The Art Of DJing: Sunil Sharpe - Mixing On Four Turntables (With And Without Headphones)
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2020
- The revered techno DJ breaks down his masterful mixing technique.
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Video filmed and edited by: Marco Griffini
Sound Recordist: Rob Moore - Hudba
this is what it feels like to cook on all for hobs at once
lol so true!
I usually make one-pot dishes
I'm a chef who likes to dj. Cooking on 12 hobs is easier than this
Interesting analogy!
The other thing that hasn't been mentioned is that one other key to pulling this off is to know your records extraordinarily well.
"Know your records" is the first and the most important thing a DJ should know.
@@justseven3487 Something important for me when mixing with 3 or more trays, is that they have to be Tracks locked-groove, Tribal etc ... I'm not saying it can't be done with other styles
yeah, jeff was never djing with 4 decks i dont think lol
You said it man you really have to know your records.
And if you’re doing a real set, put them in order.
I like shooting from the hip, but if you’re gonna do a set, prepare yourself
Sunil is such an awesome dude. He has done so much for the scene in Ireland, is such a friendly and passionate guy. Seriously skilled.
If you heard this blend in a club you'd literally just melt into the ground beneath you
Metaphorically melt into the ground. That would cause a lot of bad trips and PTSD at the club if it happened literally.
Be hard to sustain mixing on four decks in a club for a few hours without it sounding like a melt you'd run out of records.
most probably, you wouldn't even notice
@@RandomnessTube. you've never been to see sunil live then,it's epic every time
An absolutely talented human being and one of the nices guys you could ever meet - superb.
Stunning. Quite impressed with this man's turntable skills and ear for the different elements in the mix.
how the fuck do you remember which one is which and tell when its out of time... recipe for a panic attack for me
@@vvvictoriav5958 With enough practice you can hear which one is off and whether it's too fast or too slow.
He’s up there with Jeff Mills in my books
And Jeff Milligan
@@blairwilliams136 Algorythm! or however he spelled it.. the Gem of TO rave scene
Ben Sims is the reigning king of the triple turntable.
he is Meff Jills!!
Jess Milfs 😉
Notice 2 of his turntables are Mk5 g with a pitch control that definitely feels different to the previous technics and has recieved a lot of criticism. He proves that it's just a matter of getting used to it. What makes this more impressive is that knowing from experience that this is the case, he also has to take this into account and use the pitch on the mk5 g turntables slightly differently to the other 2 turntables with each adjustment. He makes this sound effortless, especially how it's not just a short transition either.
Heres a tip ppl make sure your deck is 100 percent level! Use a spirit level on each axis by spinning the platter. You can adjust the level by spinning the feet.
A level deck says in time better !!!
Saves you pulling and pushing in a multideck set up.
I should hope we all know that even with one deck,to have it level..good reminder though...
What about freefloats?
Sunil is a legend of the Irish seen. Criminally underrated
Seen him play at H.O.G Birmingham a couple of times. Brilliant DJ 👏
Criminally underrated,well said,cheers
Ah that's how you mix with 4 deck's, here's me trying to master 2 decks for the last 25 years. That was my mistake......2 decks and not 4! Nice one Sunil always a pleasure to listen to you mixing!
It’s always fun to get four going at once, without any type of beat counters. Jogging with out headphones though, is a complete different ballpark! You’ve obviously spent hundred, if not thousands of hours behind them decks!
Sunil - what a find. This is Lukas I remember visiting you each week in Dublin's record store back in 2002
The 5th deck probably feels like: "Am I a joke to you?!"
don't am i Jog to you?)
well, it's only a 4Ch Mixer ;)
All round good guy, and someone I really look up to. Big up Sunil!
big ups DSNT!
Defo a good guy, happy to ID tracks and can mix like a mofo. Never thought of the quick nudge of the pitch control up and down instead of moving the platter to speed the record up. Love 3 dex sets but a 4 dex set fast as fuck would be amazing ! Do it Sunil 💪
nice video but i dont know how im gonna hear the second part without headphones??
using your speakers
You can see he queues up the track using the lights on the mixer, once it hits yellow he knows hes found the first kick of the track and he goes from there.
He already knows the track/record is in roughly the same bpm as the ones he is mixing so if he brings it up from the first kick he can beatmatch from there, without needing headphones :)
Well said mate 😉 pitch Co trol is already set for him
The new best name / comment combo
Turn on captions, that worked for me.
