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A good way to mix dubstep into drumstep?

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  • November 11, 2011 at 1:44 am #9666
    DJ GRE
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    depends on the songs you’re trying for… but usually a dubstep song will have a long breakdown or some semblence of one somewhere I would usually start a drumstep track off there and let it build up with the dubstep track and just cut it out once the drop happens… but again it depends on the tracks – usually I just do a quick cut where the track allows, a pause or something similar. Dubstep takes a little getting used to but like all genres has out points to listen for.

    November 11, 2011 at 3:11 am #9668
    Arbite
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    Only issue is most drumstep tracks hover at ~170-190bpm. When I do large bpm changes in my mixes I generally to a record stop/braking effect and then cut into the breakdown/drop of the new song.

    November 12, 2011 at 12:48 am #1002118
    DJ GRE
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    yeah I know what you mean – that’s why I’ll usually just do the same thing – if it’s such a drastic change I feel like it deserves a big NOTICE me moment but that might just be me.

    November 12, 2011 at 12:51 am #9725
    DJ GRE
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    for instance once I did an openingish set… I started out with some slow moombahton tracks really downtempo stuff… however people were already packed, floors grooving and I could tell they wanted something a lil harder and the big act of the night was about to come on so I pitch bended (?) the current track (currently going at 108) right at the edge of the buildup all the way down to a complete stop – then “Blau!” dropped a banging electro house track right at the drop (about 130 BPM) crowd went nuts!

    November 12, 2011 at 8:03 pm #9746
    DJ T3ch Hu5ky
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    DJ GRE, post: 9721 wrote: for instance once I did an openingish set… I started out with some slow moombahton tracks really downtempo stuff… however people were already packed, floors grooving and I could tell they wanted something a lil harder and the big act of the night was about to come on so I pitch bended (?) the current track (currently going at 108) right at the edge of the buildup all the way down to a complete stop – then “Blau!” dropped a banging electro house track right at the drop (about 130 BPM) crowd went nuts!

    sounds helpfull. so i guess it just takes a very keen ear and knowledge of the genre to get a good mix out of it?

    November 12, 2011 at 8:37 pm #9748
    DJ GRE
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    it really does but really the two genres complement each other pretty well if put together just right… once you listen to tracks long enough you start to hear “ins” and “outs” – spots you can use as jumping off points.

    November 12, 2011 at 8:45 pm #9751
    mr stifffy
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    I mix a lot of electro and dubstep and it is all about when to drop the too compliment each other really well… you can go from mellow house to electro to heavy dubstep which usually works amazing 🙂

    November 13, 2011 at 7:14 pm #1002133
    DJ T3ch Hu5ky
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    Well i have this mash up i was working on. Ill link you to the thread for it

    http://digitaldjtips.com/forum/threads/my-first-drumstep-mash-up.1545/

    Plz give a listen and tell me what i can fix

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