So I've just gotten into digi Djing a few months ago. I am a long time club goer both here in the states and overseas when I lived in Germany.
I play mainly trance and progressive house and use a Hercules Steel controller and an Audio2 DJ with Tpro. I have not made a demo tape yet in order to get any gigs because I wanted to perfect my mixing. I don't plan on using CDJ's or timecodes as I believe I can do the same thing with just my controller....especially for my genre...
My question is, with this genre of music, what else can I do so it's not just mixing the end of one track with the beginning of another?
Here is my main mixing technique.
1. count measures at the beginning of a track - it's usually 16 until the meat of the track comes in.
2. Count measures at end of track - find where I want to drop the new tune. Mostly 16 measures from end of track.
3 Create cue points to show me this.
4. when I get to end of track ready to mix new one, kill bass on incoming track, wait until the 16 measures, switch bass over and either kill other track or fade out with vol. or filter.
I have a plethera of FX at my disposal, but not sure what else to do other than this to create a very clean mix....I occasionally use the gator with Bass kill 4 beats from my drop point, but that is on a rare occasion.
Any advice to create a nicer, more interesting mix is welcome! I would love to start my demo tape soon!
Thanks!
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