Amateur music producers, show off your setup! Bonus - curre

>>563449339
you are really bad

>>563449831

Feel free to elaborate on why it's bad, always willing to improve. :)

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mpc2000
sp808ex
ms2K
cz1K
sy22 (not pictured)
+ turntable for samples

>>563450878

very retro!

>>563450258

terrible sound quality and virtually 0 mixing/engineering skill.

not including that the melody itself is complete shit.

>>563451641

well it is an unmastered wip, and this is the amateur music producers thread...

Anyone going to school for this?

I'm at madison media institute. Its pretty good, I wish they taught a few more things though

I'd take a picture, but my setup is literally just ableton live, earphones, and the laptop.

Too poor to any equipment.

>>563452270
Also, my teacher is from NIN which is kind of awesome, another one of my teachers produced slipknots first album, another one of my teachers is going on tour with king crimson next semester.

>>563452360
same here except fl studio instead.

>>563449339
a shitty computer mic and shitty guitar amp

soundcloud.com/eightyseven

feel free to love or hate. setup here is macbook pro, old rokit 5s, and audio technica ath m50x monitor headphones

>>563452557
and audacity

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>>563449339

>>563449339
Not a producer, but I do vocals. Currently writing stuff with a buddy of mine who shreds on guitar. We do death metalish stuff

>>563452360
>>563452479

You guys should grab a small 25-key keyboard, I have the Korg microKey (pictured in first pic) and it retails at just 70 usd. Makes it a LOT simpler to doodle and find cool melodies.

>>563452360
oh, sorry, forgot to self advertise and pretend to be good.

https://soundcloud.com/impman

Also, an old build of a current WIP that's totally unfinished with some leftover sound at the end which means ignore the last 30 seconds because they're not correct. Involves a voice sample from my friend.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1ks7w76pVfE

also, currently going to school in san francisco at Pyramind. studying post-production sound design for games, apps and movies

>>563452447
Sign me up for this fucking school

>>563452819
Well, I have a real piano, but it's kind of far away from where I sit, so it kind of goes unused.

Also, going to college, which means no room for keyboard, and no real pianos either.

My method of getting cool melodies involves having them pop into my head, singing them badly at least 3 times into my phone, then throwing the cringeworthy recording into a spectrogram and finding the notes from that.

It works.

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Here's my setup, just got everything a couple days ago, now I'm just trying to learn it all, as I never used a DAW, or midi controller, but I'm digging it.

>>563450258
I'll try to elaborate in his place.

The song starts out really slow. Not temp wise, but it's really boring for the first several seconds.

Towards the middle, when the longer notes start coming in, the chords don't sound quite right to me.

I don't feel like I'm listening to one song, but rather a few different songs that have been put together. Some parts are added that don't sound like they belong (like at 1:05).

I don't think the main melody is defined enough. It feels like a rhapsody to me for most of the song.

It sounds like you're really sticking to an 8-bit sound, which is cool, but the song (or the melody, at least) seems to be a bit too slow.

This is just my impression/opinion. I'm no expert and claim no credibility. It sounds like it has some potential to it.

I feel compelled to give you the feedback because I agree with >>563449831, it's pretty bad as it stands.

>>563452825
>https://soundcloud.com/impman

Haha man, your music is fucked up man.

>>563453060
>inb4 I don't know what I'm talking about

>>563452649

very cool, nice wubs

>>563453093
which is why i'm on /b/, you see.

>>563450878
nigga knows what he is doing

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>>563449339
FL Studio and this badass midi controller.

Haha yeah that works, i'll actually try that. What app are you using?

Although I have to point out that the microKey is tiny. You can easily fit it in a regular computer bag together with your laptop.

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i use my laptop, monitor headphones, and a cheap 61-key MIDI controller.

newest song: https://soundcloud.com/sap1en/utopia

>pseudohouse/downtempo/feels

>>563452649
solid wubs, although a more steady beat would be nice. Go a little faster, but that's just me. I like all my music fast.

>>563449339
you've got a long way to go. sounds like it's the first song you ever tried to make and you've got a useless amount of midi gear.
edit your drums
find some new synths
use samples

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>>563453508
pic of my bitch. stock photo, because fuck you effort.

>>563453454
sonic visualizer, with both the regular spectrogram and the peak frequency spectrogram up. FFT of 4096 IIRC, logarithmic on both. You have to fiddle with the colors and drive a little to see what you like. I use white on blue on black.

>>563453508
also used the USB-to-patch cable cord from rocksmith to record guitar on a few tracks, if you have one laying around i recommend setting it up. i didn't go through the trouble of setting it to playback in real time so i'd just record my parts and EQ/mix later but it's possible, i think there's youtube videos.

For OP to increase his sample library.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/free-music-samples-download-loops-hits-and-multis-217833

>>563453294 thanks a ton man! a big bass music label out of LA recently picked up the last track i made - so stoked. not supposed to mention the label's name, but lets just say it is 4 letters and ends in "MOG" ;)

>>563450258
Work on the layout and timing.
and these are my thoughts and opinions:
starting out with the melody is a good way to kill it, especially when it is repeated throughout the song. I would have the strings start out with moderate rise in amplitude, fade in drums then cue melody.. progressively changing it up along the way. I like the strings (around :54) for the first five seconds or so.. it could then jump into the melody again. The strings are just too long, they might be taking up most of the song too. Keep it up, and good luck.

>>563453563
Same, more of a metal head than an EDM guy though. I do tech/death metal vocals, it'd be cool to co-lab with a good producer and see what cool shit my screams could be mixed into like Big Chocolate did with Suicide Silence

>>563453508
cool track! the drum samples feel a bit too imposing, maybe lower the volume or make the duller with EQ?

>>563453635

Well it's an 8-bit-based track, it kind of limits the amount of "synths" you can use. I am gonna cut up some samples for the second part of the song tho, so nice call.

>>563453563
thanks brotha' - means a lot to me! i'll be making some neurofunk'ish drum and bass eventually... you into fast stuff like that?

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This is a few months old...

