How to Create a Mash-Up

A mash-up is a when you mix an acapella with and instrumental beat. This is very simple to do if done right.

First open up FL Studio and add two audio clips. This can be done by going to Channels> Add > Audio Clip. Next, add your instrumental track, and the acapella. I will be using Wiz Khalifa’s song, Say Yeah, and Alice DeeJay’s song, Better Off Alone.

Now, you must get the tempo of the acapella to match the tempo of the instrumental. This can be done easily. First open up your audio channel where the acapella is located, click the SMP tab, right click the sound waves at the bottom and click detect tempo. Use the picture to follow.











It will ask you to select a tempo range that you assume the song will be in so it. Most songs will be between 75 and 150 BMP, or beats per minute, so select that option. It will now detect the BPM and ask if you would like to set the sample rate to the detected BPM. Click no, but take note of what the BPM was to compare it to the instrumental BPM. Now you must do the same thing for the instrumental track. Whatever that BPM comes out to is what you must make the BPM of the acapella. To change the speed of the acapella you can download a free audio sampling program called Audacity here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

After you have matched the BMP of both tracks you can now being to mash them up.






Now you must match up the tracks so they blend. You can use the metronome to help you get your timing right.

Here is the video of the mashed-up song I mentioned earlier in the post.