So fella's i've been at it for about 7 months now, practicing practicing PRACTICING, and I am fairly confident about my mixing skills. I know beat matching is very basic stuff but I still seem to struggle a bit. (I got 2 cdj200's btw)
Now I can match the two tunes fairly easy and quick, it's keeping them in beat for a long time that I'm struggling with. It will seem perfectly matched but there you have it after 10 or 15 seconds it'll start to drift off. Usually I use the jog's and slightly increase/decrease the pitch.
However, it always seems to be a tiny bit too fast or too slow!
No matter how small the movement, even in 0.02% accuracy I can't seem to get it synced up properly unless I spend a minute or so finding the EXACT spot and I mean movements of 0.05 mm at most.
It's either that or I have to use the jog constantly and I loose time to properly EQ and use effects... and the joggs aren't actually pleasant on the 200's. So it's giving me a pretty hard time to pull off a solid mix of 30 minutes to an hour without having the beats go off.
Looping is giving me a hard time as well. They two tracks can run at the same speed but when I use auto loop it'll go off instantly, even when I press that button at the EXACT ammount of time, it won't make a tight loop.
I guess I'm just frustrated, as I expected to be able to do this kind of thing by now quite easily. So how do you cdj guys beatmatch? Do you ride the pitch constantly or use the platter? I would really like some insight in techniques others are using to sync up their tracks and shizz.
Peace!
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