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been struggling to get the bass to pop. I think bouncing it to tape helped (also there was a software breakdown at the end so it just cuts off) anyway, how's the overall mix and structure? Crash might be too loud. I'm worried about the sibilance in the vocals but lose presence when I try to roll off or de-ess. also, is it clipping around the 3:30 section or are my headphone drivers just rattling? I'm about 90% there just need to finish writing vocal lines and tie up some loose ends.

sounds very cool fren

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Imagine pronouncing it as "coco nutshrimp."

It's a triplet.

Many of these are pretty wrong in terms of note length.

I guess if you're only a drummer it's correct.

how do I make better drum patterns

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I have an audio sample in ableton and 50% of the time it makes a popping sound when it starts playing. Is this just something to do with the live playback or has anyone experienced this after rending out their song?

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sometimes if your I/O buffer size is too small it may cause popping or crackling sounds during live playback. Im not really sure if this is the case for abelton but thats usually what happens for me when i use logic. hope this helps

Stop posting the outdated Yea Forumscore chart. Use the newest one instead.

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Can I get a ruling on Caustic vs. FL Studio Mobile?

Oh that reminds me, I'm the dude who was all fevered up a few months ago and asked here if there were any nice apps to fuck around with music writing while away from my computer.
I saw those and they looked neat from the videos but I didn't want to pay anything so I grabbed one called "midsequer" or something for free.
It's really feature light (sounds are largely shit, no production utilities) but it's been pretty useful jotting down ideas I have at work and it can export midi files so I can transfer them to my DAW for further development.

how much processing do you have on the sample? if its a lot, just bounce it in place

Why does anybody pretend to ever listen to Islamic Modal or Tatar Folk music

Why does everybody refuse to listen to Islamic Modal or Tatar Folk music?

because its something barely anyone cares for because there's more entertaining styles of music?

>phone producers

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Why even is there a non-music category?

>because its something barely anyone cares for
Tell that to the millions of tatar and islamic people.

>there's more entertaining styles of music?
Confirmed for never having listened to the styles of music mentioned.

They are borderline music, so the inclusion was fine considering there were ten free extra spots.

lmao "borderline music" should be the next /prod/ challenge, I'm sure we'd have plenty of unintentional entries.

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Really feeling this one guys, is it worthy?
Gimme criticism I wanna get better

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birb/10

I did like it tho. Bass does need more pop, maybe a tranny shaper? Or you could sicechain your other instruments to your bass attack. Vocal sounds fine as is, you got buzzy drivers.

Add Station to Station.

Minor question. If I use a copyrighted sample and I modify it heavily, is it still copyrighted or it's to the point you can barely recognize it?

>Use a human voice sample (Engineer from TF2)
>Modify and process it into a sound similar to a drum kick.

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still copyrighted but no one can tell so you're good

And if hypothetically someone want's my project files if they want to remix it, can they still tell or no?

it all depends on how much the sound has been processed but ideally it should be impossible to recognize if you want to be safe

Make the sound the way you want it and then bounce it to a new sample (or samples if you want to be autistic) and then delete the project file that made the sound (or hide it on some private memory).
That way if someone wants to use your super dank kick drum you just give them the sample you made, not the engineer sample.

How the hell do you make the synth sound that's in the background of this?
(you can hear it by itself at the end)
youtube.com/watch?v=FCdOGM-Ac-8

Thanks guys

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I feel like I fucked this up, how can I fix this? Besides making another drum pattern.

Is altering each tracks levels and eq every 5 seconds a bit too autistic?

Only if you're doing it too much during the songwriting process

please help me

git gud

holy fuck every chord progression i make sounds like the same boring shite and my mine would rather be absent when i actually sit down and try to teach myself music theory Anyways guys how is your day going

>
I'm gonna kill myself

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you sound like an insufferable asshat

gib download pls

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This is good. The only problems I hear are
- The hi-hats have nothing else in their range, turn them down or smooth them out w/ some reverb
- Snare sounds kinda weak
- That desync right before 51 is really noticeable

Get rid of the offbeat crackling noises and that synth bass. Sub sounds fine though

>VstSpeak
based as fuck

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i'm really happy with this, cant wait to record it with my friend and finish it properly.

