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Posted by Stu Cox on Mar-01-2007 14:24:

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
if you alter a tune by +/-6% you have altered the key one semitone (i think). thus, if theres less than 3% difference between both tunes then youre fine.

i mix exclusively in key, but i allow myself dodgy mixes if a tune is more than 3% out. too many tunes to remember how they all fit together. youve gotta cut yourself some slack!! i just try and remember which tunes are a lot slower/faster so i'll know that a track is actually more likely to be in 7A than 12A when i mix it as it needs to be sped up a lot.

The reason I say 2% is that as you get closer to 3% difference the tracks sound more and more out of key and it can start to get a bit rough - I know DJs with really sensitive ears who won't mix tracks more than 1% or 1.5% away (although I think that's a little bit anal and restricting yourself a bit much - afterall, most of the music we listen to in this genre has a fair amount of detuning in anyway)... sure you can exercise a bit of leniency, I quite often allow a 2.5-ish% difference - as with anything else, trust your ears

But I'd try and stay away from 3% cos by that point things will almost certainly sound noticeably out of key. I actually found that the reason a lot of people said some of the mixes sounded out of key on one of my previous demos, when the keys matched and as far as I could tell they should have fitted, was that the tracks were 2.5-3% out and it got pretty noticeable.

Posted by Stu Cox on Mar-01-2007 14:27:

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Originally posted by sleepydragon
i dont look into any of this shit i just know what the original key of tracks are.

Some people are lucky. I've got 2 very good mates who naturally know if a track will work or not, even knowing whether it will still fit after being beatmatched without thinking about any of the theory. They both nail it every time. I'm jealous lol, but unfortunately I wasn't blessed with anything other than tone deafness lol so I've gotta make up for it with a logical system.

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