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Originally posted by digitalbreach didn't like a few trax. 05 Hanna & MV - Mr Roboto (Stef Vrolijk remix) [Little Mountain]

Its all good. I removed a good chunk from the track cuz I didn't like the "Mr Roboto" vocals, so there's a beat drop in there that sounds a bit sudden..I chose it though the bassline alot. Mainly chose this cuz the first half mixed so well (from my perception) with the last half of the Sonar track before it.

hehe, not trying to sound overly-defensive but I had to point a few things out. If they made an intrumental version of the track, that woulda been cool. Thanks for the input

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a lot of this sounds really good, great songs. a few bits that I "disagree" with (such as, I really like the Mr Robato vocals) but overall enjoyable. Haven't given it a solid, straight-through listen yet, but it's good stuff.

what did you use to do your special edits, and did you do it live or prerecorded? And then, what equipment did you use for the mix?

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Originally posted by progressiveMOJO a lot of this sounds really good, great songs. a few bits that I "disagree" with (such as, I really like the Mr Robato vocals) but overall enjoyable. Haven't given it a solid, straight-through listen yet, but it's good stuff. what did you use to do your special edits, and did you do it live or prerecorded? And then, what equipment did you use for the mix?

The edits are prerecorded done in acid 5 using percussion lines from a roland mc 909 and samples from thomas penton's sample cd. I use the C1 compressor from the Waves bundle to sidechain the percussion to the track (more reinforcing than replacing). After which I run the track through T-Racks to clean up the EQs. That's not to say I don't do any live remixing. I was doing a bit of it in McAllen and even have some video footage of the Tiesto event taken from a my friend Brittany. Once I have a way to get it from her and get it hosted Id be happy to display it.

As for the recording mixes I use 2 CDJ 1000s, a Xone: 92 mixer, and I record the mix into Sonar 5 producer edition via a M-Audio 24/192 sound card. I usully have it set so that the loudest peak will not go past -2.0 to prevent clipping errors. After recording I use the l2 ultramaximer and a few others for mastering purposes. So there ya go.


I'm hearing alot of people these days using Ableton Live 5.0 for both purposes (live remixing and contructing mixsets rather than recording, etc) but I have not had enough hands-on with the program to fully learn how to use it.

As for as the Mr Roboto vox, I didnt like em as first but they kinda grew on me, again..main decision for including the track was that I loved the bassline . Kenneth Thomas dropped the track in McAllen and it owns on a large system.

ableton live seems like it's nice, but only if you have a physical MIDI controller. From what I know, the Xone:92 is well equipped, but I'm on a Xone:62 and the thought of using a touchpad or mouse to twiddle knobs in realtime is just a big NO in my book.

I'm actually debating my next upgrade. Can't make up my mind between CDJ-1000's, and getting a Xone:92 and using ableton on my laptop. And this is further complicated by a large part of me recoiling at the thought of moving away from vinyl. Ugh.

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Originally posted by progressiveMOJO ableton live seems like it's nice, but only if you have a physical MIDI controller. From what I know, the Xone:92 is well equipped, but I'm on a Xone:62 and the thought of using a touchpad or mouse to twiddle knobs in realtime is just a big NO in my book. I'm actually debating my next upgrade. Can't make up my mind between CDJ-1000's, and getting a Xone:92 and using ableton on my laptop. And this is further complicated by a large part of me recoiling at the thought of moving away from vinyl. Ugh.

I'd probably upgrade to using ableton for the producing cabailities as well...but I'd like to save up and get a decent Mac first. Im at the point of giving up producing on a PC since mine keeps fuckin up half the time for some ungodly reason. I really dont wanna talk about it.. but yeah. Lack of money and lack of shit that will run and not fuck up the creative flow are the main 2 reasons im spending more money at the liquor store than on music purchases.

on the ableton/production topic: is it possible to set things up such that the signal from your turntables gets fed realt-time to Ableton, or is there any incompatibility with using turntables and ableton at the same time? Maybe it's just stupidity, but I refuse to get rid of vinyl, at least at home. The stuff is just too much fun to use. I did a weekly radio show at a station that only had a couple of crappy CD decks (some shit American DJ things) and it just wasn't the same.

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Originally posted by progressiveMOJO on the ableton/production topic: is it possible to set things up such that the signal from your turntables gets fed realt-time to Ableton, or is there any incompatibility with using turntables and ableton at the same time?

I honestly couldn't have an aswer for ya there. I'm more than certain someone on the producer forum should know.

GREAT mix brotha!!! Looking foward to see you throw down LIVE.

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Originally posted by cesarave GREAT mix brotha!!! Looking foward to see you throw down LIVE.

Thanks for the kind words! Looking forward to the next opportunity to throw down LIVE.

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Originally posted by Matthias Thanks for the kind words! Looking forward to the next opportunity to throw down LIVE.

I'm putting a show tegether Sept 2 down here in Dallas. PM me if interested. I'll give you more details.

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Originally posted by cesarave I'm putting a show tegether Sept 2 down here in Dallas. PM me if interested. I'll give you more details.

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