All right folks. This is another video on turntablism. The reason for this video is that a couple of people have commented and saying what I do in cutting and scratching lessons tutorials. I have not put the decks in battle position. That is fair enough. Fair comment. But at the end of the day, how you put your turntables is up to you. There is no golden rule. No one says that you have to put them like this. It is up to you. If you are right handed, you can have both turntables at this side, CD players, mixers or whatever. You can have them both at this side. You can have them behind the mixer, in front of the mixer. You can have them on top of the mixer just as long as you can get to the mixer and build something. And here is a tip for you. If you have not got much room in your room or where you are, I used to do this, I will have my mixer up here and I would have platform like shelves and I would have a turntable on each shelf. So, you are doing this and the mixer on top. Think about it. You are using up a third of the space.
Anyway, we are on that battle position. Now then, as you can see here, it is the relatively normal average way of putting two turntables in a mixer. Now, you see a lot of danger when the cutting. They are doing this, back, forwards, back, forwards, right. Now, can you notice here, can you here where my hand is now? It is right over the left hand arm of the turntable. Now, that is a no-no. The reason, quite often, they will put it in battle position, you watch this, if I move this deck around, like so. Now then, you watch my movements now, no way near that tone on at all. The tone on is completely out of the way. I have full total at a control over that turntable and there is not way that I am going to touch that turn on. Say that with this really, okay? But then again, -- you cannot see that well. I have to move this over a little bit like so. There you go. Now, you can see here that this point here, I am just about to touch the tone on. So again, if I move the record, the actual whole unit around. Now then, if I do a quick sweep across here, the tone on is out of the way completely. That is the first reason why the decks are placed like this.
The second reason is just as important. Now then, if I move the turntable back like so, it should not really have the needle on the record. But now, if I start doing a scratch, what is happening in this position, if I would have followed that scratch through, my arm is almost stable all way around. I am like coming back to myself. And you are almost twisting your arm. Now watch. If I put it into battle position, move it around again like so. Watch [scratching and music playing]. Much better. Maybe you will start here. But then, you are only going so far. You are not going all the way around in twisting your arm. Likewise with the other side, you got more movement there as well. So what I am going to do is find a way very quickly. I am not a turntablist. I can scratch a time bit.
So, leave comments and say that I am crap if you want to because I am. I have said it before you have. So, what we will do is that we are going to bug a bit of a cheat on and we will see what happens. By the way, bear in mind that this is not the best mixer. The crossfade is not very good and neither am I. [music playing]. I am really going to try actually. I suppose really that apart from the fact that I am really crap, I could do it with a better mixer. If there is anyone out there who would like to send me a new mixer, spot on. Anyway, there you go. Main reason, battle reason. That is what it is all about. Now as well, if you are a turntablist which I am sure that there are thousands of you out there and you have any comments and any more reasons why the turntables are placed like this, then do yourself a favor. But more importantly, do every single other person out there a favor because they need to know why. So, leave a comment. Practice and enjoy.
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