Got an ARC ON ear while it's on sale. It's a little pricey for what it does but it is convenient. Nice to not have any extra CPU load from correction/emulation because it's all on separate hardware.

i'm not sure why, but it seems some music I produced is getting a niche in nusantara

The biggest change of my mind that made music more enjoyable was not being a mix perfectionist. I’m a musician first, engineer second, so I know I’m not that great in the second department.
I’d spend months on a song only to have a subpar mix and never move on. At this point I just stylistically do the best I can do and move on and I think that’s a faster way to improve.
So my question for you guys : can a mediocre mix ruin a good song? Are mixing engineers the true kings of music production?

>>130425819
the mix in the strictest sense of the word only sets the ceiling of quality/enjoyability.
yes, *the worst* possible mix can ruin a song, of course. a great (and aesthetically appropriate) mix will bring out the best in it.

as soon as you start blurring the line of production vs mixing it’s a different question.

>>130425819
A bad mix can ruin a good song but a good mix can't save a bad song. It doesn't have to be super complicated, though. Just find a bus routing setup that works for your style and then massage everything closer to a fletcher munson curve.

>>130426018
Speaking of aesthetically appropriate, I find that amateurs can put out those type of mixes, but not scenically sound mixes.

There’s tons of great songs where there frequency balance sucks, mediocre low end mixing, etc, but interesting vocal mixing and arrangement happen.

If youre a budding artist, I think aesthetically appropriate mixes are primary over technically sound mixes. Of course, you can improve both at the same time.

>>130426144
completely agree.

that ties into what people mean when they talk about having a "good" ear, or talent.
imo it's really just the result of having good taste, which is something that can be attempted to be discussed or understood, but can't really be taught.

my new track is so fucking good what the fuck

i'm trying vocals but i'm so bad, old folk song

https://vocaroo.com/1lwVuPMjr3OS

>>130427292
can't hear shit, cap'n
your guitar occupies the same frequencies as your voice. no beuno.

when does compression go too far? ive been re-evaluating my mixing and mastering process and ill use try to even out (a vocal take, for example) within a few db of each other, then light compression and then something to catch the peaks. i think reacomp and then fabfilter pro l or loudmax depending on the application is what i use.

>>130428763
> within a few db of each other
this makes me think you’re fucking up
real pros edit that gain manually, or use the waves thing if they’re a lazy old head.
*then* do your peak control with a limiter. or none at all and then do that on a buss down the line so your vocal ducks other instruments at that limiter (again, like the pros).

ime still most people far overestimate what counts as “too much” compression.

>>130423743

My new song

https://vocaroo.com/14TWOkpyky6B

https://vocaroo.com/1iy9NfAq55YU
making a rap/trap cover of this https://youtu.be/tOzOD-82mW0?si=PWgfT4oxYttNyU01 (not mixed)

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qtgoth hit me up last night and then never responded i'm despondent.,,,,,,

https://vocaroo.com/1desAWFTe63E

fm8/massive but not like that THOUGH

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https://vocaroo.com/1hwAvCZjP3Ds

What think? Also, the choir is a sample that I chopped up because I didn't feel like buying a choir plugin and I couldn't find a quality free one.

I've gone as far as I can go on my own, gonna have to look up tutorials. From Vital, to Serum 2, to Massive, I couldn't figure out how to make sounds like the ones I love listening to. It may as well be magic to me at this stage.

>>130430497
Download live sets of songs you like and see how they work.
>>130429634
Everything's a bit too quiet innit. Just make it sound like a Mick Gordon track in terms of space and it's good.
>>130429246
What exactly did fm8 do for you that massive could not? Just curious.

repostan

>heard alor on danse
>decide to make a dnb remix

so far i got this
not too d'accord with the sub bass line

https://voca.ro/191fzgwh1v1B

>>130431029
Any tips on how to make it sound more Mick Gordon-y in terms of space and on how to make it sound less quiet? The whole thing peaks at about -0.29 db, so I don't have a lot to work with.

https://vocaroo.com/1djJHJ94UgSq

>>130432408
yuh, yuh
finna suck my dick
finna suck my dick
Got a fag on my dih
her name's op
and she's
finna suck my dick
finna suck my dick
I'm not gay
but OP's a fag
and she's fuckin'
finna suck my dick
finna suck my dick
Maybe I'm gay
But so is OP
And I'm finna

It's good.

>>130432598
>yuh, yuh
>finna suck my dick
>finna suck my dick
>Got a fag on my dih
>her name's op
>and she's
>finna suck my dick
>finna suck my dick
>I'm not gay
>but OP's a fag
>and she's fuckin'
>finna suck my dick
>finna suck my dick
>Maybe I'm gay
>But so is OP
>And I'm finna
https://voca.ro/15chQnkOV013

>>130433518
Bixed my nood to this.

>>130428763
I use compression in an incremental way, never 100% wet, like on 1 track it might be 50% wet, on another 40% wet, then on the master it might be 25% wet or whatever. Never go full WET, that's my suggestion as someone who's never released music

>>130434765
cringe

>>130431029
>What exactly did fm8 do for you that massive could not? Just curious.
in this song it's FM from multiple oscillators, so that mainly.
that main sound is a couple layers but one thing that makes it that generally gets overlooked ime is the noisiness added by the "digital" parameter- when most people are making dubstep or any bass sound with similar techniques they'll typically reach for ableton's erosion or a ring mod (kilohearts especially) to get that part of the sound, but what digital adds is specific to fm8.

>>130429246
Absolute seggs.

I want to buy a rack multieffects unit as my first piece of hardware because doing everything with plugins is getting boring to me. What are some decent options in the sub $1k range? I'm into 90s electronic music so I was thinking Midiverb II, Quadraverb, or saving up for Ensoniq DP/4.

>>130437271
just get a zoom pedal lel

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I need someone smarter than me to help. Been teaching myself Massive X, and I ended up with something I sorta like in the vein of hardcore techno, but I want to give it an initial oomf or thwack when playing a note. Or is what I'm after a distorted kick drum that would play with the synth? I know nothing about how edm songs are made. Here it is as a download:

https://mega.nz/file/fZsVWLIK#v2NcrjPvO48LLJ9WqO0JyXwMLtzGbHGJTJbtzjLMoNM

Feel free to turn off the Flanger; I'm not sold on it.

