Even some mastered tracks can sound completely shite ... use your ears, play them on multiple sources and decide yourself if they will hold up in a club.
Even some mastered tracks can sound completely shite ... use your ears, play them on multiple sources and decide yourself if they will hold up in a club.
Take as an example Get Lucky- Mysto & Pizzi remix
A f'n great track, mastered, given out for free.
Pumps up the energy as no other track can.
So yeah, there definitely is a place for free tracks on a big system.
Can't polish a turd, dude. DJ eq's are designed to be subtractive. Boosting levels on poorly mixed tune only amplifies the ugliness. If a tune is mixed really poorly, no amount of eq'ing on a dj mixer will change that. If a tune has bass thats overdriven and has no headroom, dropping the bass on a dj mixer won't suddenly make it sound good. It's the same if you're playing a 128k mp3.
The EQ on your mixer is designed to allow 2 tunes to sit in the mix properly and not cancel frequencies. I play a tune a lot that has a baseline that's sitting around 40-45 hz with no mid bass (Gremlinz and Homemade Weapons - Ruff Age). The bass sound real fat on a good system, but if you drop it on a system that can't produce those frequencies, it's really quiet and loses all effect. Naturally you want to boost the EQ to compensate. Doing this just makes the tune clip and sound awful.
Last edited by b1sh0p; 09-17-2013 at 11:25 PM.
no i cant deny that. But undoubtedly with more modern mixers with huge headroom,And also mastering becoming easier for small-time producers to do.
You can use your eq's to get the track up to where it should be.
Theres already a different thread with a WAR going on over eq'ing, so i'm not gonna bring that stuff in here.
your right. now i remember
well.....isin't there always a war over eq'ing hahaha
tl;dr listen to them closely, decide for yourself
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Yup - "free" does not equal poor quality.
Poor quality = Poor quality.
If a DJ can't tell when a free/bought track is poorly mixed/mastered, then he/she shouldn't be playing on a "big system" (<<<what the hell is that anyway?) in the first place.
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