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Making Mashups with Stem Separation
Making Mashups with Stem Separation

Learn how to use DJ.Studio's Stem Separation tools to make cool mashups!

Fleur van der Laan avatar
Written by Fleur van der Laan
Updated over a month ago

Follow these instructions for a demo on using DJ.Studio's Stem tools to make mashups.

You can also watch this video to see how Siebrand makes mashups in DJ.Studio:

Step One - Initial Setup

Tracks:

- Bob Musella - Baby Hot Stuff (Original Mix)

- Sgt Slick - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (Sg Slick's Melbourne Recut)

- Star The Party - I feel Love (Kevin McKay Remix)

Transition:

- Crossfade 50%

- Swap 0

- Baby Hot Stuff: 121 -> 137 and Gimme Gimme Gimme: 25->41

- Gimme Gimme Gimme: 129->145 and Start the Party: 25-> 41

Step Two

Gimme Gimme Gimme -> Start The Party transition

  • Turn on stems

  • Take Start the Party stems to 37 with melody coming in from 33

  • Take Gimme Gimme stopping at 37 except for vocals

Step Three

Giving Donna Summer a big reverb on her voice

  • Right-click on Start the Party and choose "Split Acapella and Instrumental

  • Which will leave you with acapella in the sample 1 track

  • Select the track, click Effects at the bottom, and set Reverb to 70% Size / 50% Mix

Step Four

  • Stem separated transition from Hot Love to Gimme Gimme

  • Get rid of the equalizer transitions

  • Turn on stems

  • Baby Hot Stuff: Pull red back to 131.5, drums (blue) back to 129.5

  • Gimme Gimme: Push green and yellow out to 36.5, bring in red from 35.5 to 36.75

Step Five

  • Borrow a beat from Hot Love to spice up Gimme Gimme

  • Zoom in on the early part of Baby Hot Stuff

  • Shift-Click and drag _inside the track_ to select bars 21-23, and choose "Copy drums"

  • Which should give you this

  • Now move it to the second sample lane, drag it over to the right until it starts at measure 41 from

  • Gimme Gimme Gimme, and extend it to 145 (the end of the ABBA track)

Step Six

  • Spice up the transition with some vocal teasers

  • Remove the vocals from Hot Stuff completely

  • Select bars 40-> 52.5 from Gimme Gimme Gimme and choose "Copy Vocals"

  • Now, shrink it to 41 -> 45 (or just do that from the start lol)

  • Pull it back to the start of the transition (121 Hot Stuff / 25 Gimme Gimme Gimme)

  • Now we Option/Alt-Click on the vocal track from Hot Stuff and drag it into Sample 1 ***For some reason I have to drag it to _Before_ where the current sample 1 is for Gimme Gimme

  • Gimme, otherwise it chooses the wrong vocals (or so it seems)

  • Grab 126.5 -> 129.5

  • Drag it to Sample 2

  • Move it back to start at 124.75 (you may have to listen to this to get it to the right position)

Step Seven

Let's make a good intro

  • Select bars 40.75 -> 44 of Baby Hot Stuff and choose "Extract vocals" which will move it to the Sample 1 track Click on Effects and set Echo to 3/4 Time, 50% Dry/Wet and Reverb to 80% Size / 50% Mix

  • Now move the sample back to start on bar 24.75
    (I'm not sure what the keyboard shortcut is to duplicate and drag a sample)

  • Duplicate the Gimme Gimme Gimme Sample in The Sample 1 Track and drag it back to bar 33. Then expand it so it repeats once, ending on bar 41. I couldn't quite get this transition to sound perfect though.

  • Select 196-197 on I Feel Love, Right-click, and choose "Copy Sample". If it shows up at the end of the Sample 1 track, drag it to Sample 2. Either way, position it starting on 17 and ending on 41.

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