago, I had a dj friend who actually did the whole bpm/key label on his records tell me one of my mixes was pretty much in key. That was all by ear and I wouldn’t have known the difference otherwise.

    3 months later

    Following on from my equ-comment on the DJ gear-thread I’ve vastly changed how I use them following @Unbroken1 ’s comments. Turns out you don’t need to do much with them! I now rarely touch the the highs, just a touch of mids, and about 20 % lows actually is all you need given the mixer is good. 22 years of DJeing and still learning…

      Homegrove
      Was having same conversation with Scott Bailey the other day, talked me down from experimenting with a 3 band eq type mixer (again!)

        Amps I have a full kill EQU on my PX:5, it means I turn the bass down to about ten a clock now when mixing out, whereas before I often went all the way down.

            Noticed that Lee Burridge and Craig Richards pretty much mix the same way by cutting out each frequency gradually - Burridge was using the Xone filter rather than touching the EQs though last few times I saw him.

            • Dan replied to this.

              Homegrove Shirley this would all depend on what frequencies your EQ is taking out and what frequencies are in the track, but I very much see your point, nice to tinker around the edges etc. Amps approved.

                Dan Yes, when I had the 92 I used to use it like my first mixer, a Vestax PMC job with kill switches (😂), and swap the basslines.

                    BlainSA
                    My old Numark DM 2002x also had kill buttons. Sometimes I’d have a mix and wondered why it sounded so bad only to realise I’d forgot to reset the buttons.

                        BlainSA So handy! My mate (who’s a decent techno DJ) taught me the trick.

                          Dubman 😂 A mate had a similar Numark, but the problem for him was the other track bleeding in because he used to slam the crossfader so much (DNB DJ) to the point he knackered it after only a few months.

                            Homegrove
                            Good man HG.

                            I’m not ashamed to say it always raises a few hairs on the back of ones neck

                              21 days later

                              It’s never really dawned on me as I used vinyl mode early on and haven’t thought about it since, but the default on the XDJ 1000mk2 was vinyl mode off. With it off, and pausing it creates a tiny loop and is stupidly annoying - I read that it helps with queuing, but don’t see how. What does everyone else do and can someone explain in idiot terms why there’s that tiny loop when you have vinyl mode off?