Pretty good reading over on the dubspot blog.
http://blog.dubspot.com/how-to-make-...iftee-new-mix/
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Pretty good reading over on the dubspot blog.
http://blog.dubspot.com/how-to-make-...iftee-new-mix/
this is pretty much exactly how i make mixtapes.
edit:
i do all my cut&paste and finesse work in soundforge 6 as oppose to ableton.
-i usually make they playlist
-put them in what should be a good order
-figure out my transition
-use a different song/ transition if need be
-do a 'test run' by either going through the full mix or doing all the transition one after another (by skipping forward in the song)
-record the mix
-convert to mp3 for distribution
cheers for posting that link... a very good read :)
Mixmeister might be one of the best tools out there for making mixtapes.
Too bad Numark sucks big ones in the support department.
man shiftee is just really effing cool. didn't think people of such fun caliber existed at harvard.
He cracks me up big time, such an awesomely random sense of humor!Quote:
Originally Posted by lola
I think his silly sense of humor is a nice little touch to his work, it makes him... him. Anyway this is frigin awesome! It came out at the perfect time! I was planning on making a mixtape soon, and this was perfect!
Yeah, he's funny. I'm honored that once he re-tweeted and LOLed one of my tweets.
I don't think anyone else caught the he posted here the other day.Quote:
Originally Posted by photojojo
Classy act. Fan for sure.
he responded to one of my comments to the video he put up on youtube for his mixtape that he was advertising in that articleQuote:
Originally Posted by photojojo
i got really excited hahaha
w-w-w-w-waaaaa?Quote:
Originally Posted by haze324
I did ;) Not only is he funny, he's apparently a good man.Quote:
Originally Posted by haze324
what thread?
He posted ONE post on the thread of the blind Dj looking for advice on Traktor and how things work. He posted something along the lines of:
If you are in NYC myself and Dubspot will be glad to help you out
...class act.
Nobody noticed too
:confused:
Great read thank you for the find.
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Originally Posted by lola
He is a class act!Quote:
Originally Posted by midifidler
Hedgehog got chance to hang with him at MFC Berlin.
(At some point I got to meet him too... Cannot begin to tell you how awesome he is!)
I got chance to sit and chat with him at BPM whilst he was having his lunch cus he was with the NI dudes.
Hes really nice, he said "Karlos ive seen you in the Traktor forum"... i nearly fell off my chair i was so pleased.
Its always cool to be a fan. When someone as talented as djshiftee says he knows you, its a big deal.
The day you get blasé about something like that is the day you have crawled too far up your own ass .
this has become the Unofficial Shiftee Appreciation Thread :P
interesting that he "runs it hard through a limiter" - don't get me wrong i think compression of a mix makes it sound 10x better, but personally i would never run anything balls-to-the-wall. personal preference surely!
Hes probably reading this thread right now...:eek:
Talk to use Shiftee... say "HI"
hold on hold on hold on.... Does everyone record the mixes the post on here this way? or is it only the way official mixtapes are made?
agreed, i don't record and post that many mixes, but everytime i've made a mix, i've recorded it 100% live and then posted the file that came straight of of traktor without editing anything.
please tell me i'm not the only one doing this?
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Originally Posted by tauket2
Yeah thats what I do but it seems I have to step up my game now :) I was tryna figure out a new workflow route and Shiftee's article really helped. but thats just an artists progression I reckon :)
Yeah this guy is using the same tried and tested formula that spans back to the 70s.
pick good music that works together and make it work
That was both a funny and good read... Not the way I record my mix but seems like a good method to try out...
I record my mixes 100% straight through, but they're usually just recordings of my live broadcasts so there's not really any other way to do it in my case. Because of that you can hear my screw ups all the time. :rolleyes:
listening to perfect mixes is boring.. when someone screws up I almost always find it more interesting to see how the dj recovers.. and I end up listening more on the dj and how he does it instead of just some flawless computer aided/corrected mix.
good read...
i've always tried the live style of recording...but dont have a problem with what he does...i am going to try it for my podcast that i can't seem to get right...sounds like alot of work though...
it's a mixtape/podcast...not a live set...
someone point me to a compression thread or proper explanation please...
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Originally Posted by tauket2
I do that too, however if I was to record a demo I would programme it a lot more, I think this is going to the next level beyond that, it's like a commercial release almost. i think if you want to go to the next level, that's the way you have to market yourself, give people an advanced product.
He has a video where he breaks down one of his juggles and its ridiculous to see someone that knows exactly where he's at in the juggle at any point while describing it
Like stated before, people do this every once in a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by tauket2
We, me and my buddy, have done this for one of our mixtapes, as that it entirely consisted from our own custom remixes.
Every track in was a seperate Ableton Project, so we merged the suckers into 1 big progressive set.
The rest of our DJ set recordings are either done on controllers or vinyl.
There should be a clean distinction between mixtapes and dj set recordings.
Good ol' Shiftee - some solid tips right there...
I don't get it.
I get that some DJ's like to select on the fly.....depending on crowd etc.
But I find if I select tracks before hand and make sure they work together and do my homework....i am able to pull off much better sets.
If I am just doing a small club gig....and the $ is not that much....i am not gonna spend 2 weeks working on a set. I will wing it and play my favs or something.
But as soon as I have prepared to an extent...my set ALWAYS rocks.
Its not like I am gonna do the exact same transition between certain tracks everytime...I mix em up as I flow and use all my lil skills of controllerism.
Each track sounds different as its layered and kinda rearranged.
I don't get how some folks think this is cheating etc....
You gotta have some kinda game plan!
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Originally Posted by tauket2
only for mixtapes that are supposed to sound clean and meticulous should you take the studiomix approach like in shiftee's article.
live recordings have a certain cache especially if the occasion calls for you to showcase your real-time gigging ability in it's truest essence - so don't think the studio mix approach is the only way to skin the cat.
Anyone know of a decent, free :) alternative to Audio Hijack for PC. (audio hijack is Mac only :( )
http://applian.com/freecorder4/
I've been using this for a few day's now. works quite well. remember to set it to record at 320kbs.
Enjoy :)
Thanks :)Quote:
Originally Posted by zimfella