good job on the mashup, even I like it. Wish you could hear it through my ears, it sounds really good.
Thank you! :)
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#22And again: "Unfortunately, this UMG-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights." Good to have a proxy around.
I went through YouTube's copyright dispute process, and said it was a fair use derivative work. YouTube's response is apparently to ask the copyright owner if they feel it's fair use. Which, of course, they didn't.
Ironically, it was LMFAO's label that had the problem, and yet LMFAO posted the song to their Facebook and Twitter profiles. C'est la vie.
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#23Very cool! The mashup is really catchy and the author did a great job mixing LMFAO and Psy. The first mashup I remember listening to was the Eminem/Britney Spears mashup ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j98zaF5592c ). It was particularly funny because Eminem had recently dissed Britney Spears, but the ironic thing is that this mashup sounded better than the originals of both songs. The only question I have is how do…
Thank you. :) Stores like iTunes often carry instrumentals, at least for the singles. There's also acapellas4u.co.uk and Beatport for finding acapellas.
Very cool mashup. Can you give more than technical details of how you made it? Logic Pro and then what? Or is there a site you recommend to explain how to make mashups? I always assumed it was something mere mortals can't do.
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#24"Try something that scares the hell out of you. It just might turn into something wonderful."
Wise words, indeed.
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#25Very cool! The mashup is really catchy and the author did a great job mixing LMFAO and Psy. The first mashup I remember listening to was the Eminem/Britney Spears mashup ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j98zaF5592c ). It was particularly funny because Eminem had recently dissed Britney Spears, but the ironic thing is that this mashup sounded better than the originals of both songs. The only question I have is how do…
There are some neat tricks you can do with the 2 stereo signals. Linear combinatios of L/R channels is the easiest, but doesn't work well with modern mixes where bass/snare/voice is centered and other instruments are rarely ever hard-panned (you can get really cool results on some older albums like Rubber Soul - there's a lot of hard panning going on there)
There are of cuorse more advanced techniques for isolation of centered tracks and vocals in particular see http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=102 and http://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/1499/how-to-extract-v...
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yet another reason I block everyone's webfonts. (Designers on OS X: ClearType does not render fonts the same way.)
That seems excessive, perhaps just upgrade to a more progressive font-smoothing algorithm? ClearType is built for lo-res displays (it snaps pixels to a grid rather than smoothing), so as you'd expect it looks like utter crap on a nice monitor. I have heard good things about gditray: http://www.cobyx.com/software/gdi/
Have to design for the lowest common denominator. Just because you and I can install gditray or whatnot doesn't mean that most people will.
Edit: The link even says that it doesn't work with Chrome, so it's still a non-starter.
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#28"Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation"
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/gan...
"5 Must-See ‘Gangnam Style’ Response Videos"
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/08/22/5-must-see-gangnam-sty...
"KnowYourMeme: Gangnam Style"
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you. :) Stores like iTunes often carry instrumentals, at least for the singles. There's also acapellas4u.co.uk and Beatport for finding acapellas.
Very cool mashup. Can you give more than technical details of how you made it? Logic Pro and then what? Or is there a site you recommend to explain how to make mashups? I always assumed it was something mere mortals can't do.
I prefer Logic Pro because it's (to me) the most straightforward, but you can use Ableton or Reason or whatever; all the DAW (digital audio workstation) apps are basically the same.
Of all the EDM I've tried to make - dubstep, drum/bass, house, trance, chillwave - mashups seem to be the easiest, because you start out with all the ingredients.
Find some instrumental tracks and a few a capellas. You'll want them to have similar keys, so they don't clash when you hear them (my mashup suffers from this in a few places), which can be tough, and pitch-shifting won't necessarily get you there. You also have to beat match everything, which means adjusting the tempos of the a capellas so they match your music track. Easiest way to do this is to find a BPM tapper and tap out the BPM for your song and your a capella, and plug those numbers into your DAW's tempo changer. If it's not perfect, you'll just have to slice the track during gaps so that major vocal cues land on specific beats.
After that, you just have to sequence everything together so it sounds good. In a mashup, this means making the lyrics and the music mesh well, and having hooks that throw your audience off guard. For example, in my mashup, my favorite part is the transition into the Offspring song because it just flows so well ("uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis" "let's go" "you know it's kind of...") and it's unexpected. Balance the lyrics so that one thing is being said/sung at a time.
Overall, just make it fun. A mashup is supposed to be a unique spin on other songs. Mix things up, and keep it interesting.
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#30"Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation" http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/gan... "5 Must-See ‘Gangnam Style’ Response Videos" http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/08/22/5-must-see-gangnam-sty... "KnowYourMeme: Gangnam Style" http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gangnam-style