What is something unique you can do when you are mixing out of the last track that the DJ before you has just played? What kind of effects, or techniques have you used to make things a bit more interesting than just simply mixing out?

I will be playing trance in the 138 range and the DJ before me will be playing electro house in the 130-132.

I am wondering what are some things that can be done to smooth the gap? The club I am playing is very very well known and will be packed.


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Last edited by xstalkrx on May-25-2007 at 23:57

LOOP + DELAY + BRINGING THE BASS IN & OUT = WIN

That had to be in caps.. I duno why

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i liked what i saw roog do onnce, he threw an acapella.. and faded slowly out of a track .. not to impress but so that the crowd could give it up for morillo... after a round of clapping, and right on time with the acapella he brought in the beat. needles to say it was very nice.

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yeh if its a nice vocal track i would loop a ctchy part of the vocals, than cut it a couple of times, drop a jet effect and drop a straight face bass or just build one up, it depends, its all about being creative, i try to do something diff everytime i get a chance to dj.

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most of the time, the first track i chose to play has a good intro. some nice lush pads or such, which is why i wouldn't like mixing it with the last track of the previous dj.

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I usually let the last track end, and start fresh. Its good to give closure to the set before you, and to let the crowd know that a new DJ is playing.

I've heard a couple of "turntable powering down" [Zip] effects used well between mixes.

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slowly fade the volume down over about 30 seconds... wait in silence for five seconds. smile at the crowd.. then slap your first tune on. the silence really works wonders for the crowd

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Now you see I think generally you should only fade the last track out and start a fresh if you've got some kind of special intro, or you're a fucking huge headliner or something. In London it's really common for DJs to only get 1 hour sets and I've seen nights where every single DJ stopped the previous track before starting their own - it breaks up the flow, which is fine a couple of times in the night but if everyone does it the crowd just get bored of it.

Particularly if you just stop/fade out the previous track then start from the start of a tune with a bog standard intro (i.e. 3 minutes of perc building up to bassline etc before anything actually happens), everyone will just think "right, got 5 mins before anything interesting's gonna happen" so they go to the bar - I've seen it happen so many times.

I think it's really important to grab people's attention at the start of a set, in a similar way to a demo. Personally I normally do a relatively late and quite sharp mix into an interesting loop of some kind (normally pads/minimal synths for a trance set, percussion for a techno set but sometimes I'll use a perc loop for trance), then build up from there, throwing in some more loops or whatever before dropping into the first big tune.

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Once again Stu tells it like it is. I've seen this many times in London, standing on the crowd side of the booth I hasten to add. It must be really disheartening to watch everyone turn around and walk away. Mix - you're a DJ!

Jarv

I will be playing trance in the 138 range and the DJ before me will be playing electro house in the 130-132.

I am wondering what are some things that can be done to smooth the gap?

yeah i would definitely say mix in and start off with a bang that will get everyone dancing their asses off and thinking, man this guy is so much better than the last

You could slowly apply a filter to the departing DJs track to gradually cut out the lows or crank up the highs or similar, as you bring in your own track. I saw someone do this on a Xone:32 using that automated VCO thing most of the A&H mixers have, it was slick.