From Kent Williams Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 15:25
From Kent Williams Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 15:25
HOW TO MAKE AN ANTISEPTICALLY PERFECT MIX CD: 1. Record all tracks to hard disk -- protools, or PC, doesn't matter. 2. Pick a tempo. 3. For each track, figure out the track tempo, and then pitch shift it to the target tempo. 4. lay tracks out in a multitrack editor, and slide them so the downbeats line up where they overlap. Crossfade to taste. There are plenty of examples of this kind of action out there, and this in fact is done for some of the B96(Chicago) mix shows. As you can imagine, this approach does tend to remove all personality from the mix. For one thing, the only skills involved are being able to spot a downbeat in a digital audio file, and being able to do a little simple math. I've done something similar with my own tracks on my "Phase Change" CD, but I feel like that's just my way to come up with a continuous sequence that flows between tracks, and you expect a studio CD to be tweaked within an inch of its life. What's more common I think is to simply roll a DAT and mix live. If you trainwreck a mix, just back up the outgoing track to before the mix, and redo the mix. Then when it's dumped to hard disk, you can cut out the fuckup. I've done this too, because while I'm a big fan of my taste in music, I'm not the worlds greatest DJ. By the way, if you've not checked my mix http://avalon.net/~kent/maymix/ give it a listen -- anyone who can spot the two digital edits will win a copy of my Phase Change CD. kent williams -- xxxx@xxxxxx.xxx