DJ BETTER - 3 INTERESTING MIXING TECHNIQUES

A tutorial with DJ Arman on three interesting mixing ideas to spice up your mixes.
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[@istrumguitars]

I can honestly say dude your channel is one of a small few that have *actually* helped me be a better DJ. P.S. - Been loving using the LPF to bring in semi-muted, booming kicks underneath the breaks of other tracks!

[@SoundofArman]

Glad its helping you, thanks for watching!

[@petersison7804]

I love the low pass filter transition technique... especially in a club venue situation. Sounds so nice

[@digitalskip]

8:20 created a magical 3rd track, thats what it's all about during a long blend mix - very nice!

[@TwinCityShredder]

This video showcases the most important aspect of being a real DJ. Great track selection, combined with proper mixing techniques, is how you build landscapes during a set. Keep up the good work.

[@djgeorgieporgie7862]

More like classic mixing techniques. This how I learn to mix 20+ years ego. Great video bro 👍

[@djangelagilmour]

I’m loving your videos. They are really helping me. Keep them coming

[@sohailfarook8409]

Amazing Arman. Hope to study more about transitions in progressive house. 🙏

[@mauriciolinge4400]

first video that really explains stuff well and actually sound harmonic.. keep it up :)

[@richgarland6170]

More videos like this one please for the kinda intermediate level, Thanks, great video 👍

[@SebassTheDJ]

Third one was great. Thank you!

[@bobtheman1]

Nice track selection and mixing techniques! Thanks for sharing :)

[@evanmc8]

this video was awesome. learned alot. didnt have to watch a ton of extra video explaining the songs since you simply posted that "this is song 1", "2", etc on the screen. I would love to see more like this.

[@davisinho94]

What a great ear brother, I see you are a sound Engineer as well, normally Djs don’t care about gain structure and clipping, but your sound mixing skills are on point What a great sound btw

[@sarimbeetle]

Your videos really help out alot, please make more of these.🙏🙏❤️

[@tudortotoescu4121]

Love your videos man, very helpful

[@amckeepthefaith]

Greetings from Ireland Arman. Really love your videos... I would be an old skool DJ from back in da day (1989 to 1993), but in recent years I have re-discovered my love for dance music through the likes of artists like Solomon, Tales of Us, H.O.S.H, Noir, Nicole Moudaber and Carl Cox (I once played support for him in Cork, Ireland. I really like your no-nonsense and clear tutorial style. The only DJing I do these days is for myself using my MacBook Pro (2017) running Djay Pro 2 software. It's very impressive to watch you mix... one day I would love to get some of that gear and take a shot of it myself. Keep up the great videos :)

[@ryanottawaydj_1210]

I’d love to get some gear as well 👍😂

[@SeanTheGamer2k]

Any gear?

[@CollosalTrollge]

Van Dyk , Oakenfold , Cox, Sasha, Warren, Lawler, Taneglia , Emerson, and more really got me in to the scene. My most favorite for all time was Paul Oakenfold , never got enough of listening to the Pete Tong hosted BB Radio 1 shows.

[@svenskavapes8558]

This is great !! Thank you , greetings from sweden ❤

[@danibenitez8690]

good job! nice to see videos with different mixing styles!

[@rvw911]

Nice! I'm glad to see a tutorial like this. You should do more!

[@BAFFILO100]

Thank you. I really appreciate your video.

[@bryancraigiefisher]

Great videos, those mix techniques were on point and inspiring me to get on it. Keep up the good work brother!

[@2CelebrateMusic]

Very good tips smooth mixing technique tips ... Thx and keep it up, Arman ! :-)

[@cengizokan]

As a beginner dj, im learning a lot from your channel. Please make another mixing techniques video arman. And also good choices of music in tutorials as always, thank you.

[@GenuineGodzilla]

awesome! well explained, no bs, sounds great. can't wait to try them out :D

[@D0CT0RS0UL]

Great explanation Arman ! 👍

[@elvoj5245]

Great job man, thank you!

