I was always wondering why my mixes didnt sound up to par with those big name dj's

well.....a few days ago it clicked in my head
Before I would do a mix and I'd have trouble with a track coming into Loud or to Soft/Low...well here's what i figured out ....

ok...one of the tracks is playing and you can see the LED's or whatever you wanna call it jumping up and down....

queueing the other track in my headphones >> I see that the LED's on this channel are somewhat lower then the one currently playing....i adjust the gain for this channel to match the LED's up

now they are both level>>bring in the track and VOUALA the mix is level

hehe

To think it took me 5 years to think of this


EDIT: Here's a sample......hehe Click Here to Listen

The whole mix is posted in the Amateur DJs & Music Producers Promotion forum

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Last edited by DJ LIQUID on May-27-2002 at 16:33

Thanx for the tip man but unfortunately I can't do anything about it cause my shitty mixer has only one LED display for the master output, in order to do that what does your mixer have to include? a LED display for the headphones?

either that or leds for each channel

I posted a sample for you guys to listen to

its in the original post

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Originally posted by P`zazz Thanx for the tip man but unfortunately I can't do anything about it cause my shitty mixer has only one LED display for the master output, in order to do that what does your mixer have to include? a LED display for the headphones?

hmmm...my mixer has LED's for every channel

im gonna see if i can figure something out using my other mixers

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Originally posted by TranceGeek either that or leds for each channel

hmmm, yes but when you're queing you have your channel fader at 0 so wouldn't the led for the channel not show anything?

OMG, thank you man. I was wondering about that the other day and couldn't for the life of me get the 2 LED's to match. Now I play with the gain and it works!!! haha, I can't believe it!

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Originally posted by DJ-Kuza OMG, thank you man. I was wondering about that the other day and couldn't for the life of me get the 2 LED's to match. Now I play with the gain and it works!!! haha, I can't believe it!

Im glad to of been some help

now go record me a mix

Holy smokes
you mean to tell me you didnt know about that?
LOL
hehe, thats the main reason you got the cue meter for each channel...

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hehe, well I have some mixes that are ok, but I have no web space. I was using the EQ's to try and keep the music at the same level. But with this new knowledge I'll make a new one and try to find hosting.

if you don't have LED's on ur mixer.. u can always listen in your headphones mix to see if one track is louder than the other..

I thought it was basic knowledge that everything in this thread was one of the first things you learn. Guess I will need to include this when helping other DJ's in future.

Thing is my crappy Gemini mixer hasn't hacked the pace and one of the channels which has a volume meter has been damaged. Now I have to use one of the channels which doesn't have a volume meter, didn't realise how much I depended in it until this happened