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  • #1007266
    synthet1c
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    hip hop back in the day before bpm counters as there is a very wide range of bpm’s from 70 – 120bpm. but grindcore/hardcore is the hardest to mix because it’s really hard to listen to for longer than 10 minutes at a time LOL! everything is easy enough, if you love dnb it’s easy to mix but techno is hard.. likewise if you like techno, dnb is hard… it is subjective for everyone in the beginning but after a couple of years, everything is relatively easy.

    #1007269
    Mike Check
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    Rock music. I’ve spun some indie rock gigs & find it tough to seamlessly mix songs. For Top 40 you can find club edits that make tracks far easier to mix but I’ve found that the indie crowd is kinda music elitist (or snobs) and a lot of times they don’t wanna hear no dance mixed with their indie rock ….so club edits aren’t always an option either.

    #1007274
    Hee Won Jung
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    Gonna go out on a limb here and ask…what do you consider mixing? 32 beats of 2 songs together…or 2 minutes of 2 songs together?

    A lot of people consider combining 2 songs togeather as “Mashups” but in reality its just mixing/blending.
    With that said…some genres you just cant do extended blending due to how busy the songs are. Synthetic nailed on the head, every genre has the same pattern but different structure, and so you have to do different things to mix different genres. IE…When mixing house music usually the highs are very similar from track to track…so its easy to blend your highs in then mix in your mids and at the right time swap your basslines….Where as Drumstep/Dubstep are on a 1/2 time scale so its more about making sure you are on phrase…usually the kick is very similar and the highs and mids are very accentuated…so you have to bring your bass in then slowly bring in your highs then swap mids.

    Trance/Progressive are very high and mid based while the bassline is usually very simple…so different techniques are used for different genres…and its just a matter of practicing with different genres to be able to master them all…

    Since i am not a hip hop DJ its very hard for me to mix hiphop its a completely different style than EDM.

    #1007277
    Miec
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    Does a “good mix” have to be beatmatched for you? If yes, then I would say anything with a live drummer.

    Otherwise it really depends. In Hip-Hop, a simple cut can sound really good, while extensive scratching in the wrong places can destroy a mix. One is really simple to execute while the other is technically more advanced. Does that make Hip-Hop in generall harder or easier to mix?
    From my own experience with deep and tech house, it’s not about beatmatching but to avoid clashing melodies via track selecton and EQing. Technically it’s easy to get a decent sounding mix when you stick to percussion-only intro/outro mixing, but it’s up to you if you define this as “well mixed”.

    So, every genre has basic and advanced mixing techniques, both can sound good. However, I don’t really get the intention of the question; either you’re trying to decide which genre to play based on the difficulty of the mixing, what should never be an argument. The other option is, that this will end with people arguing that their genre is easier to mix than something someone else plays.

    #1007279
    Hee Won Jung
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    Miec, post: 23290, member: 2402 wrote: Technically it’s easy to get a decent sounding mix when you stick to percussion-only intro/outro mixing, but it’s up to you if you define this as “well mixed”.

    IMO this isnt considered mixing…this is just going from song to song and beatmatching…aka glorified jukebox/radio DJ/Wedding DJ/etc. etc. etc.

    Mixing IMO involves actually mixing 2 songs together that have more than just a basic drum/percussion beat…Its being able to mix songs in key, in phrase and on beat. Combining all 3 is what i would define as mixing.

    #1007297
    Steelo
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    I was just being cheeky as I knew we’d get a bit of debate going. I’ll leave it up to you guys as to what the definition of mixing is…
    I’ve been mixing about 7 or 8 years and I think I’ve spun almost anything you can think of, at some point.

    #1007302
    NewportDJ Drew
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    vocals of two different songs. It’s fun when you can get a good presence in floating one vocal to the back and the other to the front and then reversing that to mix.

    #1007435
    DJ Loso
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    rock music and hip hop at times can be the hard to beat match

    #1007451
    gbadegesin
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    I’ll stick my head out to say in my opinion and experience, it will have to be Old school Soul, Hip Hop and RnB.
    This is due to the nature of the intro and the outro and the tendency for them to drift cos of the human elements of the drumming, furthermore, they have a wide BPM disparity

    #1007490
    TheReturn
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    tracks with real drummers.

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