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thoughts on this piano piece?

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basically ran two separate sequencers in tandem, one with patterns set to 18 steps and the second to 16 to get a bit of syncopation to it.

basically just an experiment to see if i can "auto generate" something melodic to play over or resample later down the road.

tfw barely finished buying a pair of SDCs for recording drums and learned they aren't good for a fuller drum sound if you can't use many mics, and LDCs are more adequate for that

now i dont know if i sell one of my SDCs and buy another LDC, and use two LDCs as overheads, Dynamic on snare and the SDC on kick, or have overheads as one LDC and one SDC, and the other LDC on the kick, or just sell the SDC pair for two LDCs, and stay having no SDC at all.

Do you guys steal your DAWs.

>no Booker T & the MGs in the soul or funk section

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>stealing
Take that money you saved and try to buy some class kid.

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Yes.
I go on FB to find groups where teenager fuckhead producers hang out, then befriend those who look like they have rich parents so I can meet them and make music in person.
At this point I just have to wait until they go take a piss or something, then I open their browser, go to Ableton.com (they always stay logged in or have the pass on autocomplete) and transfer the license to myself (and change the Ableton.com password).
Then I log into their email account, confirm everything, delete the emails, and pretend that nothing happened.

I did this four times already, and sold them all because why the fuck do you need a legit license when you can just pirate?

This is bullshit, but I believe it.

here

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Thanks a lot for the feedback! Went and modified it a little.

Keep them criticism coming please!

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Birb? And what do you mean by tranny shaper? I can only assume you’re talking about transients but idk and I’m also not familiar with a transient shaper plug-
in in that case

I preach the Glynn johns technique. My set up is a SDC on the snare overhead and the LDC on the floor tom “overhead.” Dynamics on kick and snare. Toms aren’t always present so I also have 2 extra dynamics on my two toms for a total of 6 but you can get away with 4 with the technique I listed above

Literally me as off today. Did a 6 mic setup and was getting complaints about lack of cymbals, so I picked up a pair of NT5s and they were echoey as fuck, so I just used a 57 on the ride and it worked better.

Listen to good drum patterns and steal them

Why should it? Soul and funk are already covered by earlier and arguably more relevant artists.

you put yourself on the chart LMAO

Where?

other experimental

Which one is he?

>European Classical

This makes me wonder, why is there so little American Classical? The big composers are pretty much all Europe. Didn't they get the memo?

newer country, developed late but grew big into three prime branches: copying already developed european compsoers tradition (macdowell, chadwick, parker are like the grandfathers of american classical), working without rule (ives, cowell, ornstein), constructing a method (ruggles)

expanded thanks to lots of composers who migrated

theres plenty of the stuff now if you know where to look, just not really before the 20th century

yellowjelly

That's not a real recording, it's just there as a placeholder. Similar case with Art is Over.

There is A LOT of American classical, it's just called European classical because it follows the traditions of European classical. Should be western European classical, actually, but meh.

Oh yeah lmao I forgot America wasn't that old. Checking out Ornstein now, I like expressionist stuff.

How do I add dynamic volume to Ragnarok? I don't want to fade out the master, just the lone track.

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Beat I made on an MPC with random samples from radio and TV:

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Thoughts? It's kind of cacophonous but I can't tell if that works or not.

are there any scenes you wish you could be part of

A porn movie scene hehehe

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I need some help figuring out how to bounce tracks properly. I have always just exported them as mp3s, and I know you are supposed to export them as a lossless format(wav or whatever) and then manually convert them to mp3 because the automatic dithering algorithm within my DAW(flstudio) is shit. I don't even know if I got that right that's just what i've heard a few times.. any anons know a thing about this?

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Hi, I'm new too production and I really just want to do some basic stuff like recording my guitar and adding some drum loops and shit.
I'm thinking of purchasing pic-related as an entry-level interface to get me started. The reviews I've seen are pretty good considering it's only $35. Anyone have any experience with it?
Also, whats the easiest DAW to use for entry-level? I downloaded Acoustica Mixcraft but someone said to use either Cakewalk or Reaper. Thoughts?

