John Simmons
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ParticipantThanks DJ Vintage, sounds like good advice. I will send some mixes like this next then.
DJ Andy Warhol, when you say professionally compiled tracks do you mean perform a live dj performance up to 5 minutes which would be about 4-5 tracks? Or produce a mix with lots of samples so it’s like a mashup track with something like Ableton?
ParticipantI know how you feel! I think everyone has experienced this when they were starting out, i’ve only been DJing a year myself and I have felt like rubbish, but I persisted and comparing my mixes now from a year ago there’s already a big difference. The DJ your referring to would have had a moment like this too. But it’s how you motivate yourself from watching/listening to better DJs. Learn from them and have comfort knowing they’ve been doing it for years. Try to be the best you can be. It can help motivation to compare yourself to DJs at a similar level and trying to better yourself conpared to them. Remember DJ’s wern’t born that good they had to work hard to get good and it sounds like you already know that because you said he’s been doing it all his life. He has lots of remixes and edits but he would of started off with a few and added little and often building up to the collection he has today. People thinking about DJing might have a similar feeling watching you now, and in the future DJs just starting out might have a similar feeling watching you when you’ve been doing it a while. Don’t give up, keep practising and learn from others.
ParticipantChuck van Eekelen, post: 45061, member: 2756 wrote: I would say, perhaps per genre, but that is your choice, to prepare some tracks by cutting out about 70% so they are maybe intro, verse, chorus, outro and then mix into the next one. If you want to show off scratching, do so early in the mix. Try to keep your mix to a few minutes with as “many” tracks as you can fit in (based on the cutting and slicing you have done).
Thanks for the replies, do you suggest doing a 3-4 mins multigenre mix or 3-4 mins mix for hip hop, 3-4 min mix for house etc? I’m not sure if I should send a CD with multiple genres on or one genre.
What about doing a mini mix at the start then the full mix after, made skipable with tracks?
Thanks
October 5, 2013 at 1:07 am in reply to: More advanced transition techniques and creative tweaks to add more style to my hip hop mix? #44959ParticipantThey can have an element that sounds the same like the same snare pattern, bassline, sampled beat or entire instrumental then you can mix, scratch in or cut.
Who Sampled is a good app and website to discover samples. Also listening to DJ mixes and listening with your own music collection. I think a good way to find samples and creative mixing ideas in general is listening to DJ mixes and I recommend Redbull Thre3style competition mixes on Mixcloud, they always have to try and be creative to win. They have to play at least three genres so it’s not all hip hop but it’s still a big part of it.
October 2, 2013 at 12:12 am in reply to: How do you hide a post on Facebook from people who haven't liked your page? #44892ParticipantI hoped you could hide a section of the post by using html text around what you wanted to hide, I saw it somewhere showing you how to do it before i had a page. Eg. “here’s the tracklist for my my mix i’m uploading tomorrow (please like to see hidden content):” then the tracklist would be hidden. Since I made it that you have to like to download my mix or edits my page has increased it’s likes by about 30% in 3 weeks. It would be cool for people who have liked my page to feel they have access to exclusive content. I’ll try that ElMuppet, thanks 🙂
October 2, 2013 at 12:05 am in reply to: Where to get GOOD acapellas for good club-style music? #44890Participanthttp://www.acapellas4u.co.uk has a huge collection, record pools have all the brand new ones, studio and DIY.
October 1, 2013 at 11:51 pm in reply to: More advanced transition techniques and creative tweaks to add more style to my hip hop mix? #44889ParticipantI really struggled mixing hip-hop until I joined a record pool and every song has an instrumental intro and outro making it a lot easier. I agree hip hop is much harder to mix than house with all the varying tempos and without intros and outros most songs vocals will clash if u mix. A creative way of mixing could be to play (scratch, loop, use cue buttons, echo) with a sample or lyric on the outgoing track then bring in the incoming track with the same sample or lyric. Eg on my last mix the outgoing song says “pour it up”, the incoming song says “pour it all up”, so I beatjuggled them (or you could set a cue point and just press it on each track as u swipe the crossfader over each time you press it), then when I played “Pour it all up” on the incoming track the last time I jumped to the start of the track. The BPM were quite different too. Hope this helps.
October 1, 2013 at 10:23 pm in reply to: More advanced transition techniques and creative tweaks to add more style to my hip hop mix? #44885ParticipantTerry_42, post: 44832, member: 1843 wrote: Wow there are endless possibilities on hip hop mixing and actually when I mix hip hop I prolly only beatmatch 10-15% of the tracks. The most advanced techniques go into multiple scratches and beat juggles, but explaining this on a forum would be a bit too much.
But I will recommend to Phil to include advanced hip hop techniques into the DJ Masterclass that he is producing at the moment.Advanced hip hop mixing techniques being included in the masterclass course would be awesome.
ParticipantI’ve tried that but when I right click it just leaves a white dot where the cursor was clicked, I can delete everything else. I’ve tried deleting the remix set rather than the Remix set folder too. I’ve also tried clicking ctrl+alt to see if it will delete it. Thanks
ParticipantHi, thanks for the reply. I realised I shouldn’t of renamed my set, although I wanted to to give me more information. My problem now is knowing how to delete it,it’s just clogging up my remix set playlists. Thanks
ParticipantOk i’ve worked out how to get the remix decks to beatsync:
1. Remix Deck has to have quantize on, mine is set to 1.
2. Sample must be a loop (if the sample’s not meant to loop but it needs to stay in sync set the sample as a loop and just disable it after it’s played).
3. Loop can’t exceed 48 seconds.So full acapellas/instrumentals won’t sync on the remix deck but short acapellas & instrumental samples will (max 48 seconds). Thanks for trying to help.
ParticipantI’m glad other people have the same problem, thought I might of been doing something wrong. I’m still in contact with Native Instruments about the issue, so far they haven’t acknowledged there being a problem.
ParticipantOk thanks, I think I know what you mean, I changed the clock from auto to master so neither the track deck or remix deck is the master, is that right? It still sounds out of sync though. I also tried changing Temposync to Beatsync but that didn’t help either. I’m starting to think it’s a bug, surely it should sync in the remix deck too, it’s more important than the track deck with complicated button mashing going on. I’ve updated to 2.0.6 & there’s another problem,now if the remix deck isn’t the master it clearly isn’t in sync, the phase meter shows it. I press sync which corrects it on the phase meter but it still sounds out of sync. Traktor’s technical support are confusing this as my problem,they’ve said it’s a known bug they’ll fix in the next update but that’s not my main problem,just another 1 on top, I don’t know how people currently use the remix decks. Thanks for your help though, I appreciate it.
ParticipantI’ve had a look in preferences but I can’t find where you can do that? Thanks
ParticipantOk thanks for the advice. I’ve now realised they’re just songs they like, not “must play only”. A fair few of the songs I was thinking of playing anyway so I will be playing there choices & still have a bit of freedom. The lad pretty much wants more of what he heard before, the girl some, but more commercial. It’s helped to get an insight into what they like actualy. So i’m feeling more confident about it now & looking forward to it again.
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