Quote Originally Posted by Louis Theroux
Is this not a piss-take?

How can the platter know if the beats are matched?

Am I just picking this up incorrectly?
No its not the platter knowing the beats are matched, but if the platter has the dots still then the deck is running at a perfect constant pitch speed I think he's suggesting.

What I think the suggestion is that if both decks are pitched correctly for the two tracks being mixed and it happens to be that dots on platter on both decks are still, you will have beats that won't fall out.

I dunno, that's what I think he's trying to say. I've had a play, but never found that two different records can be matched and coincidently have the platter on both decks having still dots. One might, but the other won't.

Either way, I don't exactly have a problem with beat matching... as IQ said, a well trained ear can do it in roughly 10 seconds...]

Interesting read though.