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.
Mix Club - The Remedial Class
Mad_Cyril So there’s a magic button that stops ikeychanging with tempo.
The master tempo button…
…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
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.
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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?
I play only lossless-files so my SSD hard drive is always full. So I only keep current-stuff on my laptop, the rest is on portable hard drives. Never tried playing with an external hard drive.
I do both. Still use Traktor occasionally.
Mad_Cyril I keep the majority of my digital music collection (stuff I rarely listen to) on a couple of mirrored eternal hard drives. I’ve never tried using them with rekordbox. I haven’t even looked into it, mainly due to the fact that I assumed there would be an issue with latency.
I suggest you do what I did in the spring. Tell your Mrs that you need to splash out on a new super-duper laptop, with a massive SSD.
Ha.
Already have 4 laptops and an ipad pro in the house, literally don’t need any more.
Will be more diligent moving stuff to an external I think. Half the stuff never gets listened to / played anyways!
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Recorded 45 minutes or so tonight.
Surprised how bad most rransitions sound, obvious on the mix but cant really hear in real time.
Need to figure how I can hear whats going on better!!
Mad_Cyril I have 2 portable external hard drives 2TB each. I’m probably a bit unusual in the fact that everything is RB analyzed and in my rekordbox. Tagging is your friend. It’s the only thing that keeps 40K + tracks manageable.
Mad_Cyril Are you using Rekordbox? If so don’t rely on the key analysis 100%. Mixed in Key is more accurate. If the harmonics on your transitions sound discordant it could be that.
Mad_Cyril Have been battering away on a mix for a couple of months now, couldn’t quite get the selection right for a few different reasons. Spent a fair bit of time listening back on headphones, room speakers and car speakers, making sure the feel was right… just keep at it, it’ll come.
Good example of this; it used to take me ages to get tracks in key, can do it pretty quick now, few seconds, just knock them up and down a few semi tones until they ‘click’.
Mad_Cyril always sounds great when I’m mixing it - different gravy re-listening. I’m guessing it’s practice etc.
What’s helped me a bit is mixing the same two tracks - it sounds funny when they’re perfectly beat matched. How that’s helped is knowing what it sounds like when they’re nearly beat matched
Its not a key thing, bought mixed in key to help. More about getting the old washing machine effect but thinking I real time sounds ok!
Its things like the highs sounding alright to me but then when I listen back is like a herd of hooves going off.
Thinking things like;
Better to have monitors @ head height?
Closed cup headphones instead of HD25’s
Balance headphones/ output better.
Dubman
Yes mate. Wqs listening back to a recording.
I’m not using cue points, seems a bit rigid. Just finding a spot to mix in at and looping incoming so I can mix it in. Mainly 8 or 12 bars.
Feel like it run out of room, so might go to 16.
The cue points seem a better idea for places to start mixing out of tracks though.
How do you use?