"Imagine you're like packing a moving van; you have to fit all the items in your house into the van. In the same way with your mix, every single instrument wants to have a space in that mix."
"Super tactile... swipe across and think, 'Well, I wonder how that track mixes with another one.'"
"Straightaway, it's super super intuitive... all be done with one finger as you're holding your phone onto deck B."
"Mix in mono for better translation and a tighter sound."
"One thing I always do fairly quickly when I'm at that last third of the mix, where I start really cueing and going into automation."
"It allows you to play two tracks together and they would sound like they are a good fit musically."
"Sync will line up the BPM of the tracks and hold them together so they sound good."
"If you understand what each band of the eq does from a fundamental standpoint, you can then make and assess a problem within your mix."
"Automation is quite easily probably one of the most important tools in mixing."
"I'm in control... and that gives a little bit more of the humanity back to the mix."
"It's more about how you mix the sounds when it comes to making hard melodies; sound selection is very important but I really think that the key factor is the effects."
"It's like being able to clearly differentiate between the two tracks helps with beat matching and then helps with mixing as well."
"...if we get the One Beat from one track to another beat of another track, we can blend from one to the other and it just feels like people are just constantly dancing to the same song."
"For every one, I have something for you to practice mixing."
"...the mixing was fantastic, but the storytelling was mind-blowing, right? It really felt like it was playing out in front of you. It was absolutely fantastic."
"I think our mixes have gotten better and better and more importantly closer to the vision that we had."
"It's great for just mixing music. And where this thing shines and kind of blows everything out of the water is the versatility of its outputs and inputs."
"Knowing how to beat match by ear I think honestly is a must and I think it's actually loads of fun."
"It goes from feeling like a rough mix to a final mix in a way."
"You could do a whole mix with really that one reverb, maybe a couple of compressors here and there, and that would be all the outboard gear you'd probably need to get a classic rock sound."
"What's up guys, this is Valentino with Bigger Creations, and today I'm going to show you how I mix my songs from start to finish."
"Every mix that I did on them, I was very pleased with the end result."
"Remember that we did our static mix at the end of the song on the loudest part of the song."
"The sync button can be used to make sure the two tracks are the same speed."
"And how freaking cool did that sound, guys? It sounded so professional."
"It's gonna make a world of a difference for your mixes and how fast you get those mixes done."
"This is a DJ controller that's kind of centered around the idea of open format DJs or DJs who want to mix a lot of different styles or genres together."
"When you press play, it just spins; spin backs, scratching, all works beautifully really well."
"The pitch feels really accurate, like trying to get two tracks locked together, it's perfectly achievable on this."
"Once you know how to beat match by ear... you walk away from your set going, 'Man, that was awesome.'"
"The most important mix in the house is the headphones."
"Plug-in automation is something very useful that I use a lot when mixing."
"These aren't just tips; these are game changers that will elevate your mixes from good to unforgettable."
"In mastering as in mixing, so much of what we do is about personal taste."
"Pay attention to how much character each and every single one of your layer adds to your mix."
"It's called background pad for a reason."
"Keep in mind that Reverb and Delay, the more you have on a track, the more present it becomes in the mix."
"There are three key elements of a mix which strongly affect my processing decisions in my mastering chain."
"That's how we can build depth and dimension within our mixes."
"That's the most fun part of the mix, when you've dealt with all the problems and it's all sounding absolutely great."
"Invest the time in advance to get it organized, then I fire the starting gun and I try and get to that final stage of the mix as quickly as possibly can."
"Key mixing is basically about mixing a track into another track that's in the same key."
"It's just an amazing tool to get the body that you need from what might be a thinner mix."
"The less dense you make it down here, the more clear and powerful and more cutting through everything is gonna be."
"That involves naming, coloring, but also organizing your tracks logically so that you can really swiftly move through the process of mixing."
"That is going to make the final mixing process a lot smoother, and it's going to enable me to move quickly to make major balance changes within the mix."
"Highly recommended, fun to mix with, just a lot of fun to use in general."
"We're really hoping that you guys are inspired and curious to go try these for yourselves on your next mix."
"Being able to crossfade my tracks gives that really nice smooth transition in worship."
"The DJs work clubs, put out their own mixes of popular records, made beats, and some of them rapped as well."
"The dedicated loop sections for each deck provide quick and easy access to loop any track."
"Mixing absolutely helps you to get the best master possible in a song, and you should keep mastering in mind while mixing, but mixing is not mastering."
"It's really amazing, and it's the same process that any professional mix follows."
"And then it goes into the track, still that wordplay linking it together, 'Don't you know I'm walking away,' and we're using similar words from each song, the acapella and the original song, to combine them together in this creative intro."
"That's how you create excitement and don't swallow up a mix."
"Flux mode means that whatever you do down here, the track will continue playing underneath as if you hadn't done anything."
"They just really glued together nicely off the bat and I just didn't need to do a lot of work to it."
"To adjust by hundredths of a BPM is really quite impressive."
"Mixed in key is the sauce, it goes on every single song that I'm mixing."
"Set your kick and snare to peak at negative 12 and then blend everything else up into that anchor, that framework."
"A perfect mix is also summing up how you felt on the day."
"We don't want to be squashing the melody into the drums, we want to be pushing the drums through the mix."
"It's very subtle but allows those vocals the space to breathe in the mix."