What's up TA's. I've been in a funk lately and was hoping maybe some advise would help me out. I started spinning close to 2 years ago, but have never really taken it seriously because my equipment hasn't been great, my cash flow for vinyl hasn't been great, and my neighbors prohibit me from really rockin and hearing what's going on. However, all that's about to change as I've got a new job so I can keep myself in fresh vinyl and I'm moving out of this apartment and into a house--so I'm starting to take this seriously.

Here's my dilemma. I started out with 2 Stanton STR8-80's and a Stanton ESM-11 Mixer. That mixer had a Master Volume, Mic Volume, Cue Pan, Cue Level, 2 Line faders, and a cross fader. No EQ, no nothing. So basically, I learned to mix just bringing a track in and bringing the other out, generally working that around sets of 8 or 16 beats. I've since upgraded to a Behringer DX-1000 and I'm running into problems pulling off good mixes since I've never mixed with EQ's. Beatmatching isn't a problem, in fact, my beatmatching is stellar, but for some reaosn I can't seem to make the mixes sound good. I either have too much bass, or it sounds like im just bringing in a track and turning all the EQ's for one track up as I turn the others down. Surely, you all know what I mean.

So my question is this: Does anybody have any techniques/tips/advise on how to start mixing with EQ's? What do you have your EQ's for the incoming track set at, and at what point when you're bringing that track in with the line fader to you start tweaking the with EQ's, and which one do you tweak with first, etc. etc. etc.

Somebody....

What you do with the eq's really depends on the tracks your mixing.
For example, if the track that I'm mixing in has a driving baseline (harder than the track playing) I will leave the bass up and at the same time throw the track in and turn the other track's bass down.
Sometimes if a track has highs or mids that blend nicely with the others, I will leave the high's up on the incoming track. IT all depends.
Other times I just fade the incoming track in with everything down and then just change everything over. When I say change everything over I mean that The Eq's cancel each other out. If you turn up the bass on the incoming track, you will (in most cases) want to turn down the bass in the outgoing track in order to get rid of any confusing, mussfled, chaotic sounds. If you leave both mids up for example your mix will in most cases sound chaotic because the mids will clash with each other. Same with the bass and highs.

Hope I've helped!

~Seany G

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