If you spin Hip-Hop, then please help me out. Thanks in advance.

If possible, can you explain how you EQ' and use your fader so your mix doesn't like it's drop it volume. I'm just trying to see how other Hip-Hop DJ's does it and see where I can learn or did wrong. Any examples or tips would be greatly appreciated!

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Originally posted by musicaddict If you spin Hip-Hop, then please help me out. Thanks in advance. If possible, can you explain how you EQ' and use your fader so your mix doesn't like it's drop it volume. I'm just trying to see how other Hip-Hop DJ's does it and see where I can learn or did wrong. Any examples or tips would be greatly appreciated!

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Oh, but you just use your gains to match output levels before you mix......Just like you do in any other genre.

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lol. geeze, did i posted a hip-hop question at the wrong forums ?

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people dont judge you coz u aint black
they judge you coz u aint rap (haha)
thas alota smacks u told and thats that
in the streets they nicknamed you fag
little wanna be mc that cant seem to see that you can never be who u think u gon be..see that? guess not? coz u dont fuckin rap!!

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Originally posted by musicaddict lol. geeze, did i posted a hip-hop question at the wrong forums ?

www.tranceaddict.com

We only talk about trance in here.

Trance is making the biggest come back ever in 2010!

But yes, check your levels. The hamster that crossfader with a sharp curve on it so that the volume doesn't drop.

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Originally posted by n3lly www.tranceaddict.com We only talk about trance in here. Trance is making the biggest come back ever in 2010! But yes, check your levels. The hamster that crossfader with a sharp curve on it so that the volume doesn't drop.

I haven't been listening to Trance since 2004 but I'm making a comeback myself because my buddy is probably the biggest Trance Addict! We spin nothing but Trance every Sundays at this one club

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people dont judge you coz u aint black
they judge you coz u aint rap (haha)
thas alota smacks u told and thats that
in the streets they nicknamed you fag
little wanna be mc that cant seem to see that you can never be who u think u gon be..see that? guess not? coz u dont fuckin rap!!

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Originally posted by musicaddict I haven't been listening to Trance since 2004 but I'm making a comeback myself because my buddy is probably the biggest Trance Addict! We spin nothing but Trance every Sundays at this one club

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Originally posted by n3lly

lol

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people dont judge you coz u aint black
they judge you coz u aint rap (haha)
thas alota smacks u told and thats that
in the streets they nicknamed you fag
little wanna be mc that cant seem to see that you can never be who u think u gon be..see that? guess not? coz u dont fuckin rap!!

I'm pretty new to mixing hiphop (second recorded mix is linked in my sig spamspamspam) but I generally keep my eq's around 12 o'clock on both channels and try my best to match keys/beats. Sometimes it sounds a bit off, but I think it just takes knowing tracks and using your ear more (at least for me).

Dunno, but hiphop's more for quick transitions as opposed to fully eqing and fading in a track. Maybe I'm wrong though.

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Yeah hiphop is more about quick transitions and quick blends. I like to use the 4 EQs in traktor or on a xone...way better than 3 eqs.

I usually match up the BPMs and either cut the new song directly on the 1, or do like a quick 3 - 5 second blend...backspin or do sometype of efx. When i use 1200's i just scratch the kick drum into the current song, make sure u turn the volume down a lil bit on the new song so it wont clip the master output.

Sometimes you can mash up an instrumental of one track while the other track is playing. I match the bpms , cut the bass and some of the mid off the playing track and blend the intrumental in.

Try it with the song 'ay bay bay' and use the instrumental of the alliance - going digital. hope this helps.

--peace

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what type of hip hop? top 40 hip hop? I spin that sometimes when my friends ask me to. Main problem with slower hip hop is that the BPM range is just so much wider than house, techno and trance.

I keep the fader same as when I mix EDM (I don't use the other type of crossfader curve, I have a xone 92) and when i'm transitioning from one track to the other, I slowly put the xfader in the middle and increase the volume of the outro track's channel (with the upfader, not the gains) so the levels are the same.

Then just quickly bass swap and make the mids of the outro track a bit softer. Sounds perfectly fine to me.

Try Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back and mix that to Akon - Dangerous.

i hate techniques and pre defined styles of mixing ....just flow with it , use what works best in that situation ...sometimes fast transition is more cool/proper that say matching bpm ...be creative