>Production Resources:https://pastebin.com/pYGCLu6qhttps://pastebin.com/p2QUqMzj>/prod/ wiki - still looking for contributorshttp://mu-sic-production.wikia.comUse vocaroo to post WIPs.No youtube, soundcloud and other shilling websites allowed.Previous: >>123708918
I think everyone is asleep.
I'm doing a lot of remixes lately and I mess around with the vocals a lot, trying to come up with interesting effects or a more polished/professional vocal.>delay to spring reverb with automated panning/volume for a stutter adlib effect>stretching the vocal, reversing it, running it through some effects, print it and reverse/stretch it back to normal and you get a textured noise floor you can mix in to taste>hiding synths in vocals (learned from Ian Kirkpatrick), instead of autotune the vocal to make it sound more polished you hide a synth in key in itWhat are your tricks for vocal effects?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDKxXVKm0mw
>>123745017Hey nerds, I'm a hobbyist VST developer. I write effect plugins. What kind of plugin should I work on next?
>>123745857something unique
A sample editor that lets you interact with the individual samples of a waveform in different ways. For example by drawing them manually, by drawing them with splines like DAW automations, by editing them in different ways (flip, reverse, smooth, deform with XY curve, etc), by using the various ways wavetables are edited in the wavetable editors in Serum and whatnot, by using spectral/time-domain processes (the sky is the limit here), etc.It should show the original samples in the background (greyed out or something), and it should let you import other waves whose visualization is displayed in the back, in case you want to edit one wave based on another.The utility of this program is obviously in sound design, as it allows you to create and alter waveforms and wavetables in ways that aren't currently possible in a practical way.It can be an effect VST that loads a file or records an incoming signal, or it can be a standalone program.Maybe it can also be an ARA thing, I'm not sure, I have zero experience with it.
>>123745857do something spectral, that seems to be all the rage with the kids these days. spectral gates, spectral compressors etc.
>>123746005I'm working on an ambient reverb right now. Once it's optimized and I've streamlined the UI I might post it here
>>123746005>>123746035Oh lol I misread spectral as specialI guess the shimmer section is spectral though
>>123745996for >>123745857My bad lol
>>123746075I've been thinking about something like this. Maybe a standalone application where you can construct wave shapes and then export them as filed, and then a plugin that can load those filesI wonder if something like this already exists
>>123745017THE OZONE AI CHADVS THE MANUAL MIXING SNOOZER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4D0XrUOGholol ffs these things are portrayed as magical and sophisticated but it's so simple like anyone can do it once they're told that it's valid to do it. sticking to only notes within the current key/mode and switching to only notes within another key/mode.
>>123746136iZotope?More like iSoDope! haha am I right fellas?
>>123746118There are advantages and disadvantages to this approach, but exporting as wavs is what allows for the most freedom, as you can then use pretty much any other audio program to do anything you want with them, whereas a proprietary format (or even an fxp or json file) pretty much reduces your option to one or a handful of supported options.Obviously you should still be able to save your project with all the data that isn't the final PCM result, but for exporting the file that you'll then use, wav is absolutely the way to go IMO. At least as the main option (you can always add more proprietary formats alongside it).
>>123742956>too dissonantFair enough.Here's one with even more dissonance for you: https://voca.ro/12TdnBDXmwot: )
https://vocaroo.com/1csbUQltmSHkmade this in 2 days. lyrics aren't finished.any input? what elements should I bring out more in the mix? any stylistic things I should add to the song etc.
>>123747770>Here's one with even more dissonancetoo many elements that clash overlapping at once. That xylophone sound sounds really bad and is out of tune/off timing. if this is supposed to be a shitpost it's not funny.
>>123744574Just reposting in the new thread, I like meeting musicians with a similar spirit so feel free to add me on discord if you want to. jens777
What do you call those things in studios for the musicians so they can adjust the levels of the individual instruments going through to their headphones?
>>123748285mixing console?
>>123748285A mixing console, mixerNowadays everything is in the computer, so modern versions just control the computer.
