Guides
Practical DJ editing guides.
Clear, practical advice for building better transitions: choosing intro lengths, making outro edits, working with DJ software, and preparing tracks your record pool missed.
Make Intro Edits From Your Rekordbox Library
Use your Rekordbox library as the starting point. Learn how to choose a track, set a clean drop point, and create an intro or outro without rebuilding your workflow in a DAW.
Make Intro Edits From VirtualDJ
Turn cold-start tracks into mix-friendly versions. This guide covers selecting a source track, choosing the intro length, and checking the transition against your VirtualDJ beatgrid.
What Is An Outro Edit? And How To Make One For Any Track
An outro edit ends a track on clean beat you can mix out over, instead of a fade, a skit or a cold stop. What it is, when you need one, and how to make one from any track you own.
Where DJs Find Intro Edits — and When to Make Your Own
Where DJs actually get intro edits from — record pools, edit sites and producers, and making your own — what each is good for, and why the records you want most usually need the last one.
How To Mix Into A Track With No Intro
The vocal is in on bar one and there's nothing to beatmatch. Five ways working DJs get a cold-start track into a mix, when each one works, and the fix that means you stop needing them.
Intro Edit vs Extended Mix vs Clean Edit: Which Version To Play
Record pools give you six versions of the same track. What each one actually is, what changes between them, and which to reach for depending on the set you're playing.
Make Intro Edits From Your Serato Crates
Learn a repeatable workflow for spotting tracks that need an intro, choosing a useful drop point, and checking the result before adding it back to your DJ library.
What Is An Intro Edit? The DJ Version Explained
An intro edit is a version of a track with an instrumental run-up added to the front, so a DJ has something to mix into. What it is, why DJs use them, and how it differs from the other versions in a pool.
8, 16 Or 32 Bars? How Long A DJ Intro Should Actually Be
16 bars is the safe default, but it is not always right. When to use an 8 bar intro, when 32 earns its length, and how to tell which a track wants.
How To Make An Intro Edit (Without Owning A DAW)
An intro edit is an instrumental run-up on the front of a track so you have something to mix into. Here is what making one actually involves, by hand and the quick way.
Why Record Pools Never Made An Intro Version Of Your Favourite Old Record
Pools edit what is being pushed. The back catalogue mostly never got intro, clean or short versions — which is why the records you most want an edit of are the ones without one.