[@MrAngryJoel]

Nice video and track choices (Anjunadeep for the win)

[@amarettina6365]

Thank you very much for this video!! ♥

[@gabrielvenegasdelcastillor5399]

Very nice video, very well explained, quite understandable, acurate mixing...the only thing I would say is not quite acuratte is to put this skills on an intermidiate dj level. It is not super basic, but it is not intermidiate. Anyway, all of you guys... learn it and perfectionate the skill, this is the very very best fundamental for all mixing, specially house, deep house, tropical house (whatever house). Trance, tecno and every warmup set you do on a gig or venue. Let's wait for videos on drop change, scratch, long looping, mixing with samplers and multiple tracks. Some of those will put you between intermidiate and advanced level

[@cagatayucer]

I guess the first way and the third way is really impressive, thx 👌🏼

[@dj_prez-1]

Like your video. It's ironic, I do my mixing somewhat if your style when blending in another song. Great job, keep it up👍👌👏

[@dongwooistim]

still... the most kind and the best video for intermediate dj like me

[@ScottJonesMTB]

So helpful. Thanks for sharing.

[@bolch88bb8]

Great vid dude....i like this :)

[@ac12484]

Thanks a lot!!!

[@sylwiasmalec2340]

Hey man, that really helped me, thanks a lot! :)

[@forbiddendoors7248]

Excellent work

[@NINA-zh6jd]

I love it , keep it up braaaah ; )

[@littomanser]

Like u style, saludos from Chile !

[@tj4764]

Very well explained thanks!

[@danilogrubisic682]

Thank's bro!

[@gregorysheehan6837]

Love the content

[@djdave29]

Another great video mate, greetings from London. What headphones are you using? I've just hooked up my Pioneer HDJ-2000's to my old DJM-500 Mixer (which is still in mint condition) and they don't sound that great. It may be that my needles need replacing (using vinyl). Also, recommend any speakers that don't cost too much? I'm still using a monitor that was made for me in the 90's!

[@djsmuru]

Smooth!

[@djdino3213]

U made it look so easy

[@erikmolnar6585]

I like the video. I have been playing music in front of people starting with turntables in 2001. I have a club gig next month. I pretty much just feel it out when I drop my next track. But do you have any videos on the correct places or good parts in a song to make tracks come together?

[@ming2298]

very helpful!!thx

[@gomwgomw5617]

Thanks 👊

[@jackhye7785]

First track Above & Beyond

[@BELTR.]

Bro, awesome content! Would you please make a video about cue points? Where you put yours, how many etc.

[@rodrigovidela7703]

Nice Bro thanks

[@ucenyalcantara885]

Lekkerrr!

[@ZahZah253]

i like the live strong band on your thumb drive . Not gonna loose that bad boy anytime soon lol

[@paballo24]

Do u have a track list of these? Love the video

[@TheArmanito]

Nice video bro

[@MrPrice-bb2gn]

It Looks like hes filming this video with a gun to his head lol. Great video though +1 sub!

[@DJJAllen]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@marlondelibasic]

At the beginning I was afraid it was some kind of EDM shit, but good choice of music!

[@blackwolf9710]

so true!

[@tretriix]

what counts as edm, edm is big genre, that has alot of sub-genres, he was mixing edm too if u look it a that way

[@marlondelibasic]

@@tretriix You are being literalist :D or you got offended whic is worse. It's 2020 well we all know what EDM stands for, no need to get too comlex it's not astrophysics.

[@tretriix]

Marlon Delibasic 🤦🏽

[@mamtoel3205]

Al4aBeta I believe he intended EDM music like Martin garrix etc.

[@4umata]

Very insightful video, and well made! As a amateur producer I must say you did one thing I just see as forbidden -namely playing both low ends at the same time, wouldn't that mess up at the very least the kicks if they are evetn slightly different in phase/time/harmonics?? I don't hear that happening here and it puzzles me..

[@jaredriversofficial.5516]

thanks

[@SteveAldous]

Great video, good mixing. Just wondered what brightness your cdj screens are set at?

[@MODEM_DJ]

And in Rekordbox you can set up to 10 cue points. I prefer doing like this: 1st cue = Start of the kick 2nd cue = start of 1st break 3rd cue = 1st drop And so on... So you always know when to start fading in or out or when to finish your mix. I.e. your 1st track comes to the last drop and your 2nd track starts with the kick...

[@djpep1855]

Don't forget to give those cues colors!

[@GartenOHM]

Your Track choice seems to be very exclusive

[@mr-urmet9079]

nice musica .

