Basic Mixing Techniques

BondoDub · Post by **BondoDub** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:18 pm

So to start off, I have a mixer speaker laptop headphones, just waiting to get an external soundcard so I can mix properly and have two channels of sound (obviously). I'm going back home from college in a week to bring that stuff up so I can start actually learning to mix and dj some parties. I'm sure there are numerous threads but, I was looking for some general info for the beginning DJ. Basically i'm just gonna be mixing dub, house, and electro for house parties. Things like basic transition would be appreciated.

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:36 pm

BondoDub wrote:So to start off, I have a mixer speaker laptop headphones, just waiting to get an external soundcard so I can mix properly and have two channels of sound (obviously). I'm going back home from college in a week to bring that stuff up so I can start actually learning to mix and dj some parties. I'm sure there are numerous threads but, I was looking for some general info for the beginning DJ. Basically i'm just gonna be mixing dub, house, and electro for house parties. Things like basic transition would be appreciated.

Rule no.1 it's dubstep not dub (unless you are actually a dub-reggae fan and in that case I raise my hat to you sir)

Rule no.2 get your beat matching down and then move onto how to make your transitions smoother, doesn't matter how good your eq'ing is, if the mix is a clanger then it won't sound good.

Rule no.3 match your gains between tracks, I see too many dj's have the next track either way too loud or way too quiet, either way it does not sound smooth.

Rule no.4 when starting off and playing in your room if the mix starts to trainwreck always try to save it. However if you are playing out and you start to trainwreck then get outta that mix asap!

Basic A · Post by **Basic A** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:55 pm

There is no formula for this shit man.

Its a creative process.

No basic transitions about it.

Depone · Post by **Depone** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:50 pm

its basically a question asking "how do I look cool in college so I can hook up with some party college chicks"

no?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 1:03 am

Depone wrote:its basically a question asking "how do I look cool in college so I can hook up with some party college chicks"

no?

just pull a chase and status/mistabishi/etc
play a pre mixed set on cd under the radar and have mixers and gear with leds and lights and act like you are doing shit

mks · Post by **mks** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 1:37 am

deadly habit wrote:
Depone wrote:its basically a question asking "how do I look cool in college so I can hook up with some party college chicks"

no?

just pull a chase and status/mistabishi/etc
play a pre mixed set on cd under the radar and have mixers and gear with leds and lights and act like you are doing shit

Do those guys actually fucking do that? Shit...

narcissus · Post by **narcissus** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:34 am

so pathetic

symmetricalsounds · Post by **symmetricalsounds** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:32 am

mks wrote:
deadly habit wrote:
Depone wrote:its basically a question asking "how do I look cool in college so I can hook up with some party college chicks"

no?

just pull a chase and status/mistabishi/etc
play a pre mixed set on cd under the radar and have mixers and gear with leds and lights and act like you are doing shit
Do those guys actually fucking do that? Shit...

if they don't there are plenty that do. on another forum i go on there was a thread called "live or lie" that went through exposing supposed acts playing live. there was one where they had a massive rack of cool synths with none of them plugged in and everything just being predone and played through a laptop.

Depone · Post by **Depone** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:56 am

symmetricalsounds wrote:
mks wrote:
deadly habit wrote:
Depone wrote:its basically a question asking "how do I look cool in college so I can hook up with some party college chicks"

no?

just pull a chase and status/mistabishi/etc
play a pre mixed set on cd under the radar and have mixers and gear with leds and lights and act like you are doing shit
Do those guys actually fucking do that? Shit...
if they don't there are plenty that do. on another forum i go on there was a thread called "live or lie" that went through exposing supposed acts playing live. there was one where they had a massive rack of cool synths with none of them plugged in and everything just being predone and played through a laptop.

Yeah theres vids on youtube that i cant find of chase and status 'mixing' for the first 20 mins of their set from a pre-mixed intro of 20 mins. Thats not that bad, at least they get the party rockin.
Mitsubishi on the other hand, put a pre-mixed cd in a cdj and pretended to mix from vinyl like his life depended on it.

http://forum.breakbeat.co.uk/tm.aspx?m= ... 05&mpage=1

symmetricalsounds · Post by **symmetricalsounds** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:23 am

Depone wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:
mks wrote:
deadly habit wrote:
Depone wrote:its basically a question asking "how do I look cool in college so I can hook up with some party college chicks"

no?

just pull a chase and status/mistabishi/etc
play a pre mixed set on cd under the radar and have mixers and gear with leds and lights and act like you are doing shit
Do those guys actually fucking do that? Shit...
if they don't there are plenty that do. on another forum i go on there was a thread called "live or lie" that went through exposing supposed acts playing live. there was one where they had a massive rack of cool synths with none of them plugged in and everything just being predone and played through a laptop.
Yeah theres vids on youtube that i cant find of chase and status 'mixing' for the first 20 mins of their set from a pre-mixed intro of 20 mins. Thats not that bad, at least they get the party rockin.
Mitsubishi on the other hand, put a pre-mixed cd in a cdj and pretended to mix from vinyl like his life depended on it.

http://forum.breakbeat.co.uk/tm.aspx?m= ... 05&mpage=1

there's a technical name i think for it........

being a massive tnuc

Capture pt · Post by **Capture pt** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:31 am

I remember chatting to danny byrd about how recently he played a set with 4 other well known DJ's and he was the only guy actually mixing live. He said he clanged a few beans on purpose just to prove a point.

BondoDub · Post by **BondoDub** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:51 am

yea i wanna get pretty good before i do any kind of live thing cause if i fucked up that would be shitty. also bro, obviously im refering to dubstep its the dubstep forum derp derp. and im not doing it to just get the girls ive wanted to do it forever this is just a good enviroment. thanks for the help i guess

Depone · Post by **Depone** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:13 am

BondoDub wrote:yea i wanna get pretty good before i do any kind of live thing cause if i fucked up that would be shitty. also bro, obviously im refering to dubstep its the dubstep forum derp derp. and im not doing it to just get the girls ive wanted to do it forever this is just a good enviroment. thanks for the help i guess

Djing to get the girls (even if its not the only goal) is like fucking for vaginity mate.

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:22 am

BondoDub wrote:yea i wanna get pretty good before i do any kind of live thing cause if i fucked up that would be shitty. also bro, obviously im refering to dubstep its the dubstep forum derp derp. and im not doing it to just get the girls ive wanted to do it forever this is just a good enviroment. thanks for the help i guess

Ez, I wasn't questioning whether you were referring to dubstep or not, but shortening dubstep to dub (When there is already a substantial genre with that name let alone multiple meanings) is like shortening "drum and bass" to "drum", given that there are a lot of dubstep artists on here who draw their influence from dub it would make sense to avoid mixing the two.

Hope you found my advice helpful, and good luck no matter what your motives are

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