Whats the down fall of my mixes?
I’ve been recording for almost a year now and my music still isn’t sounding appealing. I’m I lacking some basic information? Music theory is my guess.
If you haven’t heard the mess of my music mixing check it out.
Nothing tbh; Moon Walk and Delighted are both pretty decent old school Trance tracks by the sounds of it; the only thing you’re really “missing” is a defined structure and a melody, the overall sound is pretty solid and reminiscent of Cosmic Gate / Lange / York etc. You just need to find a decent female vocalist and you’ve got a shot at a club anthem.
Thanks I do think my preferred genre is hard to get feedback on. I do need more girl vocals. Those are hard to find, maybe I can figure out how to use audio hijack and take vocals from movies / songs and interpret them into a mix. Or I could get a girl voice sample and throw it into my mix. Never experimented with that, good advice you got.
Dude, you ask the same question once a week. Stop posting, and practice more. Listen to other mixes, and try to do the same things that they are doing.
I know I like to hear feedback from more experienced dj’s though. So I can try new techniques out. But I’ll go back to practicing, just got my mixer and head phones so it’s been consistent for two days now.
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 
I think I have a lot to improve, when I’m not touching knobs and staring at the computer screen waiting for something amazing to happen. When mixing psychedelic trance, I literally drop the volume slide the fader over and thats it. There is already so many effects going on in the mix I don’t find a point into throwing in a delay or a reverb or even lofi. So I catch myself just staring at the controller like hmmm there’s gotta be more to this piece of plastic then what i’m doing lol. I can’t go to a house party plug in my computer then let my computer be a ipod in front of a crowd. I can’t just stand around, I need some knobs moving, something to improve my sets. I just can’t figure out what i’m looking for yet. Time will tell, I just want to speed up this learning process. Graghhh
FX dude. When I’m doing a set I spend half the track mashing buttons like a maniac. The best results I’ve had are when I’m working with another DJ; he mixes the tracks in and I play around with them. Flux mode and Macro FX are brilliant for that sort of thing.
I don’t know many people who use FX in psy trance. Just do great transitions. What Fx you thinking? I’ll go do it now. I’m just taking a break. I’ve been on this computer since 9am and it’s 1:08 am lol. Got ear burn from these damn head phones. lol
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.
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.
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.
If this was Facebook, I’d give you a “Like”.
lol good thing i don’t have book face then.
you shouldn´t bother about using fx when the plain mixing itself isn´t working out. just saying.
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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
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True so far i’m just turning knobs like a champ.
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 
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.
these are just mixes i done for friends but you ca get a idea of how i build the energy in my sets n