Description
Your beats are lined up and the tracks are similar, so why does the mix still sound muddy? It's almost always two basslines playing at once. In this lesson I show you what's going wrong, then two ways to fix it: the classic bass EQ swap DJs have used for decades, and a newer, cleaner way using stems, which you'll now find even in free software like Serato DJ Lite on entry-level controllers.
Listen on speakers or good headphones, or you'll miss the difference.
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Chapters
00:00 Why your mixes sound muddy
00:42 The two tracks
02:26 Playing them together: hear the problem
03:11 Fix 1: turn the bass down on the incoming track
04:22 The bass swap
06:02 Fix 2: stems in Serato DJ Lite
06:29 Using stems mode on the controller
08:14 The stems bass swap
09:23 Why this makes you a better DJ