>>123748290>>123748294Yeah, they're mixers, but each recording musician has one, it's usually on a movable stand, and it lets them adjust their own levels, so the bassist can turn the drums up and the guitars down, and the guitarist can turn themselves up. I think they're connected to some main hub by an ethernet cable or something.
>>123748311Ohh, I know exactly what you mean. Trying to think of what they're called.
>>123748311"Personal Mixer" apparently.
>>123748285>>123748320Usually called a personal monitoring system or personal mixer as >>123748353 mentioned, like the ones by Hear Back, they use Cat5e for connectivity and powerhttps://heartechnologies.com/products/Hear_Back_OCTO.html
>>123748353>>123748386Thanks
>>123745857Make something for cavernous metal sounds.
Practicing recording acoustic for my project. Usually only made electronic in the past or sold beats but I want to make more personal music. Going to add vocals next https://voca.ro/1idEk9pioDDR
>>123745857Make a vocal/scrubbing effect that protools can do. Everything in its right place uses it on the vocals
>>123748081>That xylophone sound sounds really bad and is out of tune/off timingSorry, I couldn't get it right no matter what I tried. >_<>too many elements that clash overlapping at onceHere's one with only one instrument then: https://voca.ro/17cIRGtlqBfp: p
To the bros in the last thread who posted about Dubly3, I put it on another black metal track, I think it sounded pretty good. Check it out:https://vocaroo.com/1oDrZOLmcGXM
Made some edits and slowed it down a little, now it's maybe too slow. There's this strumming thing I'm trying to do in the middle but I can't seem to get it right, and I think the whole thing is too airy? any help helpshttps://vocaroo.com/1dinvz4HfO94
>>123750217lovely crunchyness
>>123749736nice the bit from 35 to 50 would make a good sample loop for some trip hop or boom bap. Good shit
people asked me if I went to music school to learn about production I tell them no, I went to music
Hey everyone, I’m looking for some advice. I’m recording vocals for a project and I’m using a fairly nice condenser mic. As I’m listening back and playing around with the mix, the vocals attend to sound TOO up close, even when I turn them down. It’s not the volume that’s bothering me, it honestly sounds too good for my simple noisy synth music. Is there an easy way to make them sound more lo-fi?
>>123752079scooping out the low mids and especially rolling off the top end as it contains lip and breath sounds, sounds you would not hear if you were standing some distance from whoevers singing.using reverb, either short or long, whatever suits your stylesubtle delaysubtle distortion like tape distortionmaybe re-record the vocals in a style more fitting to the song.
>>123752079>the vocals attend to sound TOO up closethen move back when you record retard
>>123752399Thanks for the advice prod friend, you are very helpful
>>123746173The guy in this video strikes me as having roughly the same IQ as Stranjah.
>>123752731Isn't Stranjah just ESL?
>>123752798Nah, music is a universal language and you can absolutely feel that Stranjah is quite slow as you watch him work.
>>123752904What does he do?
>>123752952What does he do?Well, let me tell you:He places his kicks on one and his snares on two!
>stranjah>literal retard>successful and signed to reputable labels>us>cant even finish a song
>>123753305getting things done trumps being a retard
how can I make my track punchier? I looked at the waveform and it's all nearly the same volume once the song gets past the intro. How can I fix it?
>>123753763stop clipping and limiting your peaks. high energy is punch, listen to lord chris
>>123745857A plugin based on the internal combustion engine– an engine noise simulator. Knobs can be:>cylinders (from 1 all the way to an absurd number)>displacement per cylinder>bore:stroke ratiothe can be selector switches for >cylinder layout (Inline, V, W, Radial)>2 stroke vs 4 stroke>petrol vs diesel>different valve train typesyou can add various forced induction methods if you're feeling ambitious/generous
>>123753491everyone knows that so why aren't we getting things done?are we double retards?
I need a gravity delay(?) plugin for free what do use
>>123753992You know why that IQ meme is true?Tards don't know better, so they push ahead.Mids get bogged down with overthinking because they are aware of more, yet not smart enough to resolve every concern.Geniuses transcend the concerns of the mids because they have the mental capacity to fully understand and resolve such matters.
