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| s3nate |
| I know you probably get this all the time but I have 5 mins to get to school. Heres whats happening, I can beat match and crossfade properly but I have no idea what I should learn next... any suggestions?? |
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| physe |
| Check the sticky thread about advanced mixing techniques. It may not be what you're looking for, but it's a start. |
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| Xtracktor |
| crossfading?? :conf: |
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| harriz |
| quote: | Originally posted by s3nate
I know you probably get this all the time but I have 5 mins to get to school. Heres whats happening, I can beat match and crossfade properly but I have no idea what I should learn next... any suggestions?? |
Learn to manually pitchbend by riding the pitch.
Act like there is no platter and just use pitch control for a week.
Once you master that your mixing will be much better :) |
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| Basstard |
at the very very least you should be using the channel faders to mix.
drop the crossfading because it gives u limited control. if you are not used to using the EQs start off just using the bass / low along with the channel faders. |
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| SpecRadio |
EQing actually sucks if you have a crap mixer and .10% decks.
Just use xfading if you have crap more than .05% |
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| Boomer187 |
| learn to pick good tracks to play. |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
learn to pick good tracks to play. |
Most DJs never learn that part. |
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| s3nate |
| quote: | Originally posted by Xtracktor
crossfading?? :conf: |
Like leveling the sound off so when your mixing it doesnt go distorted (sorry I dont have much dj vocab yet!!)
Im sorry I dont get what pitch bending is either..
I usually pick tracks that kinda fit there own categories (Sam Sharp and RVDB is one category and something like Jonas Steur/Lemma & Moor is a little bit different)
Right now I just dont know what to do next... maybe phrase matching? How do you phrase match....? |
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| Basstard |
thats not crossfading...
crossfading is using the crossfader to mix. goin from track 1 to track 2 by moving the slider left to right... |
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| Xtracktor |
| quote: | Originally posted by Basstard
thats not crossfading...
crossfading is using the crossfader to mix. goin from track 1 to track 2 by moving the slider left to right... |
Yea thats what I ment...and how that doesn't apply to what was in the first post, but I think you meant to say EQ'ing especially with the *gain* :) Now, whats next...I'd begin work in EQing or phasing (thats where I am as we speak).This is what I've done so far in phasing...cue up your track that your going to bring in to a certain spot, usually 1st beat or 32st beat. Then, on the playing track, you will hear a crash toward the end (usually, could be other sounds too) then release the cued track...should phase somewhat(assuming you are beatmatching) (this is just a small theory, I know there is much more to it, and even a guide on this forum :) ) |
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