i've been dj'ing edm for 2.5 years and haven't really considered playing hip hop until recently. i really just wanna be a little more well rounded. problem is, i am in the dark on it unless i'm mixing basic 4bar extended intros to outros. im curious as to what percentage of tracks are edits in a hip hop or top 40 set. is there anywhere to buy them? or is it a do it yourself deal? to do it do i need to buy the original and the instrumental and drop a couple bars in the front from the instrumental to the original? Would i use something like audacity to do this or is there a better program? if anyone has any hip hop sets with some popular songs in it that i could use to get a better understanding of whats going on it would be really awesome. i realized i dont have a single hip hop or top40 set.

also, i've been thinking that quantizing a classic rock song or whatever and dropping it in a set as a breakdown would be kinda fun, and was curious to how one goes about quantizing a song.

sorry if this is a repost i haven't seen anything like this on here in a while

Basically, the standard is to do ab 8-bar (32 beat) intro/outro for hip-hop edits (if you're going to use edits at all).

If you're just starting out with hip-hop, then I'd recommend using extended intro versions like that. There are ways of buying them (Mixshow Ingredients is a pretty good service), but I prefer to just do it on my own.

thanks dude. next time i'll ask less questions per post..anyways, what program you use to make your edits? id love to start getting into that whole side of things.

you can use soundforge or acid pro or ableton

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