>>123753763learn to mix??? waveform means nothing, there are about a billion tracks that are sausaged and sound falcon punchy as fuck
>>123754042You actually think this don't you lolIt's not even that complicatedIt's just destiny Let go anon
>>123753993rutracker
>>123754067>Let go anonLet's goon*
>>123754051>learn to mix???punchiness can be added in the mastering stage thougheverbeit
>>123754067Nah, I actually agree with you, but that's too much for normies.t. had a near death experience when I was a kid
>>123754155stop
>>123754164kill yourself faggot
>>123745017How can I recognize frequencies(bass, mid and treble)?
>>123754228train with long covid worrallhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKAzSsTmdMY
>>123754228You need to finish thishttps://www.soundgym.co/No other way that we know of
>>123754228Boost an EQ band and move it around Maybe even isolate it :0
>>123753763How2 master part21 Load Ozone 112 Click assistant3 increse Impact sliders to tastedone
DAILY SLOPhttps://vocaroo.com/1muxHfa1UtrXTILL I DROP >:3(help)
>>12375476610 - 15 is good loop.
I can't figure out how to make music that I genuinely enjoy, that is similar to artists I like. My brain just doesn't comprehend it. It's incredibly frustrating. I don't know how to voice what I don't know, I keep getting stuck over and over and I've thought about quitting over and over but music is what I like most but it's like I have no ability at all for it no matter how much I work at it. It's frustrating. It's been 9 years feeling like this, it's brutal. It hasn't gotten better. Like my brain isn't made to produce music
>>123754914>i've tried the same thing over and over and not followed any advice nothing works please help me againcool
>>123754978fuck up bitch, what you're saying doesn't work, I've tried it already. kys NOW
>>123755015listen to your advice
>>123755025you first, bitch
>>123755015what did i say and what did you do?you haven't even been long enough to measure any gains or tweak your approach in any way.you haven't even given a real effort.
>>123755058you don't know me, bitch. I've tried different shit over and over, it hasn't worked. Now go fuck off instead of yapping
>>123755104MAYBE insisting that doing things your way and not listening to other people is actually the WRONG thing to do.Maybeeee your continued failure is a sign that you should drastically change your approach and you're not a good judge of your own work ethic.>inb4 denial and random namecallingyeah cool have fun being miserable then
>>123750511another game song startedhttps://vocaroo.com/1icB1tVqWaCY
Cool down Larry, JPEGmuff just had one too many drinks tonight, okay?
Does anyone in this general actually do any real production or is it just a circle jerk off faggots mixing beats?
>>123755848ReAl PrOdUcSHunYes actually but I’ve never seen anybody start a post like this or talking about being a “professional” and then not follow up with the most generic bland music in the thread while being a stuck up cunt, but you’ve already got a head start on that anyway
>>123755153mate why is it so fucking loud? cool melodies though
i have finally found the best advice for mixing: don't listen to anyone's advice. work within your own framework, experiment, try shit and see what happens. fuck all those breadtubers cunts who could never make it in the music industry and just want to sell you their bullshit scam product. the great thing about art is there are no rules. if you're obsessed with the commercial aspect, then capitalism has given you brainworms.
>>123755936This only works if you already know what you’re doing.Stop cringe posting in my thread
>>123755956no one knows what they're doing, shut the fuck up you dumb brainworm addled cunt
>>123755848the more i learn, the more disapponting it is, most people even in production aren't close to having true endgame audio so they're essentially blind to many things. several chronic shitposters insist on downplaying the importance of production quality even though this is the production general. as if you're going to be the next mozart and blow people's minds with your intricate compositions regardless of production quality. classicalfags seek out the highest fidelity recordings btw so it's not about songwriting or performing alone. as if god tier songwriting is a necessity for successful songs/tracks. for example this was one of the better tracks during the internet radio era circa 2007-2008 and you don't have to be an expert to recognize that it wasn't made by a classically trained composer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Uw2jZI_Og
>>123755936>breadtuber cunts>muh capitalismyou seem confused
>>123755985selling your soul to google as a useless commodity alongside all the other human capital on youtube is capitalism buddy.
