Alright folks, Jonathan here now, I have a tutorial for you. This time, we will going to be doing a bit of a mix and we will go from one track to the other. We are going from CDJ turntable to the other CDJ turntable. But, what we are going to do is we were going to have the both of the volumes on the actual channels at full and we are going to utilizing the actual cross-fade.
Now again, when you are doing this sort of a mix, basically, what you will do, if you will going to use the cross-fade, you will go from one side, very slowly across to the other side.
Yes, I am going to be doing that a little bit but the emphasis on this particular tutorial is where by, we are going to do a bit of a cutting, a bit of dropping the one track into the other. In other words, we are going to be moving the cross-fade like so,
(Finger Demo)
And then, maybe we will going to move it half way quite fast and back. Half way fast and back then maybe, all the way over and back, all the way over back.
But, what are we going to do, we are going to be considering of course, the timing, which is very important. Timing, totally and actually important to where is this concerned because if you get it in the wrong place, if you drop all track end in the wrong place, it sounds terrible.
Sound, now sound is just in fact, is more important than dropping the one track at the correct position because at the end of the day, if the one track that you will be bringing in does not sound similar or the actual sound of each track do not work, then it is going to sound terrible.
So, let us pause the camera for a second.
Now, on most cross-fades or most modern day cross-fades, you got 2 or 3 settings. You can have a very smooth transition from one track to the other, we can also have a very abrupt, almost.
What I say, abrupt? I will start again.
What you can have is you can have almost the sound, as soon as you use that cross-fade from the one side, it will come in directly. Now, that is what we do not want, with this particular type of cutting, what we need to do is we need to be able to have a slow transition from the one track to the other. But also, what we want to do is we want to know that when we wind that cross-fade straight over, yes, we are getting that mix.
But, as soon as that cross-fade straight over, we have got all the other side coming in and nothing else.
So, what you need to do? You need to make sure that the right hand turntable is set to the right also of the cross-fade. The left hand turntable is set to the left outside of the cross-fader okay?
Now, what you need to do is like, if you do not know what to act on your mixer, you should have maybe something like that,
(Crossing Finger)
A diagram like that with the cross and basically, what the means is that when the sound is going out, the other one is coming in and dead center that perfectly match 50/50. And then as you lift out, this one starts to disappear, it goes 50%, 40, 30, 10 almost what? To nothing, and then the other one comes in 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, right?
What I will do, I pause the camera now, okay? I will give you a quick demo okay? And, we will have a closer look at this particular part of the mixer and then, what I am going to do is well, I do not have the audio into the actual sight of the camera and bare with me alright?
If you are watching this video, as soon as it is up, do not worry because I will have very shortly all the information of the two-track I am playing to that side of the video okay? Hold tight.
(Demo)
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