So finally, I was all keyed up and ready to go. (Only later did I see on the “Files” menu there was a “Rescan ID3 tags ” button that would have done it in about 90 seconds!) Lucky I was early… With 350-odd in my set it took a good half hour. I hadn’t realised that I’d need to rescan the tags in Serato ITCH (pretty obvious with hindsight) and as I’d never done this before and didn’t even know that you could indeed rescan ID3 tags, I ended up re-analysing all the tunes.
#Camelot wheel mixed in key software
A load of genres, a load of BPMs – and a great test for mixing in key.įirst problem: No key information showing in the DJ software library, even though Mixed in Key had scanned all my MP3 for tonight’s set. I would play happy beach music until twilight, then chill-out as the sun set, then build up a more driving night-time sound towards the end. My tunes would be a mixture of deep house, Balearic, dubstep, soul, hip hop, tango and whatever else fitted.
My set would be till 9.30pm – long after the sun had set. I rolled up nice and early at 4pm, with a Vestax VCI-300 and Serato ITCH in tow. With such a wide variety of music, BPMs and genres, my Sunset Rocks night would give mixing in key a great first test. It’s a great place to play a DJ set as the sun sinks behind the Andalusian mountains, and it’s one of the venues I’ve been using for my Sunset Rocks sundowner parties this year. It is popular with many nationalities – Spanish, Dutch (it’s Dutch owned), English, Germans and whoever else happens wander past as the evening progresses. The place attracts everyone, from sun worshippers to families out for the early evening paseo, to hippies, to youngsters starting their evenings out.
#Camelot wheel mixed in key plus
It has a nice big sound system and screens for the weekend sports (without the volume, naturally), plus good food and a wonderful drinks and cocktail menu. The bar, called Palm Beach, is a great venue – a big wooden shack right on the beach with a spacious interior and parasols and sun loungers all the way down to the Mediterranean, which laps just a few yards from the front of the bar. The gig was at a beach bar here in my home town (Estepona, Spain). I’m about to show you all the mistakes so you don’t have to make them yourself! I’ve got only one rule: every mix has to be harmonically matched using my new-found musical data. In this part I’m going to put it all to the test by DJing at a proper gig for the first time using the Mixed in Key / Camelot wheel system. In my Mixed in Key Review – Part 1, I looked at the theory behind mixing in key and how Mixed in Key (US$58) can help DJs to take advantage of harmonic mixing to play better sets. Palm Beach made a great venue for me to test out mixing in key for the first time.
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