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>>130437991
Sorry, I don't have Massive X to test this, but try putting an envelope on the pitch (either one or both of these idk)

>>130437991
no clue what you're intending with these parameters.
after messing with a it a couple minutes i do hear a noisey mid-bass type sound but hm

pitch envelope is an option as the other anon said, as is using a transient or whatever from the noise section (i'd reccomend routing that in parallel and then distorting/compressing together in the xyz section etc and then maybe separating reverb.
separate sub heavy kick is definitely more typical though.

i adore massive x but *for me* it's way too finicky to just raw dog stuff with transients like that; i avoid it for percussion in general honestly unless it's just straight noise/filter stuff.
particularly for techno you resample resample, unless it's that raw morphy stuff you're into

>>130438013
Before
https://voca.ro/15EsLIiy3ZfK
After
https://voca.ro/19VsplRQLiAN

Although it's kind of cheating because I turned off the Flanger. It's definitely closer, ty for the idea. Still plenty of mucking around to do.
>>130438168
>no clue what you're intending with these parameters.
I'm completely novitiate but I do know what I want, it's just forcing the synth to get there that's hard. I've been to a few 190bpm hardcore shows and I want to make a noisy bass sound that would play in time with the kick drum. I don't know if that's called a stab or not.
https://vocaroo.com/1kwXAeO6xJFu
^Same settings as the second vocaroo above, played at a higher pitch. I'll take your advice into account but won't report back unless I can make it work. Not a reflection on you.

>i adore massive x but *for me* it's way too finicky to just raw dog stuff with transients like that; i avoid it for percussion in general honestly unless it's just straight noise/filter stuff.
It's mostly sunk cost fallacy. I got Massive X without knowing its abysmal reputation among the greater edm community. But I imagine it's not tooooo dissimilar on a base level from the popular Vital and Serum 2. I'm chaining myself to Massive X until I can make a few decent songs with it, because if I can do that, then other synths should be incredible.

>particularly for techno you resample resample, unless it's that raw morphy stuff you're into
True. For instance the kick drum in that vocaroo is from a generator run through Reason 14's Scream 4 Distortion. I've got nothing against sampling and resampling I just want to know what I can do from scratch, but maybe I'll get bored of this and finally just take the preset plunge for good.

>>130438476
hHomework uses no original sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVsJRzJTnx4
the preset or sampling argument died in 1997. do whatever you want.

>>130438476
> abysmal reputation among the greater edm community
1000% a skill issue on their part.
hands down the biggest complains were about “visual feedback” and no custom wavetables.

>sample and resample
to clarify, i meant “sampling” from whatever you make with massive x, so from scratch, just more controlled.

>>130438565
I was huuuuuuge into Homework last year. I'd never heard it before but had Discovery since I was a kid. Head and shoulders I prefer Homework, incredible album. I knew about that video and others showing the samples, but I did forget. Ty. As long as it sounds good who cares.
>>130438604
I did notice no custom wavetables but being so new to this I'm not sure what that'd do for me anyway.
>to clarify, i meant “sampling” from whatever you make with massive x, so from scratch, just more controlled.
Oh true. I can become the preset.

Also, what do you use for percussion out of curiosity. I'd love to be able to reliably create Walker & Royce kicks. Fucking love those guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C36kV528QaA

>>130438684
>what do you use for percussion
i rarely synthesize basic kick/snare/clap/hats myself, but when i do it's almost always vital.
for standard sounds it's really just preference, but i opt for vital because once you have a standard patch it's very quick to get something much weirer with the oscillator warp section etc.
being able to accurately tune your filters instantly (you would think this is a common feature but it's not for... reasons. filter types or whatever boring technical stuff probably).
replicability is very important to me because autism, and vital excels at that.

... but yeah just use what's comfortable.
there's a series of sound on sound articles about how the roland tr-808(?) drums are synthesized that i would highly recommend for starting if you want to know like, how those cymbals were synthesized etc.
very foundational stuff that's applicable outside of drum synthesis once you get into the real shit.

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What you working on /prod/?

Right now I'm trying to ID this loop or style from a Yamaha piano that I think is from the mid 90s to mid 2000s.
https://voca.ro/1eKT5nly34u1

I know its some type of intro beat, and its from that era because this recording comes from a cassette I have. Ive scoured YouTube trying to find it, do any pianochads recognize it? Even the style it's called would help.

I also finished reorganizing my music folder which took several hours so I got that going for me...

SP-404 MkII

https://vocaroo.com/1hEtSSOMTwtb
thoughts. not mixed yet

>>130440027
I did some ambient I'm too lazy to record for vocaroo just now. Ambient is so easy to make but I don't see people doing it the way I do, which is just holding down notes for 20 minutes at a time. It's so fun.
>>130440479
Video game bar music where you're a detective in the future investigating an AI murder spree and there's this beautiful dame barmaid who's had it rough her whole life but never let that stop her vanity so she looks incredible and has her guard up but if you play your cards right she'll give you the information you need about a sleazeball snooping around about the murders and maybe flirt with you.

https://vocaroo.com/146WQaM3k3c3

i like kids

>>130435415
why

how do i break it to my brother having a midlife crisis that his reaper production and songwriting skills suck? i want to help him but he said he "doesn't want to worry about music theory" but none of his tracks are even in the same key, which i have no idea how he can't hear that

>>130442087
also he wants to quit his job for this

>>130442087
>>130442099
Let him ruin his life for the sake of his art like the rest of us.

When a prod trans Lain thread is more active than this general you know this board is dead. Not that I care

>>130442280
>more active than this general
It's not, you fucking tard, that thread is 10 days old. We have been through a 300+ post general in the time that one thread has got to 80.

>>130442416
Yeah with half being a retard spamming John Mayer glazing

Shut the fuck up

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https://vocaroo.com/1hLqnYK0yNnW
house-style beat i whipped up with some po-12 drums

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>>130437991
For an initial oomf or whoosh, I started with adding quick envelopes on the noises pitch and volume in your patch
fyi Massive X has some weird default routing, noise 1 being before the filter and noise 2 being after, so I changed it to have everything before the filter
and also those noise channels are samplers btw and you can use custom samples if you just want to throw a hardcore kick in there

Drastic initial movement is probably what you feel is missing, play around with the Performer 3 shape to your liking, you can try adding it or the E3 envelope to any of the pitches too like the other anons said


https://mega.nz/file/0UwhmJZR#X_Hv8KjVVkT8oajvt3Fj6_YiQS-KVoWMnitKqupirCM

https://voca.ro/1fGxOIg6GIev

what is this song good for?

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Being a hardware virgin, I find it rather hard to fathom that a device with such a tiny display can be 'intuitive'.

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>>130446172
Imagine.

>>130441554
>Video game bar music where you're a detective in the future investigating an AI murder spree and there's this beautiful dame barmaid who's had it rough her whole life but never let that stop her vanity so she looks incredible and has her guard up but if you play your cards right she'll give you the information you need about a sleazeball snooping around about the murders and maybe flirt with you.
that's oddly specific

>>130446853
That’s like that final fantasy VII midgard detective game that did not get made
>>130446361
That has the looks of a formidable step sequencer

>>130444077
Damn that's really fucking cool.

