EQ Blending on Turntables

Video Transcript

" What's up? This is DJ Colione on behalf of expertvillage.com and in this clip I am going to show you how to do what I call sort of a fake blend. Now what this is, it is going to sound like you are doing a blend but you are really not because you are still having the two records. You are going to trick the listeners in a sense into hearing one vocal and then from one record and then the instrumental from another record. The way you do that is you manipulate the EQ. Now typically like the high hats in symbols or what not are held in the high EQ, the vocals are held in the mid EQ and the kick drum is held in the low EQ. So what you can do is when you are playing a song and you are starting your mix and the mix is playing, if you turn down the high and the low of the old record so just the mids stand that is mostly where the vocals are kept and you are going to hear just the vocals if you play another song on top of it. If I play this record right, I take out the low and highs. You can still hear the vocals pretty well. Right? If I take the mids, then the vocals go. You can hear just the vocals are kept in the mid section, right in the mid range. So what we are going to do is use that knowledge to do sort of a fake blend. So just like anything key our record up right on the first beat and we are going to play this record. This is going to our song that we are playing. We are mix to this one and as this record starts playing or as I play my new mix, I am going to turn down the lows and the highs. What you are going to hear is this beat this instrumental kind of start of this song and just this vocals. Of course if you really listen, you are going to be able to hear everything; but if you are just sort of enjoying the music, it is going to sound like these vocals on this record. Let's give that a try. So we mostly hear this instrumental and that vocal. When that chorus ends, we basically fade the song out and we are into this record. So that is something sort of advanced you can do to help manipulate the records where you really add to your mix. You are not just playing these two songs on beat which is good. You are manipulating the EQ to get a better final sound out of it; a better final mix. You can use that in a number of different ways but that is essentially how you do sort of a fake blend while you are doing a mix."