Here's my quick hard cut contribution to this thread

Hopefully the link works for you, you have to copy and paste it.

http://waxdj.com/download.php?band_id=474&song_id=12272&mode=song_hifi

If it dosn't work just go here and choose to stream or download it.

http://waxdj.com/DJ88

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Originally posted by dj_kane i do my quick transitions like this. havent done a mix in over a month felt good [[ LINK REMOVED ]]

i love that.. good work. :-D

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there's a reason why pvd does so many hard cuts. he mixes many more tracks in a same period of time than other trance dj's do. listen to his livesets carefully and u'll just hear track after track after track. listen to someone like Markus Schulz or armin (not so much as markus) and many times you'll just hear beats on top of beats on top of beats before finally the bassline drops in once again.

Yeah I've heard many pvd sets live and in headphones before - actually that's the problem I have with him is "many more tracks in the same period of time". Sometimes it's great to mix short and kill the crowd, but done too much and i think it just gets choppy and takes away from the 'dance' part of dance music, and becomes like a bouncy pvd favorites megamix, but i could extend this into a disseration on the structure of modern megatrance - i think a lot of the tracks, being so 'dominant' or 'overbearing' as individual 'songs', that come from producers all wanting to create the big dancefloor-killing megatrack, etc DEMAND that the DJ mix them either like you say, beats on beats, or with pvd cuts, because the songs no longer mix well together, each wants to be the star in the mix. DJs are forced to either mix intro-outro and cut out at breakdowns or the first chord change or mix breakdowns on breakdowns and cut out/swap the bass or drop it hard to avoid massive muddy sounds with thousands of pads and two competing melodies.

(you know as opposed to older trance and today's progressive house, tribal house, and 'neo-trance' stuff , and many other genres coming out, which can be 'mixed' in the sense of blended not just juxtaposed.)

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Originally posted by dj_kane i do my quick transitions like this. havent done a mix in over a month felt good [[ LINK REMOVED ]]

That sounded great!

To a guy who's not so familiar as to how to achieve that sound, would you care to share what you did on your mixer to achieve that?

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Originally posted by inflight101 That sounded great! To a guy who's not so familiar as to how to achieve that sound, would you care to share what you did on your mixer to achieve that?

ok well firstly i no my tracks well so i no when to drop it in. in this case i new that 'lift's' bass would drop just as 'epic's' was main melody was coming to an end. so at the end of the last breakdown in epic i got lift ready and released it as soon as the breakdown ended.

i always have my mids at 1 o'clock on my djm600 never change them for any track it may work well for others but not for me. i have the bass of the incoming track totally down so theres no low end competing with the track playing. i also have the hi's of the incoming track totally down but i increase them at the end of every phrase. as the last phrase of the playing track starts the hi's will be perfect for how i like them then i get ready to do a quick bass swap with the incoming track. i wait until about 4 beats at the end of the playing tracking then quickly cut that bass and bring the incoming track up to 12 o clock.

hope this helps.

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I'm going to try that tonight! Thanks for the info.

I think the key is to make it SOUND like a quick transition, even though the tracks are being mixed for a long time.

Jarv

Definitely, but being technical then I might say that's not so much a cut as a drop. But who really cares.

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Originally posted by Jarvmeister I think the key is to make it SOUND like a quick transition, even though the tracks are being mixed for a long time. Jarv

yea that is the key to it. thats why i keep the low end completely off as you want to make that sudden impact when you do the cut. all quick transitions work similar pvd has the track being mixed in for a while before doing a quick crossover.

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Originally posted by dj_kane ......pvd has the track being mixed in for a while before doing a quick crossover.

Yeah - what always used to interest me about the rather special way PvD did it was that you wouldn't notice for the minute the incoming track is coming in, then as soon as it kicks in I'd think - fuck - he got me again, I never saw it coming!! It was almost like a game, I'd try and work out if I could hear an incoming track - and I almost never could!

The mans got skill......

Jarv

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Originally posted by Jarvmeister Yeah - what always used to interest me about the rather special way PvD did it was that you wouldn't notice for the minute the incoming track is coming in, then as soon as it kicks in I'd think - fuck - he got me again, I never saw it coming!! It was almost like a game, I'd try and work out if I could hear an incoming track - and I almost never could! The mans got skill...... Jarv

yea thats why i still enjoy his sets. and go to ibiza every year and try and get to see him twice. theres alot of haters but the guy deserves respect. hes proven he can mix on turntables so if he uses ableton big deal everyone knows what hes capable of.

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