3 PRACTICAL TIPS TO INSTANTLY IMPROVE YOUR DJ'ING

I get a lot of questions asking me how to make your controller more responsive, or how to activate the vinyl break effect or how to make your scratching more precise.

And those questions can be answered by adjusting your software settings. And in this video we’re gonna adjust 3 things.

Your latency or buffer size, your start/stop knob, and your crossfader curve setting.

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Now ideally you want your buffer size to be under 10ms. And what buffer size controls is the responsiveness of your controller and your dj software. So the lower the setting, the more responsive it’s going to be.

But if it’s too low, problems may happen.

So ideally we want our buffer size to be somewhere in the middle between 1 and 10, and so let’s choose 5ms.

To see the settings menu on Rekordbox DJ, click on the upper right tool icon.

Now let’s go to Audio Settings, then go to Buffer Size, and adjust the slider to around 5 ms.

To see the settings menu on Serato, click on the upper right tool icon.

Then click on Audio, then locate on USB Buffer Size, and bring the slider to 5MS.

Now, that we made our controllers more responsive let’s work on activating our vinyl break effect.

On the rekordbox DJ settings, go to controller, then scroll down until you see vinyl speed adjust, and now bring touch/brake knobs decks 1,3, and 2,4 to the 1 o clock position.

On the Serato settings menu click on DJ preferences locate BRAKING, then bring the stop time knob to the 9’o clock position.

Now let’s makes our cuts cleaner and sharper, so that means we’re going to adjust our crossfader curve settings

*On the Rekordbox DJ Settings menu*

Click on controller, then click on mixer, then locate the crossfader curve section, and bring the knob all the way to the right side.

*On the Serato settings menu*

Click on mixer, then locate the crossfader area, and bring the knob all the way to the right side as well.

[olddiode]

Wooow it works perfectly man! Thank you very much for all your help.
You are the best DJ Carlo!

[beaujenks]

It would be sweet to see how you go about picking music, making crates, and putting together a set. Maybe a recommendation to which dj pools have the best music, or the easiest navigation and multi bins. You tha man!

[Savage__]

I knew about the crossfader curve setting but had no idea about buffer size!! Thanks for the helpful advice 😊

[catintheglasses]

I like your videos because it’s very useful for me as learning English and as improving my technique of scratch. Thank you!

[ekko.dj.]

Thank you so much! I can now finally scratch on my DDJ RB without any problems! The video i had watched before from another channel didn’t really work for me. Thanks dude, keep up the great work!

[michaelchandra]

hey Dj Carlo all your videos are so useful especially for me as a beginner i love all your videos good Job bro (y)

[emreekcreative]

Thank you for always helping the amateur DJays.

[maxyax]

Ive been watching your videos and last night I literally asked this question. Thanks ms for making this video

[mijoclarrgedeguzman]

Napanood ko na to sa facebook kahapon. But still, thank you idol! Useful itong vid para samin😀more videos pa🎉

[bashanborlangkhongshei]

Wow MASTERi found that all three were very important and useful since i've never knew that with small tweaking from the software can really give you real time scratching..on a DDJ...really awesome tips..i would really need this awesome video...thanks again..MASTER

[sivakumar.r]

Awesome... Scratching...
Planning to Buy DDJ 400😍😉

[damienpatch]

Thanks for your video!!! Simple and efficient! J’adore

[fidelpena]

Great tips!! Your tutorials are always awesome!! Keep up the great work!

[hypemanmcpeejay]

I'll be doing this..nice Vid.Man!😚

[soniccthehedgehog]

Nice! Another thing to learn. Thank you!

[ayushrohilla]

Thank you so much for all the tutorials.

Love your work and tutorials 😄😄

[dmmontejares]

Another very useful video, thanks Dude

[sunilbk]

It’s too useful now I can do some scratch 🤘

[mauriceball]

Thank you. I was wondering how to do exactly what you explained in the video.

[agarsjsu]

I think software settings is one the first things new dj's have trouble with when learning how to scratch. I appreciate the the tutorial. Can you do a video on scratch exercises that will help with hand control. I am right handed but I feel most comfortable with my left hand on the platter and righ hand on the fader. I have seen videos saying if your dominant hand should be on the platter. What do you think? Keep up the awesome videos.