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Posted by Scolomon on Jan-17-2006 21:33:

How to teach someone to mix

Ok, if i am trying to teach someone to mix, and they understand beatmatching, do you think a good strategy would be to generally say Mix in the trebble, then the mids, then the bass of track 2 coming in?
how did you guys learn how to do it?

Posted by Alekos on Jan-17-2006 21:52:

Practice

Posted by sleepydragon on Jan-17-2006 21:58:

dont try learning someone its to difficult in my opinion its best to teach yourself cose everyone mixes differently its best to learn ur own way.

Posted by Rikki on Jan-17-2006 22:45:

yup

grab a couple of 12's with some good intro's outro's and try to get them running together to start with

Posted by Scolomon on Jan-17-2006 23:00:

if everyone mixes differently how do YOU guys mix?

Posted by Rikki on Jan-17-2006 23:57:

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Originally posted by Scolomon
if everyone mixes differently how do YOU guys mix?

I favour the bowl cuddled with my right arm with the whisk in my left hand...

Posted by Scolomon on Jan-18-2006 00:14:

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Originally posted by Rikki
I favour the bowl cuddled with my right arm with the whisk in my left hand...

oh god, how long have you been waiting to pull that gem out

Posted by sleepydragon on Jan-18-2006 20:11:

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Originally posted by Scolomon
oh god, how long have you been waiting to pull that gem out

shut up it made me laugh

Posted by alefort on Jan-18-2006 20:37:

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Originally posted by Scolomon
oh god, how long have you been waiting to pull that gem out

And same goes for you, using family guy quotes................sly, very sly...........

Posted by Freak on Jan-18-2006 20:50:

Posted by Scolomon on Jan-18-2006 21:02:

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Originally posted by Freak

i don't even know how to respond to this one

Posted by IntegraR0064 on Jan-18-2006 21:26:

Re: How to teach someone to mix

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Originally posted by Scolomon
Ok, if i am trying to teach someone to mix, and they understand beatmatching, do you think a good strategy would be to generally say Mix in the trebble, then the mids, then the bass of track 2 coming in?
how did you guys learn how to do it?

For me, way back in the day, I started out not even really using the treble and mids...you don't really need them if you're mixing in the first/last minute or so of the tracks.

OK, so track one is playing, you want to mix in track two...here's a "basic mix":

1) Wait until there's a minute or so left in track 1(when it stops playing melody stuff and gets down to the basics, so to speak). Have the gains set correctly, the EQs all set to 0 dB, and the tracks beatmatched.
2) Start playing track 2 at the beginning, line it up with track 1, turn bass all the way down on it
3) Move volume fader all the way up on track 2, move crossfader over to the middle if you don't just have it in the middle in the first place.
4) Wait 8 or 16 beats or so, then turn track 1's bass all the way down and track 2's to 0 dB however you desire.
5) Move the volume fader down on track 1, or move the crossfader over if you're into that sort of thing.

Voila! This tends to sound pretty good no matter what the tracks are as long as you're not mixing in the middle of a track...which they're not going to be doing anyway because they can't beatmatch fast enough to do that....and you're not on a club system, and they will hopefully will not be playing at a club.

That would be my next step.

Also, have them work on bringing in the tracks at the beginning of a phrase (you know, the counting 8 beats thing), instead of just wherever.

Posted by Tony Morello on Jan-19-2006 03:36:

if you're posting on a message board on how to teach someone to mix,
you're not ready to be teaching someone how to mix

worry about your own development first, once you're comfortable with your own skill level, you'll know how to teach someone to mix