>>123755958>can’t comprehend that other people have a clue and aren’t just waving their dick around in the darkVery telling
>>123755967This anon has never written a song
pack it up boys, the computers wonhttps://suno.com/
>>123756137can it make racist songs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVkmMAloWJY&list=PLELO3wOvA7mR2J5Nc47RcUapnn0uHBSgx&index=9this is by a famous classical composer but you'd hardly realize that it was any good if this toy was all you'd ever heardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3RZcLdGJ3o&list=PLfTCwDKWBf_c0ugCSU8oVEFcNaovw8eR5these toy piano demo songs sound pretty much like crap and don't inspire you to learn more about music. as an adult listener you might perceive more depth from listening to this but good luck when you're a toddler. it's kind of the same thing when you have mediocre audio, many songs especially from normie genres will sound uninteresting when they're actually top tier.
>>123756039knowing what one is doing is a deictic concept. one end of the spectrum will disagree with the other end. there are no right solutions, merely different approaches. it's not hard to understand mr. brainworm
>>123756137>wow, now i can make shitty generic country songs at the click of a button>my le career is ovar!!!1!uninstall your face lol
>>123756278>spoken as someone who genuinely believes they can do betterkek
>>123756137it sucks arse
>>123756267>rephrasing “nuh uh music is subjective!”cope
>>123756335it is and no amount of pretentious posturing is going to change that, mr. brainworm
>>123756362it's only "subjective" in the sense that a range of answers is acceptable and one cannot conclusively quantify or qualify an exact line where something becomes objectively wrong.you can say mixing some shit over distorted where you legitimately can't hear things and instruments are genuinely out of tune isn't isn't wrong because "subjective!!!" all you want but it's still dogshit that nobody wants to listen todistinguishing these things isn't brainwormed, you're just a pseud
>>123756427gotta whip out the strawman because you have no arguments. im sorry you're completely obsessed with the commercial viability of an art form instead of seeing the true capabilities of the art form. keep colouring inside the lines, the teacher will give you an A+ for your hard work
i ordered a pair of genelecs to join the club of endgame audio and max martin just flew over my house.
>>123756457>"strawman">"you're completely obsessed with the commercial viability of an art form"Literal projection
>>123756472you don't even know what a strawman is. damn the capitalist brainrot is deep within you
>>123756470I ordered genelecs a few years ago and my music is still bad idk what to do
https://vocaroo.com/1iO2tMULNPJUHave I made a vaporwave song?
>>123756470>>123756480i don't even have a room to use my mid-range presonus nearfields in, let alone genelecs. i'm mixing on eq'd dt770 pro 350 ohms in a sunroom :((((
>>123746414fr FR
how do i mix drums to make them crisp, airy but have the kick smack
>>123756782start with the right kickboost whatever "air" ismake sure nothing is in the same spotshort sausage>long not sausage
>>123756470>>123756480Based genelec bros add me to the list of genechads. Finnish speaker supremacy
Ah another productive day of browsing through a few thousand presets and ending up with an 8 bar piano loop I'll never listen to again
>>123756833if someone would see me how i spend 8 hours a day investigating noise i would end up in an institution
>>123756833Why not just write a song instead?
>>123750217Glad to see more people discussing metal here is another track i made after getting dubly3 to check it out https://voca.ro/12rNxyDW8F0E
>>123756833i made 3 songs in a month so i can't relate
>>123754615>mfw it actually works
why do people do this on the master chain
>>123757008you guys wouldn't have to do this if you simply recorded properly in the first place. you can't polish a turd
>>123757077> if you simply recorded properlyI don't have a studio
>>123756907Great idea, I'll be sure to try that next time.
>>123757085whatever you're using to capture your soundwaves, you still should be trying to get the best performance and balance possible during the recording process. mixing and mastering can't save an initial poor performance
>>123757043Because YouTube told them and they don’t know how eq/headroom work and didn’t know to cut far past that on individual tracks so there would be nothing unnecessary there in the first place
>>123757106>Because YouTube told themthis. breadtubers get the rope
>>123757095>you still should be trying to get the best performance and balance possible during the recording processthere's nothing that stops my computer from making loud ass background noise that i have to cut out.
