House Dub and Trap Mix, Looking for critical feedback please!

http://www.mixcloud.com/daniel_dow_D...-mix-11_18_12/

Hey guys, I work at a proffesional djing company who runs most of the bars and weddings in the area. Problem is I am not 21 for another few months, so I dont get much feedback or opportunity to show my mixing to my boss and peers. My friends like them but they are biased. This is not my cleanest mix, but it is a pretty fair representation of my mixing and where some of my weak points are, even if they dont show in all of my mixes. Any positive or negative feedback would be great!

Also I am running through traktor 2.6, w/o sync function. Thanks for your time

anyone?

Great mix bro. I actually let this track play as I did tasks on my laptop. I heard some awkward transitions due to songs being of different key or the songs being of different tempos/genres and you had to pitch bend to beat match. It is kind of hard to blend two different genres together, but it looks you are able to do so. Also at around 8:55, it was suddenly cued to another part of the song. Was it an accident or a misclick? I'm not an expert, but try to avoid mistakes that can cause confusions to listeners or dancers when playing live. There is always room for improvement, but you are good. Keep it up :D! Also, what was the first song you played? I'm trying to gather new music for my sets.

I had my mouse pad on double tap, and it was over the wave when I was setting a cue, noob mistake. I disabled it after that set. I am making a new one tonight with like 60% brand new music. I believe it was the one trap remix. I get most of my music off djcity. by most I mean all. :)

I searched for the first song in djcity. I couldn't find it :<. I love how it sounds. First, it starts as a progressive house atmospheric intro and then it goes rave-like before the build up then the drop was pretty good with its electro element. Help me please!

Not a brostep fan (I see it's place, I am just an old geezer), so had to skip around a bit. I pretty much agree with Blank Keys, some of the transitions are messy, phrasing was a bit off in places, drops misaligned, but you're off to a great start, just keep on practicing, I know I mess up a ton still. Pay more attention to EQ, and maybe keep some transitions a bit longer so it's not as abrupt.

Keep at it, man. Cheers.

Blank sorry Its taken me so long to get back to you, Its been a very busy month for me, I got my MidiFighter 3d! and just lots of work, coworked a few christmas partys and other stuff just havent had time for the forums. The song is bfam by Julian Jordan and Martin Garrix. Thanks for the feedback monogammee like I said wasnt my absolute best, but it did highlight my more common mistakes which was why I was sharing it with you guys, If I just showed you all some bang out set and it received generally good reviews on here, at the end of the day, I wouldnt grow at all :)

That's the true spirit, and I couldn't agree more. I've noticed people in this place are nice but also fair and honest and that's what's important for people who are learning the ins and outs of the trade, I am very glad I stumbled upon this community and thankful to everyone helping out. Not to hijack thread completely, nice to hear you learned something new and looking forward to your new stuff. Cheers.

I actually found the song on my own through very long days. It's great you have played gigs. While you were performing at parties, i was probably yelling at google to find the song. lol

Mono what genre electro or music are you more into? Is like to try a set more out of the house category so some suggestions of stuff you like could be cool, I really appreciate the community here too its nice to know people not only look and listen but are more than willing to give you tips and check progress. Thanks guys
Blank your killin me that's pretty funny if you ever want any playlists or anything like that I can show you what my crates a are look like? (I run Traktor but folders mine as well be crates)

Also I should be uploading at least one mix by tomorrow

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Mono what genre electro or music are you more into? Is like to try a set more out of the house category so some suggestions of stuff you like could be cool, I really appreciate the community here too its nice to know people not only look and listen but are more than willing to give you tips and check progress. Thanks guys
Blank your killin me that's pretty funny if you ever want any playlists or anything like that I can show you what my crates a are look like? (I run Traktor but folders mine as well be crates)

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Hard to say. I like deep house, tech, minimal, techno. Check out my mixcloud if you have time to get the idea.

My first love would be old school sound dubstep and now I am into producers who put out dark, deep, "dungeon" sound. GetDarker is one of my biggest inspirations (in fact what made me get back into mixing), watch Darkside do his thing, that's pretty much exactly the style of dubstep I love. Drum n' Bass gets me pumped up too :)

I would recommend listening to a lot of music, listen to other people's mixes in genres you're interested in, I think that can teach everyone a thing or two. I have a huge list of tunes I loved from what I heard and couple of new ideas on mixing. I also realized I enjoy genres that I thought were boring because I was assuming. You can't listen to all the music out there, but just stick with getting some exposure, don't stress about over-abundance and find things you love.

I actually realized that as much as I profess my love for dubstep, I have the least of it on my mixcloud. I'll try and put a new mix up quite soon so if you get interested in the sound I can give you a heads up (or you can follow my account). I've got some killer tunes I've been itching to play.

One of my favorite tracks right now is evil lurks by wolfgang. Ill take a look at your mixcloud within the next week, Im sure ill have time by this weekend. Currently working on custom sound packs for traktor remix decks and my midifighter 3d :).

And the second paragraph, very well put, I wish more djs in my area could read that exact post. Sounds about like my views and hearing another person say that ill have to pursue more mixes from the non mainstream djs. Thanks again Mono.

Deeper dark melodys, preferably in dubstep or heavy electro set me off. Its the best way to really set the tone and well bring vibes and intensity with your music. I just started getting into more drum and bass, and also trap music, I feel those to genres in particular have really helped my mixing, and bpm transitions grow helps to have lots of places out of the 120s and 130s, and still not having to play like just hip hop and electronic subgenres.

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One of my favorite tracks right now is evil lurks by wolfgang. Ill take a look at your mixcloud within the next week, Im sure ill have time by this weekend. Currently working on custom sound packs for traktor remix decks and my midifighter 3d :).

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Checked out that Evil Lurks track you mentioned, sounds pretty epic. And by that I mean it has this grandiose sound to it. It's pretty simple, but just makes it catchier. Also the whole voicey wa-wa-wa thing - I don't know what's about it, but I just don't get it in current music. Gosh darn it, am I getting THAT old? Haha. But pleasant tune nonetheless.

Also your post inspired me to record a set like I mentioned previously, so if you get a chance to check out my mixcloud, listen to To Each And Every One Of You first, its chock full of the deep and dark sound I've been blabbering about. I am not posting the player as it'd be an assholish move on my part to hijack the thread with YOUR mix haha.

Cheers, man.

Stoked to hear that, Ill be listening to it tonight! ill update when Ive gotten a chance to check it out

Hey mono sorry it took so long to get back to you ive been fighting battles with most of my electronics keeping them alive, rough winter I guess. But I really enjoyed your deeper dub mix here is another 15 minute mix for a mixcloud competition