Three displays now, and walls are no longer bare. Sound proofing all over

>>563453508
8/10 would set promotional product demonstration video to

>>563453857
>using other people's drum samples for anything other than breakcore and maybe dnb
ISHYGDDT

>>563453946
check out commissioner if you haven't already, big chocolate and mitch lucker did some cool stuff together. never really cared for either on their own though

>>563452649
>>563453861
Good shit man, you definitely have some solid stuff

>>563449339
Just imagine a toshiba laptop and apple headphones

>>563453971
yeah the kick sounded a bit sharp for my liking, but i don't think i actively noticed until you pointed it out. the snare tone was a labor of love but still not filled out enough in the low end either to punch instead of cut. i'm working on a new EP though, should have all the kinks worked out. thanks for listening :)

>>563453508
hey man that track's not bad! very chill and vibey. one thing i noticed about the mixdown is that the kick has way too much high frequency content - i'm guessing tone down (use a high-shelf EQ) the frequencies from ~1000 and above

>>563449339
>no real instruments/10
Step it up, sir.

>>563454009
drum and bass, sort of.

By fast, let's just say, umm, nightcore, without the high pitches. Imagine Angerfist sped up by a factor of 2, or 3, or 5.

My tastes in music are absurd to the point where my friends refer to those styles of music by my name.

>>563454235
I use fruity loops by the way

>>563454071
i've been told three times it would be good documentary/cinematography soundtrackage, i guess that's number four in a roundabout way. thanks for listening

>>563454074
To each their own I suppose. The vocals I do sound fairly similar to Mitch's, but the project I'm working on is a bit faster and more technical than what him and Suicide Silence did. I'll have to check the commissioner thing out

>>563452825
Nice! diggin the tracks.

>>563454356
A digital audio workstation is a real instruments.

A piano is a real instrument.
A synthesizer is a real instrument.

Fuck off.

>>563454235
>apple headphones
but...but apple doesn't make headphones...unless you mean beats?

go get something at least slightly better, it need not be too expensive nor name brand.

>>563454129
i try to keep it fresh! unfortunately i can't put up the song that they picked up due to NDA, but my newer stuff blows most of the other stuff away (personal opinion)

but yeah, i've heard that it might be coming out in september ;)

>>563454402
don't get me wrong, i like suicide silence up until no time to bleed. but their lyrics were always lolbad and i'm pretty dependent upon solid lyrics (maybe because i make instrumental music?)

>>563454071
>Shit talks peoples decisions
>Oh boy you must be a great musician
>check soundcloud
>thefuckisthishit
>You butchered Habenera

Sit the fuck down and turn your mac laptop off.

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>>563449339
holy shit OP
wtf are you doing?
>bought shitload of equipment
>doesn't even understand music

>>563454580
>but anon, why are they called "virtual instruments" in my DAW?

just fucking with you, not even the guy you're replying to

>>563454376
hahaha word man i feel that. i'm sure we've all got a lot of crazy / awesome bands / producers that we're into

>>563454316
thanks! yeah i just had that pointed out to me, funny how you notice all these things but never enough to irk you until somebody points them out haha

>>563454376
I know quite a few people like that. More often than not they're tastes aren't just strange, but they hate on everything outside of their oddball likes. Hoping you aren't one of them, people who have very specific music tastes are often elitists about it

>>563454580
Fair enough. Amateur market's saturated with synth/electronic music though. I'm a little tired of it.

>>563454652
too poor for mac laptop i shit out track on windows

love you too

>>563453857

much appreciated!

hey guys, i'm inspired to make hip-hop beats but I have no idea where to start

its been my dream to make other people feel in the ways Kanye and JD have made me feel

pls help

I have money to spend

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just moved but have most of my stuff out.

>>563454623
The Cleansing was, is, and always will be their best album. The shit my buddy and I are doing mixes elements of Suicide along with The Black Dahlia Murder together, and between those two Black has much better lyric writing.

>>563454783
I'll try to keep that in mind.

although if I hated on everything outside there'd be nothing to listen to anymore.

>>563454806
write something else then. be the change you want to see in the world, as *inspirational figure here* said one time probably

>>563454684

i'm not a poorfag, that's why.

>>563454806
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTe3Gy8uff8

>>563453204
I don't know what I'm talking about.

produce what makes you happy!

https://soundcloud.com/acousticjuicer/duress
check it out lad

>>563455042
black dahlia is glorious, wearing a hoodie of theirs at the moment actually. sounds cool though, i'll find your post and follow ya, i wanna hear this when it's done.

>>563455058
Believe me, I'm trying. Writing music is fucking hard, man.

>>563454875
I do agree you do shit out tracks, you shouldn't fish it out of the toilet afterwards though.

If this was the Habenera that played in Carmen it would be renamed Carmen: The Disasterpiece.

>>563455004
>take 808 or 909 or whatever virtual drum machine, or just pirate one if you're poor
>map various hits to various keyboard buttons
>screw around with drum/percussion/whatever parameters
>play around until you get something that you like that sounds adequately hiphoppish
>place into midi
>add stuff on top
>find vocalist

something along those lines, i'd guess? i don't really do hip hop

>>563455107
Neat-o

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https://soundcloud.com/harry000/untitled
Only song I've put on the internet - was made solely with ableton but have got a bunch of shit going at the moment with some of the gear pictured.

>>563455004
Write music for 5-7 years you'll get there. Money doesn't make you good.

>>563455235
exactly, all i feel like writing nowadays is house-y shit. i used to make really organic-sounding downtempo/trip-hop stuff when i started, mostly sampled. trying to veer away from that and expand on my composing though

>>563455250
brb renaming my track

>>563455107
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTe3Gy8uff8

modular goodness

shits a soundcloud thread now
https://soundcloud.com/lawqjaw

btw i have FL studio and some nice speakers, thats it.

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>>563455085
why don't you buy a huge dildo as well
so you can go fuck yourself

i've been producing for 6 years on my own... it just takes passion, time, and effort before you get noticed by big names / labels

>>563455218
perhaps tone down the background vocal sample once the main vocals get in? it got a tiny bit conspicous after a while.

>>563455451
honestly i wish i had the money and time to fuck around with modular synths, they seem so damn cool and the tones they produce are hella bodied

>>563454623
>>563455042
On a sidenote if you're into instrumentals you should check out Cloudkicker, it's only instrumental metal.

>>563454615
Understandable, I know how the industry is and they always keep shit as hush hush as possible. Kudos to aiming for originality, seems like everything out right now is just rehashed shit that sounds similar to other songs I've heard. It isn't always easy to come up with fresh material though, I know how that is lol. It's a good sign if your new stuff blows your old stuff out of the water, means you're progressing as a musician. It's one of the most rewarding feelings in the world.

