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This is the SHORT version of my mix that I did while in ventrilo last night, I know that Tate and Niblet were interested in getting a link so heres the link

and here is the full 16 minute mix! STFU and Shuffle, shit Where My Keys?

BTW if you hate techno you have no need to follow the links, it's an Electro House/Dubstep mix and I know your opinion will be that it utter crap lol

But if you wanna open your mind to new music then I would appreciate it.

Posted

I notice you play with the background beat alot, you had it loud at the start then you turn it down quiet abit then you turned it back up. Maybe keeping it the same and just having another beat mixed into that has it volumn changing in waves so it not so sudden, and it has a kinda feel to it. If that makes any sense

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the volume switches you guys here are me fading in and out from one song to the other, and depending on the levels i have to fine tune here and there so as not to end up with overmuch distortion and I use beat matching throughout and fine tune by ear it's just that several of the songs through it are from different genre's of techno so it makes matching up errytime a bit more difficult cuz the Electro is bussyer than the dubstep so it sounds faster admitidly i do need to start compensating for that, and i think on at least one of the songs i forgot to beat match it

And thank you guys for given me a bit o feedback

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I notice you play with the background beat alot, you had it loud at the start then you turn it down quiet abit then you turned it back up. Maybe keeping it the same and just having another beat mixed into that has it volumn changing in waves so it not so sudden, and it has a kinda feel to it. If that makes any sense

I agree, Mixed beats is going to keep people interested :D

Posted (edited)

"Have you ever thought of trying Hardcore? Aggressive and hard hitting at 220 bpm's!"

I imagine that would be quite hard to mix with anything to get a flowing result other than maybe drum and bass?

On a different note i think it sounds awesome, what kind of software do you use to make your own beats? I have a cracked form of fruityloops and i don't like it at all.

Edited by Jablonski 1st MRB
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lol i didn't make any of this, just used virtual DJ to mix it all together. At any given time their are two different songs goin at once, and if you want i can do a semi hardcore set, I have a lot of happy hardcore so it not so hard for me to get some hard kickin fast paced shit together, it just that it happy hardcore and there fore a lil girly

Posted

I used to dj a couple of years ago and started like you did, took some songs I liked myself

and tried to make them work with each other. This made things a bit hard at times, and not

sounding as good as I wanted it to. A good start tho'.

After dj'ing a while I started focusing on specific genres and getting to know the different songs

I liked within that genre better, and that way building my own dj set.

This made experimenting with new songs very easy and fun because I already knew my original

sets very well (melody, when the different songs "took off", interludes, and so on) It made my

mixing much more "confident" (I could play around with effects, looping etc.) and by being smart

in my choice of songs I could realy keep the floors packed. It just made dj'ing a blast!

So getting control over your BPM is of course the basics, but to make a 20 min, 40 min or an hour

set sound good in total, you need to know each song very well, especially if you plan to one day

play it live.. And to make that easy, start by sticking to one genre at a time.

Good luck!

Posted
ty branem, my big thing is that the vast majority of my track list atm is all over the place genre wise lol

yeah, and thats how it is in the start. So just fool around at first and when/if you get bored/want to get more

serious, start narrowing it down a bit.

  • 1 month later...
Posted (edited)

Not bad... I very much like the selection of tracks, although in a couple of places the beat matching is a little wonky.

Since you're mixing in software, can I recommend "Sony Acid"?

It has a brilliant tool which allows you to precisely map a tune to its own beat, and then it syncs them up for you...

its so easy its almost cheating.

1st, you locate the first downbeat.

2nd, you drag out the first bar, from that beat.

3rd, it intelligently extrapolates out all the other bars.

4th, you go through those extrapolated bars, adjusting where its out of time, and it re-extrapolates.

Then once you've done that with every tune you wish to mix, you simply drag the tunes to their own lane,

set the tempo you wish it to play at, and every tune is timestretched/compressed into that tempo, perfectly.

Note - this isn't a tool for performance, really... only for studio work... but the results are quite convincing.

Its not free, unfortunately (though I'm certain its easy enough to warez from somewhere if you're into that).

Because of its awesome beat matching, you can do some quite fast tempo changes, without either of the

songs going out of time. You can make them quite jarring, but it'll always be in time. You can easily make

use of pitch shifting aswell, shifting stuff up by semi-tones whilst keeping the same tempo, to make melodies

fit together more naturally.

I have provided a modest example here... its mostly chilled beats with euphoric electro synths, plus some fun weird

stuff to break it up a bit, and features a few transitions where the tempo change is noticable but it all stays in time (basically).

Turn it up!

Edited by Cutts 1st MRB
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Thanks for the suggestion Cutts, I'm gonna be upgrading my Traktor to full version before I buy any other software (pirated software while works isn't so good when you trynna build a tracklist as internet searches are disabled) bt I will definatly look into it.

And i'm working on a few samples to use that are going to be all my own, might work to produce a full track of my own in a few months or so, as for if it not so great for performing it will prolly be a bit back, and the beat matched segments that were off i was trying to transition from like 80 to 160 and missed my scratch queues lol

Posted (edited)

Traktor looks badass... I'll have to check it out. I'd like something new to play with!

I think there is a trial version of sony acid which can be upgraded if required...

Another really great tool for making tracks is Reason.

The main thing about it is, its just so simple and fun to use, at the same time as being extremely powerful and productive. It can also be "rewired" into other tools

to make it work with other high end software.

Again, its not free (around 400 euro, for the software and a massive bank of sounds), but it is both excellent and entertaining, and I cannot recommend it more highly.

I have an earlier version and its one of my favourite toys.

Edited by Cutts 1st MRB

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