Making a remix

[vpech013]

hey guys,

Ive ben working on learning to produce my own tracks, but i kind of want to divert from it and try myself in making remixes. I want to basically take a song and use only it to produce something new. What would be a rule of thumb when chopping up a song? maybe you can share some best practises?

Cheers!

[JasonBay]

Do what sounds good, not much more to it than that. Try and look for two bar samples like just the drum beat, a break, kick and bass and so on. Cut those up and use those as the basis while adding your own flavour.

[Sanch212]

midi files can help sometimes

[mostapha]

Unless you can get MIDI files or at least audio stems, I'd say don't bother……re-create and re-record it. But you'll never be able to isolate parts very well (apart from multiband compression, filtering, and EQing) from a stereo file which means you're basically playing parts on top of it.

That works sometimes, but it's really easy to turn it into a busy, noisy, muddy, mess……it's easy enough to do that as it is…don't make it easier.

[JasonBay]

Guess it depends on the track and how luck you get with the arrangement

[mostapha]

Certainly true.

[vpech013]

Unless you can get MIDI files or at least audio stems, I'd say don't bother……re-create and re-record it. But you'll never be able to isolate parts very well (apart from multiband compression, filtering, and EQing) from a stereo file which means you're basically playing parts on top of it.

That works sometimes, but it's really easy to turn it into a busy, noisy, muddy, mess……it's easy enough to do that as it is…don't make it easier.

I see a lot of remix contests where they post all stems so that i feel would an awesome practise. I guess it is indeed a matter of just making what sounds good eh

[JasonBay]

I think actually making good original productions would be better and more productive than just working on all those remix competitions