How to Mix Pop Tracks 

Sky View Trading that shuts ducking nuts

Lol

+Kable yeah the bad EQing and lack of properly used filter (but overuse of other effects) makes it sound garbage here and in this scenario i'd rather just abuse the cue button over fiddling around with loops. at least then I have something to do other than annoy everyone with the flanger and echo effects..

+bbm savaril You nailed it. Great example and explanation, but terrible execution.

Too many effects.

It's not the EQing that is the real problem here. It's fucking 20db louder than the Snoop track.

Kable it's a riddle wrapped in a riddle surrounded by a nightmare

Sometimes it sounds best if u just drop it in, people in top 40 joints usually go crazier for a sudden well placed drop of a song they know and love over a nice beatmixed gradual transition.

Honestly it doesnt matter what he uses, because what everyone uses is different. The techniques are the same especially when using programs like traktor or serato.

you didn't think the controllerist style of mixing would be any more than a passing fad? ever tried to listen to a whole set of button mashing?

Agree with SoundShotDJs. If you get the concept, you can apply with any gear you have.

I love watching these longer style, more professional mixes. The instruction is great as well. I just would like to see ean go back to his roots once in a blue moon and give us a controllerist performance to help us build ideas for our own, that we could throw into a smoother long mix here and there...

slipandweave witt please stop crying mate

@DJ TechTools, dude WTF was that? had to turn down that $#@! in an instant

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+morphman86 drop it on the one instead or find a few bars of instrument and loop it from time to time that can work. If those still don't work find an intro edit of the song

Get creative.

Zack Daniels Possibly the least informative response you could ever give. It's up there with "git good".

There's so many options. Muted Entertainment gave a bunch of pertinent information and there's so much more you can do, echo out is a good one, but ideally mix the songs at a different part. Sometimes there's a section later in the song with a random beat. Set up a pre-set loop so when you get to that part it automatically loops and then you can bring in the vocal. Or if you use serato you can use FLIP and make a custom intro edit with that. Check drakes "One dance" for an example of the random beat i think it's after like the second chorus or so. Learn to do some basic baby scratching and mess around with the vox over the current song then try an echo out and drop it in. Sounds great with hip hop or top 40

Zack Daniels Thank you, that helped a lot. I'll check them out and try some of the things you explained.

ClectaSkiMusic I'm a 55 year old who's been a dj from the age of 14. I have in excess of a million pieces of vinyl which stays firmly stored on shelves and in boxes. Why anyone would wanna carry and play out with vinyl these days is beyond me. I'm also a mix engineer who mixes in the box rather than on a desk. Technology is to be embraced and leave the past where it belongs... in the past😉

if your mixing deep, progressive, tech, house and edm, then want to drop pop tracks the bpm and beats would be way out, if you wanted to bring pop tracks in i would wait untill a break down in the deep, progressive, teck, house edm track then start the pop track or hiphop track, and after the pop track finishes i would bring a progressive track in like "hey brother - avicii" what would already sound "pop'ie" but to be honest if your playing deep, progressive, tech, house and edm you wouldnt use pop or hiphop tracks, however you would use hiphop if you was using trap aswell as deep, progressive, tech, house and edm

***** I DJ at weddings and there is no telling with the crowd there. And since it's a wedding, I have to play those cheesy songs. So I thought I would rather compile a list of all such pop hip hop numbers and try to find some spots in my collection to throw them in.

use break downs then or if you have filter echo with a long tail, use that effect then start the pop songs while the echo tail is still going, hope this helps

***** interesting. I do something similar in traktor with the simple delay FX chained with iceverb and a filter. I bump the dry/wet in the last 2 bars gradually-move the filter towards HPF-stop the current song/start the next song.... the effect is similar to what you said. The new song plays while the echo tail slowly fades out. Trying to find more musical ways to do this.

well pop music isnt made to be mixed, i.e no intro normally. but in my own opinion i dont think this way sounds good the way the guy in this video did it, sounded messy and just not right to me. but i guess its down to each song. but tbh i dont much about playing pop songs of weddings i do clubs and events so never needed to.

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+Ulek Dikinurmuth Doesn't it make you feel better knowing that even the pros still trainwreck sometimes, though? :)

Psythik It only happens very rarely though. & why would that make me feel better? I like to perfect any kraft that I am into, and if anybody is not doing good at it then thats on them, but I still strive to be in the best position possible. I feel like that would only make someone feel better if they were doing a shit job and had to find some kind of reassurance that they're not SO bad haha

+Ulek Dikinurmuth you seem unpleasant

blueprint7 You seem defensive

+Ulek Dikinurmuth You seem like one of those pros who only mix techno where most of the time all you have to do is match a blatantly obvious bass drum beat.

Please no. Beatmashing is to be used sparingly.

Even in Breakcore???

Not really, you can't let the complete intro play, but you can hint with little snippets during the chorus. The after the chorus you drop track B immediatly at the verse.