Transition Tutorial on Mixing Drum and bass Using the Filter and Echo

0:01 How by using maybe the low-pass

Alright guys, got a bit of a demo here, tutorial on mixing drum and bass. What I'm going to do is show you how by using maybe the low-pass filter and an echo, you can do a reasonable transition. Let's say if the track you're mixing out of hasn't got much of an outro. So this is John Newman, Love Me Again, it's the Kove, K-O-V-E remix, drum and bass version. If we have a listen to it. So what I'm going to do now is go to the end of the track. Now we haven't got a good quality 16-bar finish. It finishes like this, if you have a listen.

That's it, that's how it finishes. What we're going to do is we're going to bring in high contrast, a track entitled Racing Green, which is an absolute frigging stomper.

1:03 I'm going to start the track here

Okay, what I've done, I've set a cue point with a John Newman track at A there, which is 1 minute and 12 seconds towards the end of the track. So I'm going to start the track here. What I'm going to do with this transition, I'm going to use the low-pass filter, also some echo. I need you to make note as well of the LEDs. I don't want them tapping into the red, I've got them just tapping a little bit into the amber, which means there's a lot of headroom there. So if I do use effects, it's almost like the effects have got the joy of having that extra headroom. If I'm already tapping into the red and I use effects, then you're less likely to hear a good quality sound from the effect that you're going to be using in the mix.

Let's kick off with a little bit of the old JN.

I'm going to wait for the vocals to come in before I bring it in, take the bass out a little bit on high contrast. It doesn't matter that much because it's only intro anyway.

3:14 Channel 3 now, and maybe add

Engage low-pass filter, but engage it now, have a listen.

Disengage low-pass filter. Turn the dial up, now a bit of high-pass, engage it, and down. Okay.

Turn the echo off. Go to channel 3 now, and maybe add a bit of echo on this. For echo, I've got a few tips and tricks from that. Practice and enjoy, thank you very much. Two banging tunes. Sorry John Newman, you're good, but this is better. High contrast, racing green, over there, you're going to see into it right now. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

We'll see you next time.

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