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Mixing with 3 decks
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| benoitfan |
Hey guys so finally I bought a Technics MK2 1210 deck to join my pair of CDJ-100s. Mixing with 2 decks is nowadays not that challenging for me so I want to learn mixing with 3 decks. I have a Behringer VMX-300. Anyways does anyone here mix with 3 decks? The problem here is how to distinguish 3 different beats. I've become quite good at beatmatching and I correct my mistakes with the pitch but I sometimes don't know which track is drifting away since they are now 3 of them. The best way I guess is to make one of them the "central" track and then switch the PFL track with the central track and spot the differences and correct them. Am I right? I only bought my deck 3 days ago so I haven't practiced much with 3 channels but sure looks fun ;)
Thanks for any help :) |
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| Flash Bastard |
| how long do you spin ? |
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| J_men |
There's lots of different ways of mixing off 3 decks. You do the proggy thing and play the whole of each track, i.e. play one track, drop the second on in on the first beat of the last break down, and use the third deck to just line up the next track to be mixed in.
Or you can mix normally and use the third deck to layer samples, and acapellas over instrumentals.
Are you trying to play three different tracks all at the same time, remeber if you do this then you need some good EQin to stop the mix from sounding like crap. The best advice is as usual to practise, practise, practise. And experiment, there are no rules to mixing. |
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| Energized |
| You might want to check out some of Carl Cox sets for good examples of 3 deck mixing maybe. |
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| raaven |
i do it in phases
bring in the second track then the third after their both matched.. usually works best. so you can hear the different elements coming in at the different times. can't really explain it here...
but yeah i do usually keep a 'central track' if you wanna call it that. and then decide which of the other two i wanna mix into.
it's fun. i don't do it enought though even though i have three turntables. oh well. |
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| benoitfan |
Well what I'm trying to do here is something like making a transition between one track and another with a 3rd deck using some sort of layering. Usually the highs, or the full bass. Which means I'm for instance moving from track A to track B but with some stuff from track C goin' on (usually in the background). Also I found some tracks that can go so well with eachother, that sometimes I let them together for sumthing like 5 minutes. One example of this is Sasha - Xpander and Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (Trisco la Funk Dub). When Xpander is on I can beatmatch the 2 remaining tracks in something like 20/30 seconds each. The real problem is when I open channel 2 (Star Guitar); I can adjust it with no problems so the mix goes great, but then I want to go from those 2 to a new track, and it's tough for me to recognise 3 different beats. So my take here was more on beatmatching techniques; sure I'll practice, that's what got me this far, but I was looking for some sort of advice. Maybe I'll try use 2 PFLs with, in this case, Xpander as the central track and always being one of them, and I switch PFLs to pitch correct the other 2 tracks. Boy does this look challenging :)
Anyways other useful tips please post in here! ;) |
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| fr0st |
| I just realy started doing three deck mixes. I normaly will play 2 copies of the same record and shift them out phase so it gives a really good flange effect. |
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| SgtFoo |
| quote: | Originally posted by fr0st
I just realy started doing three deck mixes. I normaly will play 2 copies of the same record and shift them out phase so it gives a really good flange effect. |
could you get into more detail about how that works? sounds like a fancy idea!! |
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| benoitfan |
| u beatmatch both equal tracks and throw them at the same time, then if you put one of them just a bit off-beat, they'll do a flanger effect. it's cool :) |
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| fr0st |
| quote: | Originally posted by SgtFoo
could you get into more detail about how that works? sounds like a fancy idea!! |
Ok this is realy a dificult/techinical thing to do. you have to start both the records at the exact same time soo the tracks match exactly at the same point in time. then slow down 1 record soo its slightly behind the other record. or you can put one record a few beats back to have a echo effect. |
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