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Mixing NON edm tracks in EDM ones

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:26 am
by Toufas
how can i mix for example radiohead with some trance or techno?
any ideas?

Re: Mixing NON edm tracks in EDM ones

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:32 am
by innerdreamrecords.com
Toufas wrote:how can i mix for example radiohead with some trance or techno?
any ideas?
You might have trouble with tempos - if you can find a Radiohead track at 65 bpm (in that range) then you could mix into a 130 bpm edm track. I don't remember Radiohead doing many fast tracks?

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:36 am
by Toufas
well i cant properly warp a slow track....its not like edm that i have bars and beats.....

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:22 am
by Machinate
there *are* beats and bars in non-electronic music, it's just not as pronounced... meaning you'll just have to practice more :wink:

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:49 am
by RePeter
street spirit is quite an easy one of theirs to mix.... treat it the same as everything else: warp, cut, destroy with fx.... simple :lol:

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:54 pm
by Lo-Fi Massahkah
What's EDM?

/Mikael

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:13 pm
by elemental
Ecstatic Devil Music

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:22 pm
by Machinate
East of Denmark, Michael.

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:52 pm
by DISUYE
It's a bastard. Even mixing really old house with contemp. music in Live requires a lot of warp markers OR a non-mixed style of mixing. Cutting, for example. If you are trying to layer (a la bootlegs) then you'll need to put the hours in warping each beat.

Also, remember you don't have to warp the entire track ... make sure the first & last 30 seconds (whatever, up to you) has the beats pinned down, then leave the middle as-is.

Dan

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:15 pm
by RePeter
DISUYE wrote:
Also, remember you don't have to warp the entire track ... make sure the first & last 30 seconds (whatever, up to you) has the beats pinned down, then leave the middle as-is.

Dan
thats ok if the original tune is strong enough.... if your mixing some old funk, which sounds weak compared to new compressed-to-hell stuff, then you want to warp the whole track so you can layer some extra tuff beats behind it.

it might take ages.... but if you pick the right tunes its worth it.

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:01 pm
by Lo-Fi Massahkah
Elemental and Machinate...

Can't a guy be taken seriously in his ignorance? For real - I don't know what EDM is... Please do tell.

I'm the one East of Denmark, but I'm not EDM... I think...

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:03 pm
by noisegeek
This is exactly the sort of mixing I've been working on developing. My problem has been not wanting to increase/decrease the tempo so much it destroys the feel of the original. So far I've had the most success turning off warping for those tracks, and just mixing by ear. It seems to me that's more appropriate for stuff that is that ecclectic.

and for what it's worth I don't have a clue what EDM is either (though I'd guess "electronic dance music"). Hell, I only recently got EBM and IDM.

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:25 pm
by Toufas
electronic dance music

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:26 pm
by Toufas
can someone send me any rock track that is properly warped and can be mixed with techno for example?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:56 am
by Lo-Fi Massahkah
Toufas wrote:electronic dance music
Thank you very much, Sir!

/Mikael