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Elements => Tha Studio => Topic started by: Suga Foot on August 26, 2009, 10:06:33 AM
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I'm trying to remix "Nuthin But A G Thang", but I wanna do it right. I plan on doing 4 or 5 drafts until I get it right. I would love feedback and opinions to help me along tho. What's good? What's bad? What should I change? What should I keep?
I really wanna make this good, and dubcc is the highest concentration of Dre fans on the net. So all suggestions are welcomed.
Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dogg "Nuthin But A G Thang"
1st Draft:
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8296459-2a5
Sorry about the low quality, the next draft will be better. I've already changed the strings so they don't play through the whole song.
2nd Draft:
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8300335-d25
-The high's might be too high on this one. It sounds good on some speakers and to 'thin' on others. Any feedback good or bad is appreciated.
-The sample in the vocals (the 'aaaahhhhhhh') has drums in it. I gotta do something about that too
3rd Draft:
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8567190-2fa
4th Draft (Final):
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8665703-d95
Instrumental
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8665713-d9c
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Sounds good. Maybe on those 1-2 EP key hits, I'd give it some reverb or extend the release on them. And of course turn the vocals up but I know you jst got a rough draft.
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Sounds good. Maybe on those 1-2 EP key hits, I'd give it some reverb or extend the release on them. And of course turn the vocals up but I know you jst got a rough draft.
Thanks. what do you think of 2nd draft?
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damn 2nd draft is nice
maybe a lil work needs to be added...but its dope
mayhbe linin it up closer
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damn 2nd draft is nice
maybe a lil work needs to be added...but its dope
mayhbe linin it up closer
Props for the feedback. U think the beat is missing something? The acapella doesn't line up?
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yeah no doubt
but maybe a lil linin it up and IMO that will be real hard to do since youve done such a great job and this song wasnt made for this beat to begin wit
but the 2nd one is nice and im likin it alot
im feelin your style (especially that other one you made wit the middle eastern vibe)
maybe one day we can work together and make some bangers... 8)
damn 2nd draft is nice
maybe a lil work needs to be added...but its dope
mayhbe linin it up closer
Props for the feedback. U think the beat is missing something? The acapella doesn't line up?
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Well I ain't got no producers ear or knowledge...this just from a listener's ear..
But judging from the 2nd draft, that beat, besides being ill, sounds like a story telling or a 'deeper' track than 'Nuthin' But A G Thang', you should pick another song I think, song and beat don't go wit each other in my honest opinion. But I think the beat! YOU did that beat word???
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yeah no doubt
but maybe a lil linin it up and IMO that will be real hard to do since youve done such a great job and this song wasnt made for this beat to begin wit
but the 2nd one is nice and im likin it alot
im feelin your style (especially that other one you made wit the middle eastern vibe)
maybe one day we can work together and make some bangers... 8)
Thanks, I'm gonna try to redo the vocal parts tonight.
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Well I ain't got no producers ear or knowledge...this just from a listener's ear..
But judging from the 2nd draft, that beat, besides being ill, sounds like a story telling or a 'deeper' track than 'Nuthin' But A G Thang', you should pick another song I think, song and beat don't go wit each other in my honest opinion. But I think the beat! YOU did that beat word???
I made the beat specifically for this song. I based it off Leon Haywood's "I Wanna Do Something Freaky To You" (different part from the original sample tho). I see what you're saying tho. I was trying to make it more of a laid back song. The synth melody is based off the original too. Do you think it needs to be more upbeat?
I was trying to marry 2 of Dre's styles on the beat. The old being G Funk based (the synth, rhodes etc), and the new being the simplistic drums (with the loud clap).
The bass sounds a lil sloppy still. I think if it were tighter and hit with the kicks it would make the beat sound a lil harder.
I appreciate the feedback and I will take it all into consideration.
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Oh and yes I did the entire beat. I played it all, no samples.
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the 2nd draft is amazing. The chorus "aaah", maybe you can change up the drum pattern to match it with the sample?
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the 2nd draft is amazing. The chorus "aaah", maybe you can change up the drum pattern to match it with the sample?
I think I'm just gonna take the 'aah' out completely and do something else in there. It'll make it more my own that way. I've been listening to this all day, I've got notes on what I'm gonna change tonight.
Props for the feedback.
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Wow the 2nd draft is amazing.
You're right about the highs being high. I'm on a laptop right now however though so I wasn't even able to heear any mid range or low end instruments you have in there, so take what I sayw ith a grain of salt.
The vocal sample - Yeah, you're right about the drums not fitting. Also, it seems as if the vibrato of her voice itself doesnt sync right with the drums, I'd lose it, maybe find something similar in an opera piece, where there are tons of long acapella "ahhhhhh"s, or if you're not in the mood for digging, just synthesize it.
Like I said though, amazing, amazing blend of the old and new. I think those reverbed claps have become the new worm synth as the west coasts defining sound.
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Wow the 2nd draft is amazing.
