DJ Drum and bass D "N" B Mixing Lesson Using the Cross Fade, Hospital Records

0:00 Another demonstration straight tutorial

Alright guys, another demonstration straight tutorial. In this video what we're looking at is mixing some DMV drum and bass using a couple of tunes from Hospital Records. The one track that you're listening to at the moment is Restless, it's the instrumental version, and the other track will be Hide Your Tears Because We Are In Heaven, it's the Sunchase remix, both from Hospital Records. I will put info on the two tracks, artist title and a link of course to Hospital Records as well. Now this is what I call the slide. What we're going to do is we're going to have two tracks playing exactly at the same time, and I'm just going to slide the crossfade from one over to the other. Now again there's loads of ways of doing this and some are good, some are bad. This I believe is very good because what we've got, we've got two tracks. One is a pure unadulterated drum version.

One is a drum and bass tune. The other one is almost like half time. We've still got a lot of percussion in the background, but if I just slice the way through the track, it's almost like a slow house tune. So if you were to count the BPM, the BPM would be very slow, but of course if you counted it the way DMV drum and bass is counted, it would be twice as fast. For example, first of all, this part of the video is for the new beginner. Alright, beginner DJ. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. That's half time. Double time counting DMV time is 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, and so on. Okay, so what I'm going to do, I set both tracks up at the beginning of a phrase,

Both at the same time, but what I'm going to do, I'm going to have the Hide Your Tears Because We're In Heaven track play first, but I will start the Relentless at the same time. So what you're about to hear is just Hide Your Tears Because We're In Heaven first. Alright, so here we go.

2:22 Important to make sure your levels are the same

Just going to make sure my levels are the same. Important to make sure your levels are the same. You don't want the music to peak higher or lower. When you do the transition using the crossfade. Both tracks are the same in phrase.

2:58 There's no point doing any form of transition, really

There's no point doing any form of transition, really.

Here we go. Do the crossfade over a little bit.

All the way. Bang, straight back over again. Notice, no bass, middle treble. Just crossfade.

Bang, bang, straight over. Again, we can add some filter. Listen, filtering on the Hide Your Tears. And now we're back to the original tune. Okay, quick demonstration there, but it's how you do it as well. This is one demonstration on one move. Even if you got the same tunes and brought them in at the same time, your mix would always be different. There's different colours, different styles, different ways of moving. Even just the crossfade. Alright, I'll finish off with practice and enjoy. Don't forget, check out the link in the description to Hospital Records and these two stunning tunes. Practice and enjoy. Nice one.

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