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Originally posted by Rick Mage Yeah, I was pretty sure what split cue was...even though I never cue that way. I cue with both tunes in my headphone playing at the same time. I will beatmatch until I hear no more trainwrecking and both tunes playing sounds clean to me. You don't need a cue/master blend knob, on a mixer, to cue the way I cue. You can use the gain controls of the channel that is not playing to control what you hear with the tune you are coming in with. You just have to have both channel on to hear both tracks. So, if a mixer has gain controls, it is very possible to cue mix on that mixer without a cue/master blend knob...if you do it my way....Most mixers have gains on them in todays world.

Yea but I think that what he meant was if what you are using doesnt have the split cue option, you would need to use the cue/master blend knob. Am I right Ryan?

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Originally posted by Beatflux I just watched the Armin Only DVD a little while back, so I just checked out some of the transition lengths and Exactly -> Arisen was 28 seconds long as for the time when both tracks are playing at the same time. I'm not really familiar with a lot of the styles you mentioned, but I know what I like to hear when it comes to prog and uplifting trance: long transitions. Not ever single mix has to be long and drawn out, but I love to hear a good build up to the next song. How are you suppose to mix for uplifting, trance, tech trance and hard trance?

I mix all of those types of trance. Mostly hard trance and club trance though. I try to make most of my mixes 30 seconds to a minute. I do love it when I have a mix that goes a minute or even over a minute! That's awesome! You gotta have the right tracks for that though.

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Originally posted by Rick Mage . I do love it when I have a mix that goes a minute or even over a minute! That's awesome! You gotta have the right tracks for that though.

For sure! Sometimes I just listen to the transition's of a mix over and over because I think it's such an awesome part.

Ex: Tranceport 1998 -> Age of Love

I love hearing outtro's being mixed with build ups; it's just so cool when the phrasing is all matched up.

It's so sweet to hear your favorite tune being mixed in, and then when it finally kicks in you're like "Oh Shit!"