Extreme pitch; -8 through +8 thoughts...
Gnat
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Do you do this? Always? Sometimes? Never?I personally am scared to go past -4 because I feel it distorts too much. Fuck a chipmunk and Darth Vader.~gNAT
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instrumental songs ill go further in each direction though
fuck is it April 2nd already?
I guess that's it--some songs it works on and some it doesn't. I just saw this DJ the other night and he put "I Wish" up to +8 and it sounded sooo retarded I stopped dancing. I could also tell he was using low bit rate .mp3s. Maybe this is the danger of being a DJ, but shit, this guy didn't even care about pitch or levels. All treble, distortion, and high pitch pretty much fucked up the set--that and he though he could scratch over every dance song and that we would care. I dig scratching and all--but pretty much not a minute straight on the dance floor unless it's some really clever shit. Ahhhh man.
Microwave gots this? Am I latepassin it and sleepy?
Dude, hells yeah. In the new software version, you can key lock in all three modes. Shit is looooovely though obviously, if you're doing double speed, you'll get some digitizing distortion but it works pretty well within a reasonable range.
blend tools. fill your bag up.
no shit right? These Numarks can do -+50% and I find myself exploiting that capacity a bit too much!
Seriously, +6 seems to be the magic zone. Never pitch down funk.
Yes, Microwave Key Lock is that shit .... but the higher you go the quality diminishes!
peace.
"Can I kick it" up to +6.
however, some dudes usually came up to the dj booth after a couple of tracks and complained about the slow music.
A lot of drum'n'bass 45 rpm 12-inches sound just as banging on 33.
I'll fuck with the tempo of every record if necessary as long as it sounds good. That means no "I Wish" on +8, that's just stupid.
Isn't there a simple mod you can do with the regular 1200s/1210s? I think there's a potentiometer somewhere inside that allows you to widen the pitch range pretty drastically. Never tried it myself, but somebody told me about it.
http://music.hyperreal.org/dj/sl1200.html#5.1
Thanks, PP. I had that one bookmarked years ago, but lost the URL later. I think that's where I read about it.
On good monitors you can hear the compression or time stretching, especially stuff with horns.
Hahaha, true! I've caught myself playing ATCQ records pitched way up, and Q-Tip quickly turns into Magoo (who I just signed for $10 and he's mad at you).
It definitely depends on the record, but seeing as how I prefer playing fast to playing slow, I pitch things up (even up to +8 with some instrumental stuff) without thinking too much about it, but I don't like slowing things down too much. Not that I refuse to do it, but if I'm in the mix, and the record I'm trying to beatmatch has to be pitched down to -4, I'll usually just pick a different record.