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5am - Katy B (DanSeb Remix)

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Ever since first purchasing the single '5am', and spotting there was also an acapella version available, I've fancied having a go at making my own Caustic remix of this song. I've since discovered all the individual stems were made available over a year ago, for a (long-since finished) remix competitions (Stems here). Despite the fact that there are already hundreds of remixes for that competition, I thought I'd amuse myself by having a go at my own version!

This track consists of 3 Beatboxes, a Subsynth sub-bass, 2 Modular basses, a Subsynth Melody, Padsynth Chords and a couple of Modular busses for additional effects, along with the original songs vocals, chopped up into 8-bar segments in PCMSynth.

One technique I discovered whilst making this, was automating the wet value of a stereo ping-pong delay on vocals (as a spike, in various places) in order to highlight individual words throughout the song with a bouncing echo effect, which seemed to work quite nicely!

Any comments welcome

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Nice remix. That was sick.

Nice remix. That was sick.

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Joined: 09/18/2014 - 09:30
Wow this is very impressive

Wow this is very impressive dude!
Really clean and very smooth mix,pretty catchy bassline,well structured beat and those delayed vocals makes this a good 10/10!
Pretty sick and groovy baseline keep it up!;)

♬​ Lu!G

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Thanks very much N.V.I.V.!

Thanks very much N.V.I.V.!

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Thanks a lot LuiG! In terms

Thanks a lot LuiG! In terms of how long it normally takes me to make a track, this was fairly quick (Started 10 days ago). I think it helped having the underlying vocals and therefore song structure already in place, It was just a case of then adding my own sounds to the vocals!

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Did you make yours own

Did you make yours own samples?
Great eq/mastering too;)

♬​ Lu!G

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Love it - I have a soft spot

Love it - I have a soft spot For Katy B already - that's just peachy laugh

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If you mean the instrument

If you mean the instrument presets then yes, they are all my own creations, although the PadSynth just uses the 'default' preset, which I thought fitted nicely enough without needing to be altered(!) Thanks again

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Thanks James, same here - the

Thanks James, same here - the Soundcloud photo is one I took myself when I went with some mates to see her live at O2 Academy in Birmingham in 2011

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You sure have a great talent;

You sure have a great talent;)
One thing I didn't know you can chop vocals with pcmsynth? I always thought the beatbox was the only machine that could do that...I actually learned something new! ;D

♬​ Lu!G

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wow, very nice remix work and

wow, very nice remix work and crisp vocals.  cool