drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » drum n bass rythm n harmony drum n bass rythm n harmony Author Post Digital Cause Player Registration Date: 06-07-2006 Posts: 447 Helpfulness rating:  i recently tried mixing a tune of mine with another tune from some andy c mix in my sequencer, and beside the slight mismatch of bpm, it was sounding good, but i mix a lot, and i noticed that it was kinda "out of harmony" like it didnt sound quite right, is there some sort of not "rule" but a general kind of standard as to where to place the highs n lows of a tune, i.e., lower for one bar, then higher for the next, you know like the whole question n answering thing... or is it just a case of the dj deciding to drop a tune in clean if its out of harmony... thanks __ www.myspace.com/digitalcause www.myspace.com/mysterious1000 01-12-2006 00:15 @1$-) unregistered if the tunes are in a different key then yeh their gonna sound "out of harmony". but half the fun of mixing is finding tunes that go well together. try your tune with other tunes then innit mate. 01-12-2006 00:49 Digital Cause Player Registration Date: 06-07-2006 Posts: 447 Helpfulness rating:  but again the "no rules" thing applies right ? __ www.myspace.com/digitalcause www.myspace.com/mysterious1000 01-12-2006 22:10 camus Tourist Registration Date: 26-11-2006 Posts: 14 Helpfulness rating:  imho, the best thing to to is to combine the bassline of a track with the pads/melodies of another rather than mixing 2 melodies. It makes your mix seamless (smooth). Maybe nowadays basslines are too melodics, it's harder to fine quarter tones bassline tracks... __ http://blacknarchy.awardspace.com/ 01-12-2006 22:33 drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » drum n bass rythm n harmony