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So I got booked for a certain night in my hometown, quite a lot of people there usually
so I'm excited about that. But here's my 'problem' the promoter would like to have an example
mix for the website n stuff and I just can't seem to get a perfect 30 min mix down.

My mixing is at least decent (otherwise I wouldn't have been booked) but I always miss one or two points to kill the top or bass for example.
Any tips or tricks to avoid mistakes? I always try doing the mix in one take, I've heard about people adding a part with something like Audacity?

Style of music is techno with a lot of groove to it so clashing hi-hats tend to happen ; I use Traktor Pro with timecode vinyl.

You could always edit the mix after it's done.

justanotherdj wrote:You could always edit the mix after it's done.

But is it possible to make small EQ changes afterwards? What program should I use for something like that?

AxeD wrote:

justanotherdj wrote:You could always edit the mix after it's done.

But is it possible to make small EQ changes afterwards? What program should I use for something like that?

Yes, just like any track you can eq it with your favorite eq plugin

jrisreal wrote:

AxeD wrote:

justanotherdj wrote:You could always edit the mix after it's done.

But is it possible to make small EQ changes afterwards? What program should I use for something like that?

Yes, just like any track you can eq it with your favorite eq plugin

A plugin for a DAW? Can't import the WAV file in Reason but Ableton lt came with my recorder maybe that'll work.

Thanks for the replys so far.

yeah, maybe you could record each deck separately (i'm not sure if that's possible or not) so you could cut from each so you're not cutting ALL the highs or bass, just at the points you miss

mikeyp wrote:yeah, maybe you could record each deck separately (i'm not sure if that's possible or not) so you could cut from each so you're not cutting ALL the highs or bass, just at the points you miss

I don't think this is possible with my setup, but that would work quite well.

Got a decent one down in one take yesterday, maybe I'll just use that. It's just that I always know it could be better, but I'll just let the tunes do their work

If it's only EQ problems that are the issue, load the recording into a DAW and instead of trying to fix the problem, use more filters or delays to make that bit some weird transition period? As in, make it sound like you meant that part to be weird before getting back to the prime goodness.
As for clashing hats, I don't think there is a remedy (apart from practice )

grooki wrote:If it's only EQ problems that are the issue, load the recording into a DAW and instead of trying to fix the problem, use more filters or delays to make that bit some weird transition period? As in, make it sound like you meant that part to be weird before getting back to the prime goodness.
As for clashing hats, I don't think there is a remedy (apart from practice )

I get what you mean, I'll try the ableton version that came with the recorder to do some editing like that. I figured clashing sound can't really be fixed, maybe I should mix on monitors instead of an old hi fi set

You mentioned your using traktor. You should be able to rewire each of the decks to another DAW like Ableton Live. Each deck then gets recorded into a separate channel (as a wav) and you can master your mix before flattening.

I haven't done this myself, but I am pretty sure it's do-able.

Quick google found this:
http://blog.dubspot.com/traktor-to-able ... ute-audio/

What I eventually did is pretty simple: run the whole mix on one deck through Traktor, record it again and do some extra EQing live