bpm?

[fisher]

anywhere from 0% to 4% on the pitch.

 

[deadaelus]

i always try to pitch down in stead of up, the tracks usually sound better when they are pitched closer to 0% If you are pitching your tunes +4% they sound a bit too frantic for my tastes.

 

[PostmanPat]

Why does everyone seem to pitch up? If everyone plays at around 180 bpm then why aren't dnb tracks all made around 180 instead of 172-175ish?

I dont get it. When I DJ in my room, I usually play at 174-175.....

 

[Alexi]

make tracks at 175

when using CDs, usually just pitch up about 3 or 4 to get a better bitrate

when playing liquid about 176

when play dancefloor or playing out about 180

 

[muzzadj]

i mix pretty fast, don't know the bpm but im generally mixing around the +6 mark on the pitch

 

[Thin and crispy]

Why does everyone seem to pitch up? If everyone plays at around 180 bpm then why aren't dnb tracks all made around 180 instead of 172-175ish?

I dont get it. When I DJ in my room, I usually play at 174-175.....

they saw friction do it

 

[sam the dnb man]

Depends what sort of set im doing.
if im doing a deep chilled out liquid mix i wont speed it up too much.
I like mixing chilled stuff at 170.
something you lose the soul of the music when you speed it up too much.
I'll play a 174 tune at about +4.8 if im doing a mental mix

 

[RUSSLA]

when using CDs, usually just pitch up about 3 or 4 to get a better bitrate

What the heck does that mean? How does speeding it up make any difference? CDJs are just emulating a vinyl deck anyways.. I'm confused on your theory lol - A track made at 320 is only guna be 320, you aint guna gain anymore by speeding it up, Shirley?

 

[Alexi]

What the heck does that mean? How does speeding it up make any difference? CDJs are just emulating a vinyl deck anyways.. I'm confused on your theory lol

Takes a while to get your head round but I'll try and explain it

if a 320kbps mp3 is burnt to CD, it's upped to 1411.2 kbit/s, red book standard etc. but there's still only 320kbps of data there.

as an easy example, if you speed your cd deck up +100% you are then playing it twice as fast, you'll be playing two seconds worth of music every second, so will essentially be playing a bit rate of 640kpbs.

It doesn't make a huge difference and you're not going to be playing +100%, but +5% or so can just slightly improve a MP3 that's less than 256kbps.

Hope those ramblings clear it up a bit

---------- Post added at 11:51 ---------- Previous post was at 11:47 ----------

it's the opposite of how slowing down sampled breaks when producing can make them sound awful unless they're WAV

 

[hazdaman100]

Why does everyone seem to pitch up? If everyone plays at around 180 bpm then why aren't dnb tracks all made around 180 instead of 172-175ish?

I dont get it. When I DJ in my room, I usually play at 174-175.....

Pitched up mixes just sound a whole lot better, dunno y just does. I mixed at 174 for the first year, now I mix at about 180-185
Sounds much better imo

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i mix pretty fast, don't know the bpm but im generally mixing around the +6 mark on the pitch

yep me too