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The Mash-up Thread

 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
13:19 / 06.06.05
I've just started playing with Audacity and Buzz to make exciting mashup things, and I was wondering if anyone else
a) does the same
b) would like to share them.
c) would like to discuss other people's attempts

Here's my first attempt. It's Franz Ferdinand "vs" Rasputina, with help from Alisha's Attic (don't ask), David Byrne, and saney saney (friend of mine). A bit rough around the edges, but I'm pleased with it.

Your turn...?
 
 
Shrug
19:45 / 13.06.05
I'm quite fond of mashups although I'm not really exposed to them v.much but I am going to try my musically untalented hand at this as soon as I can find some spare time and some good free editing software.(recommendations welcome)
Some of my favourite Mashups in listy goodness.
-The much slated Nevermind/Survivor
-The Ladytron/Black Rebel Motorcycle Club mashup that MTV UK used to circulate.
-A Madonna/Lola's Theme Mashup heard recently.(but then I just love Lola's Theme)
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
20:56 / 13.06.05
Audacity.
Free, does most things (not that I'm all that good at it), and really really simple to use. I've not heard the Nevermind/survivor one, but I have a perverse liking for what I'm convinced is a Nevermind/Bootylicious mash...
 
 
Chiropteran
18:35 / 15.06.05
I'm dying to do one with NIN's "All the Love in the World" and Fatboy Slim's "Praise You," but so far I haven't gotten too far with it. Or is there one already, and I'm reinventing the wheel?
 
 
Shrug
21:48 / 15.06.05
I don't think I've heard one Lep. I finding this mashup thing a little difficult does any one have any tips for the musically challenged.
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
10:19 / 22.06.05
If you can hear differences in key, try to find two songs in the *same* key, and with vaguely similar time signatures to start off with - audacity will allow you to alter both of these, but any big alteration just sounds too obvious. The way I do it is to cut up and paste bits of songs I'm mashing that fit together (as in the example I posted, although it doesn't help that the Franz track's not got a very steady tempo), and then add extra bits that make them fit together.
For working out the key change bit, a keyboard or piano is useful if you've not got perfect pitch, because then you can work out what note you're starting on. Furthermore, judicious use of the noise removal and compression tools or splitting and deleting one of the tracks of a stereo mix, will allow you (hopefully) to extract, say, just a vocal line, although that's something I'm having trouble with on the software I've currently got...
 
  
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