Can you be the first again? First Algoriddm did a fantastic job with truly making mixing old songs with new ones a breeze. Tempo wise you really nailed it. Stem wise you’ve nailed it. Key wise you’ve nailed.
My next big wish: Bringing old songs closer -sonically- to the new ones.
I know i can press a button and add a four to the floor kick already now, but it messes with the spirit and vibe of the song. What i’m looking for, is to have Djay Pro intelligently search which frequencies can be boosted/adjusted to bring them sonically closer to the other song.
Example:
How can you add more ‘umpf’ to the kick of Donna Summer’s “I feel love” to have it closer to the next song of Robin S or even Fisher?
If you use the individual volume controls for each stem, you can just increase the level of the drums. Some software also allows plugin FX to be used on individual stems, so you can compress the drums to make them cut through more, or use an enhancement plugin to add low end.
There are VST plugins which can do what you suggest.
I don’t think djay Pro allows use of VSTs though, unfortunately.
Ultimately, if you play these tracks a lot, your best bet is to record a new enhanced version via audio editing software & plugins, rather than trying to do it live.
You should ask a sound engineer - I’m not - but from what I’ve been told (and practice bears this out if you pay attention on decent speakers) boosting frequencies is never, sonically a good idea. If it’s mostly just the drums, maybe rather than eq, what you want is limiting, compression, normalisation, attack, envelope (affecting the shape), remastering (of just the kick drum), but ultimately if you want a house kick drum, then you might be better just adding that. In this scenario, ideally you’d want to cut certain frequencies from the original kick drum or do some trickery to blend them without doubling up frequencies. So a drum boost in practice is not boosting the existing frequencies its adding some in. Happy to be corrected by an actual sound engineer.
thanks for your response. My idea is intended to be inline with the current functionalities in Djay Pro. Example: you could straighten a old funk track to have a straight beatgrid to make tempo mixing more straight forward. BUT Djay Pro fixed this so that open format dj’s like myself with large collections don’t need to straighten all those old tracks. (i’m coming from Traktor).
Same for STEMS, you could do that per track yourself.
But there is also the vibe of a track: if you straighten Sex Machine by James Brown i guess it will sound less funky or groovy. So this calls for a real debate and research to come up with a solution like Djay Pro’s ‘magical’ auto beatgrid.
Again Algoriddim, thanks for the magic. I have another wedding tomorrow to play, 25 years celebration so soul, funk and the new stuff is required
