Cakewalk Employees collaborate on a remix

Thought it would be nice to share a story of Cakewalk employees using SONAR X2 to create a remix. As you may know, one of the cool things about Cakewalk is that many of its' employees are also musicians. In testing SONAR X2a, we used a track created by Cakewalk's Dan Kaplan for testing. Cakewalk QA Engineer Lance Riley ended up doing a remix of his song and it came out so well that we decided to share the remix techniques with our customers. We hope this story will give you some ideas for doing your own remixes. The CA-2A T-Type Leveling Amplifier is featured prominently on vocals. And of course, we used Z3TA+ 2 on this track which just goes to show how truly versatile this synth is for all types of music. Enjoy!

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Excuse me but perhaps this should be in the song forum


Sounds good, the mix sounds nice, solid with good range and separation of instrument voices.  Thanks for sharing

Just as an idea what was the s-p-e-c of the PC you used to mix this and what other relevant set information regarding monitors etc..  Thanks 

Just as an idea what was the s-p-e-c of the PC you used to mix this and what other relevant set information regarding monitors etc..  Thanks  

I mixed this on a 64bit Win8 machine with a 2GHz intel i7 and 8 gigs of ram running SONAR X2a x64. I predominantly mix in head phones. I really like how detailed certain things can be when you have a good set. All the edits are clearer and imaging feels better equally spaced and going wide feels necessary more offten working closely with head phone than I've found exclusively working on speakers. Many times if I don't reference on head phone a mix will end up too narrow for my taste. There are many pitfalls to ONLY mixing in head phones though. I use a set of full range monitors for low end reference and general level balance. It's better to A/B in mono using speakers cause with headphones too much of that might make you fall out of your chair.

 Hmm, a pretty cool tune parts of it I enjoyed a great deal. Vocalist has a really cool voice and some really cool melody going on there. Some of the sounds really cool and inventive, some not so much. It very well may be I'm just too old to enjoy it, but to be honest the mix does not sound good to my ears some harsh tones from some of the synths and the vocals don't stand out in the mix enough. I'm not saying I could do better but there are many here in the songs forum that IMO sounds much better. For Electronica that furry Wookieee critter and Blipp carve some tones that always please with no harshness. For vocals have a listen to Robby, Danny, James and Charlie in the songs forum. Those vocals always stand out.

 Sorry if this was just a for fun project and it was a cool story but I really don't think it sheds the best light on Sonar or the CA-2A, which I love BTW.

 This is just my opinion, I am open to the idea that this is the modern sound that everyone is listening to, just not me

 I can understand if I get banned but you locked the sticky in the songs forum. A cool song IMO worthy of the monitor mix sorry.

wow, what an awesome mix.
great song too.

tweed guy


This shameless self promotion is worthy of Bapu.

Nice work Guys!!!






BTW  Shouldnt this be in the correct forum   (Songs}     J/K

I really liked both versions.

Thank you for sharing. Please share more of your guys' work where you explain how you got what you got. :-)

great job guys

redbarchetta


Awesome job guys!  And this was ALL done using Cakewalk products?  No 3rd party plugins? 

I thought it would be fun to do this mix only with Cakewalk products since Dan and I work together. So no 3rd party plug-ins used here.

Nice Work!

Awful pity they did not video it. 

Unbelievably fantastic...absolutely made my morning. Thanks much.

Regards

nice job lance, i also appreciate the comments you put in the souncloud upload.  that was a very nice touch for a tech geek like me! ;)