Mix Club - The Remedial Class

Unbroken1 I click the hashtag symbol and it orders them, or reverses them, but I can’t drag tracks up and down to re-order whilst hashtag is selected

You can only re-order a playlist when you have the column sorting set to the column called “#”
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I’ve worked it out - you have to click on the track with the mouse pointer in the hashtag column and it then drags.

Cheers fellas.

Yes, you need to drag and drop the tracks into the order you want them

Old-Dutch I get that, Dutch! You can’t select the hashtag column and then click on the title of the track and drag it, you have to drag it from the number in the hashtag column.

Not sure you need to do it by dragging on the actual track number in Serato - sorry mate no idea how Recordbox works

Mad_Cyril I always changed the metadata in iTunes as it was the easiest way for me to do it. Prob no help to you here, C.

Mad_Cyril abstract OCD

Another great Indie band.

I use it. Massive hassle but it’s very useful. Sometimes it can get it really wrong tho, so I’d only recommend using it for djing once you’ve hit a dead end when hunting for a tune for a mixtape.

Rekordbox is solid in my view, but the odd mistake is easily recognisable

Mad_Cyril It may be simplified by record box and tractor, but thats just a guess. I use ableton to dj, and there is no seamlessness between that and mixed in key. I color code all of my tunes to match the Camelot Wheel, which makes it easier, once I’ve gone through the initial process of loading, reviewing, and editing all of the tunes in Live.

zackster all of that is exactly what sucked all the fun out of dj’ing for me. made it a job instead of just playing records that sound good together.

baggers44 Nice one - I shall make that adjustment. Not set up the XZ yet as I’ve been away, but glad you’ve mentioned that - I’d be well fucked off with the drifting

Mad_Cyril yes but it is variable - the useful tool is the keyboard- which you can use to check whether it sounds as it has suggested. i also found this which was pretty useful in terms of a quick workaround

baggers44 I had it on normal already

baggers44 I’ve always wondered why Sasha hummed while he’s mixing.

Funniest thing I’ve seen today that is!

Mad_Cyril If you arent playing out to a crowd, then just get creative for now, play tunes that you think sound good together, get involved with interesting transitions and the like, worry less about the key and aim for interesting. You can worry about the key stuff once you start to get a bit more advanced or ambitious. Remember, you can pitch shift tracks if you need them to fit, but things like chord progressions, bass lines, miss matched percussions, clashing vocals etc can stop two tunes going together as much as key.

Mad_Cyril i always found that i was better playing records i’d listened to once vs. trying to get perfect mixes and programming through over planning. knowing your records is important, but there’s something about the spontaneity and energy of doing everything on the fly.

303abuser Aye….like most things there’s a load of ways to do it right. I reckon some plan the mixes almost to the phrase or beat, trying a multiple of combinations, mixing points, key combinations which is one way to do it if you are that way inclined. With the visual track layout it is so much easier to see what is coming - the real difficulty was in achieving smooth mixes with vinyl without endlessly listening to the tracks - endless surprises or too long extended transitions with not much happening when you linked a long outro with a long intro ……..so hats off to those who can mix vinyl well because the skill set is at another level i reckon.

It’s almost unthinkable to me to mix vinyl, but I’m going to give it a go with a single deck to play some of my classic vinyl - just for the fuck of it though more than anything. Also it helps justify the outlay of the XZ and using at least one more channel…

Having used both vinyl & digital. Vinyl is a lot harder as baggers has said. you really need to know your records. Finding that first beat or sound, counting beats, bars & phrases in your head is so much different than having the screen in front you so can see the make up of each track. With digital though you can be so much more creative. Setting cue points or looping the last 4 or 8 bars of a track so it never runs unlike vinyl.

Dubman absolutely - it allows you be more creative and you are freed from the tyranny of constantly listening to the tracks going out …and routinely nudging it the wrong way first time round!!!

Along_the_Wire Been trying this….nearly there lol

Dan
Same here mate. It’s so hard not to touch the record.

Dan S to the ol’ werve!

Dan Been trying this….nearly there lol

Once you’ve got that, try it again with a £100 belt-drive turntable.

CDJs are a doddle if you have leant on vinyl.

hugopal Once you’ve got that, try it again with a £100 belt-drive turntable.

This. Learnt on some shitty Gemini decks that made pitch management a right pain in the ass. Pitch riding on 1210s was a piece of piss by comparison!

vinnyt77 Indeed.

Though Gemini? Luxury! My first turntable was a Kam lol.

You literally had to just stay on the pitch fader even though it was so slow to adjust, because even lightly skimming the platter would basically grind the whole thing to a halt.