We will now carry out a first real track blend. Thus, turn the CUE MIX knob fully clockwise
to hear
the main mix in your headphones (or put off your phones and listen to your mix
coming through your amplification system).
To mix in the track:
1. With
the
crossfader still on the left, turn down the LOW knob on channel B to take the
bass out of the track on Deck B.
2. Progressively mix in channel B by gradually moving the crossfader from the left to the
center position.
3. When both tracks are running together and you want to bring the bass back in, gradually
decrease the bass amount of channel A while simultaneously increasing that of chan-
nel B.
4. Complete the transition by gradually moving the crossfader all the way to the right.
→
You just did your first mix with TRAKTOR KONTROL S2!
4.2.7 Doing Everything by Hand
You can also do your mix manually instead of using TRAKTOR’s sync and cueing facilities.
Most probably,
you won’t do everything by hand in your everyday DJ work. Nevertheless, it is a
good idea to get familiar with the “handcrafted” way because:
▪ It can be necessary when synching to a playing vinyl record or to the previous DJ.
▪ You can combine it with TRAKTOR’s advanced features, thus further developing your own
mixing style.
To show this, let’s mix a new track on Deck A with the one we just mixed in on Deck B.
From now on, the track on Deck B is “on air,” i.e. it is heard by your audience. Hence, we will
now exclusively work on the controller's left Deck, which controls Track Deck A in the software.
First Steps
1. First check that the crossfader is at full right.
2. With the track on Deck B still playing, load the track House 1 from the Demo Tracks Play-
list onto Deck A (reminder: turn the BROWSE encoder to select the track in the list, then
press the LOAD button A for Deck A).
Tutorials
Mixing In a Second Track
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