Wonder what would happen if the Big Band sound crashed into heavy metal? Or what the offspring of a balladeer and a rapper might sound like? How about smooth jazz and acid rock? Stop wondering-this book will take you there. You'll explore hardware and software choices first and select what you need; then you'll sample a little music theory. After that, it's step by step to the big mashup. Do what sounds good.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!, May 25, 2008
By
Steve (New Jersey)
Dont waste your time on this lame book it was obviously written by a tool who has figured out a way to get sony acid to pay him as this book is a marketing ploy pushing crappy software! As for everything else relative to DJ'ing, mixing,remixing etc. the dude is a clueless computer dork!It sucks!!!!!!! I feel bad for anyone who has paid for this useless book........
Non-Mac compatible expanded Mashups using Sony Acid instructions, December 25, 2007
By
Tim Breitberg (midwest)
I got this for Christmas today and was excited.
Until I opened it up.
It's all PC all the time, no Mac in sight.
I thought maybe I can still read it and apply the theory to Ableton Live. Uh, no. It's all about Sony and only details the ins and outs of 3 PC only programs.
Great if you're a PC guy maybe, but leaves us Mac people high and dry.
Good book on Mashup creation! 3.75 stars ;-), August 23, 2007
By
Sam Cyberspace (Auckland, New Zealand)
This is a good book by a fairly accomplished Mashup creator. If you haven't heard of Mashups then you've been missing something wonderful. Mashups when created by talented musicians/djs who understand music theory and beat matching are wonderful. Bad mashups are horrible to listen to. This book takes you a long way to making great mashups and I very much liked the chapter on choosing songs (even though I already understand musical keys and tempos). The Excel spreadsheet templates and key matching templates were helpful and great musical refreshers which helped me create my own database of songs to mashup from my collection.
DJ Earworm's chapter on choosing songs was great - and the freeware tONaRT and aufTAKT (which you can throw a WAV file at and have it auto-detect the musical key and tempo in beats per minute) on the book's CD were awesome finds almost worth the price of the book themselves and they're great time savers in choosing tunes to mashup!
The only thing not making this book great is that it too heavily focuses on the specific software Acid Pro. I actually may not have purchased it if I knew that initially - though I'm glad I got it anyway. I just use other softwave like Sonar and Audition and Sound Forge so the pages on Acid specific stuff I just skimmed over. Even though it used Acid as an example, there was plenty to sink your teeth into in this book. I'd recommend it for anyone who wants to create decent mashups!