[@LucasBlackofficial]

I am a dj for many years .. some active some not that much.. is great to show others who are into dj'ing .. Great work!!

[@jordanray1537]

We could do with a tracklist!!!

[@fabriziozerato4277]

I´m struggling with phrasing and mixing drops simultaneously counting the beats , please upload a video about that

[@cloud_walkr]

i love the music you are playing do you have a spotify playlist? :D

[@naia600mts7]

one song is this -Sahar Z - Deep Beneath (Interaxxis Remix)

[@naia600mts7]

Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford - Northern Soul (Ben Böhmer Remix)

[@barrywatts803]

It's funny when you said turntables lol

[@topolo19]

Arman a question. Can I set de nexus 2000 on a key mode like the camelot wheel, 1A, 2A and that? Also love your tutorials, best channel of djing.

[@AcidZambies]

Default you cannot, but I think there is some kind of work around that allows for the key tags to be changed to camelot in rekordbox but it requires software and probably a decent chunk of time. Your best bet, if sticking with rekordbox, is to just memorize the wheel of 5ths and their respective camelot codes (it'll also help you understand music better too). Or you could join the denon prime crew :) as the sc5000s and engine prime software support camelot :)

[@topolo19]

@@AcidZambies thank you so much. But i will stick with pioneer because I rent them, they are to expensive here in argentina to but.

[@sopyzation]

Hey... first of all... thnanks for very useful tutorials. very helpfull. but I wonder.... Do you have something in comon with Czech republic? I see that bracelet... " I love CZ" :)

[@SoundofArman]

No connection to Czech Rep! But sounds like you are from Toronto or at least partied here before ;)

[@nothinguploaded]

haha this guy really likes going from atmospheric progressive tracks to tech house, i respect it tho

[@manludj2074]

Are both decks being used assigned to the left side of the cross fader ...? The transitions are clean well done.

[@SoundofArman]

Thanks. The crossfader is just disabled so it doesn't matter where it is.

[@shubhamnaik83]

Nyc

[@Timesplitter777]

Great video! what is the above and beyond remix?

[@jackhye7785]

Ben Bohmer Remix :) Not sure what the other track he mixes it in with is

[@axelalejandro6299]

Hello there mate, hope u ok, thanku as always for the advice looking forward to it, I have a question and I hope you could help me out with this one Do you know any program that Can show or give the real cuality of a track? It would be as great as necesary to know on wich cuality you are really playing. Thanks again if you could help it’ll be awsome Arman; Thanks for the vids, thanks for reading hope u answer, bye 👋

[@Sergioinfante88]

spek.cc/ Acoustic Spectrum Analyser

[@RayzeAUT]

Awesome video! But what‘s the main difference between Deep House, Tech House and Progressive House? Is deep house no to a few vocals, tech house some vocals and progressive house much vocals?

[@agustinamaria6774]

Rayze the differences between those styles as every style in electronic music has nothing to do with vocals!

[@514musique]

Tech-House: crossover of techno and house. Same Chicago style loops and vocals but with Detroit style basslines and percussion. Quicker than both but it has range between 125-128 bpm Progressive house: faster at 128 bpm, and unlike the grooves of the other genres it's influenced by trance with a focus on melodies and chords with long builds and bridges where the beat drops out. Nowadays it's a catch all for mainroom house Deep house: slower, around 120-123 bpm with a characteristic of Jazz, R&B, or soul sound. Techno influence is pretty easy to hear, but to me it sounds like more modern techno. Pitched down vocals, psychedelic soundscapes, and groovy basslines are the style of deep house.

[@easylove3304]

Could you add the track id's in the description pls?

[@SirPablo2Pablo]

Cross fader no being used I see. Was it turned off?

[@johnparker8270]

I like trains😜

[@Mr40styles]

what about hip hop songs with lyrics?

[@rodrigosanmartin7811]

Hey you're from toronto! Would you do f2f lessons

[@roko110]

for 3., how about using volume to completly hear track 2 for a second and then mix in 1 again. using the volume faders or crossfaders... that at least what i like to do hehe

[@YNHOSebs]

well usually techno, or house djs don´t use crossfaders. You might see more crossfade volume mixing in hip hop or genres like that.

[@Gruftgrabbler]

@@YNHOSebs haha i always disable them xD

[@darthg3545]

mix is good have to say that .... but why is you cross fader all the time on the left side .... did you put it off ???

