Whats the down fall of my mixes?

[mdcdesign]

Zzzurp, PolarWind and Granuphase are my go-to effects atm, in conjunction with Gater. I use the on/off triggers rhythmically to create build-ups and wind-downs; you have to basically ride the Dry/Wet knob so it doesn't get to be "too much" though.

[hola amigos]

yeah I hardly ever touch the dry/wet knob or the effects knobs. I don't even know what the function of them do. Let me go experiment and try to find out.

[hola amigos]

wow i'm a noob. dry/wet button pretty much activates the effects. I usually turn on effects and turn knob and nothing changes so I was complaining calling those effects lame. But really I never turned on the dry/wet button to activate them. Now I can be creative with it.

[mdcdesign]

wow i'm a noob.

If this was Facebook, I'd give you a "Like".

[hola amigos]

lol good thing i don't have book face then.

[Ed Paris]

you shouldn´t bother about using fx when the plain mixing itself isn´t working out. just saying.

[bluegrassdj]

It certainly was an interesting way of plugging your stuff: "I'm shit, have a listen and tell my WHY I'm shit", when you're not shit. Clever

[hola amigos]

True so far i'm just turning knobs like a champ.

[Jester]

check your thread in the mixes section for some feedback from me.
keep things simple. forget about the effects for the time being. concentrate on the basics of transitions, phrasing, levels and eqing. effects are "icing on the cake" but if your mixing smells like a turd the effects wont help polish it, so to speak

[ooASHoo]

youve picked a hard genre to start with theres a lot going on in the track along, so FX are good to learn but dont get hung up on it. the mixing of one track in to another seamlessly is the most important thing to grasp first, try to find something with a more pronounced so you can beat match better the once youve got that you will find the tracks blend alot better and you can start building the energy of you set with the tracks alone thats when you really want to start messing with FX to enhance the sounds. https://soundcloud.com/dj-ash-18 these are just mixes i done for friends but you ca get a idea of how i build the energy in my sets n