Hardest genre's to mix...Your thoughts?

**synthet1c** · 12-20-2011, 05:12 PM

grindcore, hardcore... only because its so hard to listen to a whole track cause that music is disgusting LOL. everything is pretty easy after a little practice, but it is always easier if you love what your playing.

**jimbrowski00** · 12-20-2011, 05:15 PM

yup... anything with a live drummer is a bitch to mix. Also some tracks where the backing track is an actual dj rocking doubles... that can be a bitch too.

anything with a 4/4 beat is retarded easy to beatmatch even without headphone and on a traditional vinyl setup with no dvs

**sobi** · 12-20-2011, 05:46 PM

I've only had problems with disco/funk, when it was my first time. All you have to do is ride the pitch. This might be a generational gap thing though. For guys who came up on turntables (like myself), that was a normal every gig thing. Hell... anyone who remembers EDM from the late 80's to early 90's knows that analogue drum machines even had a little drift to the sequencing. I can see how if your not used to it, it can seem to be out of left field... especially if you heavily use sync.

What I REALLY find challenging to mix is rock. I just have NO clue how to do it, or how you can make it sound good. That being said, I would never WANT to do it either. lol.

**lethal_pizzle** · 12-20-2011, 08:16 PM

- R&B, 'Urban' and hiphop HAS got a predictable 4/4 structure (normal caveats apply)
- to answer the question;
1) live drummers playing breakbeats
2) live drummers playing 4 on the floor
3) quantised breakbeats
4) everything else

**smiTTTen** · 12-20-2011, 08:34 PM

Anything with more than 12% kittens and I'm hopeless. It's becoming more of a problem as pretty much everything has kittens in it thes days.

**oliosky** · 12-20-2011, 08:34 PM

ambient, alot of electronica and anything not in 4/4 time

**DJ Abercrombie** · 12-20-2011, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by Citizen_Insane

I think that regardless of genre, if you've been DJing for a bit and know your stuff when it comes to mixing, it isn't terribly hard to mix pretty much any genre mediocrely... However it takes a lot of dedication, practice and knowledge of the genre and your music to mix it really well.

And that is what separates the expert from the novice DJ.