Not too new tracks and bit rate
I love some older tracks, for exemple, a song called “Macumba Walele”, and well, when I bought it, I saw that the bit rate is 192 kbps, and I had the same problem with other old tracks x.x
What do you use to do when you have to mix some tracks that are not 320 kbps?, do you use any “trick” to get a better sound quality?
You can never go up in quality.
I think you can get away with 192 kbps, but 128 kbps is pushing it. It tends to sound really grainy and stuff.
You might have to drop the gain of the 320 kbps track a bit since the 192kbps track won’t be able to pushed as much.
AAC @192 is pretty good, at least in the mp3 @256 territory.
Some lower bitrate songs tend to lose the upper frequencies since they’re the most difficult to sample at lower bitrates, so if i ever have to mix some 128 stuff i usually turn up the highs a bit 
i wouldn’t go lower than 256 (fucking amazon) but even that is very exceptional.
i can imagine 128 sounding atrocious on a rig
+1, crank the treble.
Where are you buying tunes that are 192? I just want to make sure I don’t get screwed. I bought an EP from amazon once and was pissed. Luckily the producer gave me a 320 because he felt bad.
I bought that 192 kbps track on legalsounds.com, because there was only that quality :c
But 99,99% of the tracks there are 320 kbps, and are only 0.09$ o.o
Thanks to everyone! 
Then, I’ll just won’t go lower than 256 
.09 cents? this can’t be right.
that’s uber cheap!
legal sounds.
yeah right
i hope you’re just taking the piss. if not, you got screwed over
The very fact that the site has legal in the name is a very good indication that they are illegal. My friend used one that used a credit system, worked out about 30p a song, thought it was legal. That was the first time I came across this illegal pay site scam. They’re basically MP3 search engines, but have the cheek to charge, and they’re all based in countries were the RIAA and such have trouble getting their way.
i know. it was my way of the saying the same thing, without actually saying “illegal”. 
just trying to be “nice” about it.
Lol… thank you :c
Next time I’ll buy from beatport/djtunes, I don’t want to get scammed D:
Edit: I just read around itnernet, and they’re legal, but they are hosted on Russia (legalsounds.com - legalsounds Resources and Information.), so the prices are that cheap, because they don’t need to pay high taxes, etc…, they don’t have a great selection as djtunes/beatport/itunes, but at least they are cheap
Don’t forget iTunes, Junorecords and stompy.
Trackitdown and Traxsource are also pretty good. In fact trackitdown is really good.
The problem I had on trackitdown, is this: I mix and produce minimal, and well… is pretty hard to find stores that have “minimal” as a genre, so it’s pretty hard to find new tracks, etc… :c
That’s all I can find on any site recently, haha. Trackitdown puts that stuff under Deep/Tech. Click deep/tech house at the top, then on that page, theres a drop down box near the top that says genre/tag, open that and minimal is one of the first option. Bam!
Aw, thanks dude!
You helped me a lot!!! w
I wish I could give you some rep
IMO, if there’s one thing to not be cheap about, it’s buying tunes. A lot of underground producers aren’t making shit. Every little bit helps. $1 a tune won’t kill you.
We’ll just pretend there is a button.
Off topic but also on topic… How hard is digging for 90’s 12" mixes in 320 online? I find that with the current rising deep wave trend, you can throw in a lot of 90’s anthems in with the top 40 crowd and they absolutely blow the dancefloor to pieces, but the 320 down to whatever bitrate the 90’s track is at really sucks out the energy for me. The pissed up crowd go bananas, but for me the magic is lost without that crisp 320 bass/treble.
compilation cds n that.
Unfortunately most compilation CD’s from the 90’s were mixed and not individual tunes. Kinda hard to find that stuff at a good bit rate. I just ripped alot of it from vinyl, myself but that’s incredibly time consuming and tedious work.
