Beat grid a song with traktor

Some tracks have tempo drift. Usually EDM songs after 2003 have a solid grid. Before that it’s hit and miss.

My guess is the the person who made the mashup didn’t edit things precisely, so there’s little shifts to the beatgrid all over the place. Maybe the remixer decided to stretch the drum loop to fit the acapella or analog music instead of vice-versa. That could create the sorts of drifts you mention. The Traktor workaround for this is to pick one passage on the music that best for mixing and align your mix to that. There’s an Ian Golden video on how to do this somewhere.

Étienne, post: 28912, member: 2073 wrote: There’s an Ian Golden video on how to do this somewhere” do you have a link to that video? Thanks!

Okay, I misspelled Ean’s name, but its a non-standard spelling. It’s somewhere on the rival/cousin DJ site, DJ tech tools. Anyway, I couldn’t find the specific tutorial, DJTT seems to only link to video tutorials. I remember the Ean’s routine set the loop on one of Led Zep’s famous tracks that’s sampled a lot, and then he used this to go crazy with all sorts of mixes of new stuff, it was pretty cool. The only links I saw on DJTT were to an “Ozzy” routine.

I tried to find it here: http://www.djtechtools.com/category/dj_techniques_tips/?all=1
Maybe you’ll have better luck, or another forum member will have a more specific idea. Best I can do, mate.