Dude Ivey
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songs for mixing
Last night i was messing around online and found a guy who had recorded a partial song and put the 16 wav files for you to download and mix yourself. I stayed up all night playing around and mixing them. The song was only a minute long but still fun to play with and practice on. The mixing and mastering is what i really love to do and really wanna learn more about. Does anyone know of other places where u can download music to practice mixing and mastering? I know about Indaba music but most of that is just techno stuff and u just get stems and thats not as fun to mix. Ive done a few songs on there but id like all the tracks instead of stems. Im just looking for tracks to practice on.
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 13:43:25
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Well how about a link to the files you downloaded so we can all have a go?
If you subscribe to Lynda.com they have a couple of mixing courses with files to download (you have to get the gold subscription which is slightly more). For $35 or so for a months subscription, taking the courses is well worth it.
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Dude Ivey
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 14:15:06
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Dude Ivey
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 14:20:12
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for some reason the link wont work. use the other link and go to the website. that same link is under the Engineering weekly tab. the link works there. and again the song is only a minute long.
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 16:30:32
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 16:58:18
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 17:49:04
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Dude Ivey
...16 wav files for you to download and mix yourself... I know about Indaba music but ...u just get stems and thats not as fun to mix.
What else do you need apart from stems?
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Dude Ivey
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 20:18:36
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id rather have all the tracks. instead of having a stem of guitars or drums u have more control with each individual tracks.
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 20:33:42
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@ Jerry. That link looks awesome. They got some Rock and Metal songs. I havent downloaded anything yet but i think that its exactly what i was looking for!!! Thanks
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 20:49:09
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What's a STEM?
Sounds physiological lol
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 21:14:28
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just a hint/pointer to the real thing. aka, not the whole thing 
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 22:00:04
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I have used the downloads at this link many times in the capacity of sound engineering teaching. http://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms-mtk.htm In all the cases I have used them there were no stems just all the tracks. I am using the word 'Stem' here in the meaning that it is a sub group of a number of tracks. Good point from Cactus below as well regarding that. I recently entered into a remix comp on the Indaba Music site and they used the word 'Stems' too but in fact they were just individual tracks not a sub group or anything like that. They were stereo tracks though and many of them were in fact mono sources just occupying stereo or interleaved tracks. You are better off converting those to mono before you mix usually. What there is there is a short and also a full mp3 usually of the track which is great for determining if you are going to download it or not. These sessions are usually very well tracked and the standard of the performing is also pretty good too.
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/27 22:05:05
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I always thought that Stem was just apple speak ( Pro Tools) for tracks. I guess it's a little more involved. Please don't explain, I don't want to speak apple.
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/28 07:27:21
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PilotGav
What's a STEM?
Sounds physiological lol
simply a track.... it can also be any combination of tracks in a project resulting in any number of submixes. the term is used a lot in radio and TV and film...... they may have the entire song mix playing in a scene.... then switch to a piano/acoustic "stem" to allow dialog without losing the feel.... then return to the complete song in the following scene. If you pay attention to TV and film, you will see this happen all the time.
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/28 08:37:41
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Try indaba.com. I re-mixed a Christina Aguillera song a few months ago as part of a contest. They have several contests going all the time, not always with such a big name. Then you can hear what others have done with the same piece, which is enlightening to say the least.
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/28 15:46:30
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/28 19:42:44
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Want a challenge? A few years back, someone posted the original 24 raw multi-track audio files from Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. The whole thing. I pulled it in and proceeded to use it as a project whereby I recorded my own versions of Brian's guitar (and some of Freddie's vocals). The intro & 'opera' sections are a bear to remix. 16-24 tracks of vocals alone, at times. Google search that one for a bit of fun. (I think I found it on gearslutz.com.) PS, no, I never did finish up my own version of "me jamming with Queen". One of these days...
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/30 14:46:57
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2013/01/30 17:54:36
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Re:songs for mixing
2013/01/30 18:29:49
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daveny5
Try indaba.com. I re-mixed a Christina Aguillera song a few months ago as part of a contest. They have several contests going all the time, not always with such a big name. Then you can hear what others have done with the same piece, which is enlightening to say the least.
The OP mentioned that he is aware of Indaba, but he thinks it's mostly techno stuff there. Of course he's mistaken. They've run remix contests based on songs by, to name a few, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and Janis Joblin.
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