How to Mix Psy Trance - 3 DJ Tips to Create Killer Sets! 

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One of the most important parts of mixing psytrance is creating an atmosphere. Make sure your set is smooth and nothing sounds abrupt or out of place. Slow and precise EQing is king here. People will be on drugs and dance for hours. Especially on smaller raves. It‘s not about getting as many sick drops in but getting into the flow. If everyone is dancing like crazy then let the 9min song run the whole length. You can also add live elements like synths that play simple melodies/arps. Especially in progressive psy there is lots of space for adding things like that. Go crazy with effects as well. I found that combining a flanger with the highpass filter really gets the alien sound of psytrance. Add both and increase the amount/cutoff slowly for at least 30 seconds before turning both off at the begin of a phrase. Then the bass just hits really hard. Really liked the tutorial man. Lots of good tips!

Oh, man.. :D +1 for the awesome tips and explanation +1 for the music selection + 1 for the editing skills + 10 for the relatable vibe

Hey Andrew! I took your basic and advanced DJ courses and I just wanna say wow like for real, I had little DJ experience but in 2 weeks my mixing skills have sky rocketed and I’m djing with almost no visuals! Amazing, much love & respect for you!

You are such a legend, good on you playing some full on psytrance ! Now I would love to see a progressive psy !

This is easily the most helpful DJ channel on YT

Early-Mid mix teasing is also a wonder technique that i use frequently. Then mixing through breakdowns and buildups to the drop also gets the crowd curious about incoming mix when they hear the tease of the next track early on.

It's a small thing, but it's clever how you kill the volume fader on deck 2 when the master track dips in volume @4:35, and then you bring it back right after. I'd never thought about doing that before, but I definitely will do in the future to help to make drawn-out transitions cleaner.

Andrew you’re a legend. This man must be protected at all costs!!!!

Man you are amazing. Since 2 years I’m watching your videos, I always got inspired and have learned so much! You have such a great positive energy that after watching some of your stuff, I directly have to stand up, jam and try out your tips! Thanks a lot for what you are doing and please keep going! You are a gift for the world ❤️

I don't leave comments really ever. But I'm just getting into mixing and watching the random videos and found you and just love your approach and your enthusiasm. Will be watching more and taking your courses! thank you.

I am glad you are doing some psytrance videos, this sub-genre of edm has a lot of fans, but least amount of tutorials online for djing

Great tutorial, and great techniques. I've ittle by little started to DJ again after over 10 years of hiatus, and it really feels like learning to walk again. Probably also because my taste has widened a lot over the years, and I'm switching up genres a lot more now. Anyways, great video, thanks!

Psy trance how to... At least!!! Thank you so much Sensei Andrew, my love & respect from Greece.

I'm saving this

Can you please do a Video on how to Mix Uplifting Trance? It would also be interesting to learn to how maintain peak energy with tracks that have a buildup section in the middle that is too long for that

I really enjoyed your video! I've been dj-ing progressive trance and psytrance for 12 years in Denmark and countries around europe. DJ Oyster is my alias. I LOVE that the first thing you mentioned was track selection. Psytrance (like most electronic genres) has a lot of subgenres.. progressive trance, progressive psytrance, offbeat hamburg-style, full-on, twilight, darkpsy, hi-tek and the list goes on. You can be a master in trimming and mixing but if you if you mix a 138 bpm vocal-heavy Ranji track with a 150 bpm LSD space journey Mad Tribe track it just won't work.. beatport does not have sub genres. That can be confusing when starting up.. the different labels mostly release music in the same sub genre.. Nano records for full-on Psytrance and Iboga records for Progressive psytrance for example. So to all new dj's... when hearing a track of a style you might like.. dive into the label that released it. You'll soon have a favorite psytrance label! ATM with the groovy night-psy/ twilight style that i play the most, my favorite two labels are Looney Moon records and Blacklite Records. ☝🏼🤩 And one thing.... remember this! Especially when you play on PA soundsystems with audience.. never mix .MP3's with lossless files like .WAV's. Always go for .wav or other lossless file formats. Psytrance today is so detailed and well produces that to really get everything from a track, beside a good sound system you really need high quality digital files. ...If you mix the two, especially going from wav to mp3, you'll kill the party.. trust me! 🤘🏼🎧🫶🏼🔈 Thank's again for a nice video! Track selection is key!

