Exactly,
Most of the time, I use harmonic mixing to create live mashups during my sets and put some energy for the crowd. But I realized that I got kind of “addicted” to build my set according to the MiK keys. Like origanising playlist by keys, from 1 to 12.
But this is a bad habit, because you often got kinda stuck. Like when you wanna play 2 amazing tracks, but one is 1B and the other is like 7A. So you forget your basics (when you played on vinyls for example) and you don’t mix those tracks because you’re getting afraid that the result will be not good, not harmonic, or drop the energy of your set, making the crowd getting bored because of the loss of energy.
That’s a very tricky thing, and now i try more and more not to take care about the MiK keys and be more creative, cause, even if think that this software has really been a revolution in DJing, it can also addict you and make you lose creativity.
That’s only my point of view 😉
Buy the way, there’s an excellent article about how to boost your harmonic mixing by playing with the key knob (on traktor), so you get more liberty. But even if this is a really great article, when you try it in club, don’t make the same mistake I did last night, like forgetting to reset to 0 you key knob haha 😉
Cheers,
Seth Shannon
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