I can't decide on a DAW
I like Rock music and want to make stuff within that circle (funk, rock-pop, etc)
I'd like to record what I can through a mic for my guitar and put it into the DAW and be able to work off there but I also would like samples for things like bass, drums, strings, whatever.
I'd like to do Logic but I don't have a mac & I've heard studio one is the closest Windows alternative to Logic, are they that much different?
So, I either get a minimac for logic or get studio one.

>>130448397
Trent Reznor and St. Vincent run their live shows through Ableton Live. Make of that what you will.

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wtf why'd i have to find out from ai that live 12 has a drum sampler doodad you can use within rack. sick.

>>130448510
is this not just simpler with an effect section?

god i hate everything about live 12 so fucking much except like 5 things fuck ableton

>>130448612
t. bitwig user. one day you'll sit at the big boy table

im sick of trying to gain stage my fucking instruments all the time. its like i can never find a good template to begin with. i want a template i can just hit record immediately as i open the file with no problems with how the drums and guitar sound with each other but for some reason, it's always an issue. i cant look at gain staging videos anymore, its fucking exhausting finding the same answers over and over and it still doesn't satisfy me. all youtube tutorials on music production are ads for shitty plugins by small bankrupt companies sponsoring balding men who wear hats inside.

>>130448750
>earlet begging a “template” to accomplish the most basic production task making fun of other people
stop being a miserable fag and git gud

>>130448676
no i actually want to make music

>>130448780
im not miserable, but capitalism turns every hobby into an oiled cog of exploitation. this is obvious through the absolute state of music production online and how it is delivered to enthusiasts

>>130448855
you are not wrong but it has nothing to do with your problem and isn’t specific to hobbies at all.

>>130448873
>it has nothing to do with your problem and isn’t specific to hobbies at all
it has everything to do with my problem because im retarded and easily exploited
not specific to hobbies but hobbies are cashcows and therefore a ripe fruit for exploitation

>>130448908
it’s about the material conditions and i’m being 1000% serious.

literally just get off the internet and practice yourself.
stop listening to sloptubers

>>130448750
I’m surprised there isn’t some sort of signal processing modus operandi for compression and transition through different ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ signals in signal processing during gain stages or something like that

>>130449348
in english doc

>>130449348
there is and it’s why so many compressors start you off with the same-ish moderate settings and the same range of time.

the problem is ANONS ITT not using their ears and needlessly slapping on processing to be “right” and wanting there to be an easy to learn paint by numbers approach because “too hard :’(“

there are too many factors and moving parts to say “just do X” and not have it be wrong like 70+% of the time it’s just a ridiculous ask.

>>130449399
get out of my thread

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>>130449466
our thread

>>130449473
i want to roll with this but i don’t want to invite people taking MY presets and MY sound designs.
therefore i will hoard the sounds and actively prevent other people from getting their own while running a disinformation campaign and infesting all of the internet to psyop people into working for me and tell others that all of this is actually good and only *I* deserve the sounds.

>>130449492
good this proves my paranoid delusions

>>130449492
Hey kid, save some sounds for tha rest uv us wouldja? I'm tryna make music ova heah

hard pan or only 80%?

>>130449793
>80%
literally what is the point

>>130449832
to eliminate phasing

>>130449844
explain how it would do that

>>130449881
you're right, i don't know, but whenever i analyse the correlation of my track and lessen the panning on my instruments, the correlation always restores to +1

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day 4,166 of trying to rip off oceansize and mike vennart
https://vocaroo.com/1hGLtioWHEQq

Could I get any feedback on this please? It's my WIP for the /dmp/ movie music album: a trance cover of the LOTR Rohan theme.
https://voca.ro/19fbYw1H1TFW
An anon in a previous thread said I had some issues with the bass mixing, which I think I fixed in this version, but now I'm not sure if it's doing too much and might need to be simpler. Also, I know I need to finish the ending, the crash needs work, and it needs more drum variation. I'm also not really happy with the kick.
But: any thoughts on the leads? Does it get too dense? How's the arrangement? I'm pretty happy with how the breakdown is turning out...
It's due this Sunday so I'm running out of time...

>>130449889
what matters more than the meters and what you should actually care about is how it sums to mono.
what you’re after regarding “mono comparability” or phase cohesion is maintaining balance in the spectrum/arrangement in all situations.
i.e you don’t want to suddenly have all your hard panned rhythm guitars suddenly sound 9 db lower and throw off the balance relative to a dead center lead, your reverb doesn’t just disappear from a snare or your vocals don’t disappear because half of the volume was from a goofy as widening plugin etc.

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>>130449935
cringe i forgot to adjust the limiter
https://vocaroo.com/1md2ipZn3WZC

>>130449399
In english doc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgoTwu9AWGs&pp=0gcJCTkCo7VqN5tD&ra
>>130449457
Yeah but all that would already have meant are things like having an idea of what stage or sequences of the signal ensemble to add compression to that sequence or something like that

>>130450194
>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgoTwu9AWGs&pp=0gcJCTkCo7VqN5tD&ra [Embed]
wtf im not talking about parallel processing

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https://vocaroo.com/1nUUURJ1YIq2
stoner thing/tool rip off

>>130446172
i spent alot of time using the SP404 original. its an amazing sampler even if it doesnt have a proper screen to view waveforms on n such. i felt like it was quite intuitive, but not as much as say an MPC

>>130451796
silence hardware kiddie

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>>130444145
Damn, big thanks for the routing clarification. Wasn't aware I could manipulate it to that degree.
>and also those noise channels are samplers btw and you can use custom samples if you just want to throw a hardcore kick in there
That is a fantastic fucking bit of info, but upon loading a kick they end up really quiet. Though maybe that just requires more tinkering on my part. Still, that's great to know.
>Performer
Holy shit this is really cool. I really, really wasn't sure how it worked, but after seeing your image there it clicked for me. Thanks a bunch.
https://voca.ro/1hfjWnBWWUHR
>attaching Performer 3 or E3 to the pitches
I honestly drew a blank and wasn't sure how to do that until right now, as I'm writing this post. I used Reason's Neptune Pitch Adjuster so it all worked out, but fucking with E3 post-that recording, this is really fucking cool, too. It even adds more spice to the kick added in the noise dial since you added E3 to that. Cheers man.

>>130451766
You did all that yourself? I have a few ideas for band arrangements so I could pass them around to show bands in my local scene I ain't just an ideas guy. Are you using real drums or a VST? If the latter, which?

