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Intro edits, explained.
How intro edits work, how long a DJ intro should be, and how to make your own for the tracks your record pool never covered.
How To Fix A Drifting Beatgrid In Serato (Live Records And Old Songs)
Why Serato's beatgrid slides off the beat on live and older records, how to fix it with a flexible grid, and how to quantize the track itself so it plays on one steady BPM.
How To Make Intro Edits From Your Engine DJ Playlists
Engine DJ can loop and cue but can't build an intro version of a track. How to make intro and outro edits straight from your Engine DJ playlists, on Engine's own beatgrid, without a DAW.
How To Make Intro Edits From Your Rekordbox Playlists
Rekordbox can loop and cue but can't build an intro version of a track. How to make intro and outro edits straight from your Rekordbox playlists, on your Rekordbox beatgrid, without a DAW.
How To Make Intro Edits From Your VirtualDJ Lists
VirtualDJ can loop and cue but can't save an intro version of a track. How to make intro and outro edits straight from your VirtualDJ lists and folders, on your VirtualDJ beatgrid.
What Is An Outro Edit? And How To Make One For Any Track
An outro edit ends a track on clean beat you can mix out over, instead of a fade, a skit or a cold stop. What it is, when you need one, and how to make one from any track you own.
Where To Get Intro Edits As A DJ — Pools, Edit Sites, Or Make Your Own
Where DJs actually get intro edits from — record pools, edit sites and producers, and making your own — what each is good for, and why the records you want most usually need the last one.
How To Mix Into A Track With No Intro
The vocal is in on bar one and there's nothing to beatmatch. Five ways working DJs get a cold-start track into a mix, when each one works, and the fix that means you stop needing them.
Intro Edit vs Extended Mix vs Clean Edit: Which Version To Play
Record pools give you six versions of the same track. What each one actually is, what changes between them, and which to reach for depending on the set you're playing.
How To Make Intro Edits Straight From Your Serato Crates
Work through a Serato crate and give every cold-start track a proper run-up, without exporting, re-importing or opening a DAW. Works with Rekordbox and VirtualDJ libraries too.
What Is An Intro Edit? The DJ Version Explained
An intro edit is a version of a track with an instrumental run-up added to the front, so a DJ has something to mix into. What it is, why DJs use them, and how it differs from the other versions in a pool.
8, 16 Or 32 Bars? How Long A DJ Intro Should Actually Be
16 bars is the safe default, but it is not always right. When to use an 8 bar intro, when 32 earns its length, and how to tell which a track wants.
How To Make An Intro Edit (Without Owning A DAW)
An intro edit is an instrumental run-up on the front of a track so you have something to mix into. Here is what making one actually involves, by hand and the quick way.
Why Record Pools Never Made An Intro Version Of Your Favourite Old Record
Pools edit what is being pushed. The back catalogue mostly never got intro, clean or short versions — which is why the records you most want an edit of are the ones without one.