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Is there any particular reason why some mixes (practice hours, allstars 3) are like 8 to 10 beats faster than the original tunes? I mean, a reason that's different from: the DJ being like "it just sounds better"...

not that I'd mind, tho ...just wondering...

I cant believe they are 146, it'd sound silly.

My mixers got a BPM clock n always ready around 140/142

i might be wrong but if youre using technics you dont want to mix tunes really close to the 0% mark on the pitch slider as it makes mixing an ass. The pitch control isn't very sensitive just below and above the 0% mark i seem to remember. So if all the tunes are 138 or thereabouts it'd make sense to speed em up by a couple of percent...........

make sure it's playing back at the same bitrate as the file itself - for example if you load a sample into Logic that's 44.1kHz (CD quality) but you run Logic at 48kHz the sample will sound faster than it should - basically cos there are more frames being played back per second than it should...

Just an idea.

Batfink wrote:i might be wrong but if youre using technics you dont want to mix tunes really close to the 0% mark on the pitch slider as it makes mixing an ass. The pitch control isn't very sensitive just below and above the 0% mark i seem to remember. So if all the tunes are 138 or thereabouts it'd make sense to speed em up by a couple of percent...........

yeah did they correct that with the mk3? the mk2s i have definitely have that problem

DJ $hy wrote:I cant believe they are 146, it'd sound silly.

yea, that's what I was thinking too, after I'd run Practice Hours through MixMeister BPM Analyzer (a nice freeware thingy which is usually quite accurate). But then I double-checked it with Ableton Live: same result. They're all around 146. So is the entire Dubstep Allstars 3. These two mixes also 'feel' somewhat faster to me.

Another test I did was: Haunted, vinyl version vs. Allstars version. 142 vs. 145. And again: identical results with both programs.

weird. but whatever... soccer time now.

Batfink wrote:i might be wrong but if youre using technics you dont want to mix tunes really close to the 0% mark on the pitch slider as it makes mixing an ass. The pitch control isn't very sensitive just below and above the 0% mark i seem to remember. So if all the tunes are 138 or thereabouts it'd make sense to speed em up by a couple of percent...........

so if you're mixing at, say, +5%, a 138 tune will turn into 145... sounds reasonable.

Hmm I never really get to plus 5, bout 3ish but thats why I mix at 142ish!

Seems weird to me that the cd is 146 unless its been sped up...

It just dont sound right at 146 I swear BUT I'ma gonna go home and do it n see!

Putting the pitch to zero on a deck will play the track at the bpm the artist created it on. So when you make beats, doing it at 140 is a bitch cos its bang on 0!

funny.my cdj always said 142-145 when I used to play..but the bpm counter on it aint all that..techs normally at +4 to +6..dunno nowadays, I aint played for months.

Some of the big DJs and producers are playing and producing at higher tempos these days.

Anyone producing at 120?

blame it on technics.

the curse of dance music!!