>>130451766
Also you'll dig this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvKRlBlzzGU

>>130451966
yeah just a couple of guitar tracks, no bass yet because im using a virtual bass at the moment and i cant improv on the keyboard like i can on an actual bass guitar
using groove agent SE, comes with cubase

>>130451972
not bad. is this your project?

>>130452029
Shit no, that'd be sick. Just an album I found like 10 years ago when I got into krautrock.
>groove agent SE
Much appreciated m8.

>>130452035
no worries lad

so glad i haven’t released any of my best songs from the past couple years
now i can add more details, ear candy, and 3db eq changes on only 5-10 seconds total that only i will ever notice, due to my astute producer ears.

>>130452497
>He didn't purchase Astute Producer Ears 2025 from Unison when it was on sale
Shiggy diggy

What percussion instrument is this? I hear it in so many songs
https://vocaroo.com/13WICbcsFDCy

took a blow to the head and now my hearing is fucked up...

Holy shit, a new "Needs to Feel" remix, never expected that.
https://youtu.be/RM3bkJPWyPQ
I once got laid with the original mix playing in the background
https://youtu.be/FMe-uRanLrs

>>130457559
Trance is stuck in 2008.

that’s why i only listen to nu zoomer hex sex trance, industrial/breakcore crossovers, and hypertrance / whatever you call virtual self

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>>130457689
And that's a good thing!

>>130458080
No, it should 1996 instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt_GsvSP3nI

i think this abstract ambient collage bullshit should be in 5/4 actually

i vowed never to go there. prime numbered meters annoy me. they literally ruined dark side of the moon.
deeply upsetting.

>>130458097
90s trance is fun, but honestly my favorite tracks are mostly between 2007-2011.

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>Oooo a tutorial
>Oooo another tutorial
HELP

>>130458806
just turn it off and open your daw

https://voca.ro/19A5ZuNtS95N

this song is very peaceful and happy to me i made it and it was pretty fun im ngl so yurp u can hear it if u wanna made all in fl studio no instruments

>>130458904
>no instruments
fyi a DAW is an instrument

>>130458806
just start twisting virtual knobs and see what happens

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https://vocaroo.com/1fcYrVUdxEa7
experimenting with some slushy sounds

Can somebody please help me understand keys are, and what a mode is? I cannot seem to hear and am beginning to think I am tone deaf.

https://vocaroo.com/1oDJeqef0qWT

no one ever talks about Zenology

>>130459374
https://vocaroo.com/1h73HmBzHJ6Q

>>130459490
ooh i like how that phaser sounds! though its a little too aggressive, some of the drums and details are muddying out, but i really like the direction this is going in

>>130423743
Still have the original

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currently in Reaper hell fixing a midi piano performance without a click to a drum grid. everything is off a little bit. getting super frustrated, only have a demo track for reference. nothing crazy 4/4. quantize or tempo map? anyone have experience with reaper on either, its complicated by having a split left and right piano (right should be a plucky acoustic guitar and left a bouncy finger style bass) but i think i can figure that out myself

>>130459046
ohh thank you for clarifying u rite

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I am so fucking fed up with not understanding chords (and in turn music theory itself). This shit just doesn't click for me. I get what constitutes a chord, like what a maj/min/dim/sus chord is, but in terms of like how people build songs and how someone goes from c major to build something. I just don't get how to train to learn it. Studying songs does not help someone who does not know what to study from it. Example, this song has x chord progression. Okay... so do I just copy and it and expect to learn something? I know I sound like a whiny faggot but I just DON'T GET HOW TO NATURALLY LEARN THIS.

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this quantize shit isnt fucking working i have to do it by hand ahhhhhh

>>130459824
the aim of study to:
>have a reference that contextualizes theory, and tells you how a sound or feeling is achieved
>build up your conscious knowledge so you can actually analyze *why* something sounds good or bad
>”develop” your ear (subconscious) and attune it to your taste

if you’re struggling this much, copy something (download midi if you have to) and deviate in the absolute smallest ways.
e.g play those exact chords with the same rhythm but to a different rhythm.
play it all the same but on a different beat.
if you’re feeling crazy: switch a chord for a different chord in the scale.
take note of if it sounds good, the same, or worse and think about why- are things clashing, does the tension disappear or get to be too much?
so on

Is there any spec or brand to be wary of when it comes to TRS 1/4" to TRS 1/4" cables for synths, or should I just buy a chill $10 2-pack on Amazon? I need a two balanced cables for my synth's L/R channels.

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https://vocaroo.com/11WcpgKB5WMC
trying to rip off karnivool after i was disappointed with their last album

whats a decent long scale 7 string guitar? i think from now on im just gonna be playing in baritone registers. i tried G the other night and it's not bad, but my jazzmaster doesn't really suit these registers. she's in drop C at the moment. while im at it, what would be a decent 5 string guitar for this baritone registers? something with lots of clarity.

>>130460259
quite a while ago i bought some live wire cables off amazon after using them consistently as a guitarists.
when they came in they were noticeably much to thinner than i knew them to be after always buying in person- don’t realize for a while that they may have been counterfeits that just got dumped in the same bin with the legit ones (or maybe that company went down the shitter idk).
still work great. my one lone megami cable (much more expensive) is the only one that has started giving me noise.

there is no moral to the story.

>>130460305
how did you know your jazz master is a girl?
all of my guitars are boys except the stat. maybe it’s just a fender thing, but it’s also the only american. my jazz bass *says* its a boy but the flaboyant sparkly blue says otherwise.

unironically this is probably a question for reddit though

>>130460360
I fucked her vagina once

>>130460338
Alright, fuck it, I'll just buy a cheap $10 2-pack. Hopefully they're not shit; Thanks, anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KgyMNoN1a8
what would you use to replicate the sound at the start of this?

>>130461541
granular synth

How do I know if I'm a Maschine type of gal?

>>130462256
if you could push a button and it happened instantly with no negative effects and nobody would remember you using an mpc, would you?

>>130462321
>using an mpc
..what?

>>130462467
Get whatever one you can afford, MPC or Maschine, develop a workflow, see if the other has what you need.

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>>130457907
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZtbfK9eQw

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https://voca.ro/1epcDcfPusht
The clipping on the synth is intentional but I bet clubgoers would hate it. Sigh.

>>130459399
A key describes the center of and tone. A song can be in the key of Gm, but it does not have to only adhere to notes in the scale of Gm. It can go elsewhere, as long as it brings it on home to Gm.

A mode is a variation on a scale with a new home. F Lydian is a mode of Cmaj because both scales use the exact same notes and chords, but F is now the note / chord you return home to. Plus, the new placement of B on F Lydian relative to Cmaj, is what gives F Lydian its signature sound relative to both F major and Cmajor because chord progressions and etc.

