Had a great practice session last night. I dont get to practice my scratching that often. Dying to post a vid…SOON!
Till now, I have been practicing to normal tunes. Whether its Dubstep, Electro…hip hop etc.
Last night, I used a Looper for the first time. Its a flash based tool and was coming out my Channel A (External Mixing) and that is the channel I use to scratch. So that was not gonna work, as I use TSP and no real vinyl.
Then I remembered the FX Loop on my mixer (YAY for Xone:22). So I set my Mac’s prefs to internal sound and used a Mini Stereo jack to RCA cable from the Mac’s sound card to the FX Send.
BOOM!
I found that practicing with a Looper is MUCH MUCH MUCH better than scratching to songs.
After an hour of practice, I was very happy with the result. Rocking lil combo’s etc.
I just play a song internally in traktor and loop through DVS. I start off around 80bpm and work my way up until I can no longer perform the scratch in time… i’ve just about got the swing flare and scribble down after about a week of practice
Hey, because songs change all the time and you do not get to repeat …repeat …repeat. With the looper, there is like 24 different loops on the one Looper tool, so you can change up as soon as you get bored with it.
But for me, it was allowing me to focus on the beat and get my practice down of certain combo’s and scratches.
It also helped me find what works in certain situations. I just discovered a lot. It took the focus off the song that was playing and put the focus on my scratching. The Looper is just a simple loop and allows you to add your melody or FX over it.
You could do the same in the DVS and loop part of a track etc…but this was fun!
Yep…you see I have not gone and started with specific scratch techniques and practiced each till I have it down.
I have just been freestyling till now.
I have learnt that the scratches I can do are the Transform, Crab, Babies, and a few combo’s of that.
I can flare and orbit, but not 2 clicks and combo’s.
I put this down to practicing to songs and just mucking around, and being stoned.
I have started (with the looper) with the individual scratches and need to work my way up proper.
Got all the Scratch tutorial vids etc…just need to follow em, while not stoned.
you are going to love the vestax 07 pro I just sold you. It’s great for scratching and has reverse for EVERYTHING…I tried to learn hamster and just cant do it since my brain is programmed to work in regular mode…I may try it again one day but for now I’ll use the line faders as my hamster switch haha
I already miss my mixer and I haven’t even shipped it out yet…wanted one more day with my baby, haha
you know what would be dope…some vekked how to’s and tricks, he’s got the reverse game on lock b/c i’m pretty sure he reverses channels too if i’m not mistaken
yea man, I reverse my xfader and channel faders… if you have any questions feel free to ask, the main reason I signed up was to help up and comers out where I can
Got my new innofader pro installed in my 57-sl… took me a good hour to get used to the difference BUT much sharper and cleaner cuts then what i’m used to with my vestax mixers (even with the lag cls-1 lag spacer)…hardest part of the install was centering the curve for calibration
well, after a couple weeks of trying to figure out the autobahn scratch my brain and coordination clicked last night and I mysteriously got it down… weird BUT nice to add another scratch…
