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So you create a mix on the software like Ableton where you don’t have to actually play through the tunes?

    Along_the_Wire no no no, I meant edit their recordings on Ableton. Or just record with it, while mixing on actual decks. I record my mixes with an old Tascam Dr-1. Never even bothered to learn how to record internally with Traktor, that baby works so well.

    Then take it to Sound Forge (or Audacity previously) to do the splicing and editing the levels etc.

        Homegrove
        Traktor records strait to Wav. As long as you kept your levels not red lining it pretty decent.

          Homegrove Never even bothered to learn how to record internally with Traktor

          …erm, you just hit ‘Record’!?

            Same in Rekordbox.

            Even i can use that bit !

            Oh well. Like I said didn’t need it. 😃

            Along_the_Wire if you really want to be clever and make your mixes cleaner than your actual skill level, just record a mix, re-record any transitions you don’t like until they’re to your liking, then cut the old transition and paste the new one in. it’s imperceptible and not that difficult.

                303abuser That’s how they made mix Cds with Pro Tools before Ableton. I’m more interested in clean sound, then flawless transitions. Little give makes the mix come alive IMO. My Traktor-mixes done with sync sound dull compared to my mixes after I bought the XDJs IMO. And I listen to my own mixes a lot.

                    Homegrove yeah i totally agree. i think that’s one of the reasons mixing digitally just didn’t click with me. it was almost too perfect, there was never the terror of running out of record or having it all go wrong. took a bit of the art out of it for me.

                    • LT42 replied to this.

                        Homegrove Hmmmmmm, not sure about that, there where other programmes about like Sony’s ‘Acid’ that would happily let you beatmatch / edit / mix whatever you liked as far back as the late 90s.

                            Amps I could very well be wrong, that was just my understanding.

                              303abuser took a bit of the art out of it

                              I’m of the opinion that there’s still an art form there no matter what. Using the tech means you have to work harder to make it sound different than all the other DJs out there now, as everyone and their granny is a DJ. There’s skill in playing the same records as everyone else but making them sound different.

                                  LT42 that is true too, but I just like it when it sounds a bit not perfect.

                                    Got a Coxy CD from way back, and he completely fucks up a mix, twice. Clearly couldn’t be arsed to record it again. Not sure it adds anything to the mix at all.

                                    Homegrove Little give makes the mix come alive IMO.

                                    Yessss HG. Exactly

                                    By ‘a little give’ i assume that includes herds of angry horses galloping all over a transition?

                                        Mad_Cyril not quite. The “new” Ame-live DJ mix from 2016 that was released recently is a prime example of what I mean. And not Oakey-level fucking up.

                                            How much grief does Slasha get with his pots’ n’ pans mixing sometimes.