Hey all well here is my story.

I've been mixig now for about 2 year.
I think I'm ok. There are quiet alot of time where I even impress myself (I feel I am my biggest critic

I have no problem beatmatching. In fact I could probably play 2 tunes for about 5 min together so that isn't my problem.
I used to (and still do) play hardhouse which I understand easily but I've moved into trace alot more now.... Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren and Tilt stuff... you know.

Anyway my problem isn't beatmatching but is knowing when to fade the last tune out... I like to hold the tune as long as I can but then that leads to me fucking up. I think I make it harder on myself cause I like to mix generas. If more practise is what I need (which I think it is) well then please tell me.

I know I'm not being very clear in what I'm saying but if anyone can throw some advice my way I would be in their debt.

Thanks for reading.
Exploded Fiber.

really, all you can do is practice, practice and then practice some more. it's best to find your own style of mixing whatever the genre. after enough practice you'll get a feel for mixing trance. i find that eq usage is very important when mixing trance but so is subtle manipulation of the up faders. trance is probably the hardest genre to mix and it works best if you use all the tools you have at your disposal. you really have to watch your keys. if two tracks don't have complimentary keys you can kill the bass on the incoming track, bring the track all the way up and then switch the bass and fade out the first track. i used to spin hard stuff too but now i spin a very eclectic set. i spin tech house, progressive house (which actually is a type of trance, go figure), techno, progressive trance (when i can find some that actually has some energy), and a bit of funk and electro breaks. cheers.

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Thanks for the advice man

they best time to transition is during the breakdown of the first song. I usually just start mixing the bass from the second song into the first breakdown, then when the first breakdown ends, I switch to the second. It takes a while to know when your tracks end and such, but when you get good, transitions are a LOT of fun.

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Until next time, this is Matt saying turn up the bass...and listen up

Biggest thing you can do: KNOW YOUR RECORDS. You can let two records play for as long as u want until a break happens on one of the tracks. So you jsut need to know where that break is and cut the outgoing track before.

KNOW UR RECORDS!

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Trance music all night long baby!!!

wen u practise enough to get the formalities out the way pitch matching and eq manipulation sorted u can just flow and you'll find urself doin smoooth transitions automatically took me 3 years but hey pretty rewarding

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