Btw definitely good idea to shorten a longer mix you’re not happy with 👍

Alright I’m an ignoramous .. what do the Ozone and compressor do?

    Jules72 Ozone is a mastering tool. Bit like an intelligent EQ, so you can tweak the mix to add more impact, accentuate vocals etc. A compressor lowers the level of the loudest parts in your mix – the peaks you see sticking out when you view the waveform. By making them softer (gain reduction), it reduces the overall dynamic range – that is, the difference between the loudest and quietest sections of a mix/track- that’s especially useful when you overlay 2 tracks during a mix as it reduces the increase in volume that sometimes results, giving you smoother transitions.

    There are a lot of board members who are much more experienced with these than I am, so maybe they can explain further benefits. I’ve just started using Ozone as have always been impressed with the production on @Kumquat ’s mixes and know he often uses it.

      Jules72

      essentially what they are doing is adjusting the relative volume levels of the high pitched sounds, the low pitched sounds and the medium pitched sounds so that they work in tandem with each other rather than dominating the other bits or getting dominated. So you end up with a full and clear sound where the full range of notes have their own space to breathe and you hear everything you’re meant to.

      In some ways its a bit like the audio equivalent of adding seasoning imo.

      That’s my take on it anyway, some of the more accomplished Artistes on here might have a better way of explaining it.

        WAV version downloaded by the way, looking forward to hitting this up and the next appropriate moment.

          yeah compression allows you to shrink, or perhaps more accurately control the size of that gap between the quietest bits and the loudest bits. why is that useful, well you might have subtle bits of the track that are not audible or insufficiently audible because they’re drowned out by the loudest bits so you want to be able to manipulate that distance so that the quiet bits are subtle but not inaudible and the loud bits are loud but not excessively so relative to everything else.

          essentially we’re talking about not drowning stuff out.

          Wasily btw how easy to use is Ableton vs Mixmeister? I assume a whole lot more complex?

            Jules72 Very different IMO. Others might disagree but for me if you’re using Ableton you essentially have to work out the set beforehand as the tracks require warping before you can use them in a mix. That’s quite time consuming if you’re trying to work out what works with what. I know for example @Unbroken1 plans his on CDJs first before going into Ableton.

            Ableton is much more powerful though, and allows you to use plugins, micro tweak the EQ in real time (unlike MM where you have to adjust and then listen back), select audio segments and edit and export them back into the mix, run limiters on the master sound levels etc.

            A printed mix off Ableton also sounds miles better than MM.

            I basically only use MM now to plan sets as I can listen to 12 or so transitions a minute, but because it annoyingly doesn’t work on any 64 bit macs means I have to use a PC for that…

                Wasily warping new tracks sounds a complete pain up the arse though… can’t believe there isn’t a better solution out there.. anyone know if the latest traktors are any good?

                  Brilliantly mixed and superbly put together… 👍

                    Excellent mix Was. Love the Magnus International/Lana transition. Fab

                      alistair Thanks Al 👍 That last transition was actually the easiest as those two tracks are a pretty perfect match. I was most happy with the Frankey-Sandrino into Avalon Emerson transition as had to massively edit the F-S track.

                        Wasily…more than 1000 listens already on Soundcloud - that’s quite an achievement!

                          Jules72 Almost certainly a bot. 280 plays are Russian and 2 are you Julesy. Though I find if you get a re-post from someone like ‘Everbody wants to be the DJ’ then it tends to exponentially increase your play count. Having Lana as the mix cover also helps I’m sure 😂

                          I’m just happy with FB off this board tbh.

                              Jules72 Looks like it? It’s all BS. Partly the reason why I only used to post on hearthis.at is you actually get a proper reflection of how many listens your mixes have, and generally speaking for me they’re somewhere between 100 and 500 plays. The mix I did with @ScottBailey has about 550 plays on hearthis last time I looked, and twice that number on SC, but his latest effort is in the top 5 on Mixcloud in the Breaks genre, as are @ArchimedesQ ’s efforts.