Mixing Pitch +6% or +10% and Eject lock..

eject lock is so that you cant accidentally eject cd while its playing.

you should be able to eject once song is stopped.

i've used 6 & 10 % pitch range with ZERO issues with either.

I use 6% tempo range 99% of the time.

Thanks!

Also would VINYL or CDJ mode make a difference to the platter and pitch bending to get in beat?

I was brought up on ONLY the CDJ mode on the earlier models, but was trying to use Vinyl mode.

Does Vinyl mode alter the platter movement at all? in order to nudge tracks in beat?

I am not 100% certain, but I do not believe that Vinyl or CDJ mode affects how the jog wheel corrections are made.  It just turns on/off the platter sensor for vinyl mode.

I tend to use CDJ mode because I worry about accidentally touching the platter.  I don't need to scratch for the style of music I'm playing, either.

The 6% tempo range is more acurrate, this is fact.  The tempo increments are 0.02%.  For the 10% range the increments are larger, at 0.05%.

It's a simple reason why most DJs use 10% though.  It's because 10% is the default range when the decks are powered on.  People are so used to not changing it - some may not even have realised when they started that it could be changed.  And when 10% fans see it set to 6%, they feel more comfortable switching it back to 10%, because that's what they know.

ppl are used to it because 10% was what the 1000's were set at. 6% wasnt an option.

strange thing is that 10% ISN"T the default for using the CDJs in HID mode with serato.

have no idea why the developers would chose 16% as the default.

I use vinyl mode because its most like backcueing with records. i've learned to pay

attention and not touch the platter when in the mix, (just as you would not touch a record)

Mostly I use the 6% tempo range and lately I prefer cdj mode but sometimes I change it to vinyl.

Also now that MT is fixed I sometimes use 10% or 16% or Wide tempo range depending on the track.

As DubLN said eject lock is so that you don't accidentally eject CD while its playing.

6% will give you more accuracy because as Mark said the tempo increments are 0.02% instead of 0.05% that 10% will give you.

You just need to practice a bit with your ears because you might move 0.02% the pitch up or down and BPM in screen will not change at all.

Correct in that vinyl mode simply enables the top of the jog for scratching and toggles the cue mode to a scrub-cue rather than the CDJ mode "stutter"-cue.