trouble with the kicks

What type of software you used and the specs of your laptop ? and are you blasting this out on “big” speaker or ‘puter speakers?

Have you tried this mixes on CD based hardware (aka CDJ), maybe friends? or DJ friend at the club where you can jump for 10 mins to try it out ?

It also maybe the tunes you had its not properly warped, it could happened also

This is the problem I have with digital. I’ve experienced this when DJing trance many years ago on wax. When you have a 33 and your trying to mix into a 45, one kick is longer than the other. And yes, you want the center of each kick to occur together. It kinda reminds me of the sound of a heartbeat.

At any rate, the adjustment you are trying to make is VERY small. I am awesome at doing this on my 1200s, I still haven’t been able to do this on my DDJ-SX, or on my friends CDJ2000nxs. I am awaiting a Denon SC3900 since that has a moving platter which can be set to the same specs as the 1200s. Therefore, I will once again be able to make those tiny adjustments.

You can continue trying, but I’m pretty sure it’s a product of the software/controller combo wherein you can’t make that small of an adjustment. Either the software will just jump to the next ‘grid point'(?) instead of transitioning between the two seamlessly because it doesn’t have that kind of resolution. Or, you (or I for that matter) have not found that magic setting for the platter to make that kind of an adjustment. Hopefully that makes sense. Same thing happens to me on my DDJ-SX with Serato DJ.

Sounds to me like (haven’t listened yet but will when I get home) that you are describing songs that are at same BPM but not perfectly “lined up”.  This is a skill that sync bitton does not fix, it is about having a an ear and practice and experience.  You will have to nudge one tune so it gets in perfect time with the other.

At first it isn’t always obvious which one to do that to, this comes with time and practice.

My tip is to line songs up listening only to the incoming track on headphones and current track with open ear.  Then when you think they are lined up perfectly you then cover ears with both headphone ear pieces and play BOTH tracks through the headphones.  You then know if you need a minor adjustment before mixing it in.

This only works if you mix in what I call the “old way”.  If you are SYNCing and then stopping the incoming track and pressing play at a certain point already cross fadered – this will not work.  I never do that though.

I think maybe you also trying to do it to perfect. When mixing 2 tracks sometimes it’s better to wait a few seconds before you try to nudge the tracks. Let them drift apart just a little bit longer. This way it is easier to hear if you need to speed up or slow down. At least this is something I struggle with sometimes.

Example. tracks start to drift a little bit ( just as in your mix at 15 min ) wait, let them drift. Ok now you hear you need to speed it up. Nudge the track faster. Now there in sync. go back to the mix ( eq, faders ) till it drifts again. You know now it needs to go faster. So nudge it up again. I don’t know if that makes sense, but this is how I do it. Otherwise I tend to nudge faster, slower, faster. You get the idea. But that is the beautiful thing of mixing. Everybody has there own little techniques and tricks.

And be patient as mentioned above. Watch other mixes. I really like the pioneer sounds show. It’s got the camera above the decks so you can see what the DJ is doing. I really like this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDtsqgJhAds

It’s DJ Sneak, one of my heroes. Watch the first transition at 13:45 it is not perfect but he takes his time. He is using the pitch for adjustment. But this is not always so easy on some controllers ( like my reloop mixage with it’s short pitch faders ) But you can also do it with the jogs.

Keep practising and you will improve yourself.

maybe your controller nudge is too sensitive?  I have got used to mine now and it isn’t sensitive, so I give it a good nudge and it just moves the tune very, very fractionally, which is ideal.  i doubt they are all the same.

do you mean like lag?

I had an issue when I tried to use Audacity to record my mixes when I had DJ Intro by Serato (it doesn’t allow you to record directly).  It cased Lag somewhere in my computer, probably due to the sound card not being top notch and it made mixing impossible.  The head phones told me the beat was lined up, but then when mixed there was lag from the controller to the computer (or laptop) and it was out.