How to do an echo out
Let A ring out on an echo, then drop B.
- Essential
- easy
- About 4 bars
- Uses echo FX
When to use it
- Use it when you're bringing the energy down.
- A natural fit for pop/open-format, hip-hop/R&B and EDM/big room.
- A strong choice when you're switching genres.
- Works at any tempo gap, and it's the go-to move when the songs are more than 8% apart, because there's no beatmatched overlap.
Step by step
- 1Cue B at its first beat, crossfader still on A.
- 2Turn on echo (1 beat or 1/2 beat) on deck A near a phrase end.
- 3Cut A's volume: only the echo tail keeps playing.
- 4As the echoes fade, press play on B with its fader up.
See it on a controller, and hear it with your own songs
Cueball picks the right technique for every pair of songs in your set and animates the knobs and faders in time with the music.
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Similar techniques
- Hard cut on the phraseSnap from A to B exactly on a new phrase.
- Quick cutStop A, start B. Bold and clean.
- SpinbackRewind A like a vinyl spin, then slam B in.
- Half-time switchDrop B so its beat sits at half (or double) A's speed.
- Let it play outLet A finish, then start B clean.
- Filter fadeMuffle A with a low-pass, then bring B in soft.