Hey all

I have a pretty good idea of the beatmatching aspect of mixing and exactly what you're trying to accomplish with that. However, i wanted to get your ideas on what's the best way to use the EQs during the actual transition. For me what i tend to do is just use the bass EQ. I'll have the fader set pretty close to the middle, and adjust the Bass Eqs so that one song isn't too dominant. Then i'll just slide the cross fader slowly w/o even adjusting the mid and highs. I know that the high and mid EQs are there for a reason. I just don't know when is the proper time to adjsut them. In addition I just find that it'd be hard to have enough time to adjust all of those and move the x-fader in a way so that you don't hear drastic changes in the "tone" of the mix in the span that you're actually transitioning. Any thoughts on the subject would be nice.
Thanks

first of all, don't use the x-fader. you might stand in a club, which have a mixer, without a x-fader, so you can't do your job. just try to learn without the x-fader.
ok here's how I make my transitions.
if I got the tunes on the same the tempo, I'll switch the bass and middle tone of the incoming tune halfway, then I'll move the fader halfway, to check another time that they have the same speed. if it's good I'll move the fader full open. then I switch the bass of both tunes at the beginning of a phrase. I'll do the same with the middle tone. sometimes I'll move the middle tone before the bass, it's depends just from the tunes. after that I'll fade the first tune out and I have made my transition.

I normally bring the incoming tune in slightly lower then the tune playing...I have the incoming tunes eq's set: Bass @ 9 O clock, Mid @ 12 O clock, Hi @ 9 O clock...After the both tunes have been playing together for 32 beats I switch the bass(while gradually bring the volume of the incoming tune to match the original tune)...Either after 16 or 32 beats I'll switch the hi...Always remember to switch the bass, mid, etc every 16 or 32 beats...Listen to some of your fav djs mixes and listen to how they bring in there tunes to give you some idea of how they phrase match....

I just posted this on another thread, but what the hell. I don't use the xfader most of the time. I have the live channel volume slider at 100 and the cue at 0 until I'm ready to transition. Then, once the last phrase of the live track is coming to and end I ramp up the cue volume to about 90% and turn the bass down just a hair on the live track to compensate. Then I switch the volumes so that the live is 90% and the cue is 100%. Then I fade out the "old live" and the transition is complete.

what is transition ?


Trancevision
"curious"

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Originally posted by Trancevision what is transition ? Trancevision "curious"

its when you mix from the the track thats playing to the next

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