can anyone give me some tips.. ive been spinning close to a year, but cant seem to get the songs to blend, the beat matching is spot on, but i cant seem to mix them seamless.. you can tell when the new song in too easy

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Originally posted by hardtrancer_2 can anyone give me some tips.. ive been spinning close to a year, but cant seem to get the songs to blend, the beat matching is spot on, but i cant seem to mix them seamless.. you can tell when the new song in too easy

To obtain seamless mix you have to work with your eq and do progressive transitions. A good idea can be level down the cued track (using the eq) and then when you up the volume of cued tracks work on eq to level up cued tracks and level down outgoing track. To have seamless mixing can help also have long transitions to reduce the adjustments on volume and eq in the time. You can also pass definetely from cued track to outgoing track during an effect of one of two tracks to hide the change.

you also have to match the right phrase....sometimes it won't be a huge problem but most of the time it will sound like crap even with the beats matched perfectly.
Yea..working the EQs is a must for seamless mixing..and I know this has been said a million time..practice!!

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so why dont you help him(hardtrancer_2) ?

maybe tell him what he said ?

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Originally posted by KoreanDJ practice some more....if you still can't get it. See your famous local DJ and ask for help. I had Aaron Simpson help me. Stevek

Hey Steve.... Why do you hvae Aaron Simpson's cd in your sig>? Someone passed me off that cd as a demo at Simple 6 and it had over 30 tracks on it,,, what the deal with that? Was he just trying to let people know all the tracks he has or does he actually play like that when he plays out?

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i know about phrases etc, im mainly spinning uk hardtrance(could be my problem lol :P) could one of yous possibly explain how you would normally use the eqs during your mix? i use the bass eq a fair bit, but not to clued up on the mids and highs and at what point and how much to swap them

Yeah, EQing is important as well as channel mixing. But what you also have to realize is phrase matching. Basically, the more phrases you match together, the more fluid your mix will sound. Think of your transition as a color spectrum, and each color a phrase: the more each color blends in with each other, the more smooth the spectrum looks, whereas the less the overlap, the more rough and sharp the rainbow is.

you should probably start by telling us how you mix and why you dont think its working... its hard to say how to mix seemlessly since there are so many different ways. especially after a year its better if we just know your style or something.... and the kind of music you spin. its easy to say in general how to mix but i think after a year you are past the general...how to mix well. i think at the level [or potential that you are at] people should probably focus on more specific aspects.

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Hey Steve.... Why do you hvae Aaron Simpson's cd in your sig>? Someone passed me off that cd as a demo at Simple 6 and it had over 30 tracks on it,,, what the deal with that? Was he just trying to let people know all the tracks he has or does he actually play like that when he plays out?

NO it doesnt play like that when he plays out. It's just the CD i guess, he is coming out with his new cd and it's got like 25 tracks on it.


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yea i guess it can be a tricky one trying to explain, like i said before i mainly spin UK hard trance, i try to mix so there is always a bass line playing so the mixes for me are quite long(for me anyway), so assuming my new tune which is tune B is beat matched and the gains etc are matched, i drop tune B at the start of tune As new phrase(usually the last break down) the bass EQ is usually turned around to 9 oclock and the mids and highs to around 11 oclock. Once tune B is droped i slowly fade it up with the channel fader untill its just below tune As volume i ride this out depending how long the intro of tune B is and start swapping the the highs first then the mids from tune A to the position of tune B and tune Bs to the position of tune A (hope this is making sense) and just before the bassline in tune B drops in i fade it up to the same volume as tune A.. I then EQ out all the bass in tune A and switch tune Bs bass EQ to 12 o clock just before the new bass line drops.. can sound really tight or really shit! i then very slowly fade tune A out or it ends not far after..... thats how i mix, sometimes it sounds really good other times u can hear both tunes and sounds messy also sometimes through the mix the kick drums sound like they are "jumping" or "popping" is this just them going out of time?

Last edited by hardtrancer_2 on Feb-07-2003 at 05:57

anyone?? any comments?