>>130464029
>Plus, the new placement of B on F Lydian relative to Cmaj, is what gives F Lydian its signature sound relative to both F major and Cmajor because chord progressions and etc.
Fuck I'm tired and fucked up. It's not just the new placement of B relative to Cmaj, but also relative to F that gives it the different sound. F is

F G A Bb B C D E
(or if you like sharps)
F G A A# B C D E

F Lydian has a sharp of its 4th (#4), making it
F G A B C D E

which, again, is same notes and thus chords in Cmaj. But you don't say F Lydian is a mode of F major, because it isn't. They use different notes.

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How can I make this bsound better? Minus the clipping at the end.

https://voca.ro/11bAKT0kI1OX

>>130460305
Unironically look into metal guitar manufacturers like LTD, Schecter, Ibanez, etc. They build gigalong necks far more often than boomer brands, and they're quality. You also pay less for "Muh name, muh soul, muh feeeeeeeel, brudder"

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https://vocaroo.com/1IFWPRLFGa2w
hi guys
im back at it
any comments welcome

>>130464803
Pay someone to get it mastered properly for you if you can't do it yourself.

>>130465090
>any comments welcome
something about the low end hurts my ears and overall it feels a little imbalanced on the panning, a bit too right-side heavy.

i think im gonna delete my master chains and everything

i bought some adam audio t5s to learn how to master but i cant for the life of me get things right

my third side of tape (everything goes) project has been conceived

pregnancy pains imminent

transcribe more songs remake more sounds
:thumbs_up:

How do I recreate this kick?
https://youtu.be/pYqvhlZC6_c
(it eases in, at 30 seconds it settles on the sound I want)

this started as a trap ting quickie back grind xd

https://vocaroo.com/1g3yr3WjWxoN

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I HATE FIXING MIDI I HATE FIXING MIDI

How's the mix
https://vocaroo.com/17aqPfFjlaln

brb starting my trap remake youtube channel *glug glug*

https://vocaroo.com/1okwRsiT9CLb

>>130471971
what about your soundcloud?
last track uploaded was 4 years ago :(
...but my p6 is still in the unopened box, so I can't complain

>>130472354
idk i forgot it existed desu.
currently working on a collab and working up the nerve to ask somebody for art for the first couple youtube uploads and snagged the bandcamp pages for a couple other projects i have pre-planned and idk when im going to upload the two projects i have finished it’s all going to happen at once probably then maybe there will be more of a reason to actually use soundcloud

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>>130472586
>idk i forgot it existed desu.
:(
picrelated is the only track I ever uploaded. lol
once I remember my password, I'll be sure to follow you.
good to see you're making moves though. I bet you're gonna blow up right quick.

>>130472617
>14 years
._.
i’m already huge on /prod/

>>130472652
my good ol college days. back when I had free time.
>i’m already huge on /prod/
I know, senpai. I know.

Lad finally made his reference track program for Windows.
https://www.reffrey.com/

>>130463913
why is the clipping intentional? sounds like shit

>>130473590
I used to make a ton of noise, noise ambient, harsh noise, etc. and I like clipping. Don't mistake me, I've been out enough to know clipping would sound awful on even the dingiest warehouse club speakers.

>>130473775
then why aren't you working within your genre? it clearly isn't noise music. or is it some attempt at a hybrid of styles and elements? obviously im just a random anon, take my opinion with a grain of salt because the rest of the mix sounds quite pleasant, but sometimes setting up some constraints can help projects flourish.

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>fixed gain staging on guitar
>ran the guitar bus compressor too hot
>sounds amazing

i need somebody to listen to about 3-5 hours of material and help me narrow it down by about half, stem it out, and do rough mixes.

this position is unpaid and you will receive no credit for your hard work.

>>130474243
Where do I sign up

>>130473988
Ah I wasn't clear. I'm learning how to make edm because I've been to a couple hundred shows in the last two years (thank fuck I live in LA) and have a new appreciation and fixation on edm. The people, the warehouses, the clubs, it's all pretty great and I'd love to contribute musically, DJ someday too.
>the rest of the mix sounds quite pleasant
Hey thanks. Don't get me wrong, like I said clipping would no doubt sound awful on gig speakers, so I'll be cleaning it up but on a personal level I enjoy the clipping sound. I do appreciate the henpecking people don't learn otherwise.

>>130430497
Just ask ChatGPT:

Make artist name song synth in your daw

>>130448397
Use Tape16 and instrument plug ins so you avoid the grid and click track

>>130448510
You can add effects to each drum too

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>>130459824
You need to look at the key of a song. Chords in isolation don't mean a lot. 1 is the home key that feels like the centre of a piece. Look into it.

>>130462256
Kimbra uses an SP404 Mikita and some say she's a girl

>>130475605
Is it really that easy? Brb.

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>>130475733
Sp404 Mk ii

>>130475763
>Shrine of Amana

>>130475733
https://youtu.be/Tg-Q-Acv4qs?si=SByNQGbqMRamSFx7

>>130465431
hey
thanks for the listen
i dont know why i haven't fixed those problems before, they are very apparent and obvious
https://vocaroo.com/1i3TeWgwgWg0
should be better now, the mix breathes more now

I really hate plugins with those fucking pulsating metallic blobs, crystals shifting around and this kind of shit

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Has there been literally any innovation in musical instruments the 90s? I can't think of any piece of hardware that really changed the landscape of music since the explosion of ROMplers. Musicians back then got to live through the release of the RE-201, OB-8, Wavestation, H3000, and this is just scratching the surface. What do we get now? The OP-1? It's so uninspiring

>>130476365
Make no mistake that's purely a means to sell to people. Don't fall for it.

>>130476546
don't care as long as good shit is made.

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>>130476267
>should be better now, the mix breathes more now
I don't hear a substantial enough difference in my headphones.
>>130476365
>pulsating metallic blobs, crystals shifting around
Like what? Pic related is the only plug-in I've got with some kind of attempted GUI theme that isn't just bog standard faders and dials. Not sure it animates or anything, though.

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>>130476679
>Like what? Pic related is the only plug-in I've got with some kind of attempted GUI theme that isn't just bog standard faders and dials. Not sure it animates or anything, though.
They're out there in pretty large number. Though Baby Audio made Granulator so they get a pass in my book.

>>130471883
Uhh, anyone?

>>130477197
Needs a lot of work. Way too loud and a bit messy. The dynamics are bit off because of those rumbling low end chord stabs dominating everything - I think they are poor sound design/choice.

