I don't see how it can possibly be faster - if the record is too slow you must move the pitch control too far in order to overcompensate and then shift it back down once its caught up whereas if you touch the record you can just give it a nudge and adjust the pitch control which is instant.
:-----Original Message----- :From: Jonny McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:08 PM :To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Toby Frith; James Bucknell; 313@hyperreal.org :Subject: Re: (313) re: best decks : :I don't mean to go on, but... : :You can *hear* whether a record is too fast or slow. You don't have to know :in advance. Also: cueing up is *faster* when you get used to not touching :the records. Try it. If anything, pitch mixing means you have more control :over records and therefore don't have to worry about, say, disco records :that speed up at a chorus: you accurately compensate as it happens. : :I'll say it again: try it. I don't touch records in the mix, and I don't :organise my records by bpm or front -> back (I'm not sure what that means :but I think you mean programming out a set in advance), and believe it or :not, can mix records I've never heard before: I buy new ones after all. And :it is much easier doing this by using the pitch control. : :> Depends a little bit on the amount of time you've got to get the mix in, :and :> whether or not the target track is being thrown out to into the open, or :> whether it's only in your cans. Pitch mixing also means you've got to :know :> your tracks very well, OR (I emphasise or) that you've cheated in some :way :> (front->back box, or BPM's on labels). :> :> Horses for courses as they say. ;) :
