Simple Way of Giving Your Mix More Vibe MR MRS DJ

0:00 Exactly the same tunes as well

Right guys, in this video we're going to cover quite a bit. We're going to cover mixing piano, we're also going to cover doing a nice smooth transition where we haven't got keys clashing and also I'm going to do two mixes exactly the same place, same tunes but the first one's going to be average, the second one is just going to have more balls to it. Exactly the same tunes as well. So let's get straight into it. Okay, so got a couple of tracks here lined up and what I have done, I've got the latter part of LMC and Mark McCabe, Time to Groove. It's a nice sort of tune this. It's been around for a while. Nice sort of girly feel to it with that disco kind of vibe. You know, it's just, it's got that really good modern age.

Disco club kind of vibe. And then on this side here, we have Handel, Jena, Love Always Wins. Nice kind of slow intro, great for mixing in your next tune. And, well, why is it great for mixing in the next tune? Because it doesn't start off with that dum-dum-dum. You've got, I think it's 32 bars, 16 to 32, I forget now. Just this kind of almost like metronome beginning and then where I set my hot cue, the piano comes in. Have a listen. There. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to go to the beginning and count 16 bars. That'll do. Right, so let's go towards the end of LMC. Now listen to this first. Too much going on there. It's too full. You've got two melodies going over each other and... Now, for my ears, that's not really happening. I don't know about you, leave a comment. Maybe you like it, maybe you dislike it, maybe you're just like, um, fish and chips? I don't know. Right, so let's work this out. And again, it's very simple. We are going to do a phrase mix, a correct phrase mix. So at roughly this point here, if I just spin this forward, and I'm going to go to, I think it's a little about here, on where I want to bear it.

3:12 There is no golden rule

Okay, there is my cue point and that is the beginning of the phrase where I can start this track. So as soon as the melody finishes there, the melody comes in here. Now EQ wise, what do we do with the EQ? Well, you see, this is the dilemma. All right, there is no golden rule. There is truly no golden rule for using EQ. It's about the tracks, the feel and the vibe. So for example, I'm going to leave both bass up, low up because... There's not much bass at the beginning of this one. The bass lines aren't going to be clashing that much, so leave the bass as it is. There's very little happening here. There's quite a bit happening here, but when this one takes some of the elements of the track are moved away, elements come in on this track. So one's going away, one's coming in. So there's no point using the EQ there because, you know, it's a step down and a step up at the same time. So there's like a line in the middle and no gap.

5:05 At the moment I'm plus or minus 10

Sort of an analogy there. So let's go to the back a little bit. Now I've just thrown it in because, again, there's very little volume to the beginning of this track. You've got that wistfully kind of sound in the background. So that's about it really. Just watching my levels. Don't really want to go into the red. Listen. There. Okay, I'm going slightly off beat there. Alright, so... How can we make this a little bit more exciting, a little bit more fun? Right, at the moment I'm plus or minus 10. I'm going to switch that to plus or minus 16. I am now going to pump up the volume big time. Now, I don't know if you've heard, I'm sure you have Time To Groove before, but when I've heard it, it's a lot faster. Now, it is a known fact, absolute known fact. If you want to increase the vibe in the room and you do have master tempo or key lock, speed the track up because you're just giving that extra kind of feel.

That vibe. People will be dancing faster. There'll be more energy in the room by a simple move of speeding the track up. Now, if it's 120, I'm not on about speeding it up to like 150 or 60. If it's 120, put it to 130. This track here was 124. I'm going to put it to 138. Let's have a listen. Wow. What a difference. Oh my freaking God. What a difference. So let's go back there and we'll bring this one in. Okay, so... Keep in mind as well, filter, so much better! You know, you want to dance to it now, you want to move! Right, slight dip there, maybe I should have left that a little bit longer, let it completely finish until the kick comes in. Three, two, and... Alright, maybe not then. Alright, let's wind it forward a bit. There we are, okay.

Okay, let's try something else. Let's keep it at that speed. Okay, let's have a look, see what else we've got here.

8:03 Chop from one straight to the other with no formal kind of overlapping

I'm not going to try that one yet. Let's do a chop. Chop from one straight to the other with no formal kind of overlapping transition. It doesn't matter so much if you're off beat because you're not folding over those two tracks and making them as one. You're just taking one out, bringing the next one in. This one here is Ryan Blith featuring B.B. Diamond, Razorglass. There'll be information on these tunes in the description right down there, okay? Do you remember Gusto, Disco's Revenge, early 90s? What's it? This one here is Got You, the club mix. Michael Calfin. Calfin. Calfin. Here we go. It's time for a crunchy later. It's time for the percolator. It's time for the percolator. It's time for the percolator. Okay, we'll do one more. Too slow that one. I'm going to do the big no-no. Don't ever try this. It's difficult. Go to wide 100, the wide feature. Let's try and mix it in, alright? It's very difficult. What I'm going to do as well is I'm going to cover that over so I can't see the BPM which makes it even more difficult.

Some people say I cheat. I don't cheat. I will also cover the BPM there, and I'll also cover the BPM there. Now, I'm completely in the lap of the 100 BPM. Listen, check this out. Okay, so that's going to be difficult. Here we go. Yeah, that was difficult. I should have cut that out there. Alright, we'll finish off with this tune here, ladies and gentlemen, which is... Hold on. USB. A track here entitled I Love It. All these tunes, by the way, are from CD4 Dance releases. June 2018. Don't forget to check out the link in the description. And if you want to participate in the CDPool releases, of course you have to be a DJ and you have to be in and around Europe. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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