http://www.greybpm.com/

i can get it for £99, seem any good to you?

This is my fav and still the best bpm counter

"its not my ear btw"

Hi DJfactory, and welcome to the forum by the way

I can recall (vaguely) when I first started learning to DJ; in the first few years, I would have considered and bought anything which I thought would help me to become "better", including electronic BPM counters, to help me overcome the "mysteries" of BPM's and beatmixing in general.

However, no-one needs a BPM counter, certainly not when its only £40 (ish) less than the price of a mixer which has two BPM counters built in (EG: The Behringer VMX-300), which not only tells you the BPM's but also has graphic displays telling you which channel (music source) is running faster (or slower) than the other source.

But, taking a little extra time to practice "manual" beatmixing, will give you three distinct advantages.

1) £99 more in your pocket.

2) Ability to beatmix on any equipment, with or without a BPM counter.

3) Greater confidence and less prone to peer pressure eg: Your mates saying "Nice mix yeah, but now try it withou' yer beat counta!".

How is your beatmixing? if you're having particular issues then ask away, I'm sure that the rest of the forum will have various hints, tips and stories of how they overcame/got around similar concerns.

seriously i brought a bpm counter the day i got my decks many years ago now but all it did imo was slow down my development with my mixing it did how ever alow me to mix 2 records together but i needed my beat counter yet as gary says i would of been to embarrased to take it in to a club to use.

I use DJ software mainly, as it automatically does everything for me, and gets great results - and is really easy. But as people say, i cant go into a club with this, people will laugth. I Also own Numark CD MIX 2 decks, and mix stuff from the 70s upwards. I enjoy club tunes, but also back to the days of Queen, Billy Ocean, Barry White and all the party favourites. I have tryed to beatmatch, and sometimes sounds ok, and sometimes just goes complety wrong. Ive followed someone elses advice from this forum, and tape my feet with the beat, play the next song in my headphone, until the beats and correct and mix - should be perfect....
BUT I HAVE 1 PROBLEM...
if i play a tune at say : 5.6% pitch, i cant really tell the difference between that and say 5.9%. So, my mixes kinda lose control.

Any know of any idea to overcome this?

I think basicaly again that practice and experience are the most important things here,a lot of us here started mixing before auto beat counters existed and i remember hours spent with a stopwatch and dmcs manual beat counter! I suggest you cover up yours and try and do it by ear! Welcome here by the way!

hehe thanks for the advice