How do you do remixes in rap music

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How do you do remixes in rap music?

I seen this happen a lot and I wanted to know how it was done.

Basically there is a normal song. Then they some how cut the singer or rapper's voice and get to put there voice in there in the second verse.


How do you do this?
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If you have access to the original elements of the mix, there's little you can't do with it...

Without that access, there's little you *can* do with it.
 
If anyone stole my music and put his so-called vocals on top of it, I'd hunt him down and kill him. No matter how bad my music might be, it can't be worse than if some arsehole who doesn't have an original bone in his body and can't come up with his own music, ripped it off and rapped over it. But that's just me.

have a nice day. :)
 
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I dunno, Rami. It all kinda' sounds the same anyway, so what's the difference? :D Just kidding.

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Oooh, I hate this! Nothing makes my skin crawl like hearing a Steely Dan song rapped over. :mad:

So, if you want to do it for fun, you just need to get a vocal eliminator and go to town. If you're talking about doing it for something other than having fun with your homies though, you need to get the artist's permission if the song has never been professionally covered, or if it has you no longer need permission, but you have to pay royalties.
 
Yeah, it's best to have the actual multitracks, then with the chopping, streching and beatmatching of the new samplers it's not that hard to do anymore.
 
This is what you do.....find the instrumental first take the comercial track that you here on the radio and upload it as wave to your editing software do the same to the instrumental....now as you would extend any wave you find the right points to cut and where to paste....do the same here so if you cut the original track on the up beat then paste the instrumental on the down beat right after....but make sure u slide the instrumental into the song making it as natural as possible........it's more so in the instrumental than the words that you want to focus on......if you want to keep the first verse and the hook chop the wave after the hook then paste the instrumental and make it sound natural in the transition....then copy the hook from the orginal track and paste it after the verse you record and continue this process as you go......listen to the mix of the original track and try to match you vocals as far as levels are concerned....then throw a eq over the whole track to make every thing sound like it was recorded or mixed together....that's just a little trick that works for me nothing big but something little to keep the whole track into one box....let me know if this helped..
 
Massive Master you theory is correct but i know how hard it can be sometimes....
 
Here's a dumb idea I just had but have never tried. What if you were wanting to remix a song, and you could tell it was just a cut and paste jobby where they just looped a drumbeat or something like that.....couldn't you possibly cut a section of the instrumental loop, flip the polarity, and slide it in with the section that has vocals over it? Would this not theoretically leave you with just (or mostly) the vocals and any other added sounds that weren't with the main loop? Hmmmm...
 
ds21 said:
Yeah, it's best to have the actual multitracks, then with the chopping, streching and beatmatching of the new samplers it's not that hard to do anymore.
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Im actually finnishing up a mixtape that i am doing right now. I have one song where i am going to just the 2nd verse of a track. Pretty much doing what you say here.. Its not that hard to do but you have to get the cuts at the right points etc..
 
Are there any secrets to finding the instrumentals. I'm looking for some NWA instrumentals with no luck. Any suggestions?
 
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Are there any secrets to finding the instrumentals. I'm looking for some NWA instrumentals with no luck. Any suggestions?
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Check out this site called warbeats.com

Register and go in the forums to "REQUEST" remakes. THey are very good at remaking all the mainstream instrumentals.

ENJOY tell em SEREOUS sent u
 
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