Areia Remix #29 | T-ara - I go crazy because of you
Support
Tags
Details
Download this remix: http://www.areiacreations.com/t-ara-i-go-crazy-because-of-you-areia-remix-29/
Visit our website for more than #100 kpop remixes! http://www.areiacreations.com
The teaser for this remix was the most viewed teaser from the ones I've put up so far, reaching almost 3000 hits within 5 days! This has pushed me into working more and more on this remix and getting it ready for release.
After the past 4 remixes (Please don't go, Round and Round, Ah!, Heartbreaker), this is the first one to work straight on the original track - for the other 4 I had the vocals or at least the instrumental. This of course means I was stuck with many of the original sounds that it's better keeping in the track rather than getting rid half of them or cutting part of the vocal frequencies. These remixes are always the hardest to cope with, not to mention the T-sequence rhythm of the song (just like Heartbreaker) that also adds to the difficulty.
After putting the teaser up I've experimented a lot with new sounds but I preferred not to risk a lot since people seemed to like what they've heard in the teaser so I kept that recipe. I reproduced the melody and put it up on a new lead and I've also used an upbeat lead very similar to the one I've used to my Ah! remix. The bass is a combination of three different bass instruments, essentially creating a stereo bassline by playing the one at the center and the two others slightly to the left and right.
I had some totally reasonable complains in the past about the levels of the voices in my songs. Also many people complained about my delay/reverb effects. I took these opinions very seriously since the aim is to make music that except me, gives pleasure to all of you. The first problem is solved by building completely on the voice and when I don't have a clean vocal track (like this song) I would go with a simpler pattern so everything remains clean. The second thing - about delay, especially noticeable in my Heartbreaker remix - was all about tweaking the delay settings and using it much more carefully. The delay is still there to fill in the track but not as noticeable and irritating as in the past.
One of the other things that I've noticed in my remixes was the mastering quality. This is how clean and loud is the track and it's actually the absolutely hardest thing in the whole process. In fact there are not many audio engineers in the world that can master songs in top quality and of course I'm not one of them. Even Lady Gaga or your favourite popular artist's producer will actually take their channels to some specialist to master them. For my poor remixes all this process has to be performed in this computer with my current limited knowledge and time.
I was quite avoiding the problem in the past and I was just putting a compressor in the output and adjust individual sounds a bit with equalizers or individual compressors. The problem became absolutely noticeable and was amplified as soon as I've heard Beast's latest song, Shock. The song is so loud and clear that for me, reaches the level of perfection. If you don't know what I mean you can do the following test: Download the Shock MP3 then any of my remix MP3s. Then give a listen to Shock, then play my remix. You'll probably feel like Shock is up in the sky and all around you and my remix is buried under your feet. You get the problem now.
One of my childhood best friends, who is an audio engineer with a few very good trance releases in his bio, gave me lots of comments and advices regarding the mastering process of my remixes. Therefore I've spent a lot of time on getting the sounds and the overal audio image of the remix to acceptable levels. This of course was extremely hard due to my vocal track - essentially the original song - containing all the original sounds, rendering the whole mastering process into a war against the evil background original sounds. I've ended up having a whole chain of compressor and effects that eventually chew down my 4-core CPU and 4GB of RAM like a quick breakfast.
The outcome after all this process is a bit louder and clearer track but nowhere near perfect and it will probably never be. In fact not even the original song is that well mastered to begin with.
... I've actually written so many interesting things here about Korean culture and much more about the song but when I hit okay Youtube just said it's too long, erasing my changes and not letting me go back to at least edit my text! What a bunch of totally worthless software designers. We live in a world of total stupidity and incompetence...
In any case this is one of my most well worked remixes, quality-wise, so I hope you enjoy it!
Visit our website for more than #100 kpop remixes! http://www.areiacreations.com
The teaser for this remix was the most viewed teaser from the ones I've put up so far, reaching almost 3000 hits within 5 days! This has pushed me into working more and more on this remix and getting it ready for release.
After the past 4 remixes (Please don't go, Round and Round, Ah!, Heartbreaker), this is the first one to work straight on the original track - for the other 4 I had the vocals or at least the instrumental. This of course means I was stuck with many of the original sounds that it's better keeping in the track rather than getting rid half of them or cutting part of the vocal frequencies. These remixes are always the hardest to cope with, not to mention the T-sequence rhythm of the song (just like Heartbreaker) that also adds to the difficulty.
After putting the teaser up I've experimented a lot with new sounds but I preferred not to risk a lot since people seemed to like what they've heard in the teaser so I kept that recipe. I reproduced the melody and put it up on a new lead and I've also used an upbeat lead very similar to the one I've used to my Ah! remix. The bass is a combination of three different bass instruments, essentially creating a stereo bassline by playing the one at the center and the two others slightly to the left and right.
I had some totally reasonable complains in the past about the levels of the voices in my songs. Also many people complained about my delay/reverb effects. I took these opinions very seriously since the aim is to make music that except me, gives pleasure to all of you. The first problem is solved by building completely on the voice and when I don't have a clean vocal track (like this song) I would go with a simpler pattern so everything remains clean. The second thing - about delay, especially noticeable in my Heartbreaker remix - was all about tweaking the delay settings and using it much more carefully. The delay is still there to fill in the track but not as noticeable and irritating as in the past.
One of the other things that I've noticed in my remixes was the mastering quality. This is how clean and loud is the track and it's actually the absolutely hardest thing in the whole process. In fact there are not many audio engineers in the world that can master songs in top quality and of course I'm not one of them. Even Lady Gaga or your favourite popular artist's producer will actually take their channels to some specialist to master them. For my poor remixes all this process has to be performed in this computer with my current limited knowledge and time.
I was quite avoiding the problem in the past and I was just putting a compressor in the output and adjust individual sounds a bit with equalizers or individual compressors. The problem became absolutely noticeable and was amplified as soon as I've heard Beast's latest song, Shock. The song is so loud and clear that for me, reaches the level of perfection. If you don't know what I mean you can do the following test: Download the Shock MP3 then any of my remix MP3s. Then give a listen to Shock, then play my remix. You'll probably feel like Shock is up in the sky and all around you and my remix is buried under your feet. You get the problem now.
One of my childhood best friends, who is an audio engineer with a few very good trance releases in his bio, gave me lots of comments and advices regarding the mastering process of my remixes. Therefore I've spent a lot of time on getting the sounds and the overal audio image of the remix to acceptable levels. This of course was extremely hard due to my vocal track - essentially the original song - containing all the original sounds, rendering the whole mastering process into a war against the evil background original sounds. I've ended up having a whole chain of compressor and effects that eventually chew down my 4-core CPU and 4GB of RAM like a quick breakfast.
The outcome after all this process is a bit louder and clearer track but nowhere near perfect and it will probably never be. In fact not even the original song is that well mastered to begin with.
... I've actually written so many interesting things here about Korean culture and much more about the song but when I hit okay Youtube just said it's too long, erasing my changes and not letting me go back to at least edit my text! What a bunch of totally worthless software designers. We live in a world of total stupidity and incompetence...
In any case this is one of my most well worked remixes, quality-wise, so I hope you enjoy it!