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Not just your everyday clock… One thing I have always found a bit strange is that there hasn’t been that much buzz as I would have expected about the Clocktave. This is a very innovative concept by DJ Sjam where the ‘Clocktave record’ can be used to actually play melodies. Personally I think it’s a brilliant [...] I think most turntablists will agree that DJ Qbert is amongst the great tablists of all time. With some guys, sometimes very technical cuts loose a bit of the ‘funkyness’ or the flow if you will. In my opinion Q does not have this most of the time because he is so versatile. [...] You might ask yourself wtf does a hamster have to do with turntablism?!? Well, hamster-style is a term that has gotten coined for using the X-fader in ‘reverse’. A ‘normal’ setup has the x-fader working like this: Normal X-fader curve A Hamster-style set-up has it reversed, so the channels will act like this:
The fader-scene has seen some impressive innovations in the last decade or so. Better overall quality of components, light sensors used in faders (Stanton’s Focus Fader, Numark’s Infinity Fader etc.) and Rane came up with the magnetic non-contact fader. This video shows how you can use their faders wen you’re having a drink
There are several problems you can run into that relate to your mixer. Here I will discuss the most common ones that you might encounter [...] Really simplistically speaking, at least regarding turntablism, the mixer is mainly used to turn the sound on and off. You can achieve this by using different [...] Depending on what kind of mixer you’ve got there can be a lot of buttons, switches and faders. Since it is impossible to describe [...] So what is a good mixer to use for scratching? Although a mixer needs less tuning than a turntable when you want to scratch, there are still a few things you should keep [...] As I mentioned earlier, there are a few terms that are often misunderstood or interchanged. In this section I will try to explain [...] ‘Scratching… what is it?’. This is a sentence that can be found on a lot of battle breaks. It’s a reference to the fact that most people who have never really tried to scratch might think that it [...] |
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