[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ygrene
Best thread ever.

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange my only suggestion is to not do it. instead, use wav rips and then compress to mp3 if necessary.

agree with you on that.. or alternatively avoid mp3's completely since no matter what bitrate they are in there still compressed and we all know compression=bad

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mp3 mixing: only with 320 kbps (but you have good quality with 256, too, the most of you won't hear the differrence, me not either)
otherwise use flac. it's uncompressed then but still the half as big as wav.
all in all, digitalized music is never like the original, analog sound, not even on 192000er hz samplerate and 32 bit; thats a fact, if you study the music-digitalizing-theorie a bit. The funny thing is, that all analog vinyls are from a digitalized master; you do not master anymore directly on vinyl, so cd/vinyl/wav quality are all the same; only depending on what you play them.
(i'm mixing with mp3 too, i'd advise you to take traktor. It's a bit complicated at first, but after you will get the best mixes in your entire life. the only prob: i do the pitch-matching myself, but the most mp3djs let the computer make that; and in the version 3 you don't even have a pitchfader . but i use 2.6 so there's no problem, you can integrate final-scratch. It's not cheap, but.. .
i just love the indipendet regulation of key/tempo, no other program does that with so high quality like traktor.

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Originally posted by DJ Subnautic mp3 mixing: only with 320 kbps (but you have good quality with 256, too, the most of you won't hear the differrence, me not either) otherwise use flac. it's uncompressed then but still the half as big as wav. all in all, digitalized music is never like the original, analog sound, not even on 192000er hz samplerate and 32 bit; thats a fact, if you study the music-digitalizing-theorie a bit. The funny thing is, that all analog vinyls are from a digitalized master; you do not master anymore directly on vinyl, so cd/vinyl/wav quality are all the same; only depending on what you play them. (i'm mixing with mp3 too, i'd advise you to take traktor. It's a bit complicated at first, but after you will get the best mixes in your entire life. the only prob: i do the pitch-matching myself, but the most mp3djs let the computer make that; and in the version 3 you don't even have a pitchfader . but i use 2.6 so there's no problem, you can integrate final-scratch. It's not cheap, but.. . i just love the indipendet regulation of key/tempo, no other program does that with so high quality like traktor.

i use traktor from its first version
hardware is better anyways. ill just wait a while, maybe someday ill get myself a CDJ1000 or a DN3500 (dream machine!)

About the mp3 quality... does it really sound SHiTe when you play 192kb on a large system??? Does the crowd actually notice that the 18k frequency seems to be a little dull?? (bass freqs. between 192 and 320 are 99.9% the same, 192kb only shaves off a little hight end).

Hi mates !

I´m mixing mp3´s since few month with Traktor.But i´m not sure if its the best.

What is better than Traktor ??? ´Can anybody help me ???

Thanx SnowSeal !!!

I use MixVibes 5 Pro, and have been doing so for 2 years now. They have since released a new version...6, but I don't want to pay an extra £150 when the one I'm using isn't broke!

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better than traktor? it's a question of what style you play.
trance->traktor
house&Hardstyle->Virtualdj
techno->mixvibes

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yesssss....
don't be satisfied with 192 or *my god* 128 buIIshit.
it's less cheap but you get much better quality with 320.

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i know i know...
im getting a visa or smthn in a few month, right now im saving for a pair of cdj-200s. next thing ill do is buy all my mp3s from online stores at 320 which really rocks !

I only mix Hardtrance from 1993-1995 with ca. 180 bpm.

May i try Atomix Virtual DJ or is Traktor better for my style ???

Thanx for your help...SnowSeal !!!