That studio looks so nice. I was almost expecting him to play the Entertainer
Damn, this is some god tier vinyl skills man, I like how part two actually shows properly how tricky fader beat matching is. Also: that the kick on the last deck absolutely slaps.
Holy cow!!! Now that's what i call a proper DJ. RESPECT! : *
Top man Sunil. Never a dull moment
when they all come into phase with each other, love it.
You would have to know your music SO well to do this. What a legend.
Bought many a record off Sunil back in Spindizzy, lovely chap. Awesome DJ
Dublins Prince of Techno! I had a few of his own productions on vinyl. Always killer tunes. Also I’ve met him a lot when I’d be record shopping (because he worked in record shops!). Always a decent, humble guy. 👍
BTW I can do this in my sleep... in my dreams I mean! Sunil you’re nothing but a Beast!
Remember when techno was FUNKY. Now this is it
80's Tecno was very soulful. As soon as it left Detroit the soul was gone. SMH
@@LeMerch lol. Way off here pal. Loads of funky techno out there. Try listening to any old Sims, Rush or Dave Angel
This is so dope ❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’ve done three tables and that already is hard, so even with the occasional trainwrecks, he’s blinding! Tons of respect!
What a great demonstration! Good to see the record by Physical Therapy in the background ;) (a great one)
Fantastic blend of tracks with a nice build. BAMF.
one of the absolute best djs there is
Would love to see more similar stuff 👍
Sunil Sharpe was the best session i had on fabric's room 2
lovely man producing lovely content !
Now this is skill, classic DJ'ing here at a pro level!
This was nice,it's hard to do,but some of these people are really so mesmerized...wow..great show..
Hands down Irelands best dj, and a top bloke in general
i give up
The best name / comment combo
ian i love ur channel and radio show bro pls don't give up
No men! you can't give up!!!!
This is splendid!
8 minutes isn't enough! Need more!!!
Sunil!!! Great vid guys
Really interesting approach!
I had the pleasure to play together in under club
you are really inspiring
Vinyl control, quality stuff Sunil..
The "No sync button" man. Gotta hand it , extremely tight mixing - that is not easy with four decks going on at once
Most of the negative comments here are from the “why take the time to beat match, when sync free’s you up to be more creative” crew. Yeah it really free’s you up to add that traktor reverb and delay. Real creative 😆😆😆
They both have their time and place to be fair. If you’re using Traktor or syncing and integrating a lot of loops on 3 channels or more to create something new on the fly, rather than just mixing 1 track into another then that’s still fair game.
@@TwStTempo I agree 100% there are def some people killing it & utiizing technology in creative ways. 99% of the time though, they're not the ones in every comment section justifying it 🤣
Beat matching allows for more creativity. If you have a computer doing the legwork you won't be able to do anything more complex.
I call them Launchkey Donkeys or LD's for short. They are not DJ's like this. They don't even deserve the title of DJ. There is absolutely no discs being jockeyed with some of these fruit cakes nowadays. They hit a play button and expect accolades. Fuck em. Fundamentally not creative, they press a button and play someone who actually is creatives work and then gather all the kudos. Rise of The Idiots Shit. This video shows true craft.
he deleted most of the negative comments.
such an international hero, irish legend xx
All of nowdays "Trendy" CDj's should see this
Damn. I guess I'll just keep searching for the record that has all that happening in it lol.
John Rakowski haha....EXACTLY.
his technique is just next level
no one out trumps Sunil. King of Techno. Jeff dropped after he "accidentally" released someone else's music as his own.
Mills has done it more than once ffs!
Someone explain please?!
@@kruegerdabby Jeff mills released other people's music as his own apparently without "realising" the track were not his own.
👀‼️
Crazy man, very nice !
Sunil thought me the in Dj collage how to do this pitch only technique. Once you suss it out it's the best buzz ever!
I like the beat matching only using the pitch fader!
It's how I've always done it. Feels like I have more control this way too.
Dope skills!
This is so awesome
Total respect
Sweet mother of techno , this was skill
Love pitch riding
Absolutely insane mixing - does anyone know the ID of the last track he mixes?
Fantastic!
impressive
When someone tells your DJs only press play, show them this video
Except 99% of them don't do what's been shown in this video. CDJs and Serato/Traktor/Ableton have created a generation who do just press play and sync.
@@pillsandthrills.399 True but plenty of DJ's who play digital purposefully dont use all the features that make it easier. Not really good for you anyway if you want to be able to play on any system where you may not have certain things that help out. In short people who are truly passionate about it will always try to get better
Amazing!!! 😱👏👏🙌
4 deck mixing is just the way to be today. more energy more possibilities more space. never wanna go back to 2 decks again.
