Jonathan here, I was listening there from someone and it was basically about structuring your mix, getting it from a good mix to a perfect mix. How do you do it? Of course you can spend absolutely hours getting the beats right, moving the bass mid and treble and making it all packer, making it all spot on but of course treble is that how can you take it then to the next level and get it so your mix possibly is no different really to a mix that you find our CD that you pay loads of money for in a shop.
This is how you can do it, first of all the map thing is the reason behind that. Let us say you are going on a journey and you did not know where you were going, let us say you had a rough idea of where you knew you were actually going but you did not plan your route. Now, you probably get lost along the way but if you actually planned your route, in other words if you looked at the map and you chose the road and you chose this is the important factor the junctions on those roads. In other words you will look and think what I need to treble down the beat four five seven and then as soon as I get to junction 23 I need to turn off on the A532.
Now, fair enough you may be able to get on to the A532 further down that road but you will be going the wrong way exactly the same thing to play is when you are doing a mix, think about it logically. If you plan your mix correctly and then work out, you play for one minute and 25 seconds. At one minute and 25 seconds you bring in the next tune which is exactly the same with the map, you are turning on to a different road so at that precise point you bring the next tune in and you play that track for let us say for example two minutes 45 seconds then you bring tune three in. Now if you structure your mix this way you will have almost a perfect mix. What I am going to do is I am going to show you how we can actually do that on a piece of paper, hold tight.
Alright, here we go piece of paper, one, two, three, four, five which is basically say my mix which is going to be five tunes. Now, first of all the one thing you would have done, you would have made sure that those particular tunes work really well together, that is very important. There is no point doing this and they sound awful, they got to sound well together. So here is the idea tune one what you would do is you would write down and you would listen and you would think okay tune one will play for say one minute and 45 seconds and then at that point you will bring in tune two like so. In tune two, you will do exactly the same thing but also what you can do here in tune one, you could actually say down here somewhere or again you can work this out I am sure. You could say that the actual mix will last for say 30 seconds. Now, you know now that tune one will play for one minute 45, you know you will bring tune two in at one minute 45 seconds. You also know that tune two will mix in with tune one for 30 seconds, that is important and then you also know that after 30 seconds you will take tune one out. If you can understand this then basically you cannot only before doing this of course watch this like I said earlier. You got all your tracks ready and you know they work well together but with a bit of practice and finding the precise place where the two will mix perfectly and they will blend, that is the amount of time they will be mixing together perfectly. For that amount of time it could be 30 seconds, it could be 10 seconds, it could be one second, it could be two minutes then you can actually construct a mix.
Again, the reason fro putting it down on paper is because what you can do then is while you are actually doing your mix you will have your own instructions so you will not get lost and you will know exactly where you are. Again, think about it from the map point of view, it is all well good taking a map with you which is the equivalent of you just having your records and doing a mix but it is a better idea if you have that map and if you actually write down beat four, seven, three of at junction 27 then you know it is all infront of you. Reading the map is near enough exactly the same constructing your mix. I hope you get the idea and if you can do this kind of thing again, spend time maybe it could take you four or five days just working the mix out but if you taking that time working the mix out. Theoretically, if your mix lasts for 90 minutes it will take you 90 minutes to record a perfect mix. I hope that has been a help. Practice and enjoy, thank you.
Jonathan here, I was listening there from someone and it was basically about structuring your mix, getting it from a good mix to a perfect mix. How do you do it? Of course you can spend absolutely hours getting the beats right, moving the bass mid and treble and making it all packer, making it all spot on but of course treble is that how can you take it then to the next level and get it so your mix possibly is no different really to a mix that you find our CD that you pay loads of money for in a shop.
This is how you can do it, first of all the map thing is the reason behind that. Let us say you are going on a journey and you did not know where you were going, let us say you had a rough idea of where you knew you were actually going but you did not plan your route. Now, you probably get lost along the way but if you actually planned your route, in other words if you looked at the map and you chose the road and you chose this is the important factor the junctions on those roads. In other words you will look and think what I need to treble down the beat four five seven and then as soon as I get to junction 23 I need to turn off on the A532.
Now, fair enough you may be able to get on to the A532 further down that road but you will be going the wrong way exactly the same thing to play is when you are doing a mix, think about it logically. If you plan your mix correctly and then work out, you play for one minute and 25 seconds. At one minute and 25 seconds you bring in the next tune which is exactly the same with the map, you are turning on to a different road so at that precise point you bring the next tune in and you play that track for let us say for example two minutes 45 seconds then you bring tune three in. Now if you structure your mix this way you will have almost a perfect mix. What I am going to do is I am going to show you how we can actually do that on a piece of paper, hold tight.
Alright, here we go piece of paper, one, two, three, four, five which is basically say my mix which is going to be five tunes. Now, first of all the one thing you would have done, you would have made sure that those particular tunes work really well together, that is very important. There is no point doing this and they sound awful, they got to sound well together. So here is the idea tune one what you would do is you would write down and you would listen and you would think okay tune one will play for say one minute and 45 seconds and then at that point you will bring in tune two like so. In tune two, you will do exactly the same thing but also what you can do here in tune one, you could actually say down here somewhere or again you can work this out I am sure. You could say that the actual mix will last for say 30 seconds. Now, you know now that tune one will play for one minute 45, you know you will bring tune two in at one minute 45 seconds. You also know that tune two will mix in with tune one for 30 seconds, that is important and then you also know that after 30 seconds you will take tune one out. If you can understand this then basically you cannot only before doing this of course watch this like I said earlier. You got all your tracks ready and you know they work well together but with a bit of practice and finding the precise place where the two will mix perfectly and they will blend, that is the amount of time they will be mixing together perfectly. For that amount of time it could be 30 seconds, it could be 10 seconds, it could be one second, it could be two minutes then you can actually construct a mix.
Again, the reason fro putting it down on paper is because what you can do then is while you are actually doing your mix you will have your own instructions so you will not get lost and you will know exactly where you are. Again, think about it from the map point of view, it is all well good taking a map with you which is the equivalent of you just having your records and doing a mix but it is a better idea if you have that map and if you actually write down beat four, seven, three of at junction 27 then you know it is all infront of you. Reading the map is near enough exactly the same constructing your mix. I hope you get the idea and if you can do this kind of thing again, spend time maybe it could take you four or five days just working the mix out but if you taking that time working the mix out. Theoretically, if your mix lasts for 90 minutes it will take you 90 minutes to record a perfect mix. I hope that has been a help. Practice and enjoy, thank you.
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