DJ Vinyl Mixing Tutorial Adding an Acapela over Another Track

0:00 In this video we're going to be doing a little bit of vinyl mixing

Alright guys, in this video we're going to be doing a little bit of vinyl mixing. We have on Living Large Colonel Abraham's Love Is What We Need. It is an absolute gem. This is a promo version from Nice and Right Records from the early to mid 90s. I'm going to be playing one of the tracks which is this one now. I'm going to be mixing in then Outlander The Vamp which is one of the original old school bass line house music. This is when house started going that little bit more experimental and chucking a bunch of bass with it. Once we brought this in, we're then going to be going to the acapella on the other side of the pre-release. Okay, so first of all I need to make sure my levels are okay. Again, when using vinyl you may find that everything is elevated very slightly. There's more bass, maybe slightly less mid and maybe you might need to increase the treble a little bit.

1:39 Look until it's the tightest edition in the world, but never mind

You'll notice it's peaking here so I'm going to reduce the gain on the channel there and increase the master volume there. I'm even going to turn the bass down a little bit. I do have one of the Line Array QSE KLA-12, so that's quite bright anyway and very bassy. So we're going to bring in the vamp and then we're going to bring in the acapella on the other side of Colonel Abraham's. Mix it in. Look until it's the tightest edition in the world, but never mind. Okay, so we've brought that one out. What I'm going to do now is turn this one over, get to the acapella and we're going to bring the acapella in after the break. Right, I can hear on my headphones now saying, do it y'all. Do it, two, one, two, three, four, three, four, do it, do it.

4:12 With modern day technology, we can add some effects

We need to give it a little taste of the acapella, but ideally I want to bring it in once we get the break or after the break. Okay. What did I say? With modern day technology, we can add some effects. Now I'm going to turn it up now because of course the acapella has got less overall sound, so we've got to turn it up otherwise we're not going to hear it over the bass line from the vamp. Disengaged the effect. This is where going backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards isn't a good idea because now you don't really want the needle to jump. So much more difficult, no BPM readout, nothing like that. And if you cock it up halfway through the mix... I can't really use a hot cue to go back. Hope that's been a help, practice and enjoy.

Thank you very much. Two wicked old school 90s cuts. Practice and enjoy. Take it easy.

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