How to extract an acapella from a DVD
An extensive and helpful tutorial on how to extract an acapella from a music DVD, and process it for usage.
Your Own Night
Ever pondered starting your own night at a club or bar? Mashup or otherwise. Here's a guide to get you started.
A Beginners Guide To using Acid (& Acid Pro)
A simple beginners tutorial covering most of the aspect of making your first mashup with Acid.
Getting Started With Ableton Live
A useful tutorial from the o'reilly chaps who give you the lowdown on Ableton Live.
Mashing For Beginners - Tracktion Tutorial
Phillip Meehan gives us an in depth guide to using Tracktion for mashup creation.
How To Mix It Up (or Jumpin On The Bootleg Wagon - it's like Sooo Sept 2001)
Dsico wrote this a while ago as a tutorial, and tongue in cheek poke at the bandwagon jumpers.
DIY Acapellas - Instrumental Version vs Original
Get your phaze inversion on. This here text uncovers the beauty of finding the instrumental and radio edit.

Info...

These tutorial are hand-picked and often slightly re-worked so that they make sense, and can be followed quite simply.

Most of the tutorials have a downloadable version in pdf format, so you can print it for ease of use.

Software...

For those who do not have the software mentioned in these tutorials, you may find the following links useful.


Ableton Live. Currently version 6.


Propellerhead make 'Reason' among other things.


Sony media creates Acid Pro, and SoundForge.


Mackie are manufacturers of the 'Tracktion' program, now version 2.