I had my first remix technologies lecture this week, and at first I have to admit I was slightly skeptical about what was going to be involved in this unit. Was I going to have to take a song and make a completely new version? How was all this going to be assessed? Various other things went through my mind which were cleared up and to my joy in a way that actually could work out easier.

We have to find and enter a remix competition that actually exists. This means that by entering a contest of our own choosing we are in effect making our own brief to the assignment by using the conditions for the contest as the parameters of the brief. Along with creating the brief from the contest another advantage is that most, if not all of the available contests supply raw audio files, AKA stems, of the original track to work from. These could include the drum parts, guitar parts, vocal tracks, synths, or whatever else the original artist used in that track.

I had already chosen to go down this route of using an existing contest as the vehicle for my remix. Being a big fan of Celldweller (Twitter user name in the title) I have known of FiXT Remix for a while which hosts regular remix competitions for Klayton’s (Celldweller’s) work. I have worked on a remix for “Switchback” in the past which is an earlier Celldweller track, and recently with the release of the “Wish Upon A Blackstar” album chapters new competitions have opened up, one being the “So Long Sentiment” contest which is what I think I will use for my remix.

During the process of doing this remix I plan on making use of SoundCloud to host my remix when it is in a state I’m ready for the world to hear, and will most probably embed the audio into a post on here also. I’m really looking forward to doing this project however I am still debating whether to use ProTools, or Logic Pro 9 as they are both very capable DAW systems however I’m sure once I look into the features I will be using the most it one will win over the other, currently my bets are on Logic Pro 9 which I’m not as familiar with, as it has a much larger selection of instruments out of the box.

I will most likely be making use of my Spectrasonics virtual instruments rather heavily as I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to really get to use them, and possibly actually get around to using the Native Instruments Komplete 6 pack I have had for a while and still not installed. Throw in some weird and whacky effects such as vocoders, time stretching, and whatever else I can think of at the time, and this could turn out to be pretty interesting.

So until next time….

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