Bring in the vocals over vocals in the mix, good idea???

0:00 The second time, I'm going to bring in th

Alright folks, right in this short video what we're going to do is I'm going to do two mixes using both records, the same records actually. The one is Armin van Helden featuring Dwayne Harden, You Don't Know Me, a bit of a classic and also one of my all-time favourites is Wildchild and Renegade Master. Now that both of them have got vocals in, what I'm going to do, I'm going to bring them in right place, right time Everything should be fine. The only difference is the first time I mix it, I will have vocals over vocals that doesn't sound very good, OK? The second time, I'm going to bring in the Renegade Master right at the end of Ahmad Van Helden. I'm going to format it so it hopefully... Crossfingers works perfectly. Now, what I want you to bear in mind is the first time I do the mix, you're going to have vocals over vocals and I have always said unless the vocals work together, vocals over vocals is a no-no, okay? In other words, if you have two records and let's say you have, in both records you have ladies singing and every time they say something, if one of the tracks says something and then the other one says something afterwards, that's fine.

1:16 What is a no-no is if they're both singing together

What is a no-no is if they're both singing together. It clashes and quite often it sounds crap, okay? So I'll show you that. What I'll do, I'll plug the connection into the camera now. So all you'll have is when I do that, you'll have mix number one and when I do that, you'll have mix number two and we'll see what happens, okay? So I'm going to pause this and we'll see what goes on. But basically... I have done two videos on this already. It's good ways and bad ways of doing mixing. But there, the reason for that mix was showing you one of the big no-no's, okay? And that is vocals over vocals. Nine times out of ten it doesn't work. The only time it will work is if, like I said previously, if you've basically got two vocals and the one can work with the other. In other words, if you can imagine you've got one record

Having a sentence of vocals. The next record then, the vocals will say fit in to a second sentence and then the first record will fit in to a third sentence and fourth etc but there is a but again use your ears right think about it if you've got loads of sounds going on and loads of vocals loads of people talking and discussing and it's all over the place It's too much in the mix. It's an absolute no-no, alright? Because it takes the object off of what you're doing and that is trying to make a good mix. So practice and enjoy. And by the way, a big shout out to DMC Club. Keep it real.

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