>>563455397
i really like it
>gave you a follow

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>>563455552

>>563455218
not bad. i feel that the drums don't fit the track, though. more 808s, 909s, snare rolls, and triplet hat patterns :P

>>563455686
yeah i know cloudkicker, i raise you plini, sithu aye, and pomegranate tiger

>>563455050
Yeah, but I have a friend in particular who will literally just say everything outside of his tastes is just "mainstream garbage"

Soundcloud.com/exoruptix
>inb4; shit name
I make electronic and I'm gonna start making rap/jazz type beats, idk the actual genre/subgenre. I use shitty gaming headphone that aren't TOO bad, but not monitor material, ableton live 9, fl studio, a focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (plan to record later on and get better monitors) and a launchpad for ideas/quick chop outlines

>>563449339
you're not musicians by the way

you're good with computer software though!

fuckin geeks

>>563449339
My advice to you: sell two of those controllers, keep the Arturia. The track could be more dynamic. Make more complex drum lines and melodies. Your transitions sound either forced or they are simply non-existent, work on that.

Overall it sounded OK. Also I have to add that the beginning of the track just told me: "this is super amateur"

>>563455740
muchas gracias

>>563455939
I hate people like that

>>563455547
interesting. I'm not sure what I'm listening to, but I kind of like it. I kind of don't. It's kind of like eating torreya grandis nuts.

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soundcloud.com/treeboy

i just use fl studio and my keyboard/mouse

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>>563449339

brb, uploading song

http://ghostslug.bandcamp.com/

heres what Im working on
>grind , noise, death, boredom

It's just a hobby that gets me through the day

>>563455965
obvious bait, but i've been playing multiple instruments easily twice as long as i've been producing

>>563455085
I felt bad that everyone was being so mean to you, until you said this. You are a faggot.

>>563455946
make the kick a tad shorter, or add some sort of bass line with a sidechain compressor on it. For some reason the kick you have on cause and effect doesn't really match the rest of the track.

>>563456271
anyone can play instruments bud

my retarded half son can play the trumpet with his dick hole

all your soundproofing sucks therefor your homestudios suck. spend less money on shitty midi controller and more on some foam, wool or blinbling hofa elements.

>>563449339
FL Studio

>kek

>>563455798
I'll have to check those out, never even heard of them quite honestly. My buddy showed me cloudkicker, instrumental music is cool but being a vocalist I naturally lean towards stuff with them in it.

>>563455230
I'll make a post on /b/ when we get some shit on soundcloud or something. Vocal wise (pitch wise at least) it's sort of a hybrid between Black Dahlia, Suicide Silence, and Thy Art is Murder. My highs are like a mix of Trevor's and CJ's and my lows are a mix of CJ and Lucker sort of. Thats the best I can describe it using other people you might have heard before at least lol

Don't currently have a setup. But this is from an old setup I had..

https://soundcloud.com/epi13/mayhem-in-mind

>>563456264
how does the maschine compare to an mpc if you've used one? i'm looking to get one or the other to start touring locally with so i don't look like a play-pressing faggot. i want to know about the malleability of the pads, compatibility with my existing sample library (mostly .wav), etc. just the basics, really.

>>563456106
why is this so fucking catchy please finish something

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>>563456264

sample of album coming out soon. We get the mastered and mixed songs back from Rico Wade / Cool Breeze tomorrow

>>563456449
must have quite the embouchure, i'm impressed.

>>563456070
as do I anon, as do I...

He's a cool dude but god damn it can be frustrating to talk music with him

>>563456029

arturia keys are too small to be useful, but i use it to fiddle with presets in analog lab vst.

>>563456674
You must not know the story of the dick farts.

>>563456584

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tjp5n3ed9w2fm7x/Money%20Pending%20Mixtape%20Sample%20.mp3


woops forgot link

>>563453508
I don't know shit about making music but I like your track dude. Really chill.

>>563456747
you say that like i should know about these urethral cerebral journeys of the soul

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This is my setup, although moved house earlier this year and haven't got a pic of the new place. But my equipment setup is just the same. Planning to get a 61-key keyboard next

>>563455965

siq burn

>>563453010
>25-key keyboard
>no room for keyboard
Holy shit, are you living in a fucking shoebox?

https://soundcloud.com/perodotus/pollyanna

I like to play vidya music on piano. Sound quality's crap, but whatever.

>>563450878
Implying you're not boyz noize

>>563456674
yeah he does. i noticed when I had him suck my dick. a talented young boy

>>563456106
You've got some seriously good stuff here anon, no keks

>>563455668
>>563455451

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZF0oZX60AQ

more modular goodness!

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>>563456827
it may or may not be possible to play the trumpet with this new knowledge

to be honest i don't even know how to play the trumpet i thought was just pursing your lips then making the fart noise

if i had a trumpet i would try

>>563456770
thanks, i appreciate it! keep in touch if you're on SC, i've also got bandcamp (sap1en.bandcamp.com as well) and will be dropping a new EP pretty shortly, in addition to the debut double EP i put out earlier this month

>>563449339
S4, launchpad, novation impulse 25, Sl 1200 Mk2 Turntable soon to be running traktor scratch.
Adam a7x monitors.

fan of glitch hop/funk.

here's some weird shit I released a while ago that nobody listened to:
https://soundcloud.com/mugban/sets/vitelline-dream

I fucked around in FL studio for a while but now I just focus on playing in a band

>>563456268
That recording quality...

Your drums and guitars sound overly static-y and the vocal tracking came out really scratchy. If it's what you're going for than you do you, but it just sounds like scratch ridden noise and nothing more

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>>563449339
I don't have a setup worth showing - it's just my messy battlestation with Axiom 61 on the side that I rarely use.

I don't think it really sounds through that I do practically all the work with mouse, but what do you think?
https://soundcloud.com/jbzi/black-toxin

>>563457101
it's not just an instrument, it's a lifestyle choice. be 'bout it.

