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Originally posted by lücid i'm not entirely sure why this is, but i get such a turn on whenever i mix stuff in the key of E minor. when i key out my tracks and realize that my favorite tunes are in that key i just get so excited. obviously mixing anything that's harmonically compatible with that sounds good too, but for some reason E minor is my favorite. B minor is probably a close 2nd. does anyone else have any favorite keys? or combinations of compatible keys?

I've never really noticed a pattern between songs I like and their keys to notice if there is a pattern. I've never paid much attention either. Might be interesting for me to start taking note of it.

dork!

A, D, G (all minor). don't ask me why.. i like Ab too. a lot of my favorite tunes just happen to be in those keys though, so it's natural that i like to mix within them.

Definitely don't - for me it's more in what specific combinations of keys sound like, but I haven't noticed any preference at all for a specific key.

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i have a massive amount of c g and d minor for some reason.

my favorites though are c#m, f#m, and bm.

it sounds absurd to say but it's true. I find that a lot of my c#m tracks are especially emotional, which is why the last track i made is in that key.

may be a mild form of synaesthesia, i don't know

most of my fave tunes are in 8A or 2A.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN most of my fave tunes are in 8A.

different scales and modes inpart a different set of emotions... some are dark, some are uplifting, sad, happy, whatever... the Greeks had that all figured out thousands of years ago.

But that said, I really don't find particular keys interesting so much as the relationships between them and what happens when you go from one key to another during a mix.

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Originally posted by ClearVision But that said, I really don't find particular keys interesting so much as the relationships between them and what happens when you go from one key to another during a mix.

yeah, i reckon -3 on the wheel thingy make the sweetest sounding mixes

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OMG you people are putting WAAAAAAY too much thought into harmonic mixing. This has become a fad and it's out of control.

I know LOTS of really, REALLY great local DJ's who don't "mix in key" by the formula and their mixes are amazing.

It's tool, not a rule. Hey that rhymes.

This isn't about harmonic mixing, this is about favorite keys. besides that there is a lot more to key mixing than picking complementary tracks. For instance I often try to end in a key similar to where I started because I feels it gives a more cohesive feel to the entire mix and a sense of finality and closure.

if you deny the importance of key in a composition you're denying hundreds of years of music

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different scales and modes inpart a different set of emotions... some are dark, some are uplifting, sad, happy, whatever... the Greeks had that all figured out thousands of years ago

while that's true, it also has a lot to do with intervals.

if you read on synaesthesia and music you'll see that some synaesthetes associate colors even with individual intervals. All of us however are affected differently by changes in intervals.



Also it should be said that not all keys are tuned naturally. Basically the changes in frequency are not proportional in all keys and are not scientifically 'perfect'. The experience of emotion as 'different' might have something to do with this degree of imperfection?

i've been listening to 12-tonal composition and it absolutely messes with your emotions...i'll soon be applying this technique to my productions for effect...as for my favorite keys C#m, Gm and A major.

as far as what Adam is saying, I don't find it hard to believe that as we open up our perception through producing or other means we become borderline synaesthetes. When you think about it, getting into that mode where your left and right cerebral hemispheres are working at the same time all kinds of aural phenomenon can take place (and in fact there have been various threads in the production forum about such things).

personally I find that in the past year or so, I've been gradually making associations between tones, frequencies, chords and keys with tactile feelings, kinesthetics, emotions and bizzare associations that I cannot even explain that I feel is a direct result of really getting INTO sound itself.

as a sound sculpturist i think we have an appreciation for the depth of sound as it is. an example of this is the other day i was conversing with my flatmate and he started to respond to me...but in place of hearing the words filtered and formulated and identified by my brain, i heard the sound as it truly is, just a matter of noise, unfiltered by perception and I had to ask him to repeat himself. this could just be me tripping out but im making my point.

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