Author: Sexeyparfaitcooki3
For part 1, click here: My Ripping Guide - 8/14/2023
Welcome to the second part of the guide, this will be discussing how to make mash-ups, another common form a ripping.
A mashup is pretty simple, it's combining one song with another, the most common example of this is a song instrumental paired with another song's vocals. Which is what we'll be focusing on.
For the instrumental it can be anything, but if you're a beginner, you have to make sure the the time signatures match, because it's even beyond my skill level to tranpose a song to a certain time signature, it can be done but depending on your skill level I would stay away from it and stick to time signatures that match.
Thankfully most songs are 4/4 so it shouldn't be much of an issue. Now for an example of a mash-up, let's say I wanted to use Monkey's love as an instrumental, I would get the track from Zophar's Domain, as that site has the highest quality .mp3 you can download. There's another site that I didn't mention before called hsc64. It's like Zophar Domain but Zophar's Domain doesn't have the high quality .mp3s of the streamed consoles such as Nintendo Switch and PC.
I find the website kinda ugly which is mainly why I prefer Zophar's Domain, but it's probably better when it comes to its utility.
For the vocals, I search up "[Insert Song] Vocals Only/Accapella" If such stems aren't already avaiable. I'll use a site called Vocal Remover, which does a pretty good job at seperating vocals from the instrumental, you can also use this to get instrumentals of certain songs if necessary.
Now, to combine these, get them the same tempo, you can do this by stretching the time on FL STudio. Which can be done by clicking on the arrow button on this screen, then stretching the audio, that should slow or speed it up. This will change the pitch, to keep the pitch the same, click on the audio and on the menu make the time stretching mode Stretch. This keeps the pitch of the vocals.
From here manually adjust the speed until it matches with the tempo of the instrumental, to assist, tap the tempo of the instrumental so you have something to aim for.
That's how you make a simple mashup, there's more advanced mash-ups where you make a combination of a rip and a mashup. This is achieved by editing the melody of the instrumental to match the melody the vocals made, this usually sounds better in a lot of situations.
You can pitchshift vocals using Newtone, and change speed using Newtime, but I can't use these personally since I only have the trial version of FL Studio.