I hate these “vote for me” threads as much as anyone else does, BUT, unfortunately sometimes you have to play the game to move ahead. I’ve entered the Denon DJ competition for BPM Show this year; the 16 people with the most votes (ugh, I know) go through to live heats, semi finals, final, etc. At that point, it’s down to judges but before that, we have to crowdsource for YOUR help
Still, I don’t want to win this unfairly or immorally, so I need to ask you guys for a favour. I’d love to have your votes, BUT, I don’t want you to just blindly vote without actually feeling I deserve it. Listen to this mix, and if it’s worth a vote - technically, I understand prog house isn’t to everyone’s personal taste - then vote for me. Otherwise, feel free to give me constructive criticism or even just tell me I’m crap, after 15 years the constructive comments still help and the insults are just water off a duck’s back
I’m off to bed in a second but just want to say a massive thank you to every who’s voted so far; I must admit that even after playing for as long as I have, I did half expect most people to say “nah this is crap” so I’m very pleasantly surprised Just goes to show what a supportive community DJTT is when we’re not all arguing about what the best gear is
Thought you might want some actual feedback rather than just a handful of votes. Here’s my analysis anyway.
1:05 Track A too quiet and thin
2:25-2:51 Track A too quiet, strange filtering going on, highs from A left too long
3:37 Vocal sample cut off, then played too quietly
4:43 Random drop in volume
8:40 More strange uneven filtering
9:14 High pass filter tail
11:35 Unnecessary high pass filter? Making Track A thin and quiet, tailing off and sitting in the background.
13:25 More high pass filtering? Uneven changes in volume? Sounding thin again.
19:22 Another high pass filter tail, where proper phrasing would have sounded much better.
21:28 Filter..
22:40 Track A sounding very thin (filtered again?) with overpowering bassline from next track
23:11 Random gap/poor overlap. Again, proper phrasing would have avoided this
24:35-25:20 Messy clash between both tracks. Track A sounding thin again throughout.
31:26 Part of the song? Cueing with fader up?
37:00-37:20 Some phrasing would have been nice
38:45 More overdone high pass filter
42:30 Sounding weak again with the filtered track
43:00 Cut off too soon. Echo freeze might have been good here.
45:55 Noisy clash
46:44 Abrupt end, phrasing needed
49:00 Another clash (keys?). Track B needs to be louder too, take out some bass from A
51:47 Another high pass filter tail. Track A should have disappeared by now.
53:03 Part of the track? Or another track sitting in the background?
54:10 Bassline is a little heavy, vocals a little quiet.
54:58 Very thin sounding lead synth + vocals.
56:44 Bad clash. Proper phrasing needed.
59:11 More pounding bassline with thin sounding melody in the background.
61:05 Echo would sound better on the end of the vocals.
As before, EQing and phrasing need work so you might want to avoid the filter+FX for a while until you get those sorted.
I think I’d rather eat a bag of dicks than have such a detailed analysis of any of my mixes like that. How can you listen to ANY DJ now without being so critical?