>>123757139what background noise? it obviously doesn't sound ideal but you need to find a solution for that shit anon
>>123756921can't hear the drums
>>123757161the fans are loud as fuck. i'm gonna order some quieter fans but for now I just have to deal.
>>123757209i don't get why the fans are in your mix anyway. is your mic right next to your tower or something?
>>123757219>is your mic right next to your tower or somethingit's about 4 feet away. I usually turn my boom arm away from my pc when recording which makes it about 6-7 feet distance, but it still picks up the fan.
>>123757243put loads of soft shit like pillows between the fan and the mic to soak up the sound
MY SOFTSYNTHS SOUND TEN TIMES BETTER WITH A 88200 SAMPLERATE ESPECIALLY ON THE HIGHS WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME TO USE A HIGHER SAMPLERATE
>>123757633>anons give toxic neckbeard advice like sticking to 48khz sample ratemany such cases
dan worrall says to never clean out your ear wax
>>123757844rip over for me i quit
>>123757043>not using toolchain to cut directly below 20/30hz>allowing for shitty fabfilter rolloff
it's kind of been annoying to find out that chromaticism really doesn't exist and that everything you can play that appears to be going up and down in chromatic steps is in reality some inversion of a more distant and consonant chord. like even that fancy Dsus2 b6 you've been playing is essentially just a fancy inversion of an E major.
>>123757844>When the movie drama uses a guy cleaning out his ear wax before sleeping as a dating negative >Meanwhile I spend 5 minutes scratching my ass every night after fucking my gf and she's offered to do it for me
>>123758124why is your ass so itchy?
>>123756788>>123756788>short sausage>long not sausagethat is a good tip and also made me laughthank you anon
what did i make? https://vocaroo.com/1c48IBosOgfo
>>123758124maybe ask your gf to stop pegging you so it isn't so itchy down there?
>>123759503title screen music for a newgrounds flash game
Small loop of some electronic music, thoughts ?https://voca.ro/19ccMSbR7Dpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzavGSHmUM
>>123761140Pretty interesting.
https://youtu.be/rrcV2W73rGc?si=NVDndoXuziVyPlCNRZA GOATED FR
Got any recs for cheap(ish) smaller midi keyboard? Or is there more or less no difference if I don't care about buttons and sliders and shit?
>>123761283The Beat THANG >>123761265
>>123761283Unironically though try using your computer keyboard.... I have an Akai Mini Play but I use my computer keyboard more often to record MIDI instruments.
> https://vocaroo.com/16eOGaLLDMt0some random ideas, why is song writing to hard bros?
>>123761306That's somewhat usable, but very limiting when I need a bit more range.
>>123761570because you can't write for shit and your bass is off rhythm and out of key
>>123761570>why is song writing to hard brosit's not
>>123755153Opened the DAW with the intent to make a simple bossa nova song for practicing simple stuff and I couldn't have missed the mark more. I just start hearing shit and can't stay on track.https://vocaroo.com/1hAub1e5QPt6
>>123757043Ages ago, some boomer said you were supposed to do that because they were retarded and didn't know about phase shifts. Everyone parroted that forever because logically it doesn't seem to be a crazy idea at first glance if you don't know how filters work.I assume someone more knowledgeable than them told them that to destructively troll their competition. A lot of the best recordings and my favorite songs have tons of energy down there.
>>123757844i get what you're saying about how tons of chords are linked, but that's not really a great example and chromaticism still exists. it's just that our ears are really used to borrowed chords and like when chromaticism resolves that it really won't sound too unpleasant unless you're doing academic/tone row stuff.stacks of fourths are useful tools, should analyze some of that. you can get like 4-5 chords of that with 2 major chords of the same tonic, a m11 sound, sus9, and a maj13#11 all from the same notes. chromaticism and in/out notes are more about context than the notes in a vacuum. also there's tons of soundtrack type stuff that you wouldn't write all the chords out but you're doing a bunch of inner voice leading
for the guy tired of the trap beats, here's another taurus demon onehttps://vocaroo.com/1jH7rOTMf5qG
wow how dead has this board become that there's not even a thread up for the Sophie album livestreamanyway, some of these pads in this ambient piece are hitting the limiter so fucking hard, the distortion is insane. normally you'd consider this poor production. this shit is getting absolutely SLAMMED.basically what I'm saying is you can ignore the rules and "good practices" and still make it.
