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  • Mix Club - The Remedial Class

Mad_Cyril i spent my first month mixing the same 4 records, found that to be a good strategy to learn, minus getting completely sick of those records of course.

      303abuser
      Guess a lot easier with a laptop. Have got myself a learning method now.

      Found a video on EQing thats helped loads.
      Find my intro phrase and create a loop.
      Match that with current tunes phrase
      Whilst doing balance the EQs
      Try and find a place to mix in
      Panic and fiddle with the knobs a lot.

      Cuing up both channels really helps too, was on using one past week.

      The phrasing means I don’t have to fuck about trying to up and down tempo too much whilst still keeping energy going.

      Good fun.

      Just need to get my tunes sorted now, too much of a magpie!!

      Apologies for the long post

          Mad_Cyril Panic and fiddle with the knobs a lot.

          lol i love that. at the beginning it feels like both records are out of control and you’re trying to reign them in like horses dragging you in a carriage. the first time you really control a good mix and feel completely in command is pretty cool.

            If i was gonna give advice to my younger novice self, it would be don’t play boring records just because they work together. Just play a load of tunes you love and know them inside out. No one in the real world really gives a fuck about the perfect mix, although it is great when you perfectly mash two tunes together.

              mono-stereo Have fucked the prog idea off now I’ve got a bit of a method.

              Dont mind a listen every now and then but fucking boring to play

                Dubman Key Lock?

                Is that like a child lock that stops me scaring off the cats with the racket?

                    Ah!

                    Think I’ve heard that happen a few times. But only going up/down 3 or 4 bpms.

                    So there’s a magic button that stops ikeychanging with tempo.

                    Something to Google after dinner 👍

                      Mad_Cyril
                      I few bpm’s shouldn’t matter so much. There should be something on your software.

                        verify this because i haven’t done this in a long while, but i think 2-3 bpm is ok and you get semitone shifts after that. could be wrong though, like i said.

                          mono-stereo outside of here, everyone thinks my shit mixes are the bollocks. I know they aren’t mind, but it’s a tough crowd in here and I think that’s a good thing.

                            …worth pointing out it can make tracks sound shitty if you push it too far, if you need to use it to key-match a track with more than +/- 4 difference on the pitch slider, consider choosing another track

                              Unbroken1
                              Get this, and agree.

                              From my limited experience, pushing more than +/- 3 or 4 feels too much.

                                Along_the_Wire
                                Found it.

                                There’s no button on the Fisher Price toys but it’s in the SW.

                                Going to just leave it on.

                                  Dubman that’s the one i remember. the mixed in key software worked pretty well as i recall.

                                    22 days later

                                    For people out there using a controller/laptop (I’m with Recordbox), what do you use to store your tunes?

                                    Been organising today (raining) and dawns on me i might need to consider something else than just laptop HDD.

                                    If I use an external drive could I get latency issues?