>>130478875
Thank you for the feedback. How is it now?
>reduced high-end of bass synth by 6db
>muted one synth
>narrowed pad reverb
>reduced pno reverb
>replaced kick
https://vocaroo.com/1izKsIs0ufk5

Any general advice for mixing low end? I’ve been getting better at mixing but it feels like 75% of my struggle of getting a great loud and clean mix is the kick and bass

>>130480690
make sure they’re not playing the exact same frequency and both have some upper harmonics that make the audible.
reference reference reference

>>130480690
Why is the low end the brick wall for most Amateur musicians and engineers?

do you like my bass riff i think it's pretty swag i really like those minor 2 tiings

https://vocaroo.com/1n1iiaydqWik

>>130480690
You think about sidechaining but also think about the timing of each element. Often the kick is too long time-wise so shorten it.

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>produce mostly synth-based music for years
>tastes gradually start shifting to pop-rock
>want to include more guitars in my tracks
>realise that the "guitar scene" is an entire separate thing in and of itself
>10 billion different guitar types, and various models within each type for different sounds
>10 billion different amps as well
>completely overwhelmed and clueless on what to pick or even look for
what's a good way to get a grasp of the basics here?
my naïve retard self thought that just about any "electric guitar" kontakt library paired with some amp sim would do the trick but i can't get it sounding the way i want
i'd like to try and get some understanding of it all so i know what to look for in future but not sure where to start
any tips would be very much appreciated

>>130483722
5150

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>>130483722
There is no shortcut. You're probably gonna wanna learn guitar and immerse yourself in it if you're serious about making guitar music. As far as gear goes, just research what some of your favorite artists use as a starting point.

>>130483722
look at equipboard for the guitarists of your favorite bands, and youtube “X tone tutorial” or look it up on reddit (so on).

i don’t fuck with sample libraries like that so i’m biased, but i echo the need to learn guitar yourself, unless you specifically want a video-game-y ost like “rock inspired” sound.

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>>130459542
ok ive made significant progress. i ended up just doing the correctly manually and once i realized the pattern of notes, i was able to figure it out pretty quickly. theres a few areas that are a complete mess (perhaps where the player got lost) but i have another take that i can analyze to see what was supposed to happen. currently downloading some upright bass vst I really want this bass to pop and pianoteq was not doing it on the bass side

Any advice on this WIP?
https://vocaroo.com/12ExHbCmMsOD

>>130485268
kick cuts through really nice on my headphones

>>130485268
this is going to sound potentially way too vague and mean but you should give more thought to where your passing notes are and what is truly necessary to play.
the key notes of what you play are solid but what you connect the dots with is not and actively detract from the idea.

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>>130483722
It seems pretty complicated but a lot of it can be broken down into simple broad concepts.
For electric guitars the pickup type matters most; humbuckers vs single coils
For amplifiers and speakers you can split them between american vs british, which tend towards clean vs high gain sounds respectively. Not always, but generally.
Get neural amp modeler and get some models and speaker IRs off of tone3000. It's all free and you'll be able to try a bunch of stuff. There's also a million youtube vids about this vs that if you just want to get an idea of what things sound like.
Most guitarist are kinda retarded and argue over things of little to no difference most of the time.

tl;dr order of importance: speaker>amp>effects>pickup type>>>>everything else

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umm so i am using ableton, i made a loop and i wanted to resample it to try fuck with it. but i noticed when i record resample the loop sounds different. it feels like it removed some of the muddiness, left the highs, couldnt capture the mid/low muddiness? i like the resampled version better i think it added more energy somehow. there is no effects on the resampled bar thing whatever you call it.
what is happening? and if i wanted to keep the integrity of the original is there a way to record and keep the integrity?

normal one
https://voca.ro/19P2dV5wRS4A

resampled
https://voca.ro/12movSAA6uN4

>>130486432
also is there a way to mimic what the resampling is doing through plugins so i have more control? cuz i kinda like what it did

>>130486432
nvm about keeping the integrity just realised i did that by recording in the other tab and exporting but that takes longer then pressing resample record lol

>>130479852
Yeah, better for sure, bit more clarity. The whole thing still feels a bit too loud to me, but whatever. Kick could do with some side-chaining if you haven't already.

>>130486432
lol i just figured it out, i got effects on the master so when i resample it doubles the effect on the master

>>130487014
would copy pasting my master effects twice be a producer sin?

>>130486749
Yes I suspected that it's still loud for you. I don't reference against dnb for instance. There is sidechaining and if I solo the bass it ducks heavily, so idk. This is why I sometimes also add volume automation to really make it clean

>>130487019
no you dork that’s normal

>>130487547
ahk i probably shouldnt even worry about that or ill turn into a npc i will go with the flow and do what sounds right to me

Weird harmony. Should I build on this?

https://voca.ro/1ip6OS3KSWyZ

>>130487960
sounds really good do it if you want. i fuck wit it

>>130487960
plagal cadences aren't weird, I was expecting something else

>>130487992
Good thanks I'll probably add some guitar and keep going

>>130487994
I'll look that up thanks. I don't really know music theory, I guess it is different from what I usually noodle on the keyboard

>>130459533
same
first CD I bought

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For anyone who makes music mostly with guitars, how do you handle things like compressors and such - do you apply stereo ones to the bus, or mono to each individual track? Thinking for rock/metal mostly, stuff that will involve palm muting rhythms and changing dynamics.

Why is ableton 700 dollars? Im losing the energy to fight it out in old renoise i have, but im afraid to pirate ableton again. Are there any good alternatives?

>>130490998
What are you doing?
Perhaps Reaper...
r2r does Ableton though, so you shouldn't fear the crack.

>>130491049
i use reaper for guitar and video but i mostly make bullshit breakcore and plunderhonics type shit. Past couple days I've just been making weird beats and playing guitar over em. I kinda care more about guitar now so i care less if im using a fancy daw. Maybe i should just learn to make beats in reaper

>>130429201
https://vocaroo.com/153fO7FhbdzF
mixed

>>130490679
ill usually do mild compression right on the track, usually with high gain stuff theres already some comp from your amp sim or whatever you're using so it doesnt need much. then ill throw on fabfilter pro-l tastefully. i hear there is a pro-l2 is is better idk 1 works fine for me. the real issue as you said is with things that palm mute because you often get this weird hum or swell in 100 or 200hz. i think i brought this up on /gg/ before and people had the same issue

>>130490679
One multiband comp in stereo bus just to tame the palm mutes. Otherwise I don't compress heavily distorted guitars

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>Ableton has stock devices to lock instruments to scales
>You can attach them to chord devices so you only ever do chords in a certain scale
>You can use macros to switch scales and switch intervals for inversions and the like
Had no idea. Time to get shit done.

