Something out of the ordinary here, a friend challenged me to remix top 40 songs to make them actually good, or as close as I can get. Last I did Ayo Technology, and for whatever reason I decided to try my hands on this piece of crap. I hate the original song, its a bastardization of Stand By Me, a favorite song of mine, and sean kingston can't even sing, but I digress. As much as I was doing this song for practice, its turning out not bad so I'm looking to get some opinions. No, its not trance, not by a looooong shot, but still. Worth a shot



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Last edited by mezzir on Dec-20-2007 at 16:27

hahaha i was not expecting this! I quite like the original but hey, this is a really fun remix. production sounds good, yeah nice twist on the remix, ill be keeping this haha

Nice one,
Alex

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lol I dont know the original, after the vocals I dont wanna though!
Sounds pretty fun, mix sounds fine.
Good luck dude .

Kopi =o.

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there's always a risk when rmxing shitty top40 traxx. you have to be careful, b/c it's not easy to take an annoying song and make it somewhat enjoyable.

your rendition is quite interesting...everything sounds syncd up really well.(use ableton?) but for me, the drums and vox have too much rvrb, and the drum sounds are a little thin sounding imo.

good start tho

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Originally posted by kopi_luwak lol I dont know the original, after the vocals I dont wanna though! Sounds pretty fun, mix sounds fine. Good luck dude . Kopi =o.

Hah yeah, don't bother. It's god awful, and a ripoff of a classic. Another one of sean kingston's songs is a blatant rip-off of led zeppelin

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Originally posted by ASFSE there's always a risk when rmxing shitty top40 traxx. you have to be careful, b/c it's not easy to take an annoying song and make it somewhat enjoyable. your rendition is quite interesting...everything sounds syncd up really well.(use ableton?) but for me, the drums and vox have too much rvrb, and the drum sounds are a little thin sounding imo. good start tho

All done in fruityloops, with reason rewired for the synths, but all sequencing and whatnot in fruityloops. And yeah, I've been playing around with the reverb, I was kinda going for a dub-esque sound, overcompressed, dark, and really really wet, but idk. i'll look into it
thanks for the comments all

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Sounds good man! Def better than the original. I think im gonna hang onto this one.

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Originally posted by gwrmarines Sounds good man! Def better than the original. I think im gonna hang onto this one.

don't save it yet, i put that up after like 3 hours on it, workin on it more now
givin it a solid treatment
which well, yeah people probably won't all like, but fuck em
i do

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Originally posted by mezzir don't save it yet, i put that up after like 3 hours on it, workin on it more now givin it a solid treatment which well, yeah people probably won't all like, but fuck em i do

LOL that's what counts right?

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Originally posted by gwrmarines LOL that's what counts right?

eeeeexactly
drums sound fucking sick right now, but now they're overpowering the vox and the vox sound terrible
bleh
newer version whenever i get some time to sit down and piece it together, i got 4 finals this week
but then happy times!

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bump for a new version

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Sounds a hell of alot better man! Nice job.

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I didn't really like the original very much, I find the guys voice really annoying But if it could be saved you would have saved it

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