Tips On Chopping Music - Anyone?

[DJ Slowdown]

Chopping up music is where i need help, Slowin it down is easy. Anyone got some tips? Im using Virtual DJ but i also have Screwlab

[slvicick]

the most important thing is staring the tracks one after the other quick enough that the chops aren't too far off

[RjMartinez07]

choppin is easy as screwin it it just take a lil more time to do but when i chop my shit up on acustica mp3 i have everything as one wave file and its really up to u how u chop it up but what i do is listen to the song and guess where i want the choppin to be at but what ever you do make sure that the words u chop comes before the word in the actual verse.
ex. one of our songs it goes "dank rolled in my swisha" so i chopped it like "dank rolled swisha swisha". thats how i do my thang

[DJ Slowdown]

Thanks, Ill try it out

[**Your Favorite Engineer**]

Virtual DJ is a good program to Chop & Screw tracks, i can't find a crack for Virtual DJ, so i just use Atomix MP3.... but yeah it's kinda hard to tell somebody how to do it, its much easier to show them....

[DJ Slowdown]

I had a tutorial vid but its real shitty quality (Its more like a horrible slideshow with low quality pics) and learned nothing

[bino_5150]

~*HOUSTON TEXAS*~

I'm from the home of Screw.... lemme give you the low down on Screw music... this is how you get your chops right... just a basic explination of how the chops work...

first, decide if youre gonna slow it down before or after you chop it... (not that it matters, just depends on what youre using)

you will need a program that is capable of playing the same song twice at the same time... there are various dj programs mentioned... everything from PC DJ to OTS labs etc... any real dj software (or go real turntables)

now, you have two turn tables.... first, just play the song, get the tempo down in your head... get the beat right so you know the beats of the measure, like 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4, etc....

with the songs ready to start and the crossfader to the left, and in in tempo, start the right turntable on "1" and the left turntable on the second beat of the measure, so the right table is 1/4 measure ahead of the left....

now, you just tap the crossfader back and forth on beat, like if the measure goes 1,2,3,4, you go 1,2,right>,left< taping back and forth in time with the tempo.

if thats not clear enough, email me or send me a message and ill walk you though it...

[DJ Slowdown]

Check your PMs

[Mafioso]

that was a perfect description

[DJ Slowdown]

I already got it, thanks. I just gotta set up a soundclick