Dude, thanks for the detailed breakdown! I’m taking a look also between coding breaks 🙂
Overall I agree with your sentiment – I’m a fan of trance as much as anybody (listen to alot of ABGT), but to be honest, I like the deeper sounds of progressive house and techno, so that’s probably more where I’ll be going in future mixes, it starts to sound ‘cheesy’ to me too after a bit. I knew I would have a very wide range of listeners on this one so I thought, “How can I cover everything, from downtempo to super dancy and energetic?” Probably made a few choices that weren’t my absolute favorites but that’s part of the learning process I guess.
25-29 – I liked the “heyyyyyahhhh…” vocal stuff going on in the background so I thought it added to the transition. If it’s too much that’s good to keep in mind. I’m not sure about the rest of the comments you had, though. I honestly didn’t do much to the track, if you listen to Rebound that’s kinda just how it goes. Maybe just not everyone’s favorite production style :). I wanted to give Mat Zo a rep cause he’s one of the best in my opinion in blending between all different genres.
47 – yep, I messed up once with the beatmasher, but got in a good one as well. Just need to practice with effects more and tone it down further still (it’s so tempting!)
I haven’t heard this a lot in feedback yet but I wasn’t too happy with the way volume levels turned out on this one (I stopped trusting Traktor autogain and missed the mark a few times with the manual gain settings), was it that noticeable?
One thing I’ve read a lot here is that non-DJ folks often don’t notice the little technicalities that we do. I was afraid that wouldn’t be true and kept worrying about the little mistakes here and there. But surprisingly it’s true – most people don’t even listen that closely! Just pick good music and the rest follows I suppose 🙂
