i've always beatmatched with the highs and have never told anyone to do otherwise

listen to the high end in the tracks, if you can hear eq changes in the headphones, turn down the incoming track's bass when beatmatching

your mixes will be a lot tighter

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well, i still beatmatch with the bass. maybe it is an amateur thing, i've certainly never been paid to DJ, and that's the definitition of amateur. i've had my decks almost a year now, and beatmatching with the bass (or mid bass anyway, not the really low stuff) just seems easier to me, because often times the high hats are in crazy patterns.

BUT

what i do is once i get it in the ball park with the kickdrums, and i am in the mix or about to be, then i listen carefully to the high hats, because you can hear them drift first, and your ears will be used to the pattern.

*shrug*

works for me!

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for example, lets say you have the bass beats matched....and you're about to bring the cued track in...go thru the process of where all the eq.'s would be both before, during and after the mix. Just do a hypathetical mix. I realize that every mix is different, but i just want the feel for how the process plays out. thanks.

I’ve sub-consciously started to rely more and more on the hi-hats during my mixes over the past couple months. Just seems more natural now, and easier to get an accurate mix.

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Originally posted by Hootchis for example, lets say you have the bass beats matched....and you're about to bring the cued track in...go thru the process of where all the eq.'s would be both before, during and after the mix. Just do a hypathetical mix. I realize that every mix is different, but i just want the feel for how the process plays out. thanks.

second this request.

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i dont think that one way works for every song. i have 4 bands on my eq and generally i bring in the highs first and gradually bring the lows in but i think its all dependent of the song. sometimes its better to be gradual. sometimes it works well to just fade out the bass on the first then kick the second one in. usually i make my eq and fader changes every 4 or 8 beats along with the change in a song... usually i bring soemthing in after a pause or along with a new bar thats introduced by some sort of high sound... thats all i can really say. i think you will get the feel of it later after enough experimentation wtih your eqs... you will figure out what sounds good and what doesnt in different situations

for mixing in general, i turn my sub down a bit, but not completely off. when its on @ full power, the bass sounds really muddy, and i usually get soms bass feedback. never good for mixing.

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