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Remixing Techniques: Time Stretching

Remixing Techniques: Time Stretching

with Josh Harris

 


In this course, author Josh Harris demonstrates time-stretching techniques in four of the major digital audio workstations: Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Reason, and Ableton Live. Josh covers the basic time-stretching treatments, where minimal tempo adjustment is needed, and then moves into more difficult territory—remixing at a much slower or faster tempo than what the original tracks were recorded at—where time stretching is pushed to the extreme. Another technique shows how to create a composite vocal from multiple time-stretched tracks. Each lesson employs real-world musical examples to clearly show where each time-stretching technique is useful and how the results of time stretching affect the sound of a song.
Topics include:
  • What is time stretching or expanding?
  • Understanding how time stretching fits into the remixing process
  • Working in Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, or Reason
  • Calculating the tempo of the original track
  • Dealing with wet vocal stems
  • Importing vocals with the 10% time-stretch rule
  • Comparing time-stretched vocals at faster tempos
  • Putting a time-stretched vocal in context
  • Setting up a session for double-timing a vocal
  • Creating a 4/4 remix from a song originally in 3/4 or 6/8
  • Tightening up a vocal that drifts from the click track

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author
Josh Harris
subject
Audio, Music Production, Music Editing, Remixing
software
Ableton Live 8, Logic Pro 9, Pro Tools 10, Reason 6
level
Intermediate
duration
2h 51m
released
Jun 28, 2012

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Josh Harris

Josh Harris

Josh Harris is a musician and well-known remixer, with remixing credits for over two hundred major-label mixes. Josh’s music has been used in several TV shows, such as MTV’s Damage Control, Room Raiders, and America’s Next Top Model. Josh is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based band and production team Lindbergh Palace. In 2008, he went on the road with Seal, serving as musical director for a handful of private shows. In 2007 and 2008, Josh was nominated for Best Remixer at the International Dance Music Awards.

Originally from St. Louis, Josh is a classically trained pianist with a B.A. in music from Lawrence University. He started piano lessons at age seven and, as a young teenager, fell in love with synthesizers and electronic music.
Course Title   Level   Duration   Released  
Remixing a Song in Logic Pro Intermediate 3h 19m 12/2011  {8}
Remixing Techniques: Time Stretching Intermediate 2h 51m 06/2012  {8}
Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form Intermediate 2h 44m 12/2012  {8}
Up and Running with Studio One Beginner 1h 55m 03/2013  {8}

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