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Which genres are easiest/hardest to mix? (pg. 2)
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| UWM |
| Last night I was mixing hard house for fun for the first time over at my friends place all messed up and it was fairly easy. Much easier going than I've found with prog house. |
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| stevebutabi |
| techno is by far the hardest gendre to mix, but the most fun! |
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| aspergian |
Of course, depends how you want to mix... but regarding a smooth, beat-synced flow... I'd say insanely fast drill-'n'-bass and other such glitchy, twitchy mayhem are often difficult to mix simply because of the hyperactivity of the rhythms and the odd time signatures (all too often) and the sheer tempo.
Mixing trance isn't often as hard as it could be, simply because so many tracks are in harmonic minor keys ;) now throw in some other modes and microtones and you've got room for almost atonal fun! *smiles* |
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| Wildfir3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by stevebutabi
techno is by far the hardest gendre to mix, but the most fun! |
why is that? It's not because you mix it and its your favorite genre and all, is it?
On some level i'd have to agree with you, since you should know some 'tricks/efx' to mix an entertaining techno session.
BUT I think hiphop is still harder. I really don't like the genre but with all the scratches and tricks going on, it's just harder to learn. |
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| aspergian |
| If you're going to count scratching and fx as part of the mix -- which they very well righteously should be counted, depending on the music -- then definitely. Some of that DMC stuff is AMAZING. |
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| Wildfir3 |
Yeah, but then again i don't count that DMC compo thingy as mixing. It's not music, just creativity. Nobody can dance to that kind of stuff.
I was just talking about 'normal' hiphop stuff like this (not me! ;)) |
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| DJAntSmith |
| quote: | Originally posted by ShadoWolf
house is easiest I would think |
I agree. The beats always tend to be a lot simpler.
And I agree with the speed. The faster it is the easier to mix. Must have something to do with you can tell faster if its going out of alignment. |
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| pagoda |
| quote: | Originally posted by Galapidate
That's interesting. I always though genres with faster beats are a lot harder to mix.:conf: |
I completely agree...the higher I pitch it up the more problems I have keeping them in sync. When I try to do slower, long trannys it works out much, much better. |
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| Tranc3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Galapidate
That's interesting. I always though genres with faster beats are a lot harder to mix.:conf: |
Faster beats = more reference points.
I'd say the hardest would be ambient or IDM, beats can be truly abnormal as well as bpms, not to mention harmonic mixing. |
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| aspergian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranc3
Faster beats = more reference points.
I'd say the hardest would be ambient or IDM, beats can be truly abnormal as well as bpms, not to mention harmonic mixing. |
Yeah... there's a flipside though, and that flipside is more acceptance for "sloppiness" or "creative mixing" (or call it what you will!) may come with abnormal beats because they sound off-kilter and wacky anyway, not to mention strange multipliers of time signatures like 7/4 or 13/8
(I'd like to see an octopus dance to THAT!!!)
Faster tempos DO seem to be easier from one viewpoint, generally speaking. But on the other hand, it might be harder to "catch the bus on time" with each section of 8 bars as is standard in dance music (i.e. if you miss one segment, you have to wait for the next to come -- miss too many, and you get clashing basslines or something). But each person perceives the pulse uniquely so this is simply me saying this.
:D |
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| Wildfir3 |
| Ok maybe when u pitch faster music, u have more reference points, but the record can also go offbeat faster, so i guess it remains pretty much the same? |
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| aspergian |
Brilliant classical musician once told me, playing slow can be so much harder because you have so much silence between the notes you have to fill with emotion!
I guess it depends, it's fair to say :) |
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