Thanks guys.

whups, pic-related

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yes I realized after I read through a ton of that shit that it was a meme. I hope it was a meme...
>ten thousand african musicians in there

wheres my insingzi bois faggot dickhead

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sorry for yelling

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?

>Ragnarok

I downloaded it. I don't see what the point is. Does it really sound any better than the preset modules in Ableton?

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Most of what I read before buying the 50 dollar one was "best at price point", although I do regret not shelling out another 15 buckos for one with midi ports.
They get a lot of hate here for being cheap Chinese crap though, supposedly they're very noisy. I've never noticed but I've also barely used it's inputs.
Headphone output works just fine for me.

35 is pretty cheap. my first interface was a focusrite scarlett 2i2 and I love that thing still. aluminum body helps keep it alive this long cause I'm rough on things. if you are just plugging in a guitar to record directly to digital it probably doesn't matter that much which one you get as most of what you will be doing will be within the daw. also you should just pirate a real daw. I use FL, and some folks will say they use ableton and FL is shit, but it doesn't matter which daw you use, they are all streamlined a lot better these days, and borrow features from each other in subsequent updates anyway... the native plugins will probably be the main draw to whichever one you decide, and I enjoy FLs plugins the most, and I believe it is the easiest to learn and navigate for basic function as a sequencer when you are first learning.

As for DAWs I don't know really, it depends on what you want to do.
FL Studio is, despite the memes, a solid choice simply because its so widely used.

export it to mp3 then convert it to wav analog using crystals

spend a bit more and get the umc202hd, it has much better preamps and it's still cheap as fuck

This is very bare-bones but does anyone like it? I wrote it years ago after playing Katawa Shoujo (where Emi is best girl) and I didn't put it in Ableton until yesterday. It's background music, trying to be a bit relaxing and melancholy.
It's gonna loop twice and maybe I'll add a thing at the end.

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Its for Reaperfags prolly

>my first interface was a focusrite scarlett 2i2 and I love that thing still.
I have literally never read that before lmao

>tfw want to make music but don't want to pirate a program that's 3/4K dollareedoos

Why does music software have to be so grossly overinflated?

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its because music is a potential source of income

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The second verse is a little... something. Dude told me to just take it way too serious and make it real long like an 80s verse.

But how's the mix in the chorus and stuff?

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>Why does music software have to be so grossly overinflated?
Because software developers need to eat.

yeah it's glyn johns that i want to do, but i'm also curious to regular spaced overheads. i have 4 channels on my interface.
don't the sdc sound thin/not full enough of a drum sound? or gets unbalanced with the ldc?
what kind of dynamic do you have on the kick? a regular one like a 57 or one of those "kick mics"?

i hear that just putting a 57 on each drumpart isn't too bad

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help

not danceable

well, I got lucky and a music store had like 6 drum mics for $85 so it's the one made for the kick. before that I was using something very similar to an sm58. You could use a 57 on a kick but it would probably not have the bass response that a 58 would. imo, bc my drum set is not nice and because I'm going to EQ and process the shit out of the kick anyway, the kick mic isn't too important to me. 57 on the snare. SDC are pretty standard as overheads. Like I said, I use mine for the overhead above the snare. see pic related for my setup. Like I said earlier too, I think you'll find that your toms aren't super present with the glynn johns, unless your toms aren't as dampened as mine are. I usually go for a pretty dry drum sound good for funk, alternative rock stuff- here's a clip of my drum sound clyp.it/whel4cyj

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As you should.
This is very common in the industry.
I've even heard of romance scams (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_scam) where the hot chick pretends to be a naive producer's girlfriend just to steal their Komplete license.
Disgusting.

fuck off dancist

yo this fucks

vocals are so damn dry

its ragtime

Thank you. I'll remember to pay attention to that kind of thing in the future. But its obvious now. THank you.

I can't read the name of Yea Forumscore and subcore

ah.
everybody advises for ldcs with glynn johns because they sound thicker and you dont have much mics to help fill up the sound
was that clip a 4mic? it sounds good but the snare could use more treble. the toms also sound near, isnt there a tom mic

>Get rid of the offbeat crackling noises and that synth bass.

thank you user that was very helpful

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