"Friday Nights" Remix

For this project we had to "remix" a song. But there really wasnt much to start with so I wouldnt necessarily call it "remixing". Anyways, I basically put the instrumental part together around the supplied vocals. Dont give me alot of credit, most of the synths are just editted versions of presets. And most of the effects I used (vocoder, chorus, distortion, etc.) are basically left on the default settings. Almost the entire song is consisting of the same 3 notes. These notes are just used in different ways with different instuments to make up the riffs. This song doesnt have much to it really. I got some sounds I liked so I just stuck to them. There was a setting of Fruity Kick supplied with the vocals which I kept, I used a synth preset called Depthcore, an instument (string) clip called MIXO_C2(L) which I randomly put through the chopper and it sounded fine as a not to centerpeice to the song. Also I tried out a synth prest called Designer Drug on basically all the riffs I already had, and I kept a few, just to add some varitation. I did something in Sytrus, I cant really remember what, but I got that saw wave sort of sound played every beat beat for many parts of the song (Its pretty simple and kinda misplaced, but the song is completely empty without it). Mr. Rabuse gave me some pointers and I did some re-remixing and got this. He had alot of helpful advice on the setup of the song, stuff you tend to forget about while working on it. There really isnt much else to say about it. Enjoy.

NIN Remix

For this project we were supposed to remix some Kanye West song, but I did not because... I dont like Kanye West. I remixed My Violent Heart by Nine Inch Nails instead. This project was a difficult mess. Remixing a song that I know very well proved difficult because I always wanted to place each part with the other parts it went with in the original song. Remixing a song in general was difficult. I had stuff cut and pasted all over the place, the final piece consuming 23 lines of the playlist.
There isnt a whole lot to say about the remix really. Just alot of cut, paste, and added effects. There was one long bass note in the original song that I had to recreate in sytrus because I somehow broke it and saved it... So I made a new one, its not great, but I like it. It has the same effect as the original. When I played it along with the drums (especially towards the end of the remix) the bass overpowered a bit, slowing down the drums temporarily and when the bass note ends the drums suddenly speed up to catch up with themselves, at least thats how i would describe it. I noticed afterwards that it does this slightly in the original song, but mine has more of the effect since the bass has more power. I added a ton of effects to everything. Theres either distortion, delay, or the vocoder on basically everything. As with almost all my projects, the vocoder gives you this crumbling noise in the background when its not in use. Luckily its not very apparent this time. The drum parts at times seem to be a little... not on beat? But i dont know of any way you could fix that, its just been to cut up to change much.
Overall I think it sounds cool, but gets boring at points, and doesnt keep the same feel throughout the song. Thats hard to avoid though since the original song is also like this. It switches from very quiet to very loud a few times throughout. But I hope you like it anyways. Finally, I would like to thank Trent Reznor and anyone else who helped write the song for the sick parts used here and the brilliant idea of letting me download the multilayer tracks from your website. Ill probably upload my remix to there eventually.