>>130493711
That's needlessly complicated. Just learn your scales and chords like the back of your hand.
Simple as.

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HMU FOR BEATS

https://vocaroo.com/1WZwxyBhDYFk

>>130493827
lol wut it's not needlessly complicated to push a button to move between scales and push another button to instantly do an am inversion and back to regular am. that's three buttons total over less than a second.

>>130494114
that anons response was only half dumb

you’re adding more steps than necessary and limiting yourself by not learning to do without a crutch for some of the most basic music knowledge

>>130494143
deadmau5 used chord generators as early as 10 years ago get with the times. it's about output. do you honestly believe anybody who plays at a festival sat down and fingerfucked their native instruments keyboard until the song was good? they generate chords and arrange them ACCORDING TO MUSIC THEORY, they don't fuck around jerking themselves off that they know how to use the circle of fifths. don't be a faggot.

>>130494237
>circle of fifths
so you know nothing, clearly

the difference between those people and you is that they don’t NEED the crutch.
i’m for the tools and not against using those things, but it sounds like you’re trying to skip ahead without putting in the work to learn the basics.
nobody gives a shit if you want to cheat yourself dude, you don’t have to spazz out

>>130494308
you give a shit enough to keep jerking yourself off like a faggot. oh wowee you know that bb is the relative major of gm i'm so proud of you. homo.

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https://voca.ro/159kU7fTbqAx

Not finished yet

>>130493711
Nobody is giving you good advice so here it is. You don't need to lock instruments to a scale if you simply know what you want to work with. For that Am example anon brought up, if you know, through putting in the time, the scale of Am, the chords of it, and you also know how to build scales and build chords, and chord progressions, then you don't have to use macros. You can think in less than a second
>I'm in Am, I'm going to do i (Am), iv (D,) and v (Em), and since I'm ending on Em, and I know how to build a minor scale, I can hit a singular E note, then go to the singular note of F#, and since I know how to build chords, I'll hit F#, A, and C to make a chord
That whole process happens barely in your mind with enough practice, it's just fingers and reflexes. You might be thinking "that's a lot of fucking work". It is. But if you don't learn theory to that degree, you will never be a top tier musician or producer. There are no top musicians or producers who don't know music theory to the degree that they don't think about it. Not one. They don't sit down, open their locked scale + macros template. They open their synth template, or they hook up their hardware, and they play some chords in one scale and then the next. Sometimes not even that happens, they just eyeball it with the mouse on the piano roll. You are 10000% limiting your capacity for output if you do not learn music theory.

i can’t stop remaking skrillex help

>>130494745
remake darude

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Closer and closer to how I want to do this.
https://vocaroo.com/1Mw28aAty8xG

>>130496520
now learn how to do drops

complete beginner
i got an m-audio oxygen 49 MK-IV from a skip bin
ableton recognises all the keys and pads, as well as the octave shifter and ONE of the sliders
but the other sliders and all the knobs don't do anything

things i have tried:
free midi controller tester website tells me that the knobs work
they keyboard is selected on the ableton midi input and output track and remote settings
'auto' button on the keyboard is on

what am i missing

>>130496772
Try preferences>midi>control surface or whatever its name is>first empty row select oxygen>same row, set input and output to your oxygen 49. Turn auto on and off as needed.

>>130485602
nta but thanks i'm going to waste a whole day playing with TOANS and write nothing of substance and then not play guitar again for another 8 months xd

>>130490998
I bet you could definitely do with Live Intro which is like what 100$?

>>130496520
Nice keep at it man

>>130491137
Got a soundcloud? I'm a sucker for plunderphonics. slowerpace is genuinely one of my favorite artists ever for a mother fucker who only just applies reverb and slows down music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1bK20sEF8

>>130493990
yah

>>130494708
nice mix on the vocals its giving me asmr tingles

>>130496520
when the bass comes in at 0:28 made me lol it can work just how it comes in ur face suddenly dno no clue otherwise nice

>>130497675
maybe its just an arrangement thing to me

>>130492403
love this

>>130492403
Dude that's great. Hell yeah.

>>130423743
https://voca.ro/1lK95fjgVfF4
mac demarco x jazz thing, now with a guitar solo. Trying and failing to sound like George Benson

what's the difference between this general and /g/'s /dmp/?

>>130498769
Good job on the mix so far, quite clear. I like the piano sound particularly.
>>130498796
slightly less schizo posting

https://voca.ro/16kVBT3I8hFG

this is a stem from old stuff i was making. i'm thinking of using the ai to take out the bell. not sure if it can be made to sound better even after that though, it's so noisy

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Spiff at home. The top parts have their phases flipped around to null normally so you can focus where you want the transient shaping effect with the EQ and add reverb or whatever other effect to just the release part of the sound.

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https://vocaroo.com/1nyRfh62cQPP

>>130500687
where's the bass lol

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>>130500687
>that pic
Fucking demented, a true glimpse into the mind of a mad tard. The track fits is perfectly. I hope you're trolling. How can you not hear the problems? HOW CAN YOU WORK WITH THAT LAYOUT?

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>>130500953
>fits is
shit guess i was too worked up

Maybe a shot in the dark, but does anyone know how to properly configure FlexASIO? I need to get it to specify and allow using my '5/6' channel inputs on my DAC and not just '1/2'. Otherwise, any good alternatives? ASIO4ALL isn't customizable enough sadly.

>>130500953
its my grid/offgrid hybrid setup where i can set 522bpm which is the fl studio max res and work, also i used to have broken screen so the windows were where i could see them and it kinda stuck lol

>>130502061
> 522bpm which is the fl studio max
say sike right now

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>>130501755

There are two GUI config tools for FlexASIO that generate the config file from GUI selections, it's likely that either one of these would get you where you want to be, repository for a shitload of tools here, including the two FlexASIO GUI tools

https://github.com/FORARTfe/HyMPS/blob/main/Audio/Tools.md

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this is pre-pre narrowed down too 8(

>>130503362
Very nice. The world needs more ~70min albums/mixes.

>>130503407
ngl any time i see one that length im instantly skeptical unless its decades old.
40-45 minutes is the perfect LP length for most genres in current year. all killer no filler.
longer than that and i assume it’s mostly bloat, especially if it’s hip hop or mainstream pop.

i feel very strongly about this for no reason.

>>130498796
ive asked this question several times and it appears at some point there was a split. we used to do 'make an album' threads on /mu/ or it might have even been straight in /prod/ back in like 2015. i took a few years off and now everything is on /dmp/. i think /prod/ is more for feedback and /dmp/ is dead except for every 3 months when submissions are due.

