DJ Mixing Lesson on a Transition in the Break CD Pool Club July 2017

0:00 First of all the demonstration, then the explanation

All right guys, first of all the demonstration, then the explanation. I've got a couple of tunes here from CDPool Club July 2017. There will be a link in the description to the cdpool.com website. On my left I have a track entitled Chariot, the Endor remix. On my right I have How Does Your House Work, the Apres remix. Just going to scoot through a little bit of the Chariot tune.

Nice rolling bass line with this one. One minute. Okay, let's go to the break. I'll go to about there.

1:25 Relatively simple kind of transition with a little bit of a twist

Okay, relatively simple kind of transition with a little bit of a twist. What I did, I had almost like a double drop there with the break on Chariot and I incorporated the break on How Does Your House Work on the right hand side. Now what I did though was I took away completely the bass on the right hand tune, How Does Your House Work, and to compensate for that I increased the mid. Now I wouldn't normally bring the mid up that high. I brought it up to about two, half past two. Wouldn't normally bring it that high because too much mid can be a little bit too bold on the speakers. What you've got to remember is, you know, you're going to be bringing out sort of the mid and the top, the guitars, the instruments,

The melody of the track. The only reason I increased the mid at that break is I wanted to enhance the sound of the break on the right hand side. When you have a break in a track, quite often what will happen is that the bass line will dissipate, in the break so if you looked at the audio level let's say a hundred percent audio level is the whole track is is all of the track being played not as a not all of the whole thing in one go but let's say the bass line the melody the vocals that you know and so on if you then take away the bass line you're probably reducing the audio volume by about 70% so to compensate for that you need to increase something and you can do that by increasing the mid now there's very little point increasing the high frequency because that's just the clap

4:04 How that sounds so let's go

That's it only a tiny percentage of that hundred percent now let's have a listen if I had the bass mid and treble on the right hand side at the break all at 12 o'clock see here we can hear you can hear that there's no bass line it's nothing at all there's no kick but take away the bass and there's very little difference anyway increase the mid now that's a little bit more prominent so that will be more prominent in the mix when you're adding that to another break right now let's have a look at how that sounds so let's go to that exact transition point now let's put the mid back to 12 o'clock see it's sort of slightly disappeared now bring it back up to about half two coming up to the drop then I brought back in the bass put the mid back to 12 o'clock and I also at

6:10 Uh I'm going to move

The same time reduced the bass on the left hand side so if I bring the bass up on the left hand side a multitude mishmash of bass lines which is what we don't want now again this is a demonstration for this transition every single transition is going to be different all right so when you hear a DJ say you have to bring the base in here take the bass out there and so on that may be relevant for those two tunes for that mix in at that point it will be different the same two tunes if they bring the two tunes in at a different place and every DJ is going to have a different kind of style this is one demonstration with two tunes and another 100 DJs could give another thousand demonstrations a hundred each on the

Same transition point it's about listening to the track and seeing what you come up with I mean let's change this very slightly all right so what I'm going to do now is we'll go to uh I'm going to move an effect onto Channel 3 go to Echo and just press play just get the right time and tune just get a tap in time I'm gonna go to three quarter that's a nice effect okay but I want to use that over the break so again I'm going to take away the bass now let's just have a listen to the roll effect at three quarter time at the break I'm going to put the EQ in pretty much the same position where it was before here we go okay right let's add that now to the transition itself so I'm going to start off the effect and start the two tracks at the same cue points here

We go another way of changing that transition by just adding a tiny effect all right again this is another demonstration so look at this kind of demonstration also other demonstrations there are a million and one tutorials and teachers out there who can show you how to mix in many different ways go and check them all out thank you for watching check out cdpool.com in the description of this video practice and enjoy thank you

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