Reply to 4 deck mixing and noobs

ok ive been spending the better part of 2 hours looking at 4 deck mixes on youtube and with a few exceptions (b33son's mix is obviously an exception lol) most of them seem just WAY too busy for me. lots of 10 minute mixes of the same 2 loops running thruout the whole mix while 2 decks are doing standard mixing. i started looking into this because i myself am new to 4 deck mixing and was looking for some kind of example of "the right way".

yes i realize every dj is going to have their own style and approach to music and theres no "right way" to do it. but that said, there are good examples and bad examples. which is what i was looking for.

when i found more bad than good, with no explanation of what was going on (for those of us that dont know right off or dont know the songs used) its hard to figure out what made the good mixes good so i could stash that knowledge in my head.


thats when i started looking for 4 deck mixing tutorials or perhaps a list of do's and don't like there is for traditional 2 deck mixing (things like never mix 2 vocal tracks on top of each other etc..).

so if you know of any 4 deck tutorials. id love to see them and if you dont, and have some tips, maybe we could put them here in this tread for posterity. =p