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Hey all i am pretty new to the Trance Addict forums. I am currently mixing house/electro on my CDJs and i am soon to move onto trance as it is my favourtite genre of music. I am interesting to know what effects can i incorporate into my trance mix's. At the moment i can put some cool effects into my House sets like looping, using reverse switch on vocals etc. How ever i don't think i could so this on trance as it is a totaly different genre of music and can't be mashed up as much as house/electro. I am interested in what effects you put in your sets. Do you drop loops in etc? If so how do u create your loops? Do you just get a music chopping program and cut the songs vocals and beats up etc?

Cheers DSILVR

I use a Filter (Bass, Mid, Highs) that's pretty much it.

i have non

Filter, maybe a flange or two, an echo, a delay, that's about it for straight up trance.

loops loops and loops!

Echo, delay, 6 different filters, fuzz, jet, flange, and wah all get a fair amount of use from me

could use the reverb to fatten up your 2 and a half hour long buildups.

Yeah FX need to be pretty subtle in trance Main ones I use include phaser, flanger, echo, transform, wah, filter & not forgetting reverse delay (sounds like the track is playing backwards when it's still playing forwards. I use it for a couple of beats at the end of a phrase).

Some none FX tricks I use for trance include jamming on the reverse switch & the old fave the spinback

Allied Nations - I'm really crap at loops, they jump all over the place Do you do them on the fly or have them set up on CDJ1000 hot loops?

I never use effects.

Filters, Echo, Jet, and Zip (on very rare occasions).

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Originally posted by Trance Android Yeah FX need to be pretty subtle in trance Main ones I use include phaser, flanger, echo, transform, wah, filter & not forgetting reverse delay (sounds like the track is playing backwards when it's still playing forwards. I use it for a couple of beats at the end of a phrase). Some none FX tricks I use for trance include jamming on the reverse switch & the old fave the spinback Allied Nations - I'm really crap at loops, they jump all over the place Do you do them on the fly or have them set up on CDJ1000 hot loops?

I got 1000s and i just do them on the fly with the yellow bottons. Whats hot loops? Lol mabye i haven't discovered all my features on the CDJs are you talking about those ABC bottons on the side?

And Doom what do you find to do in your spear time when u have the BPM matched? You must do something

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Originally posted by DSILVR And Doom what do you find to do in your spear time when u have the BPM matched? You must do something

If the song fits well enough, I'll sometimes tease it into the live track a little bit. Look for what song I wanna play after the cued track. Look for the song I might wanna play after that song. Have a few sips of my beer. And of course, dance.

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Originally posted by DSILVR Whats hot loops? Lol mabye i haven't discovered all my features on the CDJs are you talking about those ABC bottons on the side?

Yeah. You can save three loops per disc.

I only use the jet and wah on my CDJs occasionally to accentuate the end of a phrase, particularly in very repetitive tracks.

i'm still learning bits and pieces on my KP2, I should realy know it inside out by now, i've had it 18 months

Other than that, I use all the bits i know on the kaos pad, bass cuts, swap the basslines over for a bar or two, tease in the next track, or, if i can get the next track matched quick enough, I bring it in before the second breakdown

I almost never use effects, but if I have a filter available to me I might use that occasionally.

depending on the mixer i have in front ov me really.

i mostly use the echo and delay at around 1/2 3/4 beats

flanger (sometimes) use at the end of a break when say for example the snare and kick are fading in i add the flanger to phaten the atmosphere up and str8t away all u see is HANDS IN THE AIR works everytime lol.

il some times use pitch shifter just to litrally live remix the track if your ears are good enought u can tell wat key a track is in and u can play about for example

bass line keys lets say C,E,G,C il play about and make it go C,F,A,C then back to its original pattern its a very tricky one to pull of for you have to be on the money everytime buts its a trick that really fk's with ppl's minds hahaha.

auto bpm - EH I DONT THINK SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAHAHAHA

hot cues once again for live remixing.

filters use alot in breaks and stuff along with the phaser

reverb il add if i know a track feels to dry il add verb to wet it up a bit ........

thats about it really

For me, I personally like to keep it to echo, flanger, phase, and at times I use the trans effect depending on the song. Its fun to mess around with the time and parameter settings right before the big phrase changes. I can sometimes get carried away with all the effects, so i try to tell myself that with effects, less is more.

Once I buy my Trigger finger ill just be beap repeating for 6 hours, gonna be the best set ever!

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Originally posted by Djyoungsta00 il some times use pitch shifter just to litrally live remix the track if your ears are good enought u can tell wat key a track is in and u can play about for example bass line keys lets say C,E,G,C il play about and make it go C,F,A,C then back to its original pattern its a very tricky one to pull of for you have to be on the money everytime buts its a trick that really fk's with ppl's minds hahaha

Ok care to explane that to me agian please sounds good and also do you do this on CDJs or vinyl

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Originally posted by Djyoungsta00 hot cues once again for live remixing.

So do you use the song you have already cued up and beat matched to remix with or do you choose whatever song you want our of your collection and use that then prepare you other song later?

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Originally posted by Allied Nations loops loops and loops!

you use loops how though? i only own 2 CDJs so should i you have a disk with loops already on it or something? I don't understand how loops are used in songs etc anyone please explane?

Loops are used to add an additional layer to the mix. I have a DJM600 w/ built in sampler. Occasionally I'll pull a sample off the upcoming vinyl and loop it as I go into the transition to the new vinyl. Or you can take a sample off the out going vinyl and loop it over the transition into the new vinyl. There are really endless possibilities. Sampling is generally more used in House/Electro than trance.

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Originally posted by Allied Nations loops loops and loops!

+1 gotsta love em.

you can do some magical things with loops (especially if you have a few in the same key + vocals + other random goodies)


razzi

I use appletron, so the effects I use the most are:

Beat repeat (+ the filter ON the beatrepeat)
Reverb (To blow big buildups even bigger)
Loops
Filters


The problem with ableton is that it prioritizes your "effects" so using them all at the same time and shit is asking for trouble, also depends on where they are located in each channel, one after the other (the order they're in). So yeah.

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