effective use of 3 or 4 decks

[Finnish_Fox]

I heard your funky mix from the battle thread. In that case i would personally limit myself to digging and dropping some epic short vocals. Maybe a drum line.

Didn't put it on that mix, but one of my fave tracks is Olivier Desmet & Oriental Funk Stew's track that samples Al Green's "Love and Happiness".. .very short vocals, etc.

(BTW, I was going for funky on that mix)

In general i find minimal and deep house are the ones that lend themselves best to multi-layering. What Laidback Luke does in the video is too much for me, its like a spergfest of sounds and melodies which works if you just wanna go all out nuts (Kissy Sell Out i just cant handle sober).

I hear yah... though I am not into it (and I honestly don't even know what genre it falls into) but my an acquaintance has a ton of that Digweed-ish (I think?) stuff - 11' tracks with no real peak or drop, I was putting down 6' mixes with that stuff... though, he only had two decks, but it seemed fun to layer - perhaps out of control with 3?

My friend ran into Kissy Sell Out on Venice Beach and was interviewed for some DJ show.

I am not speaking from a DJs point of view but a dancers, when im into it i like to find a specific melody or drum line and just ride it for bit. When there is a lot of shit going on i feel like i need to start dumping vodka on myself and start stripping (usually doesnt end well).

My favorite part of watching Farina or Heather is when they layer just two tracks that play off each other. It's awesome.

Cheers!

[ben mills]

I hear yah... though I am not into it (and I honestly don't even know what genre it falls into) but my an acquaintance has a ton of that Digweed-ish (I think?) stuff - 11' tracks with no real peak or drop, I was putting down 6' mixes with that stuff... though, he only had two decks, but it seemed fun to layer - perhaps out of control with 3?

I think some progressive house can work being layered. I played progressive house a long time ago and still really like it (at times). But the tracks are too long, and there's just not enough "groove" in there. Then I found deep house, and specifically within deep house a subgenre that has some progressive elements, but with a real groove. And shorter tracks...so the mixes just keep flying in and out at a much higher pace than progressive.

[Finnish_Fox]

there's just not enough "groove" in there.

You said it right there. I live for groove.

[MeowMix]

My favorite part of watching Farina or Heather

nuff said

[Finnish_Fox]

nuff said

Heather plays on Saturday... stoked! (with Colette)

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[Dave Daschofsky]

You don't have to use vertical waveforms in serato, there a button to switch the GUI to horizontal.

I've had way too many time when I've been mixing and thought about how nice a third deck would be. I've got the extra gear except I've only got an sl1. I've got an apc40 and ableton but haven't learned how to use it since it seems counterintuitive to using turntables and i rarely have time to do anything with it. With a third deck there wouldn't be a learning curve.

[MeowMix]

One thing ive learned is that when mixing with multiple decks you need kick ass monitoring. I usually mix in my headphones and constantly change the overall volume so i dont always have a good idea what the master out level and have started noticing that i let it get pretty loud.

[mrkleen]

One thing ive learned is that when mixing with multiple decks you need kick ass monitoring. I usually mix in my headphones and constantly change the overall volume so i dont always have a good idea what the master out level and have stared noticing that i let it get pretty loud.

exactly why most pros use the one ear method.

[zaxl]

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