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Mixed In Key’s Platinum Notes software can be good at repairing at least some of the damage caused by digital clipping. It has a good stab at restoring “lost” music. If you have it, try running your original file through it and listen to the results. Personally, I love the “black magic” of Mixed In Key’s Platinum Notes software to fight back against this. Record labels often push volumes to the max on tracks (especially radio releases) using compression and other tricks to make the tracks jump out on small speakers and in noisy environments, and they sail a bit too close to the wind at times with this – it’s common nowadays, unfortunately. If it makes you happy to reduce the overall volume slightly so you don’t see peaks above 0dB, say, then do it – no harm done. The reason for this is the music lost thanks to digital clipping cannot, as you say, be regained just by lowering the volume.
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Firstly, you’re right – altering the volume of an audio source in a DAW won’t improve the quality if the track is already digitally “clipping”.
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“And is this actually a problem? Since it is a track from a commercial release on a respected label, I would assume the mastering would/should have been to professional standards, no?” Digital DJ Tips Says: “One option is to just reduce overall volume in Audacity until it doesn’t go banging into the red any more, but I’m hesitant to do so because the cut-offs in sound that may have been caused by the track going into the red will not be ‘regained’ by turning it down, so surely doing this won’t actually improve the sound? On loading it into my DAW (Audacity), I discovered that while the intro beats are fine, it goes banging into the red all the way through until the outro beats. Check out this Digital DJ Tip:ĭigitaldjtips-quadruple-mix-options-harmonic-mixingĬheck out my Harmonic Mix app for DJ's iOS here.Digital DJ Masterclass student Kenny writes: “I started looking to re-edit my first track – just cutting out a part of intro vocal I don’t like so much for starters. You can alter the musical key up or down one or two notes (semitones) without the sound quality being affected too much. You can alter a tracks key using the key change feature in Traktor, Virtual DJ, etc. If you use iTunes playlists within traktor then this is still a great software choice as Traktor's own key detection value isn't shown for iTunes playlists.
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Mixed In Key – Seems to be generally regarded as the best paid for key detection software. To create an energy boost in a mix you can go up in two semitones – just add 2 to your current Camelot number (e.g. Doing this avoids getting boring sounding because the music is progressing throughout the mix. Going clock-wise or counter-clockwise around the wheel, changing key every couple of songs is a good approach.įor example: 8A > 8A > 8B > 7B > 6B > 6A > 5A > 4A. You need to trust your choices more than the tool, which is unable to take into account all of the other factors which you can such as your audience, odd ball songs which just work well, etc. If you rely solely on it you'll probably end up with boring mixes. Remember that Harmonic mixing is just a tool to help you. Harmonic mixing works for all music genres because it is based on music theory. To give a special effect you can mix between the inner circle and outer circle, e.g. mixing from 4A to 4B. So if you're playing a song tagged 4A, your next track can be 3A, 4A, 4B or 5A. Move around the Camelot wheel one step at a time by subtracting one hour (-1), adding one hour (+1).
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To use harmonic mixing do the following as you mix between songs: The letter "B" represents Major keys.The letter "A" represents Minor keys. For example, 4 o'clock corresponds to 4B or 4A. On the wheel musical keys can be seen as 'hours' on a clock.