All right folk’s big shout out first of all to Smash DJ for the hat. But very quickly so when you send a hat, a letter, a CD, and two small bars of chocolate it does not go very far on a second class stamp so we have to pay extra. I am going to send the boys around mate, I am joking right. I did a similar video awhile ago. I talked you through a mix which is hopefully what I am going to be doing now but the last time I used a CDJ turntable on a vinyl turntable. In this video I am going to be using two CDJ’s.
I am going to be using the 800 whereby I am going to be playing a blast latter part of a track. I am going to be bringing on the CDJ 200 the beginning of a track. A lot of facets we need to it think of here. We need to think of the structure of the music. We need to think of the key, the actual tone and normality of the field and also to be matched. They need to be actually beat matched in time. Now then, again you see a lot of people being asking what to return first is it the base, the mid, the treble etc.
To be quite honest, how can I put this? It is entirely up to you. What I mean by that is simply this you need to listen to you records, your CDs and your PC tracks or whatever and what you need to do. When you listen to a certain track you have got a baseline a melody the beat the high hat the clap etc. What you can actually do is you got work out and think you got one track playing and you have got another one that you want to mix into it.
You got to ask yourself a lot of questions but you can ask yourself will those two baselines work well together. If the answer is yes then may be keep the two base-up together. If maybe you feel when it will be slightly more overpowering than the other. Maybe what you ened to do is turn one down slightly and leave one up. Say you are mixing this one in and this one is coming out. Perhaps what you need to do is have this one all the way down so this one is playing and you are bringing this one in.
As this one is coming in you turn the base up and then you turn the base down on that one because that one is going out. In other words you got a flow. You have got continuity of base. You have not got loads of base coming in all it once likewise with vocals with the melody. If you feel that you have got both of this and too much going on than of course the one that is playing and how the one that is coming in the melody is down.
The one that is slowly coming in turn the melody up, midup and bring the other one down likewise with the actual high at the top the thing is what you find is the actual top. You do not really have to mess around with that so much. You can actually see a lot of DJ’s though twist it really hard tsk! tsk like so it does not really matter. The main facets with base, mid, and trouble of course with the mid and the base.
They are the most important parts to mess around with but at the end of the day it is all about practice. It is all about you knowing your tunes and having a bit of fun. Now what we will do we will play that left apart this particular track and we will bring inside the beginning of this track. I am going to have the cross fade in the center of the mixer. I am going to have the two volume controls all the way up and the base, the mid and treble are at 12 o’clock.
I will play this track here and let us have a listen to it first here we go.
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And if you want to know what the actual tracks are just look in that side of this video. Here we go.
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