^ I agree. That’s vinyl style.
Although I feel you could wear out your buttons out with all those presses. Wonder how long they last?
I feel that using the jog definitely looks cooler.
Yup, nothing wrong there. Use the method you want, get the job done 
My resolution is set to 8%, but I have control up to 0.01. I’m just not very good at spotting the tiny beat drifting. I’m still having difficulty isolating the beats 
Keep drifting into Track B as my main beat. More practice!
I don’t like his start/stop technique. He should be riding the platter and nudging the tempo fader in response but if it works for him then fine.
Blood by Francois Dubois is a mighty fine song however. My vinyl’s ruined unfortunately.
[QUOTE]I don’t like his start/stop technique. He should be riding the platter and nudging the tempo fader in response but if it works for him then fine.
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You mean riding the Tempo fader and Nudging the platter I hope 
Dyslexic morning ?
Actually no; I ride the platter (well, the edge anyway) to keep it in time, then make adjustments to the fader until no adjustment on the jog is required to keep it in time.
Deevey yes thank you. More of a red wine evening
Do you think one of you guys could take some time out of your day to make a video of your beatmatching, but record the cue side rather than the monitor side?
If I get time I will mate. Just gone full time at work as a charge nurse and have vowed to shelf DJing after 20 years of it. It will be on Turntables if I do get time but the principles are exactly the same.
Disagree completely. Either option is fine. I’ve been playing on turntables forever, so doing it that way is just my natural workflow when converting to CDJ’s, and since I only have TT’s at home (DVS) that’s what makes sense to me when I play out. And so what that he made a slight phase adjustment at the beginning? You telling me that you’ve never hit the “play” button a little early or late? No one’s going to hear the correction unless the channel fader is up, and even if it were (assuming that was something you wanted to do), typically its because you WANT the crowd to hear the scratch drop in. If it’s off … then just get better at letting go of the platter (or vinyl, as the case may be) or quickly correct it. And anyway, no one in a club is really going to notice it unless you were WAY off in starting the track.
Just a technical question, but how would one record the cue side? I’ve been thinking of putting up a video but I don’t know how I would get that audio routed to the recording. Unless I reversed the order of operations and was matching the master deck to a cued deck in my headphones, but I still don’t know how that would help you much. End of the week workday and my brain is mush maybe.
I have no clue if you can record the cue side, but I’d imagine you could just send the cue output into your recording device lol
I’d just like to hear what’s going on in the headphones during cue since the live DJ videos I’m watching on youtube, I’m only hearing the monitors.
Well hmm. I’m probably not the person to be able to help you since I don’t think I have any way of doing the audio and video at the same time effectively. Maybe someday the good people at DJ TechTools will let me come over to their offices in SF and do a little recording! 
I’m guessing you could output the CUE and play with the monitor mix knob?
You can do it with a DB4… im sure this dosnt help
How so? I’ve got a pioneer djm-850, so I can route audio - in fact, that’s how I record audio through traktor, I route the master internally into/out of channel 2 which I then tell tracktor that chan 2 is the source of the recording. Assuming this is similar to what you mean, what’s the next step?
I was being a smartarse in that the DB4 has a selection in the menu were you can send the cue and master signal out of the record output.
For the purposes of making an instruction video, couldn’t u just have the “CUED” channel at full volume, just for the purpose of demonstration. Im sure this wouldn’t confuse the punters so much.
What you’re looking for is a double “thud” that sounds a bit wrong, move the platter/fader (whichever you want) until it stops, re-cue and try again, see if it stays like that. Done.
[QUOTE]Actually no; I ride the platter (well, the edge anyway) to keep it in time, then make adjustments to the fader until no adjustment on the jog is required to keep it in time.
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If it works for you its all good
Personally I like to ride the fader and not touch the platter whatsoever except to launch the track I find it faster and more accurate to beat match - Its another throwback from vinyl I guess when touching the platter continually while in the mix meant a horrible down-pitch to the vocal or synth due to lack of keylock where a gradual motion with the fader was almost un-noticable.
I found this lil diagram I’d drawn up a while back might make it easier for peeps to understand how to quickly ride the fader into the right place - if you get it down you should be able to sync most anything blindly within 2 or 3 bars.
Hope it helps in the search for techniques.
[QUOTE]For the purposes of making an instruction video, couldn’t u just have the “CUED” channel at full volume, just for the purpose of demonstration. Im sure this wouldn’t confuse the punters so much.
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Just use the headphones out on the mixer as your Audio source ?
If I had access to Decks/Mixer setup these days I’d do up a lil demo 
- of course if anyone wants to donate me a set hehehe
You can get a 3.5mm to 1/4 inch adapter. You probably have one on your headphones. Then use a 3.5mm male to 3.5mm male cable to connect it for the DJM-850 headphone port to any recording device 3.5mm input jack Laptop, PC, etc.
Then you can play with the Monitor Mixing knob and either output CUE, MASTER or a mix of both.