Dj help, Mess about with the EQ, get the feel of the toon!

0:00 Bass treble, song, course

Alright folks, here's a bit of a tip for you right now then. Do you find when you're doing a mix and you're going from one tune to the other that you're doing the same laborious thing over and over again? In other words, you're not experimenting, you're not messing around with the bass, mid and treble. But, of course the trouble is, is that while you're actually, if you think about it logically now, you're concentrating possibly so much on doing the actual mix, getting them beatmatched, that you're not really concentrating enough on the bass, mid and treble and the actual transitions From the one tune to the other, okay? Now it is very difficult because again, you know, when you think about getting those beats matched, you've got two tiny points which are the styline. They're going to meet perfectly. Bang, bang, bang. If they're off slightly or if they go off, they gladder, they glide away, then of course the beat's going to go off. That's why a lot of people and myself, you know, I'll concentrate more on keeping those beats perfect. But, of course, by concentrating just on keeping the beats perfect...

You're not thinking so much, or a lot of DJs don't think so much, on the actual sound of the mix, the transition from one tune to the other. Now then, this is what I'd like you to do. Find your favourite tune, or find a lot of them. Just play, this is so simple, but it's good practice. Play the one song and during the course of that song, listen to it, don't mix another song in, don't have another song on the turntables, just put one song on a turntable in a CD player And mess around with the bass and treble. When the bass line comes in, maybe take it out. If you can hear a bit of melody, heighten the treble up a bit, heighten the mid up. Mess around. So what you're doing is you're actually messing around with the bass, mid and treble even before you've mixed the other one in. Why are we doing this? Now think about it. If you're messing around with the bass, mid and treble first to begin with while you're not mixing, then when you come to mix the actual song in...

1:55 Is track 8 on the Headcandy

You already sort of know what you're going to do. Do you see where I'm coming from, alright? So I'll give you a general idea. Now then, the track we're going to look at is track 8 on the Headcandy CD and it's entitled Earth Fox. Something different to say, it's the original vocal mix. Here we go. Very quickly... Hold on. Crikey. It's a bit too close. You don't want to look at me that close, do you? Alright, very quickly, what you have to consider as well is this. In a bedroom environment, this is very, very important. Small speakers, small PA, etc. When you mess around with a bass, mid and treble and you start whacking them quite high, it will make quite a lot of difference, but if the speakers aren't that loud, it's highly unlikely you're going to damage your PA, your speakers, your bedroom setup. But if you're actually in a club environment and you've got a whopping great big sound system in front of you,

If you have pieces of equipment in front of the mixer, in other words what we're looking at is limiters etc., then there is a good chance if you start whacking this up too much, you could blow speakers, you could ruin amplifiers etc. So just be wary. But again, it's all about practice, it's all about messing around with the bass, mid and treble. So in other words what we're saying is simply this, instead of concentrating on the mix and in concentrating on keeping the beats together... What you're going to be doing here is you're going to be concentrating on the sound, on the feel, the vibe of the tune. Do it over and over again. Try different connotations and then eventually you'll get so used to it when you then mix the two songs together this bit will come naturally. Thanks for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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