DJ Your Mix Sounds Rough and I Can Tell You WHY Beginner Mixing Help

0:00 Demonstration first, then the explanation

Alright guys, demonstration first, then the explanation. The tune I'm using is entitled Last in Love. It's the original mix by Don Ray Mad. There'll be info in the description down there. Have a listen first. Here we go.

Both in time. Both in time. Right, I will play a little bit more of that tune very soon. So, a lot of people seem to have this problem and this issue. They seem to think it's in time, in phrase, in beat and so on, and it sort of is, but it also isn't. It may be in beat, but it's not in time. So, two hands. Let's, and for the partially sighted I will try and explain in great detail. So let's imagine if you can, even if you've got your eyes closed, I have got my palms against each other and my thumbs, my two thumbs, the rest of my fingers are all opposite each other. So you can pretty much only see one hand. Now if I remove my thumbs, I've now got my fingers facing the camera and my index finger along with my pinky finger and the other two are directly opposite each other.

1:47 The three was on the two, and the four was on the three

Let's imagine this is one bar. So, my pinkies are four, the next ones are three, two and one. So, this is the track, excuse me, I was playing in time, in phrase and in beat. One is next to one, two is next to two, three is next to three. And four is next to four. So what was happening is slowly those beats were moving for, actually they were moving behind the others, so they were actually, one track was going behind time very slowly until eventually I got it in beat, but I got it in beat incorrectly. So now, the one was actually on the four, the two was on the one. The three was on the two, and the four was on the three. Now that is what can potentially happen if you're beat matching and you find it goes off beat, but then it seems to go on beat, but it doesn't seem to sound as though it's in time.

2:58 Let's try it a little bit further on into the track

There's something wrong, but you can't understand what it is. That is what it is. So, let's go. Let's try it a little bit further on into the track. There's the track coming in, going off, flowing down, catching up again. That was very obvious, but it's less apparent if you're playing a minimal kind of techno or trance tune where you've just got that dum-dum-dum-dum, that steady kick. So, this is something to maybe think about. You know when you're doing a mix and it goes completely off beat. And it does go completely off beat. Maybe your better option is not to try desperately to get it back into beat, but just get the sucker out and start all over again. Alright, the tune you're listening to by the way is from Karmic Power Records.

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