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Some nice setups going on here. Here is what i use currently. the setup is comprised of a Clavinova cvp-50. real old but still feels real enough for me for now. on top of that is my keystation 49. i have it set as a dedicated clavinet. I route the audio from it to run out to my blues driver pedal and then my cry baby wah. from there it goes to the amp next to it, a traynor.
On the left i have my 'organ' set-up. the top board is an old axiom 49. and the lower is an oxygen 49. Both are set to run native instruments vintage organs, all draw bars mapped of course. they are set up to play the upper and lower boards just like a Hammond b3 would play like. the generated audio i send through a secondary effect, the VB-3 vst. i like the Leslie better on the VB-3 but the organ to me sounds a bit off, so i get a great trade off with he great native instruments organ and the vb-3's leslie. Eventually i will route the audio through a Leslie i am currently building.
The lower board is set to play the organ, and the fender rhodes vst. (also native instruments). as well as a few other effects and goodies.
Also, interesting to note, the 'organ' looks like an organ. i tore apart and old lowrey organ i had that was more of a fire hazard than anything else, and i re-used the wood from it to make the stand you see here.
My audio breakout box is currently a ur22 by steinberg. im thinking of upgrading to the ur44 or possibly the akai eie pro. (if anyone has any feedback on that box i would like to hear it).
All powered by my laptop, a simple lenovo with i5, 6gb ddr3 ram and ample hard disk.

>>563456908
There is literally no room in my luggage for a keyboard at this point, everything is packed and there's enough space for this laptop, powercord, and mouse.

I kind of do want a midi keyboard, but I need a better computer first, and then i need space, and then

well it builds up. I'm working on it.

https://soundcloud.com/eightyseven/lunar-flex-original-mix

all tunes on my soundcloud are up for free download, except for one. grab 'em if you dig 'em!

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Pic related, and a Macbook with Pro Tools 10. I'm more into the composing aspect than trying to perfect a mix, but one comes with the other.

https://soundcloud.com/turpsy-q
>metal instrumentals and a few other things

https://soundcloud.com/djtwentyseven

Laptop, headphones.

>>563456912
the crap sound quality actually makes it sound nicer for some reason

like it's not horrific sound quality, so it kind of gives a nice color to your piano playing, sounds more human

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classic guitar and guitar rig,setup for masters

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>>563456751

also, my little project soundcloud

www.soundcloud.com/fly-king-chris

This is just the projects that I shit out about this time of night when I'm wasted and don't wanna take it serious

>>563457262
>https://soundcloud.com/jbzi/black-toxin

my kind of music. approved and followed!

>>563457441
Duly noted. I ought to upload more often. Thanks for listening, by the way.

>>563457441
The quality isn't really an issue for me, treble needs to come down a bit, but this is honestly pretty cool anon

>>563457172
not really my genre but everything sounds pretty clean and pretty well-mixed. surprised your fanbase isnt bigger

>>563457172
album art could be professional if it wanted to be.

It reminds me mildly of Aphex Twin for some reason.

>>563457295
best so far

>>563449339
>>563450878
>>563452716
>>563453508
>>563454057
>>563455037
>>563455397
>>563456264
>>563456584
>>563456830
>music

>>563457262
this is good. very good. Melodies are nice and original and fresh, and it doesn't get repetitive either.

>>563457682
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_WLhPRMXkk&list=UUmETCzDQqwJrjX7MjatfpBA

More music from me to you, kind anon.

Im on mobile or id be more active in the thread but
http://soundcloud.com/oacie-1
And
http://soundcloud.com/not-frank
Are both me.

Oacie is for harder edm genres and not frank is for chill out stuff. Ya.

incoming abandoned project from a long time ago

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0rPGzAm7qvn

pls critique

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My room. Nothing much. KRK's and a decent keyboard. I use a bunch of "vintage" synths from arturia, but have no real retro gear unfortunately.

https://soundcloud.com/an_do

>>563457424
only mildly repetitive, but great production quality.

>>563449339
>1:05 - 1:36
love shit like this

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>>563457246
its the way I like it, not for everyone, thanks for listening though ha.

>>563458193
bass is sometimes a bit overpowering.

>>563457637
That's nice to hear, followback'd!
>>563458005
I tried to keep ditching melodies as soon as I had done what I initially wanted to do with them, and tried to write something at least as good to replace it.
Very cool if it paid off.

>>563456830

http://soundcloud.com/transient-motion/transient-motion-f-y-d

Bit of an old tune, but don't have anything recent up trying to update my soundcloud pages. Had some good feedback for this tune tho

>>563458342

thanks, i appreciate it! Really need to work on making the arp sound cleaner, it's all kind of muddy at the end.

>>563458193
The filth stuff on the Oacie page is pretty dope and Misterwives is pretty sick. You got a good grip on what you're doing man, and I really appreciate the versatility doing 2 relatively different styles. Keep it up

>>563458306
It's still nice and chill.

>>563458680
almost powerstomp in a way or maybe i'm tired. very nice feel.

this is the part where i go to sleep.

here, take this unreleased, unfinished, vocaroo, and give me feed back.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s17G5J8iH0yL

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>>563456751


>mfw no replies

>>563455397
your meth lab are showing

>>563452960
Madison media institute in madison, WI

Its a great fucking program, needless to say.

>>563458728
try taking out a few db with bell curve EQs around 150-350hz, 500-600hz, and 800-900hz to clear commonly-muddy areas.

>>563458680
>http://soundcloud.com/transient-motion/transient-motion-f-y-d

damn where's that kick sample from? what plugins did you put on it? also how the fuck do i get my tracks to get loud like yours?

>>563459091
compressors usually even everything out, but you have to be reeeeal careful with mixing or you get the dreaded solid bar

>>563458895
Thanks man. You got a page?

>>563458361
To each their own dude. I do really heavy metal kind of shit so I know how it is, not everyone is into specific styles or this heavy of music as a whole. The stuff I do is just cleaner and smoother in the sense of recording quality and composition, really tight knit technical type shit

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>>563456106
My fucking god why are these things so short? They're too good to be like that.

>>563449339
That drink tells me you make shit music for shit people and you may want to consider killing yourself.

>>56345407i remember i plated that at a house party of mine, and people were really not into it. i find it to be fucking brilliant, but fuck me, right?

>>563459058
Well shit I live in MN, might have to check it out if it's only a state away

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My gear, minus the cases and stands...I prefer jamming old school to using computers but we use a rental studio for production, apparently guitar center has studios now but I've yet to try them. Messy room, I live in squalor.

>>563449339
>>563449339

Just moved to another country and started all over again.

But brought several things with me.

