Pivot Mixing=
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IdleRich
IdleRich
My entire understanding of pivot mixing contained above. I saw an example where you can mix two songs at different bpms if you get them at a certain raio to wach other cos one will sound like triplets in the other. Or something. But I saw an example lacking the overarching theory... not that I'll probably ever do it, but if anyone cares to explain properly...
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Does this work with artists other than A Certain Ratio, though?
it's all about common maths.
5-6 or 3-4 etc etc.
I tend to just stick to double time mixing personally because I always tend to know what tracks don't mix together in my head, so finding tracks at the right ratios can be annoying. This might be because I'm not a good single mood dj though. I get quite adhd on the decks and have to keep switching up from minimal to maximal etc.
or you can just mix using a beatless ambient loop in the incoming track and dub delay out of the out going track.
It seems much more intuitive if you mix visually than by ear.
5-6 or 3-4 etc etc.
I tend to just stick to double time mixing personally because I always tend to know what tracks don't mix together in my head, so finding tracks at the right ratios can be annoying. This might be because I'm not a good single mood dj though. I get quite adhd on the decks and have to keep switching up from minimal to maximal etc.
or you can just mix using a beatless ambient loop in the incoming track and dub delay out of the out going track.
It seems much more intuitive if you mix visually than by ear.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Yeah, I was thinking why not just pull up the tune at the old tempo, set off a load of explosion / dub siren / machine gun sound effects and MC chat and then just go straight into a tune with a strong intro at the new tempo. But maybe I don't appreciate the craft of DJing on the same level as these people.
different approaches I think. Only really works with house music when you start going into dystopian UK mutations with tearing bass and ragga chatter. or really dark ny garage.
not so common for me when we start getting into stuff like like that pivot guy does with 5/6 ratios where it sounds like a 5/16 loop in the first track and 6/16 in the second track.
er, no thanks!
You're gonna get up to extratone real quick if you keep that up without some same time or halftime mixing thrown in
Speaking of which, there might be something close to extratone in the new mix tomorrow at the end after a BMB track!
or a 1 beat loop of whatever track you're mixing out and just pitch it up or down as needed - a lot of that kind of stuff often sounds like cheap novelty stuff to my ears though
I make kind of a similar transition bpm amount in the new mix as that pivot guy above (but in the other direction) without using any tools or effects or anything besides a hard pitch slam in the "break" section of a track (wouldn't necessarily call it an ambient section though, I dunno) that I think really almost sounds like it was originally produced that way - and without any math!
IdleRich
IdleRich
Yeah there are loads of alternative options and I'm very unlikely to ever do tbis. Still, I feel that this is something we'll within my ability to understand if given a proper explanation, so I'd just like to read and grasp the theory even if I don't care about using it.
I don't do much eqing besides bass swapping which seems to work fine to my ears most of the time (ok, sometimes I should have done a little more, but whatever).
looping is cheating but middle eastern stuff won't stay in time if you don't loop it to 4 bars, because noone has made enough house and techno tracks in 7/8, 9/2 etc.