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  • #38139
    Tommy Hear Me
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    Think you need to practice more on your beat matching your first mix between songs has double beats galore also look at your levels (Bass, Treble and Mids) when you have two songs mixing you are losing a lot of clarity in the songs, playing about with the levels should clear the murkiness of the mix.

    Remember keep practising and listen to your mixes through headphones.

    #38146
    DJ Vintage
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    Agreed Tommy,

    I think a tip (generally, not just on this mix) is that sometimes less is more. The “natural” urge people seem to have is to add/boost a certain frequency when you feel it is lacking. The ear is a wonderful thing though in that it requires way more boost for your ears to perceive it as such than it does lowering/cutting a frequency.

    If you ever get a chance to see a studio or live sound technician at work, you will notice that they will rather remove unwanted frequencies (cut) around the frequency they want to bring out than boost that frequency.

    Especially when you are mixing and already have twice the energy in your mix at the key frequencies, cutting the frequency you want to bring out in the other song works better than boosting it.

    So, if you want the mids (vocals) from the song you are bringing in to stand out more, don’t boost the mids on the incoming song, but cut the mids on the outgoing song. This creates a lot of room for the incoming vocals to shine through.

    When you are not mixing it is as true. If you want to bring out the mids, it often pays to lower bass and treble a little bit and increase the overall level to compensate than boost just the mids.

    Hope that makes sense.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    #38295
    Mitch Hambling
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    as you may know, im only 15, and have been mixing only for 3 months or so. around 1 minute, you have done a common thing, before the beat drops you looped the song, then looped it to a shorter count, then a even shorter count (someone with a bit more knowledge may correct me cuz there may be a name for that i do not know of), then im guessing you hopped to a cue point at the drop. As fun as it is, and as often as you hear it, you dont wanna over use it, and when you do you wanna do it correctly.

    and then as tommy said, your rockin the double beats, that just is fixed by beatmatching correctly

    when doing transitions, dont randomly bring in track b halfway through track a. you wanna mix songs smoothly. since im new im not an expert on transitions yet, but some good ways to transition are mixing track a’s breakdown with track b’s breakdown, or mixing track a’s outro with track b’s intro. those are very simple transitions and as long as you practice those you will find yourself learning new transitions and techniques to mixing songs together.

    at 3:35 it sounded a bit awkward when the song dropped

    you also wanna make sure the songs are in the right key to mix, you can check your songs key by getting mixed in key, a lot more helpful because transitions will sound more fluent.

    watching tutorials, and surfing the web helps quite a bit. and listening to recorded mixes from artists is really helpful if you can pick out what they are doing when mixing.
    hope this helped a little

    #38296
    Mitch Hambling
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    its also a little awkward when one song is playing with another, and the first song drops while the other one is still in its breakdown. If that made sense lol. keep practicing, you willl get it

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