Ending a mix...

[Elementalism]

How do you end a mix? I rewind mostly, or sometimes just fade across, but it doesn't always sound good.

Any tips? Good rewinding pointers? How do you end a mix?

[dj em]

let the last song play..brake stop..

[Chris.G]

if you are using 1200's just press the stop button or turn the turntable off and let the record drag out.

[Recks1]

i just fade the song out. if you mixed right then the audience should be more focused on the new song rather than the old one.

[-=JK=-]

Backspinning or braking at the end of a mix are cliche and scream newbie. Time your mixes so that it ends on a breakdown, end of a drumroll, or right when the melody from the new track starts.

[nukles]

Originally posted by -=JK=-
Backspinning or braking at the end of a mix are cliche and scream newbie. Time your mixes so that it ends on a breakdown, end of a drumroll, or right when the melody from the new track starts.

best advice so far.

and add to that:
take the last 4 bars to gradually remove the bass from the exiting song to make the new one more prominent.

personally i like to take 8 or 16 bars (with hiphop) and gradually remove the bass and the treble. after that the new song totally takes over and the trasition is smooth.

[Recks1]

Originally posted by nukles


take the last 4 bars to gradually remove the bass from the exiting song to make the new one more prominent.

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[psuedo]

ok firstly...if you are ending a mix i.e end of a mixtape or the last tune u are dropping in a club its up to you how you wanna end it actually
....personally i like to switch off the power and let it have a long drag, but with some tunes its nice to just switch it off after or before the break

if you are ending a mix i.e. transitioning from track a to track b, i would advise you to listen to the elements of track a, look out for rhytm changes of synth buildups, or if all else fails you can always end track a once track b enters its break

[gibbous]

I mostly spin house so I don't know how well this would translate over to hip hop, but... At the end of a lot of mixes I just want to cut the outgoing track off once it's played out as long as I want it to, but it always sounded kind of abrupt and crappy when I did it.

I was doing this, again in a mix typical of house music, at the end of something like 16 bars on each record. I had been cutting off the outgoing record after the 16th beat, but found that letting that first beat of the next 16 play and then cutting it off immediately afterwards sounds much better. Keeping that sound going for just that brief part of when you really want the next song to take over, sometimes with a little volume boost to the incoming track just as you kill the old one, led to a much more continuous sounding mix to my ears.

[elemenopee]

you ALWAYS drop the bomb ass emotional track at the end with groovin' ass synth lines, a REALLY emotional feeling driving lead, and just let that thing die right on the wax.. right now mine is mistakes by moscow disco... **** that song will SLAM a party at the end... really really gets you



another option is to throw in the JUMP OFF jump off track..something to just pound them into happyness, and make sure it's hard.. slamming bassline, and let the bassline be the only thing left at the end.. just BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.. and slowly slowly slowly fade it out.. and if you got it reverb it just a TINY bit so it echoes away.