More mixing techniques
Another one of these threads, but I don't think this has been discussed yet...
Anyways, here we go...
I'm wondering about how you guys are "planing" your transitions when brining tracks in? I play hardtrance, so I don't know if this works the same way with more melodic trance and uplifting trance - either way when I'm brining in track B, I start bringing it in early, and then I slam it in when it hits the peak (or whatever you call it) after the intro, (usually after 128 beats), and when track B hits that "peak", track A should hit a break, or end, and I cut track A...somewhere in the middle of this transition I cut track A's bass, and bang track B's in...and play around with it sometimes when I think it would sound good, like swaping the two different tracks basses, bring on in at full, cut the other, and do this back and forth a few times...nothing revolutionary about that, I think...but who are using this technique?
I use CD's, so for me it's simple...before cueing up a track I find that spot where the break comes, and memorize the time that is left of the track, when the break comes, and if the next track that I'm about to bring in hits is peak after 128 beats, then I know that I need to bring in track B 50-55 seconds before track A hits its break...(depending on speed of track), but you can figure that out if you count 16 by 16 beats...
How do you vinyl DJ's do this? It shouldn't be that difficult if you only use 16 or 32 beats in the transitions, or if you just make a smooth transition, like fading track B in and fading track A out, without any binging ins, and cutouts...but I like long transitions, bit fast cuts, so it can be hard to match track A's break with track B's peak with vinyl, since you don't have any timer to go by...
This was a little bit hard to explain, so I got a little bit fuzzy, but I hope you got my message...If anybody could make it any clearer feel free to edit this message...
peace
EDIT: Also I'm wondering, do you usually play the whole 7-8-9 minute long tracks, or just the most intense parts of it, like 3-4 minutes..The whole set gets more intense that way...I always played the whole tracks in my mixes, but then I got a "complaint" from somebody that a set can be a little bit dull and boring with tracks that are so long, so now I try to play only the most intense parts of the tracks, with some sweet breaks in some of them...Although it's a little bit more difficult do make a nice transition if when mixing in a track that isn't in it's outro...
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Last edited by Laszlo on Feb-08-2003 at 15:32
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