Comments on: DJ Transitions

By: Kill Paris

Kill Paris — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:12:19 +0000

Insightful and helpful information here. I’ve been stressing out over a mix i’ve been working on for the past two weeks and trying to make it perfect. Thank you for the advice!
Kp-

By: Dirty NeEdLeZ

Dirty NeEdLeZ — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:19:46 +0000

Hi Kent, great point. One thing I’ve been doing in my DJ sets is decreasing the time a mix takes, one of NZ’s top DJ’s talked once about “overmixing”, when sometimes, all ya need to do is just slam it in!! As long as it’s in phase, levels correct, etc, its all good. i find the sames predictable mixing boring myself so try to steer away from that. Hey cool site man, I’ve been here for about an hour now, just cruising through. I saw ya on the Logic forum. Email me anytime. Peace!

By: Kent Sandvik

Kent Sandvik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:11:33 +0000

Sometimes I feel the whole issue of long/perfect mixing cross-overs is something that DJs do in order to please or show other DJs, not the audience.

By: Simon Mills

Simon Mills — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:24:01 +0000

In the realm of Ableton I completely agree with you here. I’ve been playing out for ten years, and one of my first lessons when I’d first learned to beatmix is that it’s not always the best way to go. I did a set where it was perfectly mixed, but in return the audience was not into it at all. another night I’d mixed a set whilst very drunk – the mixing was awful but my choices of track were more outlandish, and I was met with one hell of a buzzing crowd! Audiences definitely respond to big tempo changes, pretty much the way they would listening to a wonderful chord change etc. I do think that most people think about beat mixing too much, and that’s where it becomes very linear and boring. I tend to think along the lines of trying to mix the beats and the harmonies; this in it’s own way creates a new piece of music out of 2 records, and I think that can justify doing a really long cross-over. I tend to try and knock it down a gear every few songs, almost like an ever-rising sawtooth wave – but even that becomes predicable, so in the end I guess you have to do what a lot of Djs don’t and that’s keep your eye on the audience and weight them up!