I always understood scratching as a way to make cut mixing transitions sound better? What's the use of a record with just a sample when you have nothing to mix in? Eg: Track 1 is playing and I want to mix in track 2 via cut mixing (say both records are hip hop due to the nature of cut mixing when mixing hip hop) So the end of the chorus on track 1 approaches and I already have the point of the second track I want to mix in from (start of a verse) and do a little scratch of track 2 to add some extra flavour and make the transition sound better. All goes according to plan and after some impressive scratching of the start of the verse of track 2 I let it go and cut across then load a new record to replace track 1 so I will have something new to mix. If track 2 was just a sample where would I go from there? How would I mix in another track when I only have an "ahh" sound when I cut across?