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  • December 7, 2012 at 8:05 pm #33251
    aaron altar
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    Do you have the problem you’re talking about in that mix?

    December 7, 2012 at 8:20 pm #33253
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
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    I was working on a new mix this week where EQing was something I needed to solve. Let me finish it this weekend and post it for your feedback.

    December 8, 2012 at 4:45 pm #33276
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
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    @Hee how do you kill an EQ in Traktor 2.6 using an S4?

    December 9, 2012 at 9:39 pm #33312
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
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    Here’s my latest. I worked mainly with the EQs and very little filtering. Tell me what you think.

    http://www.mixcloud.com/shugafoot/shugafoot-episode-006/

    December 10, 2012 at 7:40 am #33336
    DJ Xclusif
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    Shuga*Foot, post: 33468, member: 2922 wrote: Here’s my latest. I worked mainly with the EQs and very little filtering. Tell me what you think.

    http://www.mixcloud.com/shugafoot/shugafoot-episode-006/

    It sounds like some of your Songs are either low quality or your songs are not volume leveled correctly.. For example the 2nd song u played in the mix u should check your level meter on ur mixer or in ur dj program and see how high the level meter is meeting.. You wanna make sure all ur songs peak right below the red

    December 10, 2012 at 3:20 pm #33353
    Hee Won Jung
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    If you use the Z eq…it will totally cut off the frequencies similar to a DJM800.

    All the way to the left is a complete kill of those frequencies.

    December 11, 2012 at 10:06 am #33441
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
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    @Hee thanks I found the setting to change it to Z.

    December 12, 2012 at 6:46 am #33498
    aaron altar
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    The first mix is off as far as your gain staging and I can hear what you’re talking about with a few other mixes but I’m really not sure what to tell you about it since I don’t know the tracks at all and I can’t see what you’re doing. To answer your original question here, I barely touch the highs and mids at all. I’ll use the lows quite a bit and occasionally the others but that’s about it. I’ll only touch the highs or mids if I think synth lines are battling each other. Enjoyed the mix though, there’s some good tunes there.

    December 12, 2012 at 10:28 am #33508
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
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    rjwhite41, post: 33654, member: 2565 wrote: The first mix is off as far as your gain staging and I can hear what you’re talking about with a few other mixes but I’m really not sure what to tell you about it since I don’t know the tracks at all and I can’t see what you’re doing. To answer your original question here, I barely touch the highs and mids at all. I’ll use the lows quite a bit and occasionally the others but that’s about it. I’ll only touch the highs or mids if I think synth lines are battling each other. Enjoyed the mix though, there’s some good tunes there.

    I’m not happy with that first part either. I find currently I rely too much on my lows and filters to mix between tracks. And for some tracks it doesn’t work or sound right and I find it limiting. So I’m trying to work in other techniques by using the highs and mids. And I keep a close eye on my levels at all times. In the beginning I used Traktor’s autogain. I’ve stopped doing that and prefer to manually adjust when I see tracks bleed into the red. I agree that first part came out like poop. Not sure what happened there. It goes back to practice practice practice. Thanks for giving it a listen.

    December 12, 2012 at 4:30 pm #33523
    aaron altar
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    I see what you’re saying. Sometimes the highs get too busy and sometimes the mids get too busy. You’ll have to take it on a track by track basis to remove one so it’s not muddled or to accentuate a part of one track you want to stand out. My advice is to make sure you lower the eq on one not raise it on the other, if that makes sense. My philosophy has always been that the best mixes require little to no eqing (basslines have a tendancy to get muddled when combined so I will use the lows frequently) and few, if any effects. This can be achieved through track selection. Anyone who has received a mix review from me can attest to that, but to each their own.

    December 12, 2012 at 5:13 pm #33531
    Hee Won Jung
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    A couple of things that i noticed:

    @ 11:30ish when you are going to your next track…the 2nd song seems to be out of phrase by 4 or 8 beats i cant remember exactly.

    @ 17:00 you cut out the 1st song too quickly. It is totally okay to let that first song loop until there is a breakdown on the 2nd track then cut to keep consistancy.

    @19:30ish New Track the drums do not match at all with your first track and makes things seem clustered. The problem i think here is that these 2 tracks although have the same bpm, have to totally different feels to them.
    Where the first track had kind of a disco swinging feel. The 2nd track is more of a shuffle.

    @26:00ish Same thing again here…You go from a shuffle beat to a straight snap beat…with no time for our ears and body to adapt to the switch…it is too abrupt.

    The highs and mids dont seem to be clashing too much but i am listening on shitty laptop speakers so i will take a more indepth listen off my Studio speakers when im home.

    December 12, 2012 at 9:30 pm #33552
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
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    rjwhite41, post: 33679, member: 2565 wrote: I see what you’re saying. Sometimes the highs get too busy and sometimes the mids get too busy. You’ll have to take it on a track by track basis to remove one so it’s not muddled or to accentuate a part of one track you want to stand out. My advice is to make sure you lower the eq on one not raise it on the other, if that makes sense. My philosophy has always been that the best mixes require little to no eqing (basslines have a tendancy to get muddled when combined so I will use the lows frequently) and few, if any effects. This can be achieved through track selection. Anyone who has received a mix review from me can attest to that, but to each their own.

    I’m not a big FX guy. So I layer that in very subtly if at all. And I don’t crank on my EQs. I try to bring them in slowly and minimally. That being said sometimes I can get too bassy or accentuate the highs. For the most part my levels are pretty even. I’m always checking my meters. As for track quality, I not concerned, because what I buy is pretty solid. It’s moving the EQ/Filters when and how I need to work on.

    @Hee Thanks for listening to it. I think my phrasing is pretty good. I’m always counting on 8/16/32 and applying cue points or loops when I bring in and out tracks. But I’ll listen for what you’re talking about. Again thx.

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