Mixing tips?
Mixing tips? Posted on: 22.06.2011 by Glennie Hoppenstedt Hey guys.I've been muddling around with all my gear for a while now and am getting a good grip on things. I wanna bring out my first and second mixes within the next 5 weeks or so. Mid year uni break is coming up and I wanna make a 1 hour long mix during that then afterwards either a 3 or 5 hour long mix. BTW I have Traktor pro, (A2DJ + h/phones), DJ-tech I-mix club edition midi mixer. The specifics are that I like to play stuff like electro house, house, and 'typical mainstream dance music.' You know, stuff you'd expect to hear in evening clubs with a little extra. And that's the kind of thing I want to practice; creating a mix for a more or less general evening club audience, which would incorporate those genres. I read the recent mixing thread which was about dubstep, but I'm assuming the rules differ for mix making between audiences and genres. Genres: Electro, club/dance, R&B? Audience: Nightclub-goers +/or house party animals. I'm believeing at the moment that for a (3-)5 hour long mix: -To begin with, stuff needs to be low energy and fun. More of a background kind of music. Also to have a couple of medium energy songs in there to keep it interesting. Maybe some sing-a-longs for tipsy people. -In the middle should be some popular songs that aren't too new or too high energy, but enough to go out and begin dancing to. Should last less than an hour in a 5 hour mix? -It'd be cool to have a long song where you could kind of detect that the high energy stuff was about to start, like an indication of when 'shits about to get real,' after a song that was slightly higher energy than the previous medium energy stuff. -Once shit's got real, blast them the fuck away with awesome drops and effects and keep them fluctuating in energy only slightly over the duration, but with the energy cutting back every 5 or so songs (Thanks Jester ) for a few minutes to let people go do something else for a few minutes if they choose to. Keep that going for hours. -Try to throw in a few R&B songs in the last couple of hours? I don't know if I could live without dirty dancing and this is what R&B would be for. Although I've seen advice against mixing such different genres. I reckon it would be cool to do although I'm not sure how I'd manage it? I'm pretty excited to get this down, get these up and get some feedback on them so I have a starter base for a DJing career (: Just keen for a few words of wisdom before I get on my merry way :P Thanks. -Alex. | |
| Glennie Hoppenstedt 22.06.2011 | Hey guys. I've been muddling around with all my gear for a while now and am getting a good grip on things. I wanna bring out my first and second mixes within the next 5 weeks or so. Mid year uni break is coming up and I wanna make a 1 hour long mix during that then afterwards either a 3 or 5 hour long mix. BTW I have Traktor pro, (A2DJ + h/phones), DJ-tech I-mix club edition midi mixer. The specifics are that I like to play stuff like electro house, house, and 'typical mainstream dance music.' You know, stuff you'd expect to hear in evening clubs with a little extra. And that's the kind of thing I want to practice; creating a mix for a more or less general evening club audience, which would incorporate those genres. I read the recent mixing thread which was about dubstep, but I'm assuming the rules differ for mix making between audiences and genres. Genres: Electro, club/dance, R&B? Audience: Nightclub-goers +/or house party animals. I'm believeing at the moment that for a (3-)5 hour long mix: -To begin with, stuff needs to be low energy and fun. More of a background kind of music. Also to have a couple of medium energy songs in there to keep it interesting. Maybe some sing-a-longs for tipsy people. -In the middle should be some popular songs that aren't too new or too high energy, but enough to go out and begin dancing to. Should last less than an hour in a 5 hour mix? -It'd be cool to have a long song where you could kind of detect that the high energy stuff was about to start, like an indication of when 'shits about to get real,' after a song that was slightly higher energy than the previous medium energy stuff. -Once shit's got real, blast them the fuck away with awesome drops and effects and keep them fluctuating in energy only slightly over the duration, but with the energy cutting back every 5 or so songs (Thanks Jester ) for a few minutes to let people go do something else for a few minutes if they choose to. Keep that going for hours. -Try to throw in a few R&B songs in the last couple of hours? I don't know if I could live without dirty dancing and this is what R&B would be for. Although I've seen advice against mixing such different genres. I reckon it would be cool to do although I'm not sure how I'd manage it? I'm pretty excited to get this down, get these up and get some feedback on them so I have a starter base for a DJing career (: Just keen for a few words of wisdom before I get on my merry way :P Thanks. -Alex. |
| Alisa Neuder 23.06.2011 | Sounds good to me, I will make sure to have a listen when it is complete. Got to help out the fellow kiwis on the board. Your above approach seems solid, I believe just go ahead and make it, let people listen to it, take the advice given, make another and keep repeating getting better and better along the way |
| Deeann Cheron 23.06.2011 | Are you Blenheim bro? [/QUOTE] Nah bro from a little place called Wainuiomata in Wellington. live in the Gold Coast Aussie now. my tip would be to play what you enjoy otherwise it will be a long 4 hours & lots of Speights if your a southener il check it out once ya done. |
| Glennie Hoppenstedt 23.06.2011 | Yeah mate. That was an idea that I had. The 3-5 hour mix was more to test myself. I'd post it but I wouldn't expect anyone to listen to it unless they wanted to get some ideas for songs or wanted to play it at a house party. It's more like an endurance test on my part, proving to myself that I can mix for that long and making as few mistakes as I can. I would break it up into parts and maybe make a minute or two long video that displays the contents or a mix just to give people a general idea of what it's like. Are you Blenheim bro? |
| Deeann Cheron 23.06.2011 | http://www.djranking
s.com/community
/showthread.php?t=31907 have a good read up on this, especially the part about breaking up the mix into tracks in audacity ( thanks again JesterNZ ) as personally i wouldnt listen to a whole 4 hrs set form start to finish, so being able to search through the mix would be more of a drawcard. Finding 4 hrs without any distractions is another story |
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