Have:
>MacBook Pro
>Pro Tools 9
>M-Audio MobilePre
>Zoom R24
>AT2035 Condenser
>Korg Triton LE
>Schecter Hellraiser DLX

Will get:
>Dual screen for post-production
>Yamaha HS8's
>M-Audio Oxygen 49
>Roland TD-20

I'm a sound designer as well, what do you think of this setup?

>>563459285
Not as of yet. I only have vocal covers I did a year ago on youtube that are total shit, the ones I did in a more professional fashion are just MP3 files on my computer I've sent to friends to get feedback on. I'll be making a page for my band once we get our EP done, might make it sooner to post a few demos or some shit

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>>563459593

>triton LE

>>563456106
yoooo these are nice. Keep it up. I followed.

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>>563459448

it's so delicious tho'

>>563459316
I like that stuff to, I have some friends in the pornogrind / goregrind scene, I just do it for fun, sometimes trade shit with them. Its nothing serious. Although I did some vox/drums for Sick animation recently, and speedosausage does my art. I really only do it for fun and to collab with random people.

>>563456106
>soundcloud.com/treeboy
loving it! some songs remind of the genre "skweee"

>>563459021
use to look even chatter than this would you believe

>>563459593
>Roland TD-20

Those drums are nice, I actually have that exact set too. Depending on how you live it may get noisy.

>>563459448
dude black cherry is fucking amazing
da fuck u talkin about

>that dirty as fuck looking qck+ mousepad

Muh nigger

>>563459958
the drink is fucking grape, you fucking idiot.

leave it to nigs to make shit music, drink shit drinks, and never learn to fucking read.

>>563459648
If you need something production wise you can hmu. [email protected]

>>563459687

oh man I love this beauty, my dad gave it to me as a birthday present like 8 - 9 years ago and it still does wonders, I swear I learn something new every time I use it.

>>563459924

what do you mean, noisy?

>>563460154

that's the keyboard that made me want to take things more seriously. Now our team is set up for a record deal through Atlanta's Dungeon Family

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>tfw poorfag

https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-mitchell-18/meditation-for-winds/s-qfz6C
>classical wind sextet stuff

So yeah

Anyone do hip hop instrumentals, boom bap?

>>563460407

me. I posted some earlier from a little ahitty project cloud I got for stuff that's not too serious. I.e. stuff I can leak and not worry about the team getting mad about

>>563460313

my first real instrument :') had a shitty Casio before it, but yeah definitely made me the man I am today

>>563460154
>what do you mean, noisy?

they make quite a bit of noise when you play them, so unless your studio is padded or you live in a house others may be disturbed by your activities, so to speak

>>563460407
i can do some.

>>563459091

The kicks just made of 2 kicks from one of these vengeance packs, one for the initial hit and the other for the deep part. A little eq and some compression to gel it together.

And for the loudness I just use a compressor and a limiter on my main channel.

Synth-wise i mainly use sylenth, omnisphere, zebra 2 and massive although I have other vsts as well.

>>563460368
>https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-mitchell-18/meditation-for-winds/s-qfz6C

your channel is really nice!

>>563460150
I'll keep your email saved somewhere. As of now our guitarist is doing editing and production shit on it. Not sure how you feel about producing melodic death metal type stuff though

Honestly, i'm not much of a music man so those of who who are going to be making a living doing this stuff and even those who just o it as hobbies may not take this seriously.
In every single one of the samples that I've listened to i noticed one thing. It sounds like a soulless, monotonous, metronome robot is spitting the same sound out of it's ass into a bowl, ready to be fed to a bunch of toddlers.
I dig a lot of the music that I've listened to in this thread but it seems like every one of them has something missing from it. That something is so fundamental that shit like #Selfie(clubsound) feat. (eatmyassforbreakfast) still appeals to a shit ton of people.
I may be an ass and i'll be getting a lot of hate for it, but its this reason that separates artists like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Who, Daft Punk, New Order, The Smiths, etc... from basically every other band who didn't make it big.
I'm not asking anyone to sell-out, and appeal to the millions of musically herded sheep that follow the likes of Justin Beiber. I'm just saying work and find that thing that makes your music amazing for what it is.. Kinda cheesey but.. Find its soul

inb4
> judgemental faggot

I'm just trying to help

>>563460752
im up for anything

>>563460570

aw man, nothing compared to a real drum set I'm sure!

it will actually be the first time I buy an electronic set, I've always played an acoustic set.. I do not have neighbors do and live almost Downtown where there's always noise outside.. I won't think I'll have problems with that

by the way, do you know a place where I can but this set online (apart from ebay and whatnot) ? my local store is expensive as hell

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My only peripheral is this MPK Mini.

I don't use anything but the keys and the octave up buttons. What's a good mid-range keyboard to upgrade to? I won't need too many knobs and doo-dads..

https://soundcloud.com/hawaii5-0

>>563460876
>this guy

>>563460876
Thats the plan

>>563460521
Not really the stuff i was looking for

>>563460620
Yeah i just rap shit for fun and record it on my not so good setup, could i hear some?

>>563460957

sorry i'm from EU

>>563460928

Alright man, once we get some more shit tracked I'll shoot you an email with a demo/song and see what you can do with it?

>>563457295
nice synthesizers. you should really invest in a rack or two and get yourself some space!

>>563461074

well these aren't for sale or personal use anyway, it's just ideas I had when i was fucked up

>>563449339
Please tell me you use real instruments and your editing the sound and you're not one of those "electronic artists".

>>563460674
Cool man thanks
how do you like sylenth and omnisphere? trying to find a cracked version of those, but cant.

>>563461074
I dont have any hip hop uploaded but check out http://soundcloud.com/not-frank its where i upload my chiller/hip hop type stuff so this would be your best reference

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>>563461262

guilty as charged

>>563461262
only matters if he's playing it live for some reason. why not make it perfect with editing MIDI?

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Writers block....

sequential circuits pro one, prophet 5
korg polysix, ms20, wavestation, prophecy
roland jd800, jv880/1080, jupiter 4/6/8
ensoniq nearly everything
big eurorack modular and older modular gear
been doing this a while.. about time i moved up to ableton and join the 21st century

>>563460876
Essentially, put some heart and soul into it. It's passion driven. You can hear it in A LOT of good music, but it's much harder to detect in EDM genres because a lot of the tunes are made synthetically. I feel like a lot of the passion and soul that comes from music comes from physically playing it, but if you can capture that with synth than you're set. Hence why EDM is such a hard genre to get anywhere in

>>563461128
i'll see what i can do. No promises though.

