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Originally posted by Zild Most of the lives mixes I hear from professional DJs have plenty of mistakes.

Exactly. Mixes don't need to be flawless...hence editing small mistakes is somewhat overdoing it, imo.

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Originally posted by siastyle Okay iv hurd the Album and lemmi tell you guyz.... Tiesto is gono make it back to the top again with these hits. The thing about it is that hes trying 2 bring a new style tho just like he did with Just be and it worked. they songs areunt TOO HIGHT up. but the vocals acaully are the best thing in 2007. The Track Carpe Noctum is like traffic but it hink he could of prefected the shit ouf it. but generalllyy its an amazing album...oh and Ten Seconds Before Sunrise is like Forever today TIMES 12

i've done it before, i'll be rocking a solid set and a transition just doesn't go as smoothly as i wanted, i'll restart the outgoing track, try the mix again and splice it out later

i can bang out a wicked mix live, but if i'm selling or giving out a mix cd then of course i'm going to give them the absolute best face i can put forward, especially if this is a printed mix that i'm putting loads of money into for professionally printed cds, cases and inserts that i will be selling, this is a permanent record of you and what you do, why not make it as flawless as you can (cause there's a bunch of djs out there that can, and will play for cheaper than you)

beatmatching takes all of 10 seconds to do, at this point in my career my crowd expects flawless mix cds from me because that's what i've provided for them all these years and will continue to do so (my live mixes are good, but they're certainly not a studio mix sometimes, it's live, shit happens)

i can bang out a mix in one take, have done it in the past and will do it again, but there's those times when editing one transition to make a great mix cd is fine if it will take less effort to go back and start again (especially if it's been on the money so far), as long as you have the skills to back it up and to edit it in the first place then go for it

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Totally understand where you're coming from. I'd want the best product too for promos. My favorite albums probably wouldn't be half as good if not for this technique.

I just hope it wouldn't be a habit, where as the OP seems new to mixing/recording. A veteran who can bang it out if needed deserves a break every now and then, but a beginner should be pushing himself, not taking the easy way out.

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Originally posted by siastyle Okay iv hurd the Album and lemmi tell you guyz.... Tiesto is gono make it back to the top again with these hits. The thing about it is that hes trying 2 bring a new style tho just like he did with Just be and it worked. they songs areunt TOO HIGHT up. but the vocals acaully are the best thing in 2007. The Track Carpe Noctum is like traffic but it hink he could of prefected the shit ouf it. but generalllyy its an amazing album...oh and Ten Seconds Before Sunrise is like Forever today TIMES 12

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Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs Totally understand where you're coming from. I'd want the best product too for promos. My favorite albums probably wouldn't be half as good if not for this technique. I just hope it wouldn't be a habit, where as the OP seems new to mixing/recording. A veteran who can bang it out if needed deserves a break every now and then, but a beginner should be pushing himself, not taking the easy way out.

that's why i made sure to put in

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as long as you have the skills to back it up and to edit it in the first place then go for it

especially if it's a demo to try get gigs, don't try passing off something that isn't you or you're not able to do in a live situation

i do this with my promo mixes, but i can back up what is on cd

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Originally posted by Wayne_B I do mine to -0.5 or thereabouts. Sometimes there's only one stray peak that needs attention to get the normalizing right. I try my best not to compress things though.

How do you sort out the odd stray peak after the set has been recorded?

This is a problem I have quite often - I can keep the levels fairly consistent throughout the mix but there is always the odd few little peaks that prevent me from being able to normalise the mix afterwards.

Any pointers??

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