INSTRUMENTAL REMAKE: deadmau5 & Kiesza - Bridged By A Lightwave

This is an instrumental remake I made of the recent banger by Joel aka deadmau5 & Kiesza. It's definitely my favorite track of 2020, so I was excited to give it a shot. I'm well aware that this doesn't come anywhere close to the original. It was a huge challenge for me, but I hope it still turned out somewhat alright. Hope you enjoy it! Leave a comment below and let me know your thoughts :)
Check out the original here: • deadmau5 & Kiesza - Br...
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[@simongrafton4123]

Sir, you've done this track justice, This is a banger version, and you've really captured the harder edge of this song. Keep this up. I've shared with a friend or two.

[@simongrafton4123]

Hey, next time you post a vid of the program running, could you go easy on the zooming in and out, it leaves me dizzy. (love your work though, the effort you put in shows)

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@simongrafton4123 This means so much to me, thanks man, and also for sharing! I've almost finished a new remake, should be out in a week or so, feel free to check that out if you want! :) Oh, and yea, the zooming was a bit much lol, I'll do that differently this time around, sorry for making you dizzy :D

[@ali.b3104]

If it got copyrighted that means you did a good job 😂❤️

[@liamzeyle4283]

Wow, I just noticed the algorithm apparently recognized it, lol :D

[@zzyzx13]

@@liamzeyle4283 What does your KZbin Studio say? that it's the actual song or just that it's using the melody?

[@liamzeyle4283]

That's a very detailed explanation, thanks! I actually didn't download the MIDI tho, I made all chords / melodies by ear only. But good to know because that means I got pretty close at least melody-wise. The sounds could have been a lot more accurate, but it definitely taught me a lot about sound design, and was loads of fun.

[@liamzeyle4283]

@ZZYZX Sorry I missed your comment somehow.. I actually couldn't find that information in YT Studio. All it says is that there's a copyroght claim.

[@adrianvansin]

This is just wooow, I also had goosebumps listening to this!!

[@DoubleKing11]

That first part gave me goosebumps

[@jamiemichelleboo]

Also, thank you for showing us your FL workspace! It's helpful to know how much detail goes into a complex song like this! It's honestly either identical to or better than the original, IMO. Excellent work!

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you! I've actually switched to Ableton in the meantime as it fits my workflow a lot better, but that doesn't make it any less difficult of course.

[@kingnugget_ii5392]

Cant believe this doesn’t have more likes! Amazing Job!

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you so much!

[@Seanpence04]

Wow dude! This is so amazing! I think the algorithm recognized this song so great job on that! You should send a file download to that project you just worked on, it sounds so sick and I want to look at every little detail of it and maybe even use it in a video! I’ll credit you of course if I put it in a video. 😉😄

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks for all the positive feedback, I never expected so many people to find and comment this! Another remake is currently in progress ;)

[@DESMINDMUSIC]

Remake Fl Studio pliz kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIrZeqqDebCMmdksi=J7hZn4hgHQr0g1n3

[@wynnephilpott3178]

amazing Liam

[@JavierMorale5]

Que buen instrumental Bro, excelente trabajo 👏🏻👏🏻 Gracias

[@omarsakib3271]

Great remake man!

[@T.E.I]

That is really damn close. Like really damn close. Well done. Spectacular work

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks a lot man!

[@E.V.A.444]

@@liamzeyle4283 just make the chorus voices a lil lower pitched

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@E.V.A.444 Yea you’re right, that sound is pretty off. In hindsight I actually found out it was a preset, so I could have just used that lol.

[@aditya.khapre]

BRO just proved why deadmau5 is the goat ❤️ A+ for the effort tho👏👏👊👊

[@NƠR-v3d7k]

This is amazing, great job!!

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you :) feel free to stick around if you like!

[@charlesmainville8617]

Wow this is so good! Great job!

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you! Feel free to stick around, more stuff coming soon :)

[@bengsynthmusic]

Very good. Especially the strings. Will you make an updated remake to this? Thanks.

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you! I wasn't planning on it, but I'm definitely not ruling it out! I'm working on another remake at the moment which is very challenging, and hope to finalize it soon. Hope you'll enjoy that one as well :)

[@bengsynthmusic]

@@liamzeyle4283 Will look forward to it for sure. Take all the time you need.

[@checcotranquilli9467]

Yoo this is so good. Keep it up!

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you! Stay tuned for more ;)

[@LucasMillerMTB]

Really good job dude sounds pretty damn accurate!

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks, really appreciate it!

[@lil-skittles1]

holy shit, amazing

[@bc3350]

Finally this is the version that sounds right! Now make the vocal version

[@lil_cosx]

Just mind blowing! Really similar to the original. You did a great job, thank you! (Why Joel still didn’t contact you?😂)

[@liamzeyle4283]

Haha thanks, but I think for Joel to contact me, it would take a little more than this :D

[@David-je2id]

whuuu great work! keep going!

[@klemenspichler400]

So good dude!

