Making a Remix?

Mr E

How do you do it? What tools do you use etc.?

I got a great 15 minute U2 medley last week, and I'd love to know how it was done. Drums were replaced on some pieces, and the transition between the different songs (for the most part) was pretty seamless.

Any tips? Recommended Software / Hardware?

- Dave.

Lenny

Hmm, h3lx would know about this one..
But here are naems of some programs that I think you can edit tunes with..
reason and soundforge, I think fruityloops is just for making tunes from scratch

Benbaz

Hi TmB,

When you asked how do you do a remix, I'm not to sure sure what you mean by this, I reckon it's one of two possibilities......as follows.....

Opt. 1. Would be to do a professional remix like the likes of Marco V, Arman Van Helden, etc. etc....incidently Arman V who done the remix to Tori Amos' Proffessional Widow only received 5k for that remix and it turned out to be her biggest selling single, but having said that there are plenty of remixes that these remixers do that are pretty sh*te yet they still get their money upfront.
Sorry, getting off the subject there......but generally what would happen with these type of proffessional remixers is that they would receive the song on disk broken down into all the different tracks, i.e. Drums/Beats, Vocals, Strings, etc. And from these tracks the remixer would sample whatever pieces of the song that they wanted and build a whole new track from this normally using a MIDI based program like Cubase or similar.

Opt. 2. Would be to Sample something from a song you like, either using a sampler or just making a wav sample. After you've done this there is a million and one different ways to go from here to make your own track from this sample, but from the bedroom DJ/remixer point of view I would recommend getting yourself some type of programme along the lines of Dance-ejay, there are loads of programmes like this but this one is quite good, not that expensive and it's really easy to use. Along with it's own bank of samples you can import your own samples once you've edited them using a Wav-editer, again there's loads of these types of programmes around, sure even Windows has one,(the newest version of D-ej might even have one built in).

Hope this was of help!!!

Happy Remixing!

B.

Helix

what tmb is talkin bout sounds like a megamix to me,which could be very easily done with sonic foundry acid and a little bit of new percussion over the track

but regarding remixes there are lots of ways to do it. people think the easiest way is to get the original samples of the tune, but unless youre getting them in midi theyre pretty useless coz theres very little you can do with them. ive always favoured complete reconstruction of the tune, eg when i remixed joydontstop for joy i rewrote the main synth to allow individual note changes in the pattern i was unable to do with the .wav samples from the tune

software-wise get hold of soundforge, acid, stomper, recycle and reason 2. they should have you tooled up enough for the task at hand

havin the softwares one thing tho, learnin it is another matter entirely lol

tman

what h3lx said...
stay well away from dance ejay, it'l poison your mind.
(there's a free version of rave ejay with this months pcformat if you want to find out how truely sh!t it is for yourself)

tman

oh yeah, h3lx, if you know the root note of the sample you're using you can change it in acid.
just select the sample you want to change & press +/-

Helix

im talkin rearranging individual notes and changing the instrument/sample/patch the notes are played tru tho

tman

you can rearrange individual notes easy enough, just split each side of the note you want to mess with first