Mix Advice, interesting to see different styles.

[Guest Dr-Zeuss]

OK , I know you need 'the ear' for it, but maybe i need some tips.

Im Still having trouble knowing wich kick drum is from wich track when mixing , also wich one is ahead of the other.

 

Any good tips? (Do you use both tracks in headphones , or one ear monitoring? ... what im i missing?)

 

Please give me some Ideas on the way some of you pros do it.

 

Thank You.

[Järsimähäiriö]

Ok this is the same blurb I posted once before.

 

I try and get the beats roughly matched with one ear monitoring. Once they sound about right I just nail those missing frames with both tracks playing in the headphones.

 

About not knowing which beat is which... What I tend to do in these situations is to listen to both tracks mixed inside my headphones. Once the beats start drifting I use the pitch-bend button to speed up (or slow down) the cued track, and once the beats are going hand-by-hand again, I adjust the pitch-slider accordingly. The trick here is to have an idea of which track is running slightly faster... but it doesn't really matter if you don't as for example if you speed up a track that's going faster already the kicks will go even more off-sync, and therefore tell you to slow it down.

 

 

 

Oops, now I notice you asked for pros' insights... Uh, well, I guess I'll just post this anyway and hope it's ok.

[Guest dam10n]

it just takes practice man (again not a pro) - bearing in mind that psy is just about the hardest genbre to mix with all the melodies, make it easier on yourself by maybe mixing say 2-3 tracks from atmos or son kite or whatever (less going on, easier to tell what's what) or if you have any friends with house, garage, anything else (like commercial trance will deliberately have about a minute's worth of boredom at start and end of record just to you can mix in and out.) Or drum n bass like mickey finn, hype etc - very easy to mix.

Trust me, an evening spent mixing easier stuff then pop back to your fullon and it'll seem a lot more straightforward.

[Guest Dr-Zeuss]

Thanks , guys and yeah mixing outro > intro is quite foolproof i find.

But its about keeping floww too that im most having trouble.

I tend to try having anything from 4-8 tracks mixed without a 'dip'

and then let one track play untill outro > intro mix (Lets people catch their breathe / space out , whatever) then back to few tracks 'solid' mix (im hoping your understanding these terms - kinda make sense to me)

 

When i said pro tips , that dont mean you need to be a pro to give the advice, I want to hear from anyone!

Hell the tips and knowlegde come from anywhere!

 

 

Anyone else willing to quikly step me through thier mix style....?

(Dont say practice..I do everyday)

(gotta love information)

 

 

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* (Thanks: Elysium Project , Järsimähäiriö , dam10n) *

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[Guest Dr. Cheroot]

play both tracks in the headphones... increase the volume or bass or the cued track. helps to distinguish the beats of the two tracks.