[@SoundofArman]

Yes, its deactivated.

[@mikeoxlongdnb]

With all respect, this video shows some techniques that should be talked through. You're showing ways to blend 2 tracks as seamless as possible but in reality it doesn't really matter that much. Especially bass. Low bass and sub bass freqs aren't really blend well, so there's no particular reason to leave both lower freqs of your tracks. Same for the high frequencies. Too much of them and your listeners will bleed out of their ears. Those tracks ain't a good example but you got the point. Summing up, that mix where you filter out all highs and mids and blend it with 1st track full on is a bad thing. Bringing in new track with both mids and lows filtered is a bad idea as well, there ain't much of detail in those highs, so you just waste time. There's nothing wrong with mixing noticeably for listeners in a good way. Add 3rd and 4th decks in your setup and you'll realise that you ain't got time for those pointless shenanigans

[@TheArmanito]

Im Arman but from Kazakhstan)

[@odkotoi]

DJ ARMAN nice

[@Chudmeat]

A low pass and high pass filter sweeps through the frequencies boosting and cutting as you progress. How is that any different than just using the EQs?

[@matthartmann2697]

Chudmeat the low pass/high pass boosts the volume of the frequency right next to where it cuts off giving that sweeping effect. EQs don’t do this. With eqs, you take out a chunk of frequencies at the same time, giving you way more control over your mix. With the high pass/ low pass, it generally doesn’t sound as good. What I do generally is always EQ at first and then use the high pass/ low pass on the song I’m mixing out if I need to mix quicker than usual or to give a sweeping effect at the end of a buildup. One thing you also have to be careful with hp/lp is if you are low passing and you cut it all the way down, sometimes it will boost that 20-40 htz range and it will make your mix super muddy so you would also have to take down the upfader. Basically learn how to EQ since it sounds better and use the HP/LP to enhance your mix, but don’t make it your go to.

[@waylandsmith]

The sweep effect@@matthartmann2697 is talking about will be designated as 'Q', 'Q-factor' or 'resonance' if you're using a filter with parameters on it.

[@benlim3348]

Can you give a list of al the songs you use? I am very interesten to mixing the same music

[@sammyjenkis4791]

Get your own style brutha

[@DoniDeval]

What is the first tracks name??????? I need to know 😩

[@djciko999]

The first track title ?

[@thomasgohringer5538]

What is the blue button you're pressing just before taking away the low/high pass?

[@SoundofArman]

That button turns the filter on/off

[@Beatboxerskills]

Yo what venues do you usually play in t.?

[@SoundofArman]

Parlour, Nest, Sunnyside Pavillion (in the summer), Secret Society events, and sometimes Summerdaze events

[@valeridimitrov289]

Both songs?

[@maciejmajcher5493]

Nice

[@simenlkken3292]

Could you please post the tracks you’ve been using?

[@milant8122]

The last one is Khen-Land Of Goshen (Patrice Baumel Remix)

[@tommyapuzzo2947]

I notice you never leave your trims all the way up.. is this on purpose.. and does having trims all the way up usually lead to more distortion?

[@SoundofArman]

Yes, I like to leave ample headroom. If they are all the way up you will find yourself in the red and getting distortion. A good rule of thumb is to not have more than 2 amber lights.

[@geearc2448]

Nice what kind of controller is this? Can you give me the model number?

[@ShinobiJounin]

He's using Pioneer CDJ-2000s, not controller.

[@kcbryan8134]

I used to dj back 25 years ago. And I would never drop in a track unless it was on the first beat of a new set of 8bars. Why do I see this being done today? Because the phrases are not starting and ending together in each track

[@tyreescott8055]

Sound of Arman why do Dj’s nudge when the tempo is going to go right back to the same speed?

[@brianwalsh449]

When you nudge the platter, all you're doing is pushing the beat of the track forward or backward a small amount to line the kicks up so they are right on top of each other. You want the tempos to stay the same so then when you're done moving the track that little bit they will line up and stay in sync with each other. You can also beat match by speeding up and slowing down the tempo of either track using the pitch fader.

[@miltoskihelio2659]

Hello I like your video and I'm beginner I want to be a Dj can you help me? How can I have small conversation with you?

[@victormabuza749]

Names of all songs used please🙏