Which genre is the hardest to mix?

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Posted by Laszlo on Nov-20-2003 10:23:

Which genre is the hardest to mix?

Well, what are your opinions about it?

Which genre is hardest to mix? And which is easiest? IE Melodic, vocal, prog, hard, tech...and so on and so forth...

I mean, for example, you can do a lot more creative mixing with tech trance/techno than with melodic, progressive and/or vocal trance. On the other hand, harmonic mixing is more or less a "have to" with melodic trance if you want the mix to sound good...do you get my point?

So fire away...

Posted by Dj Radman on Nov-20-2003 12:10:

hm... in my opinion, it'd have to be drum n bass that's the most dificult, just because it can be hard to get the beat to match right on, and that sometimes you might have to add in a scratch here or there to make the transision sound better. But i find hard dance & trance to be the eisiest, I;m not sure why, but i just never had a problem with it.

Posted by VIO on Nov-20-2003 14:25:

in my opinion either melodic trance or psy-trance.

Posted by DJ_Science on Nov-20-2003 14:44:

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Originally posted by Dj Radman
hm... in my opinion, it'd have to be drum n bass that's the most dificult, just because it can be hard to get the beat to match right on, and that sometimes you might have to add in a scratch here or there to make the transision sound better. But i find hard dance & trance to be the eisiest, I;m not sure why, but i just never had a problem with it.

I've always found drum and bass to be alot more forgiving then Prog or trance. I mix D&B fast with quick cuts so I find I don't need to be dead on with the pitch. My prog mixes are usually 1-3 minutes depending, and for the longer ones I always need to correct at some point.

Posted by Rememberence_ on Nov-20-2003 17:16:

I think in terms of beatmatching skills (not really an issue with practice) then progressive tracks are difficult because transitions are generally longer.

Hard Trance and Hardstyle I would have to say is the simplest (sorry slifedogg ), because hard style especially (imo) is more of an 'anything goes' genre production wise. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, because you can be creative that way, whilst mixing, and make it sound original and exciting. Same goes for most techno in my opinion, but of course mixing can be as difficult as you want it to be. (Dave Clarke owns me.)

As for trance, as in melodic, epic, uplifting, straight trance, it varies a lot on the structure of the tracks, and harmonic mixing just escapes me so I'm not even gonna go there.

Posted by Zzyzx on Nov-20-2003 19:07:

Breaks and Garage, also painful to listen too

Zzyzx

Posted by mettkea on Nov-20-2003 23:18:

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Originally posted by Rememberence_
I think in terms of beatmatching skills (not really an issue with practice) then progressive tracks are difficult because transitions are generally longer.

I would agree that progressive takes a lot of skills to keep a transition going for a couple of minutes. I think the hardest genre would be breaks though!

Posted by DJ1MK on Nov-20-2003 23:30:

I find that drum n bass is the hardest to mix (out of what I've tried). If you mix with quick transitions and cuts it may be easy, but when you're going for long mixes or big double drops they sound a lot better when they're right on as opposed to being just close. Out of what I've mixed I'd say trance is the easiest to mix. I never have problems with it.

Posted by gcrasher on Nov-20-2003 23:41:

Electro/nu skool breaks seems easiest to me. Alot of times theres not even a bassline or a key. With a trance bassline you have to watch for overlapping it the wrong way, plus the key matters alot. Whenever I'm messing around with me friends breaks they're like, just pick anyone out of the bag, they're all the same. Can't do that with trance no way, you gotta know the music to do it well.

But then again you can do all the scratching/juggling/flipping the songs back bringing in samples, type of stuff with the breaks that you don't really do with trance.

Posted by VIO on Nov-20-2003 23:56:

actaully the hardest genere it mix is happy hardcore!!! why you ask? because you have to fucking listen to it to mix it!!!

Posted by Tony Morello on Nov-21-2003 01:28:

i don't find any genre that difficult to mix now

i used to think breaks were hard, but now i can mix from 4/4 to breaks and back no problem

Posted by KevinEarth on Nov-22-2003 06:03:

I would say drum n bass....but at times when I'm spinning
( Hard Techno ) the kicks are so thick that it can be a lil akward mixing ...but not enough to train wreck

Posted by Unknown DJ on Nov-22-2003 16:11:

i think melodic trance is hard to mix. to get the perfect mix is very hard. whereas drum and bass i find so damn easy its boring.