# Remastering Mashups and Edits?

**URL:** <https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/remastering-mashups-and-edits/31109>\
**Category:** Music Production\
**Tags:** remix, mastering, mash-up\
**Created:** [October 12, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/remastering-mashups-and-edits/31109 "2011-10-12T15:35:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siickness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Siickness](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Siickness)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/remastering-mashups-and-edits/31109/1 "2011-10-12T15:35:31Z")

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**Remastering Mashups and Edits?**

Hey Guys,

I have produced some Mashups and Re-Edits in my DAW, by simply dropping some acapellas over (popular) instrumentals and adding some Effects. Nothing special really. The acapellas and especially the instrumentals have both already been professionally mastered before (as i bought them directly from Beatport & Co.).

Do i now have to remaster my edit all the way over or is it ok, to simply apply some leveling of gain controls within my DAW, in order to play them at my gigs? What do think is the better approach? How do you guys do this? 😕😕

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**Author:** ![Garygary1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/garygary1/32/14575_2.png) [@Garygary1](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Garygary1)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/remastering-mashups-and-edits/31109/2 "2011-10-16T19:17:16Z")

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a track with vocals does need to be mixed down and mastered differently so the vocals sit in the mix well.

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**Author:** ![Tarekith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/tarekith/32/15048_2.png) [@Tarekith](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Tarekith)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/remastering-mashups-and-edits/31109/3 "2011-10-17T14:12:53Z")

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I you can get away with just normalizing them, I’d recommend that. The base songs have already been mastered, so there’s a risk of really making them too squashed or one dimensional if you try and master them again.

Hard to say definitively though, its going to depend on each individual song.