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| DJ_RoKo |
Everyone knows how to beatmatch,
but what do you do when it comes to making your mix more interesting. with house this is a lil easier coz its easier to match then you can play games with the eq and a lil with the crossfader, but with trance you cant really do this as trance is more complex and the music has more happening.
So what mixing techniques do you have, even if its how you mix in a track.
Im asking this coz i did a gig last nite with a m8 and he mixes house and he made me look bad becuase he was doing more than just matching and mixing it in like me.
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| bokus |
| If the the vinyl im mixing out of has a strong ending synth at the point I match, I will have the high turned up cut the mid's , keep the bass around 12, and when im mixing down the track, Ill bring it back up with volume so the synth is hitting hard every one in awhile till the next vinyl hits a new set of bars. |
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| mzvirbulis |
| this is when learning your records comes in. it helps alot. |
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| dinoXpress |
+1 on that..
i mix house, but ive mixed trance and i def know what ur saying. its not as "dynamic".
a capellas are fun if you can use them.
edit: wow, spelling... |
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| Exodus17 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_RoKo
with house this is a lil easier coz its easier to match then you can play games with the eq and a lil with the crossfader, but with trance you cant really do this as trance is more complex and the music has more happening.
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u said it yourself... not alot you can do with trance...try mixing other styles... like play a trance track and follow with a techno tune or something, or some breaks... variation helps |
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by Exodus17
u said it yourself... not alot you can do with trance...try mixing other styles... like play a trance track and follow with a techno tune or something, or some breaks... variation helps |
i really think you should think hard when dealing with viariation, find link tunes, that help slowly progress from one genre to another, doont just drop nu school breaks on the end of a trance tune. |
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| Exodus17 |
| true... if i wanna make a change from trance to breaks ill usually use Rank 1 Breathing(airwaves) - the breaks mix... its still has the trance feel to it but with a breakbeat rather than the kick every beat |
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| moondog |
| there is plenty you can do, even with trance. for example, you could get the new track beatmatched, cue it at the beginning of the next phrase of the current track, and then say, drop 1, 2, or 4 beats from the cue track in while cutting the bass from the playing track. Or you could again start the cue track one phrase from the breakdown of the playing track, cut the bass on the cue track, and slowly bring it in so that it's at almost full volume by the time the breakdown is approaching, then cut the cue track when the breakdown starts, gives listeners the impression that a new track is coming in until they hear the breakdown of the track that was already playing. As someone else said, you do need to know your tracks to do this. Just a couple of very simple things you could do, or you could get an FX pad:) |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by moondog
Or you could again start the cue track one phrase from the breakdown of the playing track, cut the bass on the cue track, and slowly bring it in so that it's at almost full volume by the time the breakdown is approaching, then cut the cue track when the breakdown starts, gives listeners the impression that a new track is coming in until they hear the breakdown of the track that was already playing. |
+1
you can hear pvd do this in his energy 2003 set between cosmicman-spirits and three drives-carrerra 2
i would start ing around with two tracks in the same key and see if they sound good together when mashed up. that always makes for an interesting mix. |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by dinoXpress
+1 on that..
i mix house, but ive mixed trance and i def know what ur saying. its not as "dynamic".
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For sure. That's why house djs tend to be amazing compared to trance djs ;) ( we're speaking technical here! :P ) |
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| rturn214 |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
For sure. That's why house djs tend to be amazing compared to trance djs ;) ( we're speaking technical here! :P ) |
<------ Working hard to change that tendency :D ;)
+1 to this thread... That's why I love the DJ booth, there's always something new for me to try out.
And for my (Albeit minor) addition, if you have any efx setup on your mixer or in a seperate unit, and you're like me and have a hard time spinning breaks back into Trance, or anything with a 4/4 feel to it, you can take a 3/4 Delay or Echo, I usually run it at the last 2 bars of a 32 or 64 bar phrase that has a decent build to it, and you'll get the real hard "Machine Gun" sounding kick, and if you drop the first downbeat of your cue track (The 4/4) track on the first beat of the next phrase and kill the efx/bassline from the breaks track, you get a nice sounding change from a break to a 4/4...
... Probably common knowledge, and maybe it doesn't sound as good as I think it does, but it's been useful... |
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| mzvirbulis |
i love making snipits of parts of other tracks like the high feq...
lately i played John Askew - blackout with Active Sight - out of our lives.
i droped AS On the finish of the last breakdown and it just goes nicely with that synth while with the pumpin tune of askews. |
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