Remix
I was chatting with Smac today and we got into a discussion of trying to remix old albums. This led me to share a blog post with him that I'd found about how they've used the technology Peter Jackson developed for the "Get Back" documentary to take the Beatles' "Revolver" album and decompose it to the original unmixed tracks, which is an amazing feat of technology.
Of course, where there is incredible technology available, there is usually a less-good, but cheaper version available to the masses. Reading the blog post about the blog post about "Revolver", I found that you could do a more basic decomposition of a mix to multiple (if not individual) tracks using a tool that I already owned, Izotope RX 10.
A tool I owned, but not one for which the latest version was installed on my computer, as it turned out when I wandered to the basement later. After a bit of futzing around, I eventually got the two new Izotope versions that I was entitled to due to an earlier upgrade installed on the studio computer. Then it was a question of what to play with.
I grabbed Barry and Sally Childs-Helton's "Lady Snowstar Supernova" from "Tempus Fugitives". RX 10 decomposed it to four tracks, although the bass track was functionally empty, so really I had "Vocals", "Percussion", and "Other Instruments". And then I put the track back together in Cubase, making some adjustments.
It was an interesting process. Not as good as having the raw tracks available, of course, but definitely something that can be worked with.
Of course, where there is incredible technology available, there is usually a less-good, but cheaper version available to the masses. Reading the blog post about the blog post about "Revolver", I found that you could do a more basic decomposition of a mix to multiple (if not individual) tracks using a tool that I already owned, Izotope RX 10.
A tool I owned, but not one for which the latest version was installed on my computer, as it turned out when I wandered to the basement later. After a bit of futzing around, I eventually got the two new Izotope versions that I was entitled to due to an earlier upgrade installed on the studio computer. Then it was a question of what to play with.
I grabbed Barry and Sally Childs-Helton's "Lady Snowstar Supernova" from "Tempus Fugitives". RX 10 decomposed it to four tracks, although the bass track was functionally empty, so really I had "Vocals", "Percussion", and "Other Instruments". And then I put the track back together in Cubase, making some adjustments.
It was an interesting process. Not as good as having the raw tracks available, of course, but definitely something that can be worked with.