[@Zethru]

Listening to @deadmau5 version, along with this one, I can say this is an extremely accurate remake of "Bridged By A Lightwave." Awesome remake, 11/10. ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@hjiraoussama776]

I salute u man i tried to remake one myself but havent found the midi so i abandonned .... congratulatiions on the great work !!

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks

[@vanessamccollum9169]

Damn dude. You definitely have an ear!

[@mau5pilot854]

Really great rendition! 👍🏻

[@GoodchildRecords]

Great job! I wish I was this good!

[@sm12hus]

How do you write the rhythm for the synth lead that comes in?

[@kimjonyoungthesupremeleade7432]

its great bro!

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you! :) Interesting PFP you got there lol

[@aniruddhtiwari7378]

BRO THIS IS TOO GOOD 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks! :)

[@penggunasepertinyatidakdik4374]

Wow impressive dude, keep it up

[@werzzfdss]

Well done!

[@DiegoMendoza-tt7eq]

How did you get the DAH sound ??? its been driving me crazy trying to figure it out lol.

[@liamzeyle4283]

That's actually the sound I struggled with the most. For this remake, I just took a square wave with some FM from another oscillator. However, some time after finishing the remake, I realized it was actually a Serum preset all along - too late though. Go to the leads section and look up "LD Tokyo (BR)", there you go, that's the sound you're looking for :D

[@DiegoMendoza-tt7eq]

@@liamzeyle4283 lol thanks so much it was driving me crazy, great job on your mix and your own personal touch is killer.

[@marcocarreno6023]

Good work bro 😍

[@davvemusic]

FLP?

[@liamzeyle4283]

If you give me your mail address, I can send you the MIDI files :)

[@davvemusic]

@@liamzeyle4283 Sure! [e-mail]

[@AnbuGreenShinobi]

Earned yourself a subscriber with this one

[@liamzeyle4283]

That's so nice, thank you!

[@AnbuGreenShinobi]

@@liamzeyle4283 thank you for making quality content my friend

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@AnbuGreenShinobi

[@miguel_pipoquinha]

Bro, I LOVE IT! and you make a instrumental Version! Thanks!

[@liamzeyle4283]

[@atdivolta]

Fantastic

[@jeslinho]

Do you have any tutorial video for this song?

[@liamzeyle4283]

I actually thought about doing this with the remake I'm working on at the moment. Thank you so much for the sub btw!

[@HanmaAnon]

Beautiful

[@stang892k5]

What app is this, I’d like to learn EDM but new to the mechanics and what’s needed. Music keeps me from going over the edge and I’ve been wanting to create my own music but have no clue as where to start

[@liamzeyle4283]

This is a DAW, a digital audio workstation. The one being used in this video is FL Studio from Image Line. However, there are a lot of other DAWs from other companies that are just as good, like Ableton Live (the one I‘m currently using), Pro Tools, Logic (macOS only), just to name a few. It really doesn‘t matter which one you go for. Most of them have free trial versions. Ableton for example has a fully functional 90-day trial which basically has the same options as the pro version. What I‘d recommend is don‘t spend too much money at the beginning, especially when it comes to third-party plug-ins. Just pick up a trial version and play around with it. Regarding the mechanics, there are some great KZbin tutorials that explain really well how to use the software and start creating. So just look up some basic tutorials on the DAW of your choice and then once you get the gist of it, you can upgrade to the pro version and keep going from there. Sorry for the essay lol, I hope this helped a bit. :)

[@stang892k5]

@@liamzeyle4283 appreciate all the info, you gave me. I’ve been wanting to get into this for quite sometime just didn’t know where or how to start, more importantly you gave advice at what to do and not to and most people do provide that feedback. Much appreciated

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@stang892k5 No problem! If there‘s anything else, feel free to ask!

[@Mzgoldendreamz]

Thank you!

[@captivesojourner]

BRAVO!!!!

[@Hydra_Quartz]

great!! can you share the FLP link?

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks! I can look into it, tell me your email address and I’ll be in touch :)

[@axiomcrux]

I want that too! Ill PM you my email! that would be fun to play with. Id love a midi of this so I could pull it to ableton

[@axiomcrux]

@@liamzeyle4283 Sweet, would you be wiling to send it to me at axiomcrux at gmail dot com? my website is axiom-crux.net if you feel like checking out some of what I do, I make hardware synths, software syths, DSP, animations, and programming for installation art :). And I love me some Mr Mau5

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@axiomcrux I'll get back to you!

[@n3verstop632]

Im thinking about doing a bootleg "remix" of this song and i cant be bothered finding the chords and stuff. Could you please send it to me too? its ([e-mail]) Your remake is awesome and you got a new sub and like! Awesome work

[@unclejack168]

Amazing

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you so much!

[@ViewTube_Dan]

Just for my curiosity, what’s the name of the software?

[@liamzeyle4283]

The one used here is FL Studio :)

[@johnconnelly7667]

Damn that bass, I actually prefer the bass in the first drop in your remake to the original

[@TheActualTed]

Great job!