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It's dirty, but it gets the job done.
soundcloud.com/elliotfox

happy to contribute friends!

https://soundcloud.com/diamoofficial

Do you guys finish every song you start? How many total song projects do you have? Does having ~1,000 projects in FL Studio make me autistic?

>>563461160
thanks man. i usually bring my rig with me for band practice. Its alot of work, but worth it.
We play jam-based rock/funk/blues/bluegrass/whatever type of stuff mainly.
Ideally i would get all REAL versions of the instruments i'm trying to emulate, but for now, due to lack of space, i am limited to trying my hardest to make the un-real become real.

>>563461262
You do realize almost every single song today has programmed drum lines right?

They have the drummer play his lines then recreate them in editing software so the hits are consistent. These days, people won't get into a song if every other snare hit sounds different for example

Any advice for a poorfag who wants to start making music? I'd like to focus on electronic and neoclassical. I don't know where to start.

>>563461561
No harm done in the process man. We've been banking on the guitarist doing it up until now anyway so even if it's not what we're looking for we have the original plan still

>>563461557
I'm a little biased because i'm a HUGE Daft Punk but I feel like they did fantastically mixing the two in R.A.M. All live instrumentals, mixed by two of the biggest artists in EDM.

>>563461760

I only finish stuff people want. I have soooo many projects that I never come back to

>>563461760
In our collaboration, he has like 200 project files, I have around 25 floating around So no. It's fine.

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>>563453508
Some good stuff here, i'm checking others right now
Even if some tracks are bad globally, there are some good ideas in it
Can rework it to make it awesome

>>563461910
Dont. Its not worth it in the end. Spending years on something that no one cares about and will get you nowhere. Learn a craft that you can live off of instead. Trust me.

>>563461910
learn chords and progressions and get the best drum samples you can get your hands on

Can't get a pick of the setup but I have my PC which I do all the mixing and shit on the floor in the centre. Headphones plugged into it. To the left is the keyboard with a MIDI to USB cable connecting it to the PC. An amp is next to it, with on board effects and a chrous, distortion and octave pedal for whatever sounds I need.

>>563461760
Not every single song, I have PLENTY of samples (like every other musician out there) but I also have a handful of full blown songs.

>>563461910
Get yourself a "legal" copy of FL Studio (if you want to jump in) or ableton (if you want to actually work/learn). Learn how to work the synths/automation/drums. Suck for a long time until you don/t

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https://soundcloud.com/cilantro-productions

Image is only partial setup. Additional controllers and hardware not pictured. Setup as follows:

Presonus FirePod Audio Interface
Behringer Multicom Pro-XL MDX4600 Compressor/Limiter/Gate
Korg Nano PAD
Akai LPK25
Yamaha PSR-290
Novation Launch Control
Bleep Labs Nebulophone
LeStrum MIDI Controller
Standuino FraAngelico

Guitars:
ESP LTD H-308 8 String guitar (Down 1/2 step to F#)
Fender Squier Stratocaster guitar (Dropped C)
SoundGear Ibanez 5 string Bass (B standard)
Orange Dark Terror
Blackstar HVT 112 cab

Drums:
7 piece Tama Rockstar kit (6" 8" mini tymps, 10" 12" 13" toms, 16" floor tom, 21" Bass)
14" Pork Pie maple snare
Tama Iron Cobra pedals
Assorted Sabian, Zildjian, HammerAx, Wuhan, Factory Metal, and Meinl cymbals
Mics: Shure SM57, Shure Beta 52, Audix F10, Audix F11, Audix F12, Audix F14, Audix F15

KRK Rokit 5 monitors

Ableton Live Suite 9 DAW

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What do you think of this song /b/?

I recorded every instrument separately, nothing is sampled, nothing is looped..

My attempt at post-rock..

https://soundcloud.com/saulsolis/godswoodlament

>>563460692
thnx bby

>>563461352

Both are great, sylenth is easy to learn and you can get some great sounds designed quickly. Omnisphere is a bit trickier but has some of the best pad sounds about. I was using cracked copies for ages (anyone using cracked sylenth will at some point heard the "thank-you for trying this demo" when the crack fucks up), but ended up investing in proper copies of both of them.

>>563461262

So do you get some wood and carve all you instruments from scratch? Find skins to make your drums from?

Decent electronic musicians spend a lot of time programming our synthesis from scratch, as well as editing drums and other things to make them unique. So we probably do more work than someone who just picks up a guitar

>>563461910
When i started i just farted around with everything and literally turned every knob to see what it did. I just got used to everything and then settled down and started working on organization etc.
Been doing it for 3 years now so i wouldnt say im too experienced but ya

>>563462125
I always think of something awesome sounding in my head but can never create it with shitty programs.

>>563462143
sonnnnnnnnnn

lately i have been. i can finish a song in 3 days. more if i'm busy with shit. you just have to force yourself to do them. something isn't working? find something that does. don't forget it until its done. But no, not everything i do i finish. Last week i created about 4 different beats until i liked something enough that i wanted to finish

>>563461967
Yes, but again they're big for a reason

>>563462054
You're exactly the type of piece of shit that ruins the music for people. It doesn't have to be adored by millions of people, music is about fun and creative expression. If you like what you're doing then keep doing it, enjoying yourself is never a waste of time.

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>>563450878

Dat KORG, do want.

>>563449339

I'm not really the one to speak, but you need to start making room for all the synths and planning on your stereo imaging, it sounds like all the synths are cluttering up the sound cancelling eachother out.

>>563453508

Not bad, chill and warm. Though you need to sort that kick out, it's a bit too boomy.

>>563454057

Jelly, though not over the mac gear though lol

>>563455397

Holy shit, that was actually pretty good.

> Here's my shit, please give me some tips:

Far from finished remix I started on a few hours ago:
> http://clyp.it/ru55td5f

Latest project, too compressed and still a work in progress, both of these are clips mind you:
> https://soundcloud.com/sweejit/2lax/s-ruXWn

Hey, amateur producers.

How does it feel knowing that a label wont even consider a band's recordings if they arent top professional tier?

Srs im in a band and we recorded with one of you "amateur producers" in his bedroom. (Actually a great kid with a lot of talent and experience, but the recordings just lacked a certian, hmm, professional sound)

Then we went and recorded professionally in hollywood and, lo and behold, the labels who didnt give two shits about us earlier are now interested

>>563462156

Good ambient track. Needs some serious help in the loudness department, but that's nothing some minimal mastering won't fix.

