Remixing Techniques: Time Stretching

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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