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how long do you hold your mix?
just curious on how long you guys hold your mixes for??i know every song is different, but generaly speaking, on average, about how many minutes/seconds do you hold your mix for.... : )
Two minutes, average. However I'm getting into looping and layering the incoming track, so a bunch of my recent mixes have been four minutes.
2-3.5 minutes i'd say for the most part
Depends, yeah.
1 min minimum and maybe 3-4 minutes tops.
I usually go 1 min really.
Depends, with cds and or computer i like to loop and gradualy mix for up to 5 minutes. With vinyl it depends on the into of the song..
Oops: I ment intro of the song 
as you say, depends on the tracks.
i usually have a lot of differrent legnth mixes, anywhere from straight cuts to about 3-4 mins (mashups, etc). on average about 1.5 mins!
Usually around 1-1.5 minutes for me. The great thing is, when you know the tracks you are mixing really well, you can nail the mix perfectly to the second. In that case, it could be as little as 45 seconds to 3 minutes. Each track varies.
It really depends on the track. A lot of my tracks are in the 5-6 minute range for total length, so I have to mix those quicker and sometimes I'll even have to mix through a breakdown(don't try this live unless you know you'll nail it). Or I could have longer tracks like 10minutes in length where I can and do pull longer mixes. Or sometimes I'll want to stuff about 20 or so songs into an hour which dictates shorter quicker mixes.
i have no idea...as long as the tracks let me....breakdowns, off-key, etc.
usually about 1.5 mins, I usually don't think about mixing in a new track (unless the songs woork this way) until there is about 2 mins left in the track. even then, a lot of my tracks have fast intros, so ya gotta be teh quick.
so between 1 and 2 mins.
As long as it needs to, so it usually ranges from 1-5 minutes maybe even longer, but knowing that non of you have probably heard me play I don't expect ya'll to believe me.
5 min??? you must play techno??i don't see how you could do that while playing trance, if not you must mix through breaks, and breakdowns....5 min is almost an entire record
i mix from one track to another within 45secs to 1.5 mins. any longer and tracks start clashing. i would never want a tracks main part to be clashing with the other track. this would happen when mixing trance for more than 1.5mins imo.
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| Originally posted by richg101 i mix from one track to another within 45secs to 1.5 mins. any longer and tracks start clashing. i would never want a tracks main part to be clashing with the other track. this would happen when mixing trance for more than 1.5mins imo. |
anywhere between 0.05 seconds (cuts) to 3 minutes.
(uplifting/epic/hard trance): 50-75 seconds on average i think. haha, no way in hell i could be holding 5 min mixes, even if i wanted to
as long as is appropriate for the mix? 
I play some whole songs together and flip around with the filters.
An example would be this:
Classified Project - Spatial Enhancer and then mix in Sander Van Doorn - Punk'd
then I will usually mix in something else into those two.
So it really depends on what I'm doing.
Most of the time when I play Electro/House my mixes are quite quick.
Cheers
Nem
I find that my im usually bringing in the into of a track on the last 2 mins of playing track cos I stay around the 139-144bpm range. I play mostly trance (likes of above and beyond, avb, ferry etc). But f I play oldschool trance, 99-01 era, then I tend to mix with shorter transitions 1.5min mainly. I like to cut beats though when playin tech so I can be bringing a track in say 4mins into a 7min track. Really does depend 
O/T.. im mashed hence badly worded post 
Well, i can understand it
i'd say it's generally over 2min for me. i suck at doing good sounding very quick mixes. they always sound too abrupt to me, dunno why is that though. i should really improve on that part of my mixing and my mixing in general too!
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| Originally posted by skip i'd say it's generally over 2min for me. i suck at doing good sounding very quick mixes. they always sound too abrupt to me, dunno why is that though. i should really improve on that part of my mixing and my mixing in general too! |
Hmm...
Nuskool Breaks are usually quick mixes, maybe 45 secs tops.
Minimal tech is usually the length of the track as I typically use three decks, so basically the entire time is spent with at least 2 tracks playing.
Psy...depends on the track, usually I do full-on which is built for the quick mix to keep the energy up, but other forms of psy allow me to layer tracks, so anywhere from 30 secs to maybe 3 mins.
Anything else is typically between 1 to 2 minutes.
Oh and Drum and Bass falls into the quick mix category as well, usually 45 secs, tops.
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| Originally posted by mikebackwards As long as it needs to, so it usually ranges from 1-5 minutes maybe even longer, but knowing that non of you have probably heard me play I don't expect ya'll to believe me. |
The best is to mix Ambient with standard trance .. That stuff is fun...
I've mixed an ambient track with a standard trance track, for about 2 minutes, without any looping. Otherwise, i don't hold mixes for much longer than about 30s - 1 minute. I keep sampling back and forth between tracks but, and try to use brakes etc. when mixing some tracks.
My beatmatching still needs work though, so it'll be a whie before i really start to go over 1 minute.
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