3 click flares made easy

How to

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• dj
• qbert
• d-styles
• dmc
• battle
• turntable
• turntablism
• rane
• mixer
• click
• flare
• autobahn
• orbit

[TheWaynelds]

i always used my weak hand (left) on the record aand strong hand (right) on the fader. I switched it up over the summer and started to learn on the opposite side. Cuttin with my left hand was akward as hell, but i kept with it and got the coordination down and it really didnt take that long to get comfortable. The one thing i will NEVER do is scratch with hampster faders. It just doesnt seem right to me. But i guess to each his own. DJs, learn to cut the Xfader with your weak hand too.

[CBK81]

@TheWaynelds I'm very old school. Back in the day faders sucked, period. There was no fader curver, no hamster, nothing. Plus they were super tight. Many djs back then scratched using the phone/line switch. I scratch right handed and the phono/line switch was set up so that pushing it to the left was on, pulling it to the right was off. That is why I scratch hamster to this day. It's probably also why q and many others scratch that way.

[GFJ915]

You get a much different cadence when you do a true three click flare

[CBK81]

@GFJ915 This is a delayed 3 click, that's why it sounds a bit different.

[Beatz4liffe]

cool blooded killer? tool...

[1nnovate]

Wow, the idiots on this video. A flare isn't described as how you click the fader with ANY finger, it's just about making the clicks. You can do a twiddle on your second/third click and still produce the same exact sound as if you were clicking three times with one finger.

[TheWaynelds]

@CBK81 Ahh..that never occured to me. My first set up back in 1999 was a gemini mixer with a very tight cross fader as well, and they wore out super quick. I didnt get my first mixer that had fader slope and hamster switches until 2003, which was the Numark Pro SM3. It's got the optical fader on ball bearings and laser sensor. It workes really well and i still use it today. I only had to replace the fader once because it snapped off in 04. $130 for a new fader.

[CBK81]

@junglistni Good deal man. I've been working on my left handed cutz for a while, no twiddles or crabs, just wrist and fingertips. I'm still much better right handed tho.

[ryzncut]

sounds similar to audiobahn scratch

[aornela1]

People are so stupid and weak lol.... it doesnt mater how the fuck you use your fingers or do the scratch as long as you produce the noise. This dude is clean he figured an easy way to produce the 3 click flare, thats innovate and what scratching is all about. some people do Orbits by using the twiddle method....SAME SHIT!!!!! the noise is the actual scratch not the fingers or anything.....

[scoreman75]

I been trying to do this for years and still can't get it right.

[VINYLSTORE]

THIS MOVE IS NOT EASY !!!!