Abstract. A finite Borel measure µ in R d is called a frame-spectral measure if it admits an exponential frame (or Fourier frame) for L 2 (µ). It has been conjectured that a frame-spectral measure must be translationally absolutely continuous, which is a criterion describing the local uniformity of a measure on its support. In this paper, we show that if any measures ν and λ without atoms whose supports form a packing pair, then ν * λ+δt * ν is translationally singular and it does not admit any Fourier frame. In particular, we show that the sum of one-fourth and one-sixteenth Cantor measure µ4 +µ16 does not admit any Fourier frame. We also interpolate the mixed-type frame-spectral measures studied by Lev and the measure we studied. In doing so, we demonstrate a discontinuity behavior: For any anticlockwise rotation mapping R θ with θ = ±π/2, the two-dimensional measure ρ θ (·) := (µ4 ×δ0)(·)+(δ0 ×µ16)(R −1 θ ·), supported on the union of x-axis and y = (cot θ)x, always admit a Fourier frame. Furthermore, we can find {e 2πi λ,x } λ∈Λ θ such that it forms a Fourier frame for ρ θ with frame bounds independent of θ. Nonetheless, ρ ±π/2 does not admit any Fourier frame.