Virtual Insanity – Jamiroquai: MY REMAKE (read info)



As a 3rd year student for music producer at Conservatory in Ghent, I had to choose a song, and reproduce it intirely. It had to approach the original song as close as possible. Here is the mastered end result (in compressed YouTube quality which is rubbish, but you got the idea). Everything you hear is recorded, edited and mixed by me in ProTools. Originally I synced my version with the original videoclip, but Sony Music Entertainment was not very happy with that, so I made one of those boring slideshows:) First I listened very carefully to the song, and transcribed each instrument into notes on a masterscore. Then I made an electronic midi-version from it as a guide track for the musicians. Then I searched for good musicians (very difficult to find someone with a voice like Jay Kay, but he’s quite close I think!), handed them over their scores and recorded each part seperately in the big recording studio at school, which took me about 3 months. The editing, mixing and mastering took me another couple of months. Every little detail had to be in it, and had to sound like in the original song. Sometimes it took me days to equalize one little effect sound like it sounds in the original. There’s still a little difference in the sound because the original was recorded on tape, and I did everything digitally (even though I tried to vitalize it with a lot of outboard effects to let it sound like a tape recording), but I think I’m quite close. And here it is! Enjoy, and leave a

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25 Responses

  1. jackder Says:

    wonderful. . . . best cover i’ve EVER EVER EVER HEARD. . . . what a great voice. . . .

  2. grandmagrumpy Says:

    Where’d you get that crazy HAT?

  3. grandmagrumpy Says:

    The music world needs YOU

  4. hellskitchen123 Says:

    @IkariCologne thanks dude!

  5. IkariCologne Says:

    you made an awesome job, man! thumps up!

  6. dirtedigitalrecords Says:

    very impressive fellas!

  7. Samthowell Says:

    really good sounds like the original
    fantastic backing music

  8. iiCHiiMAN Says:

    I HATE SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

  9. LucyJohnBetancourt Says:

    Great, Great! you have an amazing voice.

  10. 23lizardking Says:

    lijkt ect zoals dat original:)

  11. ApriliaPiT22 Says:

    very good cover. . . ; )

  12. strad43 Says:

    This is impressive!

  13. hellskitchen123 Says:

    @Fred1102 Dikke merci man! Doet me plezier dat te lezen. Ja Sonny is een supergoeie imitator! Ma ter zit nog altijd wel wa verschil op e, maja das gewoon stemkleur

  14. Fred1102 Says:

    @hellskitchen123 wtf!! ja ok nu gelezen! ma hunk da kan toch niet?? iemand me zo’n gelijkaardige stem vinden! die sonny vande putte is te gek!! trouwens, echt proficiat. ik vind dit abnormaal goed gemasterd.

  15. hellskitchen123 Says:

    @Fred1102 lees info ;)

  16. Fred1102 Says:

    @dietn87 hahaha sjmieters!

  17. Fred1102 Says:

    @dietn87 hahaha sjmieters!

  18. dietn87 Says:

    @Fred1102 smithersinho

  19. Fred1102 Says:

    wuk ister ier aan gecoverd? das toch de originele versie?

  20. Nell8th Says:

    well done!!!!

  21. hellskitchen123 Says:

    @grippone thanks man!

  22. grippone Says:

    the title is Child’s anthem. . . . bye.
    Seventh one

  23. Greyghost1138 Says:

    Good job , you should be proud.

  24. jamiroquai01fan Says:

    Awesome cover! The best non-jamiroquai version i have heard! Well done :)

  25. nurgott Says:

    I love this song so everything related to it will be great, and by the way your effort was awesome :D

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