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Re: Digital mixing vs. competent beat matching
| quote: | Originally posted by Zoso
For example, I've seen people state something along the lines of "if you're using Ableton only, you'd better do something great with it to wow me," etc. |
That's exactly what I would say.
Beatmatching is a basic aspect of DJing. Without it, you cannot mix. However, it's not very difficult and there's MUCH, MUCH more difficult aspects to mixing.
I taught my girlfriend to beatmatch in half an hour but it took her months to learn to EQ properly and all the rest...
I find DJs mixing intro to outro, without doing anything interesting, without layering or sampling things...boring. I play on 3 decks otherwise I'm bored.
If I can do that AND have to beatmatch manually at the same time, you better do something crazy in Ableton otherwise I'll be bored. Might as well watch a CD play.
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