DJ Mixing Lesson Adding an Acapella and One 2 One Skype Lessons

0:00 In this tutorial we're going to add an acapella over two tracks

All right, ladies and gentlemen, in this tutorial we're going to add an acapella over two tracks. We've got a couple of tracks here. Max Draft, G-R-A-F-E, it's entitled B-U-M-M-S-E, Bumsy or whatever it's called, Glenn Astro Rebums Mix. Seriously, Max G-R-A-F-E and then B-U-M-M-S-E, that's the name of the track, G-L-E-N-N, Astro R-E-B-U-M-M-S. Just slow it down. All right, we're going to bung that into Chris Malinczak. Ah, okay. What I've got though is an acapella, we've got a cameo track entitled Word Up. Now this track here is a little bit sort of techy. Cameo Word Up, I've got the sort of instrumental of it, there's a little bit of the original track in the background. Cameo is like old school, but it has got a good...

1:32 32 bars, which rule of thumb

Quality amount of soul in it. So what I'm trying to do is use that to gel these two tracks together and also to add another layer, to make a modern-day track sound a little bit more retro. What I've done, I've set... I've set two cue points. There. So let's just stop the... yeah, stop it around about here. Let's go to the break. Maybe not there. I'll wait till it kicks in. All right, let's imagine we're coming towards the end of this track now. So I just go to 32 bars, which rule of thumb around about the last minute... about experimenting as well. Something like that, if done correctly, you are completely hiding the mix. It's almost invisible. Some people will go, no it's not because that was crap. Oh, it was terrible, I knew where the mix was. But we're not dealing with you watching this, we're dealing with the crowd, the public listening.

And watching you while you're doing your gig. All right, have fun, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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