With Mix 36, I am continuing down my path of live mixing. I grabbed 3 tracks that I felt would sound good together. Today, I gave them a listen to figure out which order to play them in and figured out how many bars of intro music the latter two tracks had for the transition. The last track, Mistreated had 32; which is long! I thought about sitting down and playing out what to do, but I told myself, ‘we’re live dj’ing now. So, Go!’.
As such, the transitions are simple. I bring the latter track in at abou 40% volume with the low eq down. I then fade up, swap the lows, and fade out the first track. I’m still not 100% in the zone. I definitely am using the waveforms to clue me in on how close I am to a new phrase (which, I guess I could do with memory cues and not look at the laptop). Further, I am not using beat sync, but do take advantage of the bpm displays. So, closer to live.
One take, no practice. Enjoy!