>>123764385We don't give a fuck about your tranny industry plant homo
>>123764385his music massively sucked
>>123757209How about you turn them off? Your issue is you being a sweaty fat fuck
https://vocaroo.com/1lYZRWwC98hohow bad is the vocals and synth interaction?can't find a way to combine both
>>123764744use an envelope follower to the voice to duck the volume of offending elements and play with it to taste
>>123760529nice, thanks
>>123764456i probably weigh less than you fatass
>>123764456he's talking about the groups of underage girl fans that scream for his genitals anytime he's playing
I think the drums suck and a simple 4 on the floor would sound better, but other than that does this sound cohesive? I may just like the bass and plingshttps://vocaroo.com/1er2QywzMU9f
>>123766293it's a complete eq clusterfuck of a mix that's unpleasant to listen to and sounds unmixed
https://vocaroo.com/1bsIjyCfu2f7>house
been meaning to do an autism death grips cover and right now makes sense because i'm short of ideas but i'm scared bro
>>123766590Just let it flow dude
First time trying to use my voice, was just setting up the mic but I think I'll try a cover of something nexthttps://vocaroo.com/19CaiQu8egw8
>>123766691im assuming you would vary it more if you developed more than just a sample but it's not bad, just needs variety.
>>123766629nah man this requires SERIOUSNESS no flow bricked up and just suffering with it manI never notice how many fucking meter changes they actually do until actually counting the whole song it just sounds so natural jfc
>>123766887Because they're not thinking about it. The unconscious stuff is orders of magnitude more capable than the conscious You can isolate and practice stuff ofc, but rappers and singers mostly hum and improvise until they settle on a rhythm and then they put the syllables in and make it all work yohether. A lot of back and forth a lot of drugs and homies in the studio simulating vibes and then you ride the groove of the vibe and they call this flow. The more you do it the better the freestyles becomes
>>123767135don't come near me or my daughters ever again
>>123767185But he is correct, Michael.
>>123767352>Michaelthis is the second time in the past week you've called me that i'm not part of your faggy little discord server or whoever the fuck you think i am fuck off!!!!
https://vocaroo.com/1dPRDjQgPhrR(massive)
>>123767185>truth too bruuutal
>>123767415nobody itt is allowed to post k-on except for me and also you're stupid and wrong leave me alone frick offff
>>123767377That's dope. Makes me wanna RAVE
>>123767371>>123767377>second timeIt is the first for me; perhaps someone else is onto you. Also, I have never entered a single discord server in my life, Nick.
>>123767430>noOoOoOOOOooOooOooOo You think I don't know rappers? Also sadge I only have that one pic
>>123767434really need to get around transcribing the rest of those tracks but 303 stuff makes me want to kms myself :/
>>123767480Accurately replicating someone else's songs is almost always super hard even when it's just synth patches and basic MIDI. When it's pitch bending stuff with envelopes, automations, LFOs, etc. it's on nightmare mode.
if you like 2012 chillwave gold panda type beats you might like thishttps://vocaroo.com/13yVhmHHN9lE
https://vocaroo.com/12ui4tTNKLwBlo-fi pop/rock
>>123761283https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/123654897/#123663482the used market in my country was surprisingly viable so check that out but it takes a bit of research and intutition if you're looking at lesser known brands. mainly determine what form factor you want like mini vs fullsize keys, the number of keys, if you need pitch/mod wheels, foot pedal input. a lot of the mini keyboards have knobs/sliders/pads so they still take up space on your desk while the travel on the keys are compromised and like if you follow piano tutorials the hand/finger movements won't translate exactly to mini keys. and if you listen to demos of people playing on mini keyboards the dynamics from the velocity sensitive are usually quite limited compared to fullsize keyboards.