TL;DR Good, just needs mastering

>>563462365
you are a piece of shit i would like to murder, but your second statement i agree with

>>563462242
Don't claim you do more work than guitarists. Thats a VERY broad statement considering all the different things you can do with it. I promise you you don't work harder than these guys, especially considering mixing/programming takes no physical exertion either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQYWC9ezebw

>>563454684
pretty much this

>>563462365
Yes but the problem is that most people go into music thinking they will be the hottest shit ever, plan everything around it, and then become depressed and hateful when they realize they arent going to be the famous bigshot they thought they were going to be. If you pick it up as a hobby then im all for it, but sadly too many go into it thinking "omg im going to be the next Tiesto" or some shit.

>>563462674
Come at me big old scary man of the internet

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Dark pic but

Pretty much only the launchpad as hardware
Ableton 9
Komplete 9 Ultimate

Looking to get an analogue synth, eyeing the Korg MS-20. I would love the DSI Pro 2 but thats way out of my paygrade

>>563462683
you picked a bad band there. sure, technically RoS is impressive but there's never any substance, just shred or chug, nothing to keep me coming back. now, if you had said the contortionist or similar who actually experiments with guitar tones and techniques outside of sounding "weird" i might take you seriously

I hum into a mic and use the mouse to fine the melody in Piano roll. On a Windows ME-turned-XP desktop built in 1999. Poor? You betcha! Talented? Fuck yeah!

>>563462782
I know people like that, and they're idiots. They dump everything they have into a dream. I'm all for chasing dreams, but you need to have back up plans in case it doesn't work out. You don't want to end up losing it all simply because you didn't get noticed. Do music for the fun of it, and -hope- for it to get somewhere, accept it for what it is if you don't "make it" and just keep doing it for fun.

Real musicians do it for the art

>>563462602

So you think it's not loud? or too loud?

Because I hate the fucking loudness wars, I tried to maintain a good dynamic range throughout it and mainly just having it punch at the climax...

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Here is my home studio.

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>>563462436

Forgot my setup:

> Ableton Live 8
> Shitty sennheiser gaming headset
> €30 speakers, creative
> keyboard and mouse

>>563463070
I posted them because they WORK at what they're doing. You may not find substance in their music, but can you honestly say the average person would have the muscular endurance/skill to play like that?

WHY THE HELL THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE POSTS HAVE MIDI TRACKS INSTEAD OF ACTUAL AUDIO TRACKS? YOU FAGGOTS MADE ME CRINGE WITH YOUR SOULESS "MUSIC"

https://soundcloud.com/malyatrax

Only really use a akai lpk25.

>>563463151

I'm saying not loud. But I feel you on the whole loudness wars thing. Unfortunately, it's just the way production has gone. Complaints that tracks weren't loud enough has led to our rise in loudness.

I understand giving your mix enough room to breathe and have dynamics, but you've still got headroom according to the waveform where some master bus compression and loudness could be used to give more body. The climax does have more punch, but it's got a bit too much highend that needs to be tamed to make sure it's not too harsh.

>>563463078
If you have talent, you'll get somewhere. Locally theres quite a few bands around that have absurd gear but are still shitty because they lack talent. Most of my covers I've recorded with a god damn iphone and I get better feedback than some of those deep pocketed wana-bes

>>563462683
So when you record a track you program everything from scratch? (Drums, synths, etc.) You help record vocals in and process them to get them sounding just right for the mix? You play and record in all the instruments and arrange everything? You eq all the channels, mixdown the whoke thing and spend time getting good stereo separation to create a evenly balanced track with correct head space?

Or do you just pick up a guitar and play, and leave most of the production down to a studio engineer who like myself spent many hours learning as much about production as they can?

We need more threads like this, also does anyone record vocals on shitty protools SE?

>>563463304
you think they sound note-for-note live all the time? i don't know about them personally, although i have wanted to see them to see how they hold up. i don't know if you're fond of protest the hero at all, but i saw them right after kezia came out and they couldn't play their own songs live. studio magic, and not much better than what i do. i would imagine, although i record guitar into my songs, it doesn't count because i'm not playing them live even though i can play them perfectly and in a single take most cases.

>>563463347
agreed.
here's our souncloud link. just amatuer recordings for the most part, and we have a totally new band together now, but here's a taste i guess.
https://soundcloud.com/thegroovyfewband

>>563463503
>>563463503

And what do you recommend? What plugins? Should I compress the shit out of it then? Fill it with lows/highs? What would you do mate?

>>563462156

You need to spend more time strapping EQ's to your lines, and making sure that your bass and kick drum are focused in the middle so that it doesn't drown everything else in the mix and remains tight and clean.

i've only got fl studio (obviously it's cracked), a pc and some sick headphones
https://soundcloud.com/solideraproductions

feel free to hate and stuff like that

>>563463347

Not everyone has space or microphones to record "real audio" as you call it. Not to mention that calls for expertise with instruments as well. I myself do record actual instruments but I also write electronic music, or "MIDI" as you call it. There's a lot more to creating electronic instrument patches and mixing them than you understand. Whether a song is made from a recording of real instruments or synthesized ones, there's still a great deal of know-how and talent involved to make it good.

TL;DR Check out my two tracks
Real guitars recorded and played by me: https://soundcloud.com/cilantro-productions/pooch-dooters


Electronic "MIDI" by me: https://soundcloud.com/cilantro-productions/alucards-taint-1

>>563463864
never over compress. Watch out for that. Also a tip, i keep an eq on the master with a calm rolloff and 30hz and a steep rolloff around 17khz or so. It really keeps things tidy imo.

>>563463864
EQ everything so the sound is tuned how you want it, but quieter. i like to use a glue compressor on the master so it's not so forceful, and just equalize the master track from there. a huge mistake i used to make was EQing/compressing my individual tracks but not the master.

>>563464138
that's a good idea, would condense the lows quite nicely. i find mine are too boomy if they're not compressed or i want to accentuate the low end

>>563464138

So many tracks are over compressed now, even old albums that have been remastered. such a shame to kill dynamics like that, just so people can boast how loud a track is.

