Tempo adjust with Keylock on
Tempo adjust with Keylock on Posted on: 06.03.2013 by Christiana Ercolani Hey guys,As I'm still at the bedroom DJ phase and have only been mixing on monitors. To those who have performed on larger sound systems or PA systems: how far do you push the tempo when you have the key locked in, without a really noticeable loss in quality. I notice it pretty quickly on my monitors. But I would imagine you can get away with a bit more in a loud, noisy bar/club. If it helps, I'm using Traktor and prefer house, so I'm almost always in the 120-130 bpm range. | |
| Christiana Ercolani 06.03.2013 | Hey guys, As I'm still at the bedroom DJ phase and have only been mixing on monitors. To those who have performed on larger sound systems or PA systems: how far do you push the tempo when you have the key locked in, without a really noticeable loss in quality. I notice it pretty quickly on my monitors. But I would imagine you can get away with a bit more in a loud, noisy bar/club. If it helps, I'm using Traktor and prefer house, so I'm almost always in the 120-130 bpm range. |
| Nancey Inderlied 06.03.2013 | Traktor's keylock is rather finnicky, sometimes you can push it pretty far without breakup, other times it completely shits the bed the second you move the fader. I always keep a long standing policy of not using more than a +/- 6% pitch in general, and you'll really have to tune by ear which tracks work to what extent and such. In my experience though, the breakup tends to be rather immediate, rather than a subtle variation, so your monitors should actually be as good of, if not a better, judge of where breakup occurs. |
| Addie Engbrecht 06.03.2013 | There are some sounds that the keylock algorithim does terrible with and there are others where it's not as noticeable, so theres no set rule......just use common sense when you play out as every sound system and envirement is diff. |
| Alphonso Deitchman 06.03.2013 | Traktor has a pretty decent keylock (on HiQ, not ECO) so I wouldn't worry about mixing BPMs between 120-130. The usual recommendation is to stay within 5 or 6% of the original BPM. |
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