How I setup my hot cues
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:46 pm
This is just my technique,. I was trying to think of a way that might work for me, as I was having a lot of trouble getting the phrasing right in my mixes. Then I came up with this.
I immediately tried this system and straight away my phrasing improved no end.
GREEN The start of the track and vocals
BLUE Down beat or cool down
ORANGE Starting to warm up
RED Hot or when the song is peaking in energy
MAGENTA only a few tracks have this, but is absolutely banging! Peak energy.
The only problem with this method is it's time consuming. You need to listen to the whole track carefully, go backwards and forwards, hitting cue points, then assigning a colour.
Each track, assuming a track is 4 minutes long, can take nearly 10 minutes to work through. But of course, once it's done, it's done forever!
Now you can get the phrasing right, and extend a song indefinitely.
In this video, I probably use the two songs where I got it a little wrong, because they were the first tracks I tried using this technique.
I immediately tried this system and straight away my phrasing improved no end.
GREEN The start of the track and vocals
BLUE Down beat or cool down
ORANGE Starting to warm up
RED Hot or when the song is peaking in energy
MAGENTA only a few tracks have this, but is absolutely banging! Peak energy.
The only problem with this method is it's time consuming. You need to listen to the whole track carefully, go backwards and forwards, hitting cue points, then assigning a colour.
Each track, assuming a track is 4 minutes long, can take nearly 10 minutes to work through. But of course, once it's done, it's done forever!
Now you can get the phrasing right, and extend a song indefinitely.
In this video, I probably use the two songs where I got it a little wrong, because they were the first tracks I tried using this technique.