Re: Tricks with Pioneer CDJ800/1000 's ? not that many tricks you can do apart from looping and using accapellas to make your own shit. Scratch if you can, you need EFX to do the interesting stuff. Play 2 tunes the same, onle just out of phase. James Zabelia stylee
My Denon does that using the alpha track function.... "mirror mix" - sounds really cool actually! Im hitting a brick wall with the pioneer it seems, apart from scratching and the loop function... i need to know some other stuff to try
I have used them a few times but not for anything fancy, I have a few m8's who have the 1000's will ask the and get back to you m8.
cheers m8... quick question... when beatmatching on cdj's - do you pitch bend first, then adjust the pitch... or do you adjust the pitch then bend it? back in my vinyl "days" i would give it a nudge and then adjust the pitch slider more or less right after, or while i was doing it - these days im finding things alot easier if i adjust the pitch and then use pitch bend. Its a stupid question, but id like to know how others do it...
Put the cd deck on cd mode and start your loops off long and build them shorter and shorter in time, then slowly start spinning the platerback until you get a massive reverb, kill the loop and the tune kicks in, boring but a canny trick.
I pitch bend as I move the pitch control, same as I do with a deck. Not much of a difference when you master the touch difference on a CDJ to a normal deck if that makes sence
you can do some really good tricks using the master tempo and wide pitch control simultaneously. Put on the master tempo and wide pitch control and wind the pitch right down so that the music sounds all fucked up and gradually start turning the pitch back up. If you time it properly, it builds the tension quite well. Using accapellas in reverse at the same time as an fx unit is pretty good. Make tiny loops by pressing the loop in and loop out buttons realy quickly, and then release the loop. If you time it properly and drop the next beat in time it sounds mint. I using the FX of my djm600 at the same time as my 800 and there are no limits to what you can do.
