I was always wondering why my mixes didnt sound up to par with those big name dj's
well.....a few days ago it clicked in my head
Before I would do a mix and I'd have trouble with a track coming into Loud or to Soft/Low...well here's what i figured out ....
ok...one of the tracks is playing and you can see the LED's or whatever you wanna call it jumping up and down....
queueing the other track in my headphones >> I see that the LED's on this channel are somewhat lower then the one currently playing....i adjust the gain for this channel to match the LED's up
now they are both level>>bring in the track and VOUALA the mix is level
The whole mix is posted in the Amateur DJs & Music Producers Promotion forum
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Last edited by DJ LIQUID on May-27-2002 at 16:33
May-27-2002 15:55
P`zazz
~Goaddicted~
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: In A Trance
Thanx for the tip man but unfortunately I can't do anything about it cause my shitty mixer has only one LED display for the master output, in order to do that what does your mixer have to include? a LED display for the headphones?
May-27-2002 16:06
mute79
..:culture vulture:..
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: in transit
either that or leds for each channel
May-27-2002 16:08
DJ LIQUID
House DJ 4 Life
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: IL USA
I posted a sample for you guys to listen to
its in the original post
May-27-2002 16:16
DJ LIQUID
House DJ 4 Life
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: IL USA
quote:
Originally posted by P`zazz
Thanx for the tip man but unfortunately I can't do anything about it cause my shitty mixer has only one LED display for the master output, in order to do that what does your mixer have to include? a LED display for the headphones?
hmmm...my mixer has LED's for every channel
im gonna see if i can figure something out using my other mixers
May-27-2002 16:17
P`zazz
~Goaddicted~
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: In A Trance
quote:
Originally posted by TranceGeek
either that or leds for each channel
hmmm, yes but when you're queing you have your channel fader at 0 so wouldn't the led for the channel not show anything?
May-27-2002 16:18
DJ-Kuza
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
OMG, thank you man. I was wondering about that the other day and couldn't for the life of me get the 2 LED's to match. Now I play with the gain and it works!!! haha, I can't believe it!
May-27-2002 19:13
DJ LIQUID
House DJ 4 Life
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: IL USA
quote:
Originally posted by DJ-Kuza
OMG, thank you man. I was wondering about that the other day and couldn't for the life of me get the 2 LED's to match. Now I play with the gain and it works!!! haha, I can't believe it!
Im glad to of been some help
now go record me a mix
May-27-2002 19:26
Scorchio
Sorry! We Are Circoloco
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Lexicon Avenue
Holy smokes
you mean to tell me you didnt know about that?
LOL
hehe, thats the main reason you got the cue meter for each channel...
hehe, well I have some mixes that are ok, but I have no web space. I was using the EQ's to try and keep the music at the same level. But with this new knowledge I'll make a new one and try to find hosting.
May-27-2002 19:41
hapamoto
R3ELISM
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Canoga Park, California
if you don't have LED's on ur mixer.. u can always listen in your headphones mix to see if one track is louder than the other..
May-27-2002 19:56
Acid Circus
Dark Tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
I thought it was basic knowledge that everything in this thread was one of the first things you learn. Guess I will need to include this when helping other DJ's in future.
Thing is my crappy Gemini mixer hasn't hacked the pace and one of the channels which has a volume meter has been damaged. Now I have to use one of the channels which doesn't have a volume meter, didn't realise how much I depended in it until this happened
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the mix is level 
