Dub Step DJ Tutorial

0:01 A bit of a dubstep tutorial for you on mixing dubstep

Alright guys, a bit of a dubstep tutorial for you on mixing dubstep. And also I'd like to say thank you very much to the gentleman who gave me this floppy doggie hat at the last Ministry of Sound DJ Academy in Switzerland. Tunes we're using is Audio Bullies, this one here, and this one here is Foreign Beggars vs. Rogue A-Leavers featuring DJ Prime Cut, Scratch Perverts, Ghetto Bass, Hit That, Cash, Itchy Nah, Redub, Music, Foreign Beggars. I'll just put the name in the description. Right, which goes a little bit like that. Right, first of all, dubstep, you can count it half time or double time. So have a listen to this guy here.

In other words, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, or 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. Right, timing. I've got some homework for you. I want you to eat, breathe, live, die, and shit. Well, maybe not die. Counting music. Not just your own tunes, but stuff you listen to. Maybe you're walking down the high street and all of a sudden you can hear some track in a shop, in a store. Start counting that. Maybe there's a car going past and you can hear as it goes past. We'll count them 1-2-3-4. Just count, continually tap. You need to count all the time, every single genre, every single style of music. Even if you don't like it, count it. What will happen? It will make your internal clock start to recognise timing a lot better.

Therefore, occasionally, well not occasionally, sorry, duh, eventually, you will automatically be able to find the correct time signature in all types of music. Give yourself time. Some people it could take 50 years, others it could take 1000 years. A day, or 5 days. Forget the 1000 years because you'll be dead by then and probably guts all over the place and creepy crawlies coming out your ears and skeleton people will be like oh look at this skeleton from 500 years ago. Right, so in this one here, what I'm going to do is I'm going to mix that tracking to this one here so we haven't got bass lines clashing. And also what I'm going to do, I'm going to show you how you can mix dubstep if you're not very good at mixing in time.

Right, so we've got this part here.

3:02 What I'm going to do now is something slightly different

Just bring this over a little bit. Right and this guy here where we've got that So I'll just wag it forward a bit. What I'm going to do now is something slightly different. I'm going to have the two tracks playing. That one is going to be in the same timescale as well. That's where I brought it in last time with this one. The difference is though, I'm going to use the crossfade. I've got this channel assigned to this side of the crossfade. This channel assigned to this side of the crossfade. I'm not going to do your normal 1, 2, 3, 4. I'm going to do 2 and 3 and 4. No, hold on. 2 and 4 and. So it's going to be on the off time. So we'll do exactly the same thing. Now I haven't got my headphones on. So the baby's slightly off.

But hopefully you'll get the general idea.

5:01 We're going to bring it in at the end of the track

So what we have. In other words, what I was trying to do actually is 2 and 4 and 2 and 3 and 4. Bring it in on the 2 and the 4 instead of the normal 1, 3 and 3 and. Alright. Very quick one there. Also what I'm going to do as I said earlier on. We're going to bring it in at the end of the track. Now this is for people maybe who find it difficult to beat match. Now at the end of this track here if I press play towards the end of it.

Now we've still got timing there. Towards the end though, there's very much little else going on. We have got that high clap. But what you can do here. It's not necessarily cheating as such. But you're more likely to get away with having the other track coming in. And maybe the other track being slightly more or slightly off beat. So we're going to get to that point over there.

I've just set a cue point as well. So we can go back to that quickly. Get ready with the other one.

So what I did there. I incorporated. I started to mix in the second track over the first track. Over the first one. But there wasn't much going on with the first one. We almost had the latter part of the melody. With that tiny hand clap as opposed to the full on bass. So it's. In other words what I'm trying to say here. Is the public out there are less likely to hear a dodgy mix. As opposed to you know thinking hold on. What the heck is going on? Oh my god. Head's going to explode. Sometimes people ask why things like this are around. Well I'm not going to answer that. One more time. Here we go. Let's go back to this one here.

Here we go. At the end of the day it's all about experimentation. If you don't experiment. You're never going to find out new tricks. It's always a good idea as well to watch other tutorials. And incorp.

Shut up. Incorporate those into your own ideas as well. Alright. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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