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How long does it take you to put together a promo mix?
Out of curiousity because my latest mix which I'm finally close to being done, I've put in about 40hrs (incl actually making the mix)
40 hours!?
i've spent as long as 6 months gathering tunes for a mix and as short as and hour and a bit recording on the fly
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| Originally posted by miamitranceman 40 hours!? |
By promo mix i suppose you just mean one you'd throw into a few clubs etc??
Personally, i recorded myself doing a mix for the first time the other night. (couldn't believe i hadn't until now..) but i literally, hit record and spun.. 1hr 50min. Cut it down afterwards to 1.10 as i got a little tempo happy towards the end.
All in 2 and a half hours.
If i were seriously trying to put together a really good promo mix, i'd say 10 hrs tops. Maybe 13 if I were to record it twice.
What took up the most amount of time for you?
i dunno man it seems to vary.
sometimes all the tracks i pick just flow together and i can bang it out in a couple hours.
other (read most) times the tracks i want in the order i want may be harmonically compatible, but the flow just isnt there. it takes a couple days bargaining with myself to not put in tracks i may really like at the time or to rearrange the order of the tracks.
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| Originally posted by Tony Morello i've spent as long as 6 months gathering tunes for a mix and as short as and hour and a bit recording on the fly |
Varies for myself also but I try to keep it under 15 hours, probably spread out over a week or so. I don't really count the time it takes me to compile the tracks I want. That's just the time I spend on programming and actual mixing.
i do it all on the fly. im a strong believer in what you hear is what you get. I record my promo mixes in exactly the way you would hear me play in a club... on the fly 
Doesn't take long for me.
I know what I am playing on the club circuit at the moment, so will probably have a good idea of what works and what doesn't.
It usually only takes the time it takes to record it for me so about an hour or so. I haven't done one in a while but I play out regularly so wont always have the need.
When I play a party I will usually take some CDs with me and hand them out if someone comes and says that they like what I play, sort of a thank you gesture.
Cheers
Nem
About a year.
I think about the next one as soon as I've recorded one, and it takes me about a year to get around to doing it.
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| Originally posted by Nemesis44 When I play a party I will usually take some CDs with me and hand them out if someone comes and says that they like what I play, sort of a thank you gesture. Cheers Nem |
Takes me quite a bit of time (6 Months or so) to get to a point where I'm content with the tracks that I've acquired and placement of those tracks into a final promo. Like Oscar said, I'm a perfectionist as well, so I'll find myself dissatisfied with one thing or another that will halt the promo from being finished.
when i first started djing i spent a lot of time putting music together to make my first mix.i dont remember how long it was but it seemed like forever.then when i started to mix if i didnt like what i heard i would stop the mix and start over even if i was an hour into the mix.god i remember how nervous i would get making promo mixes!id redo them ten times or more! id be sweating like crazy to make sure it came out right.id preplan what i was going to play weeks in advance.
now when i make a mix,even one for a radio show or a mix to get in a club i go downstairs, pick one track and start recording and then start browsing through my music picking out the newest tunes or stuff i like.by the time im ready to mix into the second song i usually have all the tracks im going to play for a cd promo.for my radio show ill have at least the first hour planned out.
the only thing i still do that ive always done from the beginning is write down what percentage the pitch control is at for each song.ive always done that in case i would mess up late in the mix and had to redo the whole thing.that way id have a general idea where to start at to blend each track to ease the pressure a little.i dont do that for my radio show.if i mess up i still run it.to me when i do the show you get it warts and all no retakes!
i recorded my radio show today.i got up.cracked open a red bull and a beer.turned on the equipment.started recording and had no idea what i was going to play.2 hours later i was done and hit play back.i was like man its sounds good why cant it always sound like this?!
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| Originally posted by bigjimslade002 i recorded my radio show today.i got up.cracked open a red bull and a beer. |
eeeewwwww not a nice combo i would have thought...
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| Originally posted by n3lly eeeewwwww not a nice combo i would have thought... |
I already have the music I need, and I can mix well, so just a few hours if I make some mistakes.
It depends on the music. If the tracks are straight-forward, it shouldn't take very long. But if I'm trying to use non-traditional sounds and beats, it could take a long time.
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| Originally posted by bigjimslade002 now when i make a mix,even one for a radio show or a mix to get in a club i go downstairs, pick one track and start recording |
as long as the demo will be multiplied with numbers of error as i recall. i dont dj anymore but i always started over if there where errors in the mix. collecting tracks is part of the dj job not the promotion, but ofcourse u can use some time preparing and putting them in a certain serie. like if u plan to mix in key.
I work better not evaluating the tracks for too long as I tend to get tunnel vision so to speak, as far as flow is concerned. I buy a bunch of tracks that sound good together, but I only key them and mix them in key. Spending too long thinking about placement tends to derail and lose sight of what the hell I wanted to do to begin with.
One thing that helps a lot in somewhat picking the order of the tracks is to load all the tracks I have picked to my iPod, add them to a playlist and listen to them in for a week or so. After repeated listens, certain patterns begin to show and I have a better sense of different directions I can take a mix.
I am very simple about it.
Just get the tracks together. Turn The equipment on. Hit Record. Its a lot more fun that way.
if i do an hour mix it usually takes about 60 min, two hour mix, about 120 min.
etc
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| Originally posted by woscar You mean downstairs to your mother's basement? |
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