Mixing Music for a school Dance..

did you freeze with a delay or froze with the reverb?

Ya it was kind of sloppy, but the whole point of it was that it works live because the people I played it for knew the first song so they were singing along with it and then they just got really excited to hear the next one. It's weird... you really can't teach this stuff online. Only doing it live and experimenting gives you a true feel.

I just dropped it, because if you start playing the second song after you freeze the first track, the sweep has a delay on fx slot 3, and the phase of the delay will sync up with whatever song is playing, so it sounds much smoother. It's a nice little thing built into Traktor. If you'd like I can do a little mix of it now to illustrate, but it'll be a rough mix with the keyboard because I sold my S4

Yep, at a sweet 16 once. The girl asked for the weirdest selection of music, ranging from Top 40 to spanish music to dubstep. I practised the transition for a while before doing the gig, to make sure I had it down but this is basically what I did:

It was a spanish song into Party rock anthem (96 bpm to 128 bpm). The spanish song had the following phrase, and I looped the brackets, "Por que (paso paso)" Then I brought the tempo up and used the transpose stretch effect. At 128 I started using the armyofme sweep effect except I made the tail on the reverb tail longer, and then I froze it after building up. Party rock anthem started with the chords.

It worked well for me because they were familiar with both songs, so when the loop of the first song was going they were all singing along with it.

Ya it was kind of sloppy, but the whole point of it was that it works live because the people I played it for knew the first song so they were singing along with it and then they just got really excited to hear the next one. It's weird... you really can't teach this stuff online. Only doing it live and experimenting gives you a true feel.

I just dropped it, because if you start playing the second song after you freeze the first track, the sweep has a delay on fx slot 3, and the phase of the delay will sync up with whatever song is playing, so it sounds much smoother. It's a nice little thing built into Traktor. If you'd like I can do a little mix of it now to illustrate, but it'll be a rough mix with the keyboard because I sold my S4

Yep, at a sweet 16 once. The girl asked for the weirdest selection of music, ranging from Top 40 to spanish music to dubstep. I practised the transition for a while before doing the gig, to make sure I had it down but this is basically what I did:

It was a spanish song into Party rock anthem (96 bpm to 128 bpm). The spanish song had the following phrase, and I looped the brackets, "Por que (paso paso)" Then I brought the tempo up and used the transpose stretch effect. At 128 I started using the armyofme sweep effect except I made the tail on the reverb tail longer, and then I froze it after building up. Party rock anthem started with the chords.

It worked well for me because they were familiar with both songs, so when the loop of the first song was going they were all singing along with it.

If the transition is done right, I feel it could work. I would do it as a build up. Get a small loop, bring up the tempo and the pitch to the desired speed, then leave the kick at that tempo and continue raising the pitch.