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djupload
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 Posted - 2007/11/26 : 22:07:25
Is it wrong to keep your hi/mid/ & low knobs in the center i hardly ever change them i sometimes turn the bass down to bring in a track then crank it up is this wrong?
Ive dj`d for years and have never really been one to tweak them whilst in the mix.
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Pope C XXIII
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Posted - 2007/11/26 : 22:33:04
Unless you're dealing with things like old vinyl which may need some EQ adjustment, then the consensus around here tends to be that it's fine.
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djupload
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Posted - 2007/11/26 : 22:49:46
Cool. Its just a few mates dj as well plus ive done a few sets in some clubs 2 and when i jump on after someone else the knobs are all over the place and i think WTF so i adjust them to the center again. Just thought i was missing out on something all these years.
Cheers
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Jax
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Posted - 2007/11/26 : 23:11:10
yep ur doing it right, tracks are designed to be played with the eq's at 0db with a few exceptions.. dodgy vinyl / vinyl rip where you need to boost or cut part of the freq range like pope says or when you are mixing. any eq to be done on a sound system should and usually is done on a mixing desk or graphic eq seperate to the dj mixer
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milo
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Posted - 2007/11/27 : 01:41:35
your bass knob should be turned all the way up all the time, every time =P
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Vitalism
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Posted - 2007/11/27 : 06:50:07
i don't think this is wrong, i mean... to each his own, but this is another way to do things. sometimes i'll what you have already listed, and other times - i guess it depends on the tracks - with full bass on both tracks, it sounds a little too full.
i don't do this all the time and i don't think it's for everyone or for every mix, but i do think it helps to achieve a background/foreground track kind of thing...
the new track that i'm mixing in, i usually have the bass turned down a bit to make it less prominent than the one i'm mixing out of... to keep that new track more in the "background". it doesn't even have to be turned down a lot; as little as a 2 or 3 o'clock kinda setting is good enough i've found
at some point in the mix i'll turn the bass all the way up, let both tracks play at full bass for a bar or two, then turn the bass down on the track i'm mixing out of, so as to make it now more in the background until finally it's not playing at all anymore. (i hope that makes sense). play around with it a little, you'll get what i'm talking about.
thats about as much as i play around with the treble/mid/bass knobs at all tho. give it a try and tell me what you think. you paid money to have 'em on your mixer, mess around with them a bit and see what results you can get. doing the same thing i just said with the treble/mid can sound weird, but just experiment.
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Vitalism
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Posted - 2007/11/27 : 06:54:40
quote:
Originally posted by djupload:
Cool. Its just a few mates dj as well plus ive done a few sets in some clubs 2 and when i jump on after someone else the knobs are all over the place and i think WTF so i adjust them to the center again. Just thought i was missing out on something all these years.
Cheers
when you say adjust them to center, do you mean to a 12:00 kinda position? i've always just cranked mine up ALL the way, except for what i just explained above.
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bulby_g
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Posted - 2007/11/27 : 09:11:06
You should have the EQ's on 0db (12 o'clock) when the track is playing... The only exception is to boost a crap press/old vinyl as has already been said. If you need more bass on the system it should be done with a mixing desk or a proper GEQ as has also been said already.
When you are mixing a track in it's quite often best to turn the bass pretty much all they way down. I'll quite only have one or none of the EQ knobs turned up at all when I bring in the next tune. Bringing them in one at a time (slowly or quickly depending on the situation) can make for a super smooth mix.
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Dain-Ja
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Posted - 2007/11/28 : 15:04:38
tracks are mastered to be played flat (so everything at 0db, 12 oclock)
....but you HAVE to EQ stuff while you're actually mixing
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