[@MlTOz]

Oh my God, this reamke is awesome! You by any chance have the midi file for it?：）

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you so much! I do have the MIDI actually, please send a mail to [e-mail] and I‘ll get back to you :)

[@VoxistheGOAT]

You did a great job it sound kinda exactly like it. How long did it take you?

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you! I think it was a few weeks, I took several breaks in between though :) I didn‘t track the actual amount of time spent working, so I can‘t tell for sure.

[@VoxistheGOAT]

@@liamzeyle4283 your welcome. That sounds like a lot to do.

[@ut2k4wikichici]

this is great

[@PhantomWorksStudios]

this is so awesome!!!! you by any chance have the midi file for it? Would love to open it up in notation and check out the note arrangements! ^^

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thank you! I'll send it to you later :)

[@PhantomWorksStudios]

@@liamzeyle4283 ohh awesome!!! Thanks ^^

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@PhantomWorksStudios I'd just need your mail address so I can send the files

[@PhantomWorksStudios]

@@liamzeyle4283 oh cool thanks! phantomworksstudios@ gmail.co m

[@JuanBulbo]

5:21

[@odealianaffairs9001]

Such a good remake but this makes me wonder how Deadmau5 approaches his mixes cuz his mixes sound very distinct.

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks! Joel's mixes are on a whole different level. Everytime I hear one of his tracks, I'm amazed at how clean his mixes sound. Then again, he's been doing this since the late 90s when there weren't even any DAWs in the modern sense, where you have everything in one space and where you can analyze every little tweak with metering plugins and whatnot. So he just has a ton of experience. Meanwhile I've only been producing for about 1 1/2 years at this point lol. So it's natural that this mix can't be remotely compared to the original, but still, I enjoyed it a lot and learned a lot from it :)

[@odealianaffairs9001]

@@liamzeyle4283 wait only 1 & 1/2 years of production and youre already this good? You're going places lol. Makes me wanna stop procrastinating from music.

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@odealianaffairs9001 I still have a far way to go I think, but thank you

[@kylem1993]

what synths are you using?

[@liamzeyle4283]

I mainly use Serum, sometimes Vital, which is also great. I‘m thinking about getting Sylenth at some point, but at the moment it‘s pretty much those two.

[@seph6777]

How much?

[@liamzeyle4283]

Not quite sure what you mean, sorry?

[@seph6777]

@@liamzeyle4283 .flp

[@21sav20]

How long did it take you

[@liamzeyle4283]

It took me a few weeks if I remember correctly. Some sounds were a lot more difficult to recreate than others, so I did the easier ones first, and then spent most of the time on the difficult ones. I could have finished it more quickly if I hadn‘t worked on other stuff at the same time, though.

[@21sav20]

@@liamzeyle4283 how much time do u spend in fl studio in a day I’m just asking because I just started in ableton back in April and I’m just trying to figure out how to get better in the daw

[@jeromepaldanius7618]

Dope!!

[@octaviocorzo005]

Nice

[@CustomcrowdMitroc]

Holy fuck I thought this would be bad but far out it’s spot on just the synths are a bit different for obvious reasons but still. I can’t hear anything different

[@liamzeyle4283]

Appreciate it man! I couldn't quite get every synth to sound the way I wanted it to, but I'm glad I got somewhat close :D

[@jms_elt]

Nice. Wish he has released an instrumental instead of acoustic

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks! Yea I enjoy listening to the instrumental versions as well, always neat when there's one included.

[@simonjones918]

Very good, at points I thought it was the original.

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks! Obviously the mix doesn't even remotely compare to the original, but I'm glad I got the sounds somewhat right :D

[@saw-whetowl2492]

Everything except the vocaloid voice seemed to be on spot

[@liamzeyle4283]

Thanks! Yea I tweaked that sound for ages and couldn't quite get it the way I wanted. Definitely the most complex patch in the track imo.

[@timoxa5551]

Ну ты молодец 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@aver4ge_gam3r37]

The first part sounds like some sort of Minecraft Instrumental. You scrolled down for nothing. Have a good day.

[@liamzeyle4283]

You got me

[@aver4ge_gam3r37]

@@liamzeyle4283 But yet, you earned a sub.

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@aver4ge_gam3r37 Very much appreciated, thank you!

[@lobwcs]

Thanks for your public service. Can't stand most vocal mixes.

[@MsgTecK]

Lead sounds like A.N.A2 basic sound.

[@lancealex382]

That cinematic drone is too overused these days it's started to lose all its impact.

[@liamzeyle4283]

What drone exactly are you referring to?

[@lancealex382]

@@liamzeyle4283 is that almost war siren sound but deeper and sustained. Been used in every other action film for past few years, games and now music. Van Buren uses it in his titanium remix too

[@liamzeyle4283]

@@lancealex382 Ah I see what you mean now. It‘s definitely a common element in dance music, that‘s true. I don‘t know if I‘d called it overused though, just as I wouldn‘t call white noise sweeps overused even though they‘re in virtually every house / EDM track. It’s just a tool to give the track more weight. That said, I get where you‘re coming from.

[@paulyhart]

good. can't stand that woman's singing.