The Scratcher’s Journal by DJ X2K

I’m making the trek this year to get up to London for the UK DMC Finals, so if anyone else is going let me know and we can meet up!

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There once was a time were every DJ had to work everything out for themselves because either certain things hadn’t been worked out yet or DJs didn’t want to share their latest trick. These days however there are many great resources to bring budding new DJs up to speed.

Here I just want to list a few of these resources which I have found to be the most useful and I think that they would help any DJ wanting to learn new skills.

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As I’ve already mentioned in some of my other posts I’m a massive fan of Serato ScratchLive’s instant doubles setting. Here I’m going to explain why and some tricks which can be done using it.

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When I first got Serato ScratchLive I though the obvious thing to do was record a little mix of some of the music I made over the years. It’s been posted on the net before but I thought I post it up here again.

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This is another mix I did quite a while back, it’s basically a mix of funky uptempo 7″ singles.

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A group of 10 forum members, myself included, from Digital Vertigo got together and recorded a 1hr mix by recording a 5 min mix then passing it on to the next DJ to add their 5mins.

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Recently I became the owner of a pair of Vestax PDX-3000 turntables, up until that point and my DJing antics were restricted to the +/-8% pitch range of my trusty Technics. So with my new found glory of ultra pitch I thought I’d post some info about pitch ranges, most of what I am going to say will be fairly obvious but I hope there may be useful tips/ideas for some people in here to inspire some extra creativity.

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