This was the first mashup I worked on while learning the music production software I had purchased. I included some voice extraction and other sound extraction tasks as well as applied a few other simple effects and techniques (especially working with automation paths) as part of the learning process.
I also discovered a bug with one of the VST plug-ins whereby an automation path for any of its custom parameters wouldn't stay locked to the audio clip, so if I moved the audio clip, the automation path wouldn't move with it, and I would have to reconstruct the automation path. Note to self... don't create automation paths for this VST plug-in until I'm almost done the edit, or I'm positively sure I'm not going to move the audio clip.
Part way through creating this mashup, I realized that a song by Yello would fit in well, but I was really liking the clean simple sound of the original mashup. So I decided to complete the original mashup and create a second extended version of the mashup.
I had completed and posted the 2 mashups on the MashupTown forum on Jan 26, 2008, inviting some critical feedback. I received some very good feedback with tips for improving the mashups, which I incorporated into the final edits.
Here's the details and album art for the mashups along with the DivShare embedded player for the MP3 files so you can listen to or download the songs...
Thinking About Pumping Up the Volume
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You (The Eclipse Mix)
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume (Instrumental)
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume (7" U.S. Version)
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume (Bonus Beats)
4:33 / 192 kbps / 6.4 MB
Thinking About Pumping Up the Volume (Touched by Love Unreal Mix)
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You (The Eclipse Mix)
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume (Instrumental)
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume (7" U.S. Version)
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume (Bonus Beats)
Yello - Unreal (from the album "The Eye")
5:39 / 192 kbps / 7.8 MB
If you're interested in listening to the original non-tweaked version to compare the before-and-after changes, here's a link to the file I have on my DivShare account:
Download/Listen to non-tweaked version of Thinking About Pumping Up the Volume
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