All right folks, in this short video what we are going to do is either do 2 mixes using both records or same records actually. One is Armand Van Helden featuring Dwayne Hardin at you do not know me, a classic. And also one of my old time favorites is Wild Childs and Renegade Master.
Both of them have got vocals in, what we are going to do, I am going to bring them in, right place, right time, everything should be fine. The only difference is the first time I mixed it; I will have vocals over vocals. That does not sound very good. The second time I am going to bring it in right, I am going to bring in the Renegade Master right the end of Armand Van Helden. I format it so it hopefully works perfectly. Now what I want you to bear in mind is the first time I do mix you can have vocals over vocals, I have always said unless the vocals work together, vocals over vocals is a no-no. In other words if you have two records and let say you have in both records, you have lady singing and every time they say something, if one of the tracks says something and then the other one says something afterwards, that is fine. What is a no-no is if they are both singing together, it clashes and caught off and it sounds crap.
I will show you that and what I will do, I will plug the connection into the camera now so all you will have is when I do that you will have mix number one and when I do that we will have mix number two. And we will see what happens, so I am going to pause this, we will see what goes on.
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I think it was bet over say, we all spin back. But basically I have done two videos on this already, it is good ways and bad ways and doing mixing. But there, the reason for that mix was showing you one of the big no-no’s okay. Matter is vocals over vocals, 9 times over 10 it does not work. The only time it will work is if like I said previously, if you basically got two vocals and the one could work with the other, in other words if you can imagine you have got one record having a sentence of vocals. The next record then, the vocals will say fit in to a second sentence and then the firs record will fit in to a third sentence and fourth etcetera. But there is a but again, use your ears, think about it, if you got loads of sounds going on and loads of vocals, loads of people talking and discussing and it is all over the place, it is too much in the mix. It is an absolute no-no, all right? Because it takes the objects of off of what you are doing and that is trying to make good mix. So practice and enjoy. And by the way, a big Shantat DMC club, keep it real.
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