>>130498796
>>130504030
there is no actual difference.

at some point /prod/ was uninhabitable so somebody decided to move.
immediately since people who went there somewhat cared about the thread quality, a small group of anons who are all long gone by now were unusually active and one ran anon ran a community album for fun. by virtue of being on /g/ there just happened to be more people who entered that used trackers and lean more toward old jungle or “weird” ost music or whatever.
very early on there appeared to also be one or a few dedicated antagonizers who encouraged cross pollination between the threads and samefagging to create conflict (which never took off).
over time, however the original anons left (the original album runner handing the reigns over to a now universally hated anon being one of the biggest losses) and the two threads bled into each other anyway.
you can see currently that /dmp/ has just been a shell of what it was inhabited by people who won’t let it go.

neither thread has a strong identity of what it’s “supposed” to be for anymore.

>>130502398
Thanks for the rec; seems better than the older FlexASIO GUI I tried. Though, I think the native driver just isn't properly compatible with alternative wrappers...at least not for cases like mine where I'm using anything but inputs 1/2. I can see the signal come through, and even got a recording when I played deaf (since no headphones in the DAC). Maybe it's my fault for trying to use my USB-C DAC for output and a separate one for input like I usually do outside of my DAW. Damn.

neural amp modeler sounds sounds so cool and fun but i’m so fucking bad guitar wtf

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>>130506535
Wanting to record my riff ideas really humbled me. It's a lot harder than it seems and you need to be really on point with timing and playing. Also fuck amp sims, they sound godlike until you go to mix that shit and then you realise your set up is all wrong, you didn't gain stage properly and there's a horrible squealing permeating everything in the 4k area. or maybe that's just my experience. I have spent so many hours trying to get a nice clean sound and good tone for my recordings, but anything with heavy distortion feels like a nightmare to get right.

>>130506669
cant you just play into it then

>>130502137
its useful when you work off grid

>>130506801
no it’s too low wtf

>>130506788
no, surprisingly, I don't want to play with a terrible set up and horrible squealing taking over the upper frequencies. As soon as you try to add things like compression or other effects, it accentuates the issues and becomes too noticeable to ignore. It turned out I read some straight up incorrect information online (shocking) so I had to suffer for my sins. I think I'm on my way to correcting it though, so I'll have to throw together a small demo to test it. Hopefully I don't end up in a EQ hell loop again.

>>130506669
>gain stage
bro just turn the input down why are you still talking about this lmao

>>130506846
bro why are you reading and replying to my posts?

>>130506895
idk sorry

>>130499518
thanks bud
the piano is the Autograph Grand from Spitfire LABS
guitar is Guitar Rig 5 + the raw strings captured with my voice
>>130423743
reworking this Bark Psychosis vs. Giles Corey thing
my lyrics might be too generic though
https://voca.ro/171bINKEn1uT

I quit my long-time project and not sure if I wanna keep making music. I have some new project files but idk.

Did this yesterday
It's not finished yet, but I'm not that satisfied with it. It's ballad slop
https://voca.ro/193HUQ2vBldR

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>>130423743
thoughts? how do i make verse not sound so videogamey? is it the clavinet or acoustic guitar?
https://vocaroo.com/1lmvXqMnAvzl
also here not sure what to put in the middle 8
https://vocaroo.com/12Ejq2tDYVYs
>downtempo/trip-hop
>>130498769
nice guitar playing over changes, i suck at that. i'd also add either fusion sounding break or coda. drums need work though, i feel they're too basic, maybe some organic sounds would help. do you know jazzbois btw? you might like them
>>130508047
dobro zvuči desu iako je pre pederska. zmiksat treba jedino. imaš još stvari?

>>130508351
What do you mean my videogamey? Sounds good to me, nice work. The clav works in my opinion. Maybe it's the arrangement that makes you feel that?

>>130508351
Hvala, evo slusaj. Imam jos stvari ndms sad sve uploadat. Plan je nap album ali neda mi se. Sve sam mixam i sviram
https://voca.ro/19ur9MyPV7Kg
https://voca.ro/15ZCR35oKbT1
https://vocaroo.com/1a8ufLcGHYA5
https://vocaroo.com/18b5rs233zmc
https://vocaroo.com/12HwoZmXf38D
https://vocaroo.com/1kspEVljk3zZ
https://vocaroo.com/14UaW4PD1hbw
https://vocaroo.com/1a5qD0EbqiNP

https://vocaroo.com/1GY7FvSYKDep

did a miami bass remix of a yung joc / trae song

https://vocaroo.com/14LTW1M9j9kD

>>130508351
>>130508641
Decki idemo bend neki slozit ak ste u zg
Ja mogu bass( znam i gitaru)

>>130509693
Ajde al necu svirat pederske rock ballade iz e mola. Nikako metal ni punk. Realno ovu moju muziku bi najradije jbg. Imam i garazu kraj autobusnog. Ne zelim se doxxat ovdje al kao sutra cu ucit na ffzg. Dodi tocno u 14:00 ispred ako oces na cigaru. Reci majicu koju ces obuc ili nes

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>>130509728
haha nisam ovo ocekivo
top je sto imas garazu
sutra kiša cjeli dan, a i malo si me zateko, oces se radije javiti na https://soundcloud.com/magabu9771 to mi je alt sc isto da se ne doxxam
meni svejedno sta bi svirali, trenutno me nekako drzi post rock tipa GYBE cak i 90's emo al primarno slusam nesto tipa fennesz i tim hecker

>>130509926
Ma jebo te emo. Gotovo je

>>130507763
>quitter
disgusting

>>130509693
ja zivim u zgu, i imam prostor 30 km od zga s bubnjevima i ostalim stvarima.
od muzike me zanima: indie, post punk, jazz fusion, trip hop, downtempo, techno, house, math rock, psych rock, stoner/doom metal, black metal, dungeon synth, idm, neo soul, jungle...

>>130510838
znam i neke jeftine prostore na zapadu za probe

okay so i just have to mix/slightly re-write 2-3 songs a day and i should be done in a month that seems like a pretty do-able healthy pace

>>130506535
>neural amp modeler
Neat, will probably play with. I bought some Native Instruments bundle fuck knows when and it came with Guitar Rig 7 so I've been okay.

>>130498769
I wonder if I'll ever be this good.

>>130511308
you have to love music and learning, workmode everyday

>>130510838
neke od mojih stvari
https://vocaroo.com/1cPLs5vryHle
https://vocaroo.com/15pvNYHm2aEa
https://vocaroo.com/12b91orcLHPD
https://vocaroo.com/1akWMEuibc4e
https://vocaroo.com/1rpe000gquPK
https://vocaroo.com/119VjRjjUjYD
https://vocaroo.com/11tQQKxUnlUU
https://vocaroo.com/1gWf2L3VpJBb