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covering up one bad mix
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| tubby |
| I just recorded an 80 minute mix into soundforge, but there's one bad transition with about 6 seconds of double beats that i'd kind of like to cover up a bit before I burn it to cd. It's not a demo, and it's not going anywhere other than my car. I've messed about a bit with the reverb in soundforge. This helps, as it makes the double beats sound more like a single kind of fat beat. Anyone got any other ideas? |
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| dj aki |
| I would just redo the transition where you messed up and switch.(cut and paste). it's a little hard to match the volume and EQs though. |
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| chesco |
re-do the recording.
your only fooling yourself by editing.:p |
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| Nemesis44 |
The way compilations are done.
Perhaps for future reference get a multitrack recording device as you can do the mix as many times as you need until it's perfect.
I would re-do it too as I am a bit of a perfectionist with my CDs. It's a good way to learn your music and get some practice.
Cheers
Nem |
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| dknylady |
i wouldn't bother editing it at all.
if it's just for you, then who cares. it's good to hear your mistakes, that way you try harder when you spin. (well at least for me, god i get so pissed when i mess up)
i've done some editing in soundforge (NOT to edit my sets, hehe, just to make some silly things) and it's a pain in the ass, matching the waves up. i mean you can really edit it so you can't hear...but you aren't gonna get the same volume, and eq, as the other guy mentioned. not to mention the pitch will be different.
anyway that's my advice, just let it go. :) |
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| Zombie0729 |
| quote: | Originally posted by chesco
re-do the recording.
your only fooling yourself by editing.:p |
sadly it is very hard to tell whether mixes were edited, and people are really only hurting themselves. if they get a gig based on a CD that took them multiple times to get just one beat match down they are pretty screwed when it comes to playing live. i really wish people could honestly say they dont edit their mixes as it is a complete fallacy to who you are. |
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| tubby |
thanks for the input everyone. The suggestions that i'm somehow cheating for covering it up, it's not going to be heard by anyone else, and i want to put it to disk mostly cos I like the tracks I played that day. It's far from great, other mixes are not perfect but that one really annoys me. I'd rather focus on the smaller mistakes and track layout than the one where I totally stuffed the drop, since I know what that mistake was.
at least covering a support line when almost all our customers are on holidays give me plenty of time to screw about with the recording now |
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| DJ Lazy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0729
sadly it is very hard to tell whether mixes were edited, and people are really only hurting themselves. if they get a gig based on a CD that took them multiple times to get just one beat match down they are pretty screwed when it comes to playing live. i really wish people could honestly say they dont edit their mixes as it is a complete fallacy to who you are. |
I honestly don't edit my mixes. :D I use Soundforge to record my mixes, and so I could easily edit and what not, but there is no point. I have recorded mixes where I know I ed up the beatmatching or something and passed them out (even sold them) to friends and ppl that wanted a copy, and I still got those ppl telling me that the mix "ing rocked" or "that was a sweet mix", and I ask if the up at such n' such a time ruined it, and they are like "no, just don't let it happen again. ;) " So, that makes me try harder next time to perfect it. But I ain't gonna edit it to make me seem like a better DJ than I really am. :)
Cheers. |
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| Psygnosis |
How bad are the double beats, cause remember we all do mistakes so if it's not a major bad mix, i advise you leave it...cause you only cheat yourself if you change it.
Rememeber in a club, theyre not going to let you do that transition again...it's a one go attempt. |
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| dj aki |
actually its so true what everyone else said
so don't listen to me. I've editted a few times before,
but now for sure I won't edit anymore.
sorry for a bad advise. |
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| [BE]FusioN`-- |
| You can always try to 'MC' the bad part away too :haha: |
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| Shad0wmaster |
| If it's only 6 seconds of galloping beats, but the rest of the mix is good, i'd just bite the bullet and keep it anyway. everybody trainwrecks, it's really not worth it to go through the trouble of editing for six seconds of bad beatmatching. I don't edit my mixes often -- the only case in which I do is if I screwed up a transition close to the end of the mix, in which case I'll re-do the last few tracks of the mix @ the same tempo and volume, then cut and paste it into the rest of the mix. Most of the time, though, if I screw up really badly, I'll just start again. |
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