drewdc90

The reason you tend to hi pass above 30 or 35 or even 40Hz is that those frequencies take up a lot of amplitude and you don't want to waste that on something you don't hear (as a rule of thumb lower frequencies tend to use more power or amplitude to be heard where as higher freqs not so much). 40Hz is a nice frequency for sub and kick notes but it's about as low as you really need to go (maybe drum and bass and dubstep basses go a bit lower just for sh!ts and giggles). Anything lower is going to make mastering your track and even mixing your track much harder for not much audible sound.

If your sending it to a mixing engineer then you'll probably want to take effects off which aren't part of the sound itself. eg. you put a distortion plugin on a bass sound and then a compressor to give it a warmer tone, those sort of plugins you'll want to leave on however say you have a pad sound and you put a reverb on it to sit it in the back of the mix (a mixing decision) take those off and tell the engineer that's how you originally had it/liked it. Though if your sending to a mastering engineer (different to a mixing engineer) you will want to leave every plugin as it is while making sure nothing is going over -0dBFS (every channel not just the master). In regards to your question I mix my music as I go then when I think its finished I'll run it through a mastering type limiter and reference the mix on different monitors and speakers and make adjustments according to how it sounds. Hope that helps, Drew.

Hey I recently got back into djing after a long break (was doing production) and was wondering where i should go to build up a new set. I was looking on beatport and theres some good stuff in the top 100 but i'm sure where else to look for some good stuff. I heard a lot of top 100 played when i was clubbing last but theres some other cool stuff that isn't there, where should i look? Thanks alot yo, Drew.