Michael Jackson vs Journey - Don't Stop Believin' In Black Or White - BBP Mashup

[Lammbo26]

richtig geil das teil



[ShiShaManYaK]

Nette arbeit! K.o.P. Forever!

[Cheebyx]

Damn, you keep coming with great MJ vids. Stop it! Can't stop listening. For real, really great. Love it. Love it with MJ. Lovely Mashup. Keep going on!

[LiloleinchenMJ]

yes it's GRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAT !!!!

How long you needed to mix this ??

[TazBear52]

@LiloleinchenMJ

Vielen Dank!

Da wir das nur so nebenbei machen, ist das schwer zu sagen... von der Idee bis zum finalen Mix-Down vielleicht 2 Wochen. Das Viedeo geht danach meist an einem Nachmittag.

[BundesWehrWolf]

bombig geil leute weiter so

[TazBear52]

@BundesWehrWolf

Vielen Dank

[TazBear52]

@QueenandScaraFan

Vielen Dank

[THRILLAKILLA187]

nice combo/ great mash up!

[TazBear52]

@THRILLAKILLA187

Thank you very much

[THRILLAKILLA187]

@TazBear52 uvw

[loverJJackson]

I LOVED THIS and i'm a huge mj fan. SO sit back and enjoy cause this rocks people!

[TazBear52]

@loverJJackson

Thank you very much, I'm really glad you do!

Don't think I have a problem with MJ fans in general... quite the opposite. It's just that some people who call themselves 'fans' can lose all common sense and touch with reality when it comes to that. Especially those who just joined the bandwagon because it was fashionable to be a beriefed MJ fan. Sadly enough we had some bad experience on a mashup we made last year.

[sparksterknight]

Very Cool! I really like it. It´s a good combination!

[TazBear52]

@sparksterknight

Vielen Dank :-)

[rpvee]

Who's the singer? The vocal style is similar to MJ, but it's obviously not, it can't be. lol

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

It is MJ's acapella. I had to pitch it down slightly to fit the key of the music.

[rpvee]

@TazBear52 But it sounds so different! The voice itself, the notes..... how'd you do it?

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

well... first you find pick a tune that you can humm a different song to.... in this case I just noticed (watching GLEE) that I could sing 'Black and White' to 'Don't stop'... then I searched the web for an instrumental and I knew I still had MJ's acapella. When I played them together in Magix Music Maker, they didn't fit at first, so I lowered the pitch on the vocals until most of it was in key. Then I split the vocals into syllables and tuned them as close as I could by ear...

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

the rest was done by using Antares Autotune... a plugin that adjusts pitch-fluctuations in vocals. Some FX, some delay, some old recordings... make the vocals fit the musical patterns or change those about a bit. That's basically it.

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

Now that you know how we did it... do you like it? :-)

[rpvee]

@TazBear52 I liked it anyways, that's just so cool how you did it! I made my own megamix kind of thing, setting Black Or White to Shakira's "Ojos Asi" (you can find it in my profile, "Favorites Megamix"), but all I needed to do was speed it up and then I mixed it around. You totally transformed the acapella, and it's amazing! I'd love to hear it just on its own, without the "Don't Stop" instrumental!

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

Thank yoou very much.

I'd already checked out your mix earlier and gave it the "Thumbs up" :-D

The acapella I used sounded just like yours and some people (sooner or later) will curse me for messing about with it. But it's just easier to re-tune vocals rather than a whole arrangement... better results. In this case there was no other option anyways since I had to change quite some individual notes to go with the melody.

[rpvee]

@TazBear52 Thanks for the thumbs up! :D

Well it's hearing those changed individual notes that completely transformed the acapella in your mix. If you don't want people yelling at you for messing it up, could you send me the mixed up acapella? haha

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

LOL... you're very welcome.

I didn't mix down the acapella on it's own since it's just a couple of individual tracks in the whole arrangement. Everything gets exported together with FX applied when you do the mixdown.

[rpvee]

@TazBear52 Ah ok! So what other tricks can you do? Make an acapella out of a song?

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

That depends... there are a couple of ways you can attempt to do that... results vary.

1) you can try to extract the center channel in a stereo track. Traditionally (and since a voice usually is mono) the vocals are bang in the center of a stereo track. By getting rid of everything on the left and right, only the center remains and if you're lucky, there isn't much instrumentation left with it. If there is, you can try to filter it out with an equalizer.

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

2) If you have a track and the EXACT SAME TRACK as an instrumental, you can phase-invert one of them and play both of then in sync. By doing that, the inverted instrumental knocks off the instruments of the full track and you end up with a fairly clean acapella. Mind you, that works best with digitally recorded tracks.

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

Most music-processing software (like Adobe Adition, Soundforge, Magix Music Maker or FruityLoops) have editting options like that.

[rpvee]

@TazBear52 I've tried but I can never do it, personally.

Oh, and the "This is a journey into sound" sample is something I noticed in your mix, I like it. haha

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

It was perfect for the project (with the 'journey' and all... that's why I used the MJ intro as well) and it's a classic. I ripped it off YouTube. It's part of footage called "Train Sequence". I tried posting the link here, but it won't let me. Just YouTube-search for "Train sequence journey into sound" :-)

[rpvee]

@TazBear52 Ah, I recognized it from the track "Paid In Full (Coldcut Remix)", which is a remix of a rap song that pulls samples from everywhere into the remix, including that "Journey Into Sound" thing. It also samples Ofra Haza's voice, that's how I know of the remix.

[TazBear52]

@rpvee

That's where I knew it from too. Back in those days, they loved using all sorts of old samples from the early days of radio and broadcasting. I had to do a little research to find out where to get the "clean" version (meaning no beats) and 'lo and behold I finally found a good quality version right here. I also have the original Im Nin'Alu on vinyl somewhere... ;-)

[rpvee]

@TazBear52 You do?! I'm so jealous! I only have her regular CDs. :(

[sinner48]

wow another great mix keep up the good work nice one

[MashUpBambi]

oh my god....i love this song....first heard it @ GLEE......and now the original with MJ....Thumbs Up!!!!!!!! I love your stuff....would be great to have an CD Compilation with your stuff...greetings from germany..;)