>>563464138
calm rolloff at 30hz*
Its 4:30 am

>>563464138
>>563464216

thanks dudes! noted everything.. working in a new song right now so I'll try these advices

>>563463864

Personally I would use a combination of a little master bus compression to glue everything together and also a small boost in loudness (maybe 2dB or so, depending on your master bus peak). It sounds like you should have at least 5dB of headroom, but I could be wrong. Anywho... I would also do some high-end shaping / compression via Izotope Ozone. I love that plugin, but unfortunately it's pricey.
There's a fantastic free master bus compressor that I would recommend to anyone on a budget. Very simple controls, great sound and timbre to it. Density MK III .

>>563464406
annoys the shit out of me, especially when i notice it listening to something else and then going back and playing a track of mine (i often take breaks between sections to regain full mental acuity)

>>563464406

Aye, I think some tunes are more attuned to being punchy and loud than filled with dynamics though. But in most cases it's awful, here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09wdQP1FFR0

I mean, these guys make a living out of this shite. Though I do enjoy a couple of tunes of their's.

Also don't feel the need to add a compressor to a channel just for the hell of it. If there's lots of variation in volume, then fair enough its ok to add one. But if a track has a steady volume for all notes then you may not need compression.

Although some parallel compression can add some nice beef and grittyness to a channel

>>563464679
i love adventure club but hate how their songs are mastered. everything is so flat

>>563463836
>>563464106

I just wanted to point that, and used caps to get attention. I do support people to record audio even without a treated room, because they'll get the experience and will improve their recording skills much more. I don't crucify Midi, but i think there's a limit to it, like, if i can record the audio, then i will record the audio, the Midi will be for the instruments that i don't have, or specifics effects, like a brass section, or actual eletronic music. :)

>>563449339

Nice wallpaper, totally grandma's attic

>>563464829
i think the only time i've ever actually added a compressor to a channel is when i sidechain, i don't see much use for it otherwise. i don't do much recording via mic though, all digital, so i guess i have more control over the volume

alright im heading off. Might lurk a bit more but for the most part im off. Heres my stuff again if anyone wants to check it out. Pce.
http://soundcloud.com/oacie-1
http://soundcloud.com/not-frank

>>563464916

Midi is good for getting ideas down and for quick editing, rather than having to play a whole section again and re-record it. Midi does take up so much processor power tho, some synths are processor intensive so its good bouncing a channel down to a wav when the editings done.

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>>563464890

Indeed, especially that tune man. Was really dissapointed with that mixing/mastering, it's so fucking distorted and flat that it gives me headaches. Though I've been going hard on compression lately due to lack of better ways to achieving "dat phat punch".

> I linked them earlier
> but fuck it, since you're into the genre
> pls give me some feedback /b/ro

Far from finished remix I started on a few hours ago:
> http://clyp.it/ru55td5f

Latest project, too compressed and still a work in progress, both of these are clips mind you:
> https://soundcloud.com/sweejit/2lax/s-ruXWn [Embed]

Also, I love their remix on To A Friend by Alexisonfire, so melodic and nice.

>>563464916
I feel you on that one.... I wish I had a full brass section and could record it. It's a lot of fun to record my huge drum kit with 12 mics and then deal with all the mixing, phasing etc.... (eyeroll) lol. I'm sure if more people knew what went into learning this craft and recording live audio, they'd never get into it.

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fuckin plebs

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https://soundcloud.com/jtxn1cb/moombahton-wip-1/s-qmB01

Remaking an old track for an upcoming EP. This is just the first WIP.

Old version can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/mid-tempo/really-by-jtx

>>563465315
i'm glad you mentioned their AOF mix, probably my favorite by them, youth remix coming a close second. will check once i grab my good headphones

I use fl studio on a laptop with some headphones. I have ableton and a midi keyboard but I don't use them. Also I don't use any other packs or plugins other than what comes with fl.
It makes me laugh when people who invest nearly thousands into hardware a payed packs/plugins make utter shit.

>>563463864

One thing you may want to consider is using a compressor like Camel Crusher (free) on the guitar track to help it sit properly in the mix if you're having trouble cutting that sharp high end. A little compression on a snare or guitar can help it sit better and CamelCrusher also has additional distortion/coloration options built in.

>>563465592
something is bugging me about the vocal mix, not enough low maybe, i would also add reverb but that's just me. production is nice though, really like how the lows are mixed

>>563465592

Cheers mate, yeah their youth remix is pretty damn good, got a soft spot for their Krewella collab too (rise and fall).

>>563465805
>>563465315
oops

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my microphone stand. i dare you to post a better one
>PROTIP: you can't

>>563465805
by not low enough i mean not enough low end, not volume-wise

>>563465851
haven't really heard much of them overall (adventure club, not krewella, own their album on disc). EDM is a relatively new genre to me and i've more been a fan of the deep house stuff coming out recently. klangkarussell, freddy verano, etc. most of my influence comes from downtempo though, bonobo, emancipator, breezewax et al.

>>563465376
Oh, I forgot to say--any ideas on what I should do for the drop on the new version? I wanted to do something less... electronic sounding.

>>563465805
>>563465908

Thanks man, yeah I'll try to add some fat to the vocals, I've got some reverb on there but it's prob ably hard to make it out due to the low bit-rate stream. Also, the main problem I'm having with the vocals is to get them quantized, I just never seem to get it right.

>>563466160

Oh I see, I don't really like Krewella though. Bonobo and emancipator are fucking great though, reminds me of Nujabes's stuff. I dig deep house, but I don't really know too many artists. I pretty much just listen to SubSoul compilations and deephouse web-radio.

>>563466160
Sadistik?

>>563466467

Getting vocals quantized properly is a ball-ache. I did a remix for my mates band and it took ages to get then right, but luckily I got some input from them on where the vocals needed correcting

http://soundcloud.com/transient-motion/believe-me-transient-motion

>>563466467
i really liked how they came out over the beat, was just the levels that were off to me. yeah the bitrate could be the problem too, i don't fuck with anything under 320kbps when posting mp3s but obviously bandcamp encodes a lil differently than i do. yeah nujabes is also great. if you haven't heard much of the newer style of EDM/deep house, check out sonnentanz by klangkarussell, freddy verano, felix jaehn, and a couple others i can't think of right now. real similar to electro swing beat-wise now that i think about it

>>563466618
i looooove sadistik, own his entire discography on disc including ultraviolet. one of my favorite modern MCs, especially with the last two he's put out