MARKY GLAM...I have a Remix Question...

[A Katt Named Raggz]

Me being like you who always remixes demos for better quality sound. What program do ya use. I use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab Software...but was hoping to find something more top notch with more power to it.

[MARKYGLAM]

HEY MARC I USE SOUND FORGE WITH MOSTLY OF THE EXTERNAL PLUG INS!!! BUT THE ONLY POWER FOR REMIXING IS MY TALENT!!! HA HA HA!!!
NAH BEING HONEST I DON'T KNOW HOW AS POWERFULL THIS SOFTWARE CAN BE!!! NO ONE BETTER THAN DARREN FOR TECHNICAL INFO ABOUT IT!!!

[A Katt Named Raggz]

Teach me MASTER Teach Me...hahahaha

Yeah I have a Sound Forge installer just never messed around with it...but maybe I'll check it out.

<font color="#0099FF" size="1">[ July 09, 2004 04:09 PM: Message edited by: A Katt Named Raggz ]</font>

[glitterwoman]

do you have the latest audio cleaning lab 2004?

its a lot better than the last few revisions.

sound forge is great for that stuff but, i , like you have not gotten around to messing with it.

[A Katt Named Raggz]

Yes that's what I use the 2004 version.
and yeah...I need to mess around with Sound Forge more.

[DeviantD]

On Remixing.

I concure with people like Tim Skold and Pitch-
shifter's philosophy with regards to it: 'Strip
the original tune down to its essence, and start
from there.' When Pitchshifter remixed the Stereo-
phonics, 'The only thing we kept from the original,
was one guitar riff.'

Sometimes it happens like that; other times, you
end up doing-a-Davy Vain, and remixing an Aguilera
song which is better than the original. ('Dirrty,'
I think it was.)

And other times, you end up making a dogs arse of
it, like Aphex Twin, by simply over-producing it.

--

Soundforge is OK, as far as corrupting individual
.WAV files is concerned, but it's not the best.
Logic 5.+ has the edge thesedays, because it (i)
supports VST plugins, and not vice versa, (ii)
it has fantastic plugins of its own, and (iii)
has an unlimited-audio sequencer, which 'talks'
better than VST to Pro Tools.

Personally, for the whole job, I use either Cool
Edit Pro 2 (aka, Adobe Audition 1.5), or Pro Tools
5. With the final mix mastered/compressed on
Behringer and Vitalizer outboard.

--

For the budgetary conscious, I would suggest
remixing on something relatively cheap, like CEP2,
then mixing down to Minidisk. When the track
is sampled back in to CEP from Minidisk, you
will find that it has been 'naturally' compressed,
and is also slightly warmer-sounding as a result.

I suggest this, because, even though it's quite
permissible to do everything in CEP2, and to
bypass any post-production whatsoever, CEP's
compressing filters are a pain in the derriere
to tweak 'just right'.

D.

[DeviantD]

The best advice, though, is to revert back to
the 'essence' bit. Never turn on computer and
hope for the best, thinking that, given enough
time and experimentation, something decent's bound
to happen. Because it doesn't.

Everything *really* happens in pre-production;
sitting down and having a good think; listening
to the original over and over again, and pencilling
ideas.

Saying that, I remixed myself once, but got half-
drunk on vodka first, then fully drunk whilst
remixing; and consequently, everything, the
next day, sounded too loud. But actually, that's
what the original version really needed - a good
kick up the arse! [img]wink.gif[/img]

D.