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

[Lineypirate]

Dubstep. I like it, and I CAN mix it so it’s in time and all, but when I do, it always sound like arse. I learnt on clubland-esque dance years ago on vinyl so dance, trance and the like is easy. Drum and Bass is also easy (and the most fun) for me. But Dubstep? Just. Can’t. Do. It.

[doom27]

@Lineypirate

Dubstep. I like it, and I CAN mix it so it’s in time and all, but when I do, it always sound like arse. I learnt on clubland-esque dance years ago on vinyl so dance, trance and the like is easy. Drum and Bass is also easy (and the most fun) for me. But Dubstep? Just. Can’t. Do. It.

^- My thoughts. Some dubstep mixes perfect, well most of the old stuff like skream and pantyraid, but the newer dubstep with shit loads of sounds is incredibly hard to mix without just waiting for the buildup and cross fading to the drop of another song.

[mostapha]

@Nick_V

Disco edits where they loop a rhythm part can be maddening. They give you the illusion that there is a steady tempo and you can beat match, then the loop ends with a fill or something and comes back a fraction of a second off throwing off the whole mix. At least with a pure live drummer funk track, you know its going to be drifting all over the place and you’re either going to get in and out quick or do juggling/cuepoint stuff.

If you’re mixing like that, it’s easy. Live drummers only make it hard when you’re actually blending. Like…64-bar long mix with 2 live drummers. That’s when it gets hard, especially if the drummers weren’t playing to a click track. What you’re talking about is just as easy as doing it with any other genre.

[Nicadraus]

@Frank112916

Hip-hop is definitely the hardest for me to mix. I haven’t practiced much with it but I am starting to and it can be difficult. I don’t sync with hip hop because the phase meter doesn’t tell you shit even when you try and grid properly. Usually I just do it all by ear. I definitely need to increase my library and practice mixing hip hop more.

Hip-hop and R&B are probably the easiest genre to mix in my opinion. I used to mix everything from Hip-Hop, R&B, Techno, House, Trance and 70s Disco/Retro back in the 90s.

70s Disco where recorded with live drummers so the beats didn’t have consistent drum patterns. You will have to ride the pitch very so often until you’re able to mix the song in completely.

So I say that 70s disco is the trickiest. Also, not all disco music have consistent bar counts.

[WEEDNIRVANA]

80s hardcore punk.
Black metal.

[MVIII]

whats “beatdown section”?

I’ve been trying to figured out what beatdown section mean for a while a still don’t know how it work or were can I detected in a sonng can someone explain pleasse!

[JesC]

mostly any genre of music can be mixed, hardest for me was Rockabilly

[synthet1c]

@MV111 nod your head to the beat, on the bassdrum your head will be down, on a hihat your head will be up in most music. the “downbeat” is refering to the 1st beat (start) of the 4 beat bar. everything in modern music is calculated in multiples and fractions of 4

the “beatdown” section is where punks get beat up for going off topic.
/offtopic

[mostapha]

@WEEDNIRVANA

80s hardcore punk.
Black metal.

That’s because rock kids have no rhythm.

@synthet1c

everything in modern music is calculated in multiples and fractions of 4

That’s certainly not true. Everything in EDM, pop, and rock is…not everything in modern music.

[dominant]

For some reason I find glitch hop nearly impossible to beatmatch, I have to look at the bpm of the track to lock it down

[Michielygil]

everything not made by drummachines is per definition harder to mix, since beatmatching involves quite a lot of manual labor steering it in the right direction.