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| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
if you alter a tune by +/-6% you have altered the key one semitone (i think). thus, if theres less than 3% difference between both tunes then youre fine.
i mix exclusively in key, but i allow myself dodgy mixes if a tune is more than 3% out. too many tunes to remember how they all fit together. youve gotta cut yourself some slack!!  i just try and remember which tunes are a lot slower/faster so i'll know that a track is actually more likely to be in 7A than 12A when i mix it as it needs to be sped up a lot. |
The reason I say 2% is that as you get closer to 3% difference the tracks sound more and more out of key and it can start to get a bit rough - I know DJs with really sensitive ears who won't mix tracks more than 1% or 1.5% away (although I think that's a little bit anal and restricting yourself a bit much - afterall, most of the music we listen to in this genre has a fair amount of detuning in anyway)... sure you can exercise a bit of leniency, I quite often allow a 2.5-ish% difference - as with anything else, trust your ears
But I'd try and stay away from 3% cos by that point things will almost certainly sound noticeably out of key. I actually found that the reason a lot of people said some of the mixes sounded out of key on one of my previous demos, when the keys matched and as far as I could tell they should have fitted, was that the tracks were 2.5-3% out and it got pretty noticeable.
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