Where Angels Fear
2 min readDec 16, 2018

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Nah, there’s nothing much you need to do with them.

You set the mode of the source medium (Disc or USB).

You set the tempo width (5%/10%/16%/Wide).

Set the Release start and brake to whatever you want.

You find your chosen starting point of the next track in vinyl mode … thereby avoiding the the pain of the interminable DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD… hit [CUE] … and then switch to CDJ mode, because it keeps a tighter lock on the timestretch.

You hit [PLAY] whilst monitoring in the headphones and adjust the tempo until the incoming track is beatmatched with the one that’s currently playing — you may need to hit [CUE] and [PLAY] again … and tweak the pitch … a few times until you’re happy that everything is good.

If necessary, you press [MASTER TEMPO] to keep it in the original key.

You set the EQ on the channel on the mixer the way you want it for when you start mixing it in.

You set the upfader on the channel on the mixer to the requisite level.

You wait until the time to drop it.

You press [PLAY]and mix it in whichever way you deem appropriate.

You periodically adjust the jogwheel to keep the two tracks beatmatched until you’ve mixed out the outgoing track in whichever way you deem desirable … or want to rewind the incoming track because you’ve been blending them.

Job’s a good’un.

It’s not difficult.

All the other knobs and buttons are for if you want to do on the fly remixing with cue points and loops and searching through your ‘crate’ of MP3s <shudder> — not essential.

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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