>>123761140lol judging by he dudes yelling he probably has severe hearing damage from his technique.
>sudden memory unlocks and realizing why you hyperfixated on random characters as a child at 4 am.......... oyasumi ._.https://vocaroo.com/1cBZVhY9aRfT
how do you guys finally decide on a patch?
>>123770602its actually catchy>>123769361i like the guitar riffs, the tone and overall sound but vocals still need some work>>123768413also pretty catchyhttps://vocaroo.com/11gtH7rbT0oran ambient track with piano loops and some automated noise thrown in there
>>123770893My rule is to only use a preset or stop tweaking a new patch when it sounds good.Changed my life
>>123761584Yes.. Well then I recommend getting a real full size MIDI keyboard. Probably stings in your wallet but probably worth it.
>>123770893Just vibe man
i never studied music past primary school but I've had an urge to make something for the past months. should I try to ape something with pirated fl studio
>>123771570Hell yeah dude, go for itWhat do you have to lose? A few hours spent on a fun and potentially enriching experience?
I >>123760727 fiddled with a bit of the arrangement also mixing should sound a lot better now:https://voca.ro/1mvS20njp2gWNot too sure if i'm gonna make this dark..house? kinda thing into a full track
>>123771590well ego cold be damaged, I assume. but you make a good point
>>123771630You're a beginner. Of course you're not going to make something comparable to the music you listen to that's made by pros with years or decades of experience and hand-selected out of a much larger body of work that never gets released.
>>123771652okay. im gonna try and if I make something that impresses me, it will be uploaded here. I have a fear that I don't really have original ideas, I just subconsciously mix parts of various songs together
>>123771762>I have a fear that I don't really have original ideas, I just subconsciously mix parts of various songs togetherLmao that's how the vast majority of music is made
>>123745017https://voca.ro/180zHQ3x2MULHere's a pop rock tune I produced for my band. I'm also singing in the outro Warning: it's in Frenchhttps://voca.ro/1d8ScoB7JObcHere's something with just me I feel like the outro is stronger than the rest and I've been told the piano is a bit much - do you concur?
>>123771593Very nice actually I feel like the bass in your bridge (0:15) should have some reverb on it, which you'd remove at 0:31 when the drums come back. That part could also have some weird SFX in the background, just a bit of ear candy, it's a bit dry as it is. But I really like how you handled the subs, the drop sounds nice and full and you're delaying the gratification a bit.
>>123772192Cheers!Great idea, is it somewhat danceable? Might be a tad too dark for some club stuff i reckon.
random sounddesign experiments (small story)https://vocaroo.com/1muRfrW0RqOS
>>123773153Enjoyable and interestingSounds like musique concrete >>123773047Yeah maybeI don't go to clubs much, and most of them play poppier music, but maybe if you found some more underground electronic music focused spotsMy advice if you want to make that happen: get together with a couple other local electronic music producers, learn some DJing skills and play a combined set of your own music
>>123772070yea i think so too, piano is pretty loud already, then it plays louder, even louder and then it just eats up all the other instruments definition, piano things. did you eq it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDYrSGlGh9khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olmX2RdZD08Kohta Takahashi (Ridge Racer) shared some tutorials he watched.I was surprised he as a pro watches YouTube tutorials.But this is the important part I think: He said "It took me a long time to follow their teachings in detail and imitate them."He actually did the things in the tutorials, until he internalized them it seems.Interesting I think.
>>123774555Nobody has all the knowledge.People think tutorials are only for beginners, because most of the people who make tutorials aren't very advanced, but if a tutorial teaches you something you didn't know, then following it is a good idea no matter how successful you are.
>>123774692>because most of the people who make tutorials aren't very advancedYes, that's mostly why I was surprised. Also I think the ones who make tuts often talk like "this is" and "how to" when they have little credibility. While real pros like on Mix With The Masters tallk more like "I think" and "How I".>if a tutorial teaches you something you didn't know, then following it is a good idea no matter how successful you areI think this is true.
>>123745857Frequency-specific side-chained compression that runs better than Nova, please.
