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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!

Noah Feasey-Kemp avatar
Written by Noah Feasey-Kemp
Updated over 2 weeks 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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