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Posted by s3nate on Aug-12-2006 22:22:

Mixing Chillout

I always loved listening to chillout and downtempo but I suck ass at mixing it! All I do is simple crossfades...

Is there any technique you can do to make the mixes sound better?

Oh yeah I tried beatmatching but the songs BPMs are way to far apart.

Posted by Spacey Orange on Aug-12-2006 23:57:

whenever i try to mix ambient/chillout i just focus on the melodies, pads, and fx because usually there's no percussion.

Posted by tvmann on Aug-13-2006 00:54:

Often you can beatmatch a track that doesn't have any beats by looking for other cyclic sounds such as keyboard presses on a synthesizer or piano. But that is probably best done by preliminary work with a computer and Ableton or Traktor software. Not really essential since the tempo is so slow and usually the tracks are not mixed very long in the transition.

Posted by s3nate on Aug-13-2006 18:26:

Thanks, but I was talking about mixing downtempo stuff like Ulrich Schnauss, BoC and Vibrasphere.

Like stuff with beats.