You're right about the highs being high. I'm on a laptop right now however though so I wasn't even able to heear any mid range or low end instruments you have in there, so take what I sayw ith a grain of salt.
The vocal sample - Yeah, you're right about the drums not fitting. Also, it seems as if the vibrato of her voice itself doesnt sync right with the drums, I'd lose it, maybe find something similar in an opera piece, where there are tons of long acapella "ahhhhhh"s, or if you're not in the mood for digging, just synthesize it.
Like I said though, amazing, amazing blend of the old and new. I think those reverbed claps have become the new worm synth as the west coasts defining sound.
Yeah I'm not the greatest at mastering. I used the preset "Livemix" and it came out this way. I'll just keep it simple on the next one. I might try the vocoder on my microkorg for the 'aah' part.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Well I ain't got no producers ear or knowledge...this just from a listener's ear..
But judging from the 2nd draft, that beat, besides being ill, sounds like a story telling or a 'deeper' track than 'Nuthin' But A G Thang', you should pick another song I think, song and beat don't go wit each other in my honest opinion. But I think the beat! YOU did that beat word???
I made the beat specifically for this song. I based it off Leon Haywood's "I Wanna Do Something Freaky To You" (different part from the original sample tho). I see what you're saying tho. I was trying to make it more of a laid back song. The synth melody is based off the original too. Do you think it needs to be more upbeat?
Yeah, I'd myself say make it a lil more upbeat. I don't know. Good shit anyways, and course propz back.
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damn the 2nd one is str8 dope
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I got soemthing for you to see I am only allowing certain people to see this..........
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check your pms and get at me if you wanna know what to do with it..............
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check your pms and get at me if you wanna know what to do with it..............
Thanks, I appreciate it. I don't know where you got those contacts but some of the names are wrong :/ Thanks either way tho. What did you think of the remix?
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Been working on the third draft, I tried switching up the drum pattern and I didn't like it. I've sprinkled more stuff throughout tho.
I have to take the Dre and Snoop stems and put them together myself into 1 file because my MV doesn't have enough wav memory for both. :grumpy:
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man maybe I spelled some of them wrong but the stuff with dre is accurate............mayne I think the cubevision is old,maybe the last one is the most recent,and I got jimmy iovines email which I didn't bother to put on there............
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adon do you know where the thread is wit the middle eastern vibe?
if so can you up thread?
good lookin
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Alright so I just upped the third draft. I'm workin on the 4th right now. It still needs some tweaking. I need to try to eq the vocals a bit better and add things here and there.
let me know what you think!
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adon do you know where the thread is wit the middle eastern vibe?
if so can you up thread?
good lookin
This one?
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7845818-63f
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3rd draft sounds pretty dope, I'm feelin' the beat a lot... I would just try to play around with the vocals to match the beat a little more, like in the hook... other than that this is sounding real nice, props for your work 8)
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3rd draft sounds pretty dope, I'm feelin' the beat a lot... I would just try to play around with the vocals to match the beat a little more, like in the hook... other than that this is sounding real nice, props for your work 8)
I know what you mean, the beginning of the second hook seems off. But I matched the bpm on the sample, I'll see if I can put a delay on it. Only thing is that I'm totally out of .wav memory so it's hard to change. props for listening tho
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yeah thats the one
damn thats got some dretox in it...lol
adon do you know where the thread is wit the middle eastern vibe?
if so can you up thread?
good lookin
This one?
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7845818-63f
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I like that 3rd draft...the whine synth in the end is from Next Episode OG right?...sounds tight...
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sounds like a c-infamous influenced track...nvrtheless it's pretty dope man. props. 8)
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I like that 3rd draft...the whine synth in the end is from Next Episode OG right?...sounds tight...
Yeah I thought that would be cool for when snoop says 'just chill till the next episode'. I figured only the real fans would pick up on that lol props for noticing
sounds like a c-infamous influenced track...nvrtheless it's pretty dope man. props. 8)
Thanks, yeah he has taught me a thing or two.
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Just updated it with the 4th and final draft
4th Draft (Final):
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8665703-d95
Instrumental
http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8665713-d9c
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and as always props for feedback
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damn adon, thats dope for real
great work
its even up wit the OG (str8 up)
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damn thanks man.
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I like this. Is that WideAwake competition still goin' on, you should post this there.
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I like this. Is that WideAwake competition still goin' on, you should post this there.
I sent it in. Fingers crossed!
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props on this one man. its like a classy version of NbaGT. 8)
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no doubt
good lookin on takin good, bad, and ugly feedback
damn thanks man.
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Of all the remixes I've heard, the og song pops back into my head. This is the first one IMHO that feels fresh. Nice job!
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^Thanks!
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So what happened with that competition? Did they ever announce the winner even?
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damn this is really dope
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I think the competition just kinda got thrown out the window. I had an idea to just have people send their remixes to Dubcnn and we could pick a winner, but then I'd have to make myself win, and that's a little shady lol.
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