…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
Mix Club - The Remedial Class
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.
22 days later
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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?
Mad_Cyril Using memory loops is a good way to make sure that you don’t run out of track.