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I hope that that is giving you a sort of an idea. Now, there is a lot more to this than meets the eye because when you get good at it, not only do you have to consider moving the crossfade at the right time and to the right position, but you also need them to concentrate and work at actually using the bass, the mid and the treble. If you think about it, you can have the crossfade halfway over. And maybe, there are a lot of vocals so you could actually reduce the mid, no vocals, therefore, no vocals clashing. Maybe you want to reduce the bass. So what would you do on the baseline? Remove the bass, take it all the way off or maybe a tiny bit or increase.
Now again, you can use these guys and it is all about practice. Do not expect to do this in one second. I am not the best DJ in the world. I know sort of what I am doing. Maybe I am good at teaching. And I will tell you what the funny thing is, there are a lot of people out there watching this now who are a thousand times better than me. But, if you can learn one tiny tip from me, then all the better. Now what I will do is that I will pause the camera and we will have a look at the actual crossfade and I will explain to you what I was doing. Hold tight.
Now first of all, I had the actual crossfade in the center. And then what I was doing was that I was pressing the key buttons. Now basically, with these particular CDJs, if you press the key buttons, bang like so, you keep the finger on the key button. As soon as you take your finger off, the finger will stop and it will go back to its original position. So I was just like, dun, dun, dun, dun, like so. And of course, you can hit them both because the crossfade was on the center. And since I move the crossfade to the right hand side, you could not hear anything from the left that you could only hear music from the right hand side. Then, as I was slowly moving the crossfade over, you could start to hear the left hand side until thing dead center look at across there. We had perfect volume from this side and an identical sound from this side. And of course, that is dependent on your levels here. In other words, your actual gains there have to be all trimmed, have to be exactly the same level. In other words, if side was peeking more than this side, that would mean that this side was longer than this side which would meet in in turn that this side here will be louder than this side even though the crossfade is in the center. So, do not forget. Always make sure that the two trims are set. So, the levels here are exactly the same. That is really important.
And also, if you are using an LP, in other words, a long pair on this side, quite often, there are limited volumes so you would not need to turn that trim up. Now what I was doing again was that I was moving the crossfade over to the center, bet a bit of both of the tracks. And occasionally then, you sort of go wham! Straight across. Wham! Straight across.
Now, I was listening to the phrases. For example, pump up the jam straight back over again and pump straight back over again. And then the baseline, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump. Like so. I hope that you get the general idea. Like I said, there is a lot more to this and possibly, the future video hopefully soon or maybe tonight. What I will try and do is utilize the base, mid and treble on both sides. Thanks for watching. Practice and enjoy.
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