Master at work 👌
So what I learned is the adjustment of the pitch control, ear training and following the levelmeters is the trick to do mixing without headphones.
Lovin it!
Awesome mixing skills
Thats proper skills right there!!
Turntable boss! Love it
Respect!
Anyone have the video that was given away with dj mag way back when, and it had a dj showcasing 6 turntable mixing? I believe it was six at one time he said he tried more, but everything started becoming too jumbled up. Wouldn't mind seeing what he did again.
Love it 🔥
Great channel btw! Subscribed!
That’s actually a pretty dope mix. :D
Top skills 👏🏻🎶
Sunil is a hero!
Bro, you could beatmix ANYTHING 😲🔥
This is impressive.
this is fucking outrageous. i remember a time in my 20s when i could handle 30 seconds of 3 decks but this is amazing
Amazingggg!!!!!!
My favorite music hip hop is four turntables and there's a lot of DJs that I think have that skill and I just had to Google CZcams it and you were number one so congratulations but there's a huge responsibility when it comes to 4 turntabkes you have to be on fire I sold about 10 turntables every time I sold it it broke a piece of my heart but I never learned it I wish I could be a scratch mixed artist like somebody like you good luck player
i love to watch the art of djing
Massive stuff, thanks for posting! What's the second song ID?
Prodigal Filio DJ Boss - B1 (Kombucha EP) love this one, proper techno
that was dope...
ryan james ford - dollar hits
dude is mixing 4 channels with no headphones.. hats off
best of the best, up the bife massiv
Or you can just play one Advent or an Adam Beyer track that was produce around 1996-1997 & it will probably sound like that.
Yeah all Advent tracks sounded like this
great skills
Wow...congratulation
boss!
big up Sunil!
Like a Boss !! 😎🎬💪🏼💪🏼
yup wicked stuff.
Class. Lad. Learned on 1210s myself. Not 4 tho. Real skill there.🔥🔥👍
I'm impressed.
4 deck mixing is hard anyway, but to use a couple of the awful M5g's with their horrible steppy pitch adjustment is actually bloody amazing.
What are you talking about? The M5G is amazing!
@@atomcrash You are obviously too young to know any different.
The M5g was an awful deck, one of Technic's worst of all time.
Having had Mk2, M3d, Mk5 and M5g I can confirm the M5g was terrible in comparison. The M3d was probably the most stable pitch of all.
@@DjNikGnashers Dude what the...?! I'm DJing with two MK2's and one M5G for the past 18 years and the M5G is by far the superior deck. If it's good enough for 3-deck mixing it's good enough for anything. Maybe you just never got used to it.
@@lordcamio2667 Right, lets get this straight.
There are different types of DJ's ok.
Turntablist's, and mix DJ's. I went to look on your channel, because I think you are a Turntablist, and thought I'd make sure by looking at your videos. Your channel has no content, so that makes me seriously doubt anything you say,.
That aside, my point is this :
The M5g is better for Turntablist's, because of the higher torque. When you are scratching, you want the platter to carry on spinning at the same speed and not be slowed down when scratching, so when you release the vinyl it immediately gets up to speed.
For mix DJ's the digital pitch is much worse than the Mk2/M3d/Mk5 pitch. The wow & flutter is also higher, but the pitch moves in visible steps, making much harder to exactly match the speeds for extremely long (techno/house/prog/trance) mixes. The analogue pitch of the earlier models, although it still does move in steps, because of the way the motor is controlled, has such small steps to the adjustment, that it is not noticeable, and appears to be almost a continuous adjustment curve.
This is not 'bro science' and if you wish, I can post links to MANY videos which actually demonstrate the differences in a scientific way, it's 100% genuinely the truth that I am telling you.
I am surprised that you don't know this, if you really have been mixing this long. Maybe your just lying as you have no proof on your channel.
My channel has clips of me mixing 13 years ago. I got my first decks in 1980 by the way, so I have a LOT of experience, and played clubs, raves, etc over the years.
@@DjNikGnashers Logged in with the wrong account currently. Check the Atom Crash channel, then try to find some longer mix transitions anywhere on YT. Seriously, calling me a liar simply because you can't mix on the best turntable ever produced... the nerve!
Unreal!
Congrats
Real Dj, real techno
Hell ya
This is how it’s done ✊🏽🤘
Awesome skills!
ID on the first tune?