Candidate for a Remix
Candidate for a Remix Posted on: 05.10.2010 by Hang Natelli Hello all,So I'm sitting here on Grooveshark at work, listening to some pretty sweet tunes (most of them being solid productions). While I'm listening, I'm believeing some of these tracks could really use some UMPH! My question is, what makes a good candidate for a remix? Can anything be remixed? If it's a heavily produced track, is it impossible? -PL>Y | |
| Hang Natelli 05.10.2010 | Hello all, So I'm sitting here on Grooveshark at work, listening to some pretty sweet tunes (most of them being solid productions). While I'm listening, I'm believeing some of these tracks could really use some UMPH! My question is, what makes a good candidate for a remix? Can anything be remixed? If it's a heavily produced track, is it impossible? -PL>Y |
| Tressa Schemenauer 24.11.2010 | If you've got the stems, then there isn't anything that can't be done. Without them I'd say that statement holds less water. However, with a LOT of work you can really push the limits. If you have instrumental versions or accapella versions you can do more with a little less work. If all you have is the particular track you'd like to remix, then you really have to work to pull out and separate elements to make your own 'stems'. There are a lot of methods to do this... parametric EQ, loop re-creation, and phase inversion are but a few. In fact there is an article here in djtt about that.. search stems on the main page (not in the community s) If you're happy with the tempo of the original track and arrangement but want to add some additional punch to it, then you're really looking at making a 'rub'. You can do this by simply rolling off some frequencies using EQ and then adding some punchier elements back into those rolled-off frequency ranges. Be careful with the use of EQ on vocal segments as this can really make the vocals sound thin (not good). If you're not happy with the arrangement of the original but your not looking to drastically change the tempo or genre, then your looking at making a 'edit'. You can do this by sampling the hell out of the original and re-arranging. You can get quite funky by dicing the samples, EQing, and layering. This information general in nature.... if you post your source track as well as a description of what you'd like to do to/with it.. the community might be able to better respond. Cheers and I hope this information is useful. |
| Dung Domingus 06.10.2010 | Any track can be remixed. I've taken tracks and remixed them into completely new genres or taken a track and made it sound nothing like the original(even when I use mostly samples from the original song). It's really up to you though. You can remix any song you have stems for pretty much. I consider a remix anything where you used stems of an original track. Personally when I make a remix I try to use the stems for as many of the sounds in my song as possible even if I have to heavily edit them. If I'm not using many stems from the original track, then I try to make sure my melody is in the same key or at least reminiscent of the original. I get slightly annoyed when artists use one sound from the original track AND completely different melody, then call this track that has no similarities whatsoever to the original a remix. Also if you are are competent enough at sampling in your daw, then you can make remixes without stems too. Here's an example of me remixing a track into a new genre. The melodies aren't similar, but I used basically all stems. The only sounds not from the original are the high pitched dutch melody and the white noise. http://soundcloud.com/kid-quest/steve-lawler-give-me-some-more-moombahton-kid-quest-remix-not-mixed-mastered http://soundcloud.com/steve-lawler/steve-lawler-ft-roland-clark-gimme-some-more-viva-music-2010 |
| Hang Natelli 06.10.2010 | Wow I am very suprised how little activity this section of the community
gets. @DjWindzOne: I'm looking to do a full-blown production, and ideally use completely my own beats (kicks, hats, snares, percus), along with my own bassline, just using elements of another track. However some of the tracks I have in mind are well produced, they are just not hard enough to be played at the club. I'm a house guy BTW. -PL>Y |
| Vernie Beharry 05.10.2010 | Depends on what your definition of a remix. . . reworking of the entire beat and production of the beat (which is tough in my opinion) or a mash-up sort of deal (different song with the acapella track)? it's really up to what you'd hear. I do this all the time with my rap crew, and I'm fairly happy with em. |
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