Chop & Screw Basics?

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Whats up everybody....Can Anybody explain the basics of choppin' & Screwin' a record and what is the step-by-step process when i'm on the turntables?
 
step 1. lower pitch
step 2. cut

lmao. but seriously though. It just mixin records with a little juggln, chase patterns, and cuttin at a much lower tempo. Do you know hw to mix? can you beatmatch? can you juggle? Or even scratrch? To be really good at the chopped and screwed style you have to be good at all the fundamentals any dj should learn. There is kno step by step because if you mixed every song the same it would inevitably sound bad. Most of it comes from just feelin what sounds good. Might be good idea to grab doubles of a lot of songs too.
 
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no way man, ur makin it way to complicated.
you take a song, have 2 copys, 1 on each cd.
u play them in a dual cd player, at the same speed, and have one of the tracks slightly ahead of the other, and use a crossfader on a mixer to go back and forth from track to track.

i dont know, maybe this is harder to explain then i thought. oh well, i can do it. bwaahaha
 
dsuh said:
he's dead.
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No DJ Screw is dead...Micheal 5000 watts is very well alive and makin hot shyt.


Check out afta the Kappa disc chamillionaire is a beast
 
Pretty much the basics were covered with the comments made already. Kahliljn kinda summed it though.... listen to some chopped and screwed mixes. Listen to how it is done. Take two copies of a record and slow both pitches about 4-5%. Have one record about one count ahead of the next record. Listen to the songs as you play and pick various phrases to use your crossfader to create a repeat effect. Spice it up by doing some powerdowns and backspins. If you choose to do that make sure to quickly get your tempo / phrase back so you can continue this through out the length of the song. Key to this is do this in moderation, especially until you get good. You need the basic of beatmatching and juggling to pull this off. Even though one record is one beat ahead of the other they are still in tempo to each other. Now get to listening to mixes of chopped and screwed stuff and pay attention.
 
man, if you only slow it down 4-5% it wont be screwed. You need to drop it about 28-40% and lock the key to get the right sound. Easiest way is to just make a mix and put it in some DAW application and use a pitch and time stretch plugin to slow it down, and lock the key.
Tiger, try it in Torq, slow it down about 32% and lock the key and you will see that you have the right tempo and vocal sound.
 
noooooo, when you chop and screw, it sounds better to chop it at normal speed first and record it, then drop the spped about 30%, it sounds much more natural that way and not forced becuase a fader.. idk,it just sounds better take my word for it
 
Gutty502 said:
noooooo, when you chop and screw, it sounds better to chop it at normal speed first and record it, then drop the spped about 30%, it sounds much more natural that way and not forced becuase a fader.. idk,it just sounds better take my word for it
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Yeah, thats what I said. make a mix at regular speed, then drop it in ya DAW and use a pitch and timestretch plugin to slow it down.
 
Does the original thread writer even care any more.... It's all good.
 
Tigersharc1 said:
Does the original thread writer even care any more.... It's all good.
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looool good point people keep sayin keep the secound copy 1 count/step ahead do you mean 1 beat or 1 bar ? thanks
 
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