Mixing Tracks for Korg Keyboard Hip Hop Beats

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Part of the video series: Playing Hip Hop Beats with a Korg Triton Keyboard

Summary: How to mix tracks when sequencing hip hop beats on a Korg Triton Studio keyboard; learn this and more in this free online video about musical instruments taught by expert Ryan Larson.

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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his 12 key technique to ... read more

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Mixing Tracks for Korg Keyboard Hip Hop Beats

So now that we have this whole groove down, what we want to really do to get a good sound out of this mix is to go in and actually do the mix. So what I am going to do is get the beat playing, then I will go into the mix and turn every track down, so there is the base, the drums, everything. So what you want to mix first is the drum and base, so I am going to turn my base up to about half way, got my base going now I can add in my drum. You want those at an even level. Now at a "high hat", now the high hat is still hard to hear so I am going to turn this down, turn my "master mix" up. Now I got those all even, I can add in my tabla drums, those are actually muted, I will add in my snare. Now I got those all mixed good, now I can add in my keyboards, I want those kind of background, do not want them to forefront and my lead. Now I have a well mixed track, but if you look at them, every level is different. My base drum is at about three fifths, my high hat is all the way up, my snare is about three fifths, my tabla's are not in the mix yet, I can put them in there, I am going turn my tabla's off of mute. That sounds pretty good at the level it is at right there. My bases are at about a half, my keyboard is under half and my lead is a little above half. So each track has its own "EQ" and the best thing to do is really use your ear and again we are making this beat so a vocalist can lay stuff over on top, so you do not want anything standing out to much. So it gives the vocalist space to do his own thing. You can get it going on.

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