Great tutorial, cheers mate

That mix at 14:00 was smooth

I love all the music you played, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Some great tracks and tips here. Been mixing for year, but always like to see if there's anything new. I tend to make sure, if I'm going for energy, that I get the track that's coming in level a tad higher to feel like it's driving through the old track, can then just smoothly get it back to the normal level. Also fun to beat loop out the other end too to stop the fading track coming out with some crazy shit that burns the mix. Also a bit of fx to drop between em helps to not make the transition too obvious and boring. Great channel :)

If you want to hear the masters of psy/acid trance look no further than astral projection! Christopher Lawrence has also been making good psytrance over past 15yrs since he switched from progressive trance. Loved your set from the other day of psy trance andrew! Still waiting on an all vinyl set from you brother 😎 🐉☁️

Once again, thank you for this awesome video! Recently got into Psy trance and this is absolutely amazing! Much respect and love Andrew! 👊🏾

Not Too many ppl mixing Psytrance on RU-vid so thank you

Tbh I do like seeing people making tutorials and I acknowledge how hard psy is to learn to mix but that first mix was way to abrupt in change. Sometimes it’s hard to avoid a noticeable bass swap but the aim of the game is for the mix to sound as progressive as possible. I also didn’t like the full on mix. That is a prime way of how not to mix full on. Full on is my main genre. My older brother who is in his late 40’s, doesn’t understand DJing or psy heard me mixing once and told me “ I don’t know wtf you’re doing on there I can’t tell where one track ends and the next starts” and to me that was a compliment because that’s exactly what I’m aiming for when I mix psy or full on.

You are really good at presenting!!

Perfect timing lol- just discovered dark progressive trance and it's a life changing genre for me

Just bought your club ready course. So far I like it a lot!

I have noticed that most, not all, but most Psy tracks are very long, usually between 7 to 9 minutes. It sounds like the DJ you mentioned played each track to its fullest and transitioned on the last section. you clearly transition between the tracks. Again great work my friend!

This video is very helpful. Might run with Serato. The only thing is i just wanna make my own stuff on ableton and mix it live. Is it easy to upload my own tracks on serato instead?

Cool bro didn't know u did Psy! It's one of my faves 😁

No Thank You youve helped me so much with transitions

Thanks 🎉🎉🎉

Well Space Tribe(Rip) was also a live act playing his own music. That’s a total different thing than a dj set.

Nice one. Thanks!

Best❤😊 thank you🕉️🙏

Love your videos man ❤ Thanks!

Sounds good!

awesome! thank you man!

I have psytrance tracks that all of them are only minimal, and I wanted to know how to mix them while I'll save the energy?

when beatmaching psytrance before drop it's hard not to destroy drop. need to kill first track :P

and next... mixing hardcore techno :))) that would be very nice to see this. by the way: very nice stuff on this channel!

I'm curious to know why you didn't match the BPM in the first transition since deck A is 147bpm and Deck B 144bpm

Hey man, great video! 15:36 you said just listening to the songs in 2 player mode before plugging in the decks. What does this mean without the desks? Thanks

At minute 12:24 the lows collide and a saturation occurs. how can it be avoided and why does it happen? thanks for the tutorial and I wait for your answer. psd: sorry for the english, i'm using a translator.

Progressive Psyrance please

Thanks to use DDJ-400. I can learn more how to mix...

RIP Oli (Space Tribe)

🔝🔝 you are really very good!!

It doesn't bother you that the visual waveforms are moving backward in relation to the turntables?

How has the flooding been in Australia i hope everything is ok.

What are your thoughts on mixing too seamlessly and making it always sounding like the same song? Should you let the crowd hear the transitions sometimes. So as to not let the crowd get “bored”

For Janine or freestyle mixing the preview player is your friend.

Hm... What 'bout offbeat prog psy trance?! Personally, ain' t no better sub genre in psy trance 4 me Andrew my bro 😀

HOW CAN U KNOW THE VOLUME OF THE 2 TRACKS R THE SAME? explain me the gain thing plz

Is not the best tips and trick but thank u a much

hello Andrew, how did you beatmatch the beatless intro ? any tips ?

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Astral Projection Christopher Lawrence Infected Mushroom Hallucination LSG S.U.N. Project Seven Ways All amazing psy/acid trance producers 🕺🏻🎶🕺🏻🎶🕺🏻🎶🕺🏻🎶🕺🏻

#killer

From a listeners perspective if someone plays the full track it feels repetitive and boring considering a 6-7 min mainstream psytrance with very little or no variation throughout the track

next time center your slider xd