>>123774752>While real pros like on Mix With The Masters tallk more like "I think" and "How I".Mixing and mastering are heavily subjective and there's much less that you can be objective about, whereas other topics do have things that can be taught with "this is" and "how to".
>>123746173Yeah, the other one is making things sound very complicated that when you get it you also immediately see that you and everyone else has already did it forever and the given explanations are just retarded. Like for modes.
>>123774958>Mixing and mastering are heavily subjective and there's much less that you can be objective about, whereas other topics do have things that can be taught with "this is" and "how to".But now you're making a "this is" statement. What's your proof?
>>123775288That it's subjective? The fact that people prefer different mixesThat other things aren't? The fact that maths, chemistry and physics can be applied to results consistent with our understanding of it, which wouldn't by applying nothing but randomness (and if you disagree, try building a plane just by doing things randomly)
i just made this piece of crap:https://voca.ro/1oCzOwudgKM9
>>123775288It's self evident and I'm not going to explain myself to someone who doesn't agree with such an obvious undeniable fact (or pretends not to)
Did any of you try the new Sonar?https://www.cakewalk.com/sonarHow does it compare with the old version?
>>123745857A record Dj scratch vst. It would need to hold a sample then beable to scrubb through it back and forth using either mod wheel or automation and the volume fader the same. Motherfuckers already tried to do these but they are all shite
I made another piece of crap, but at least I liked this onehttps://voca.ro/1aFJidp5sV4k
God fucking damn it I love mix engineering so much. Something about tweaking the attack and release on a compressor to determine how much I want the guitars to compress the transient and tail of hi-hat scratches that deep autistic itch in me.I've been mixing some free multi-tracks, here's a before and after:Before mix (some panning and gain staging though): https://voca.ro/1aBcmSfj4tDvCurrent mix: https://voca.ro/181wUwQ1RgjVAm I going to make it /prod/?
>>123779334>gain stagingngmi
>>123779389shut yo ass up
>>123779334before is really quiet but i think a better overall mix. i don't hear the bass much though and one guitar is way off left in a kinda strange way on headphones.after is louder but has its own problems.i'm a bass player but the ugliest parts of the bass are accentuated so i'd turn it way down, guitars could be louder but also feel they lack high end. drums are probably more loud or compressed than they should be, the ride has more high freq air than it needs imo. overall, they don't sound mic'd well so it just gives off not well recorded basement/garage demo.
>>123779334wai gain stage when you have infinite headroom?
>>123779635i love the concept of gain staging because it immediately outs retards/cargo cultists
>>123779615I appreciate the feedback, I'll see what kind of changes I can make.>they don't sound mic'd well so it just gives off not well recorded basement/garage demo.Yeah there's a lot of problems with the tracks, especially in regards to the bleeding. Like I said it was just some random ass free multitracks I found online so not much I can do but pretty a pig up.>>123779635I use gain staging synonymously with just setting the levels of my tracks where I want them to be before I start mixing. I don't actually stress out clipping or anything. I think the term itself and all the drama surrounding it is kind of retarded but I don't know how else to describe just setting my levels.
>>123779736>Like I said it was just some random ass free multitracks I found online so not much I can do but pretty a pig up.i wouldn't spend tooooo much time fussing over them then, like obviously good to get practice. but you can't polish a turd. only thing i'd say is to work on things like the guitar and bass sounds if you can as those are a bit more important in the long run. every drum mix is its own beast
>>123779787>every drum mix is its own beastExpand on what you mean by this?
>>123779131Your space suit is leaking.
>>123779131yeah this really is a piece of crap. what the fuck were you thinking?
https://voca.ro/1oJO1u5EgXZu
>>123779787There are apps that isolate tracks, which would allow you to edit it into anything you could think of.
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>>123783031these recordings only work if you're already an established artist
>>123783202You any kinda artist?
>>123783230i am
I haven't slept in 2 days. I'm afraid we're coming into day 3 here bots. I don't even do drugs
>>123783422Oh yeah but I do watch South Korean thrillers fucking SKs keeping me jacked out
>>123756521I like it :)
>>123783461i liek you :)
okie :3https://vocaroo.com/1fVxoMm7n97z
