i play in a math rock band up in canada. I decided to engineer, track and mix our new record on my own. it's the first time i'll have done a record from start to finish on my own...
we tracked 80% of the drum parts tonight. anybody wanna hear some dry-ass drums and tell me if i'm wasting my time?
You have 60 seconds to come up with a one-line chorus.
Liam Watson
My dude I put two stems together (fatmic and the guitar) and it sounds like this mathy blues jam which I dig. It's kind of as if Hella or one of those math rock bands went country-southern. It sounds great, totally worth working on.
Cameron Scott
those guitar tracks will be scrapped and replaced with some nicer ones, and the fatmic isn't as fat as i hoped it would be but they get the point across fershure.
thanks for listening!
Gavin Parker
Yeah the drums were a bit quiet
Ryder Russell
that guitar track is probs RED HOT and also loading up the 8 other mics from the drums would add some V. thanks for listening again.
Josiah Fisher
My passion burning hot like the sun
Hunter Hill
The Clintons put Trump in office
Nolan Bennett
hey would you get mad if i downloaded them and processed the hell out of it to make another entirely different thing?
Owen Jenkins
would love that. smash the fuck outta them drummies
Jayden Ross
>new at trying to make music >only two """songs""" completed so far >been working on the third one on and off for 6 months >still feel like it's too shit to post itt
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Aiden Adams
flex that music muscle friendo. can't get better/more confident in yur making without fucking up 1000 times first
Daniel Cooper
clyp.it/p3xpu0lp Why can't I get my stupid guitars to sound metal
do non-simultaneous chords matter or even exist? as in, playing a chord (say a major third) but having the notes one after the other instead of at the same time I've been trying to make my music fit into that scheme occasionally and I feel like it might be pointless
Brayden Kelly
arpeggio
Ethan Torres
well now I feel stupid, I already knew that term, I was just a little off on what it meant, thank you how important are arpeggios? should I be trying to make stuff fit them a bunch or will no one care?
Brandon King
eeh whatever sounds good man, they are a good way of making repetitive melodies out of harmonies
Elijah Lewis
not distorted enough, distort them more after the cab, doesn't sound multitracked and just sounds panned / phase offset, beyond the guitar nothing else is metal either.
Pretty good Juno and SH-101 emulations, fairly low CPU usage for a modern plugin. Don't need to use the keygens, there's keys in the NFOs. To register you open the preset menu in the plugin and click register, paste in the keys. Hope you make some good tunes.
Christian Miller
Free Alpha Juno inspired synth, Phutura from Phuturetone.
CPU hit stacks up with concurrent voices, mono stays low. It sounds okay I guess, not sure how the Alpha Juno is supposed to sound.
And Phuturetone's other plugin, Philteroid. An effect replicating the Sherman Filterbank. I think Prodigy and Depeche Mode, among others, have used it. Lots of modulation options and unique tones.
Thoughts; ideas? I know I need to add more to the back half but what would be a good mid-range voice to use?
Michael Campbell
The helicopter sounding riser melody that comes in very faintly at 0:18 and gets louder after that sounds of out tune. Idk if you are going for a progressive type of track or not but it feels like the track doesnt go anywhere.
Juan Robinson
The warble is supposed to be a corruption of the initial rhodes piano but as I add more layers it should blend a little better. And yeah it doesn't really have many differences except in minute details, which when I get a few more voices and stagger them appropriately should add flavor to the actual melody track that I haven't laid down yet. I could try and write vocals to accompany it but this was more of an exercise in mastering and room shape
is some sort of heavy compression/saturation going on?
Joseph Morales
How do I record drums? I have two mics and a mixer
Asher Gomez
obviously doesn't have to be real nice, but has to not sound like shit
Colton Howard
because youre sick of it by the time you hear it, and also because you arent giving your soul to it. its all mental and youre making what you think others want you to hear
Easton Gonzalez
Try some different positions, they all have different tones. Try one over your head and one 2 feet in front of the drums between the snare and tom at chest height. Matt Chamberlain's used just one mic.
I used to make music years ago and now that I picked Ableton up again I tried to design some drums and failed miserably.
In particular I was making an interesting thick kick by synthesizing a clean one and putting it through a 100% wet convolution reverb. Once I was satisfied with the timbre and texture, I needed to shape it to make it an actual punchy drum, so I used a compressor like I always used to do, and I couldn't get satisfying results.
Do you guys have a tutorial or something that can help me.
Thanks in advance.
Isaac Jackson
a tutorial on adding reverb to synthesized kicks? just use reverb that sounds good. could be the issue was that there was no coherent thump to begin with due to the reverb dragging out the bass so the compressor wouldn't help you.
James Turner
snare and bassdrum are most important, so just try to direct your mics toward those and so that they pick up a bit of the other ones too
Leo Martin
Thinking about picking up some rokit 6 monitors. Are they shit? Is there anything else that's better?
Jason Cook
No, the reverb part was good.
My problem was that I couldn't shape it properly with a compressor because apparently I forgot how to use one.
I mean, I still remember what all the parameters do, but since it's one of those things that you have to practice with until you get an inconscious understanding of its effect on the sound to be able to use it effectively, it's like I just learned about how it works and have yet to get experience with it (since I forgot about mine).
I was wondering if anyone had a good tutorial about using a compressor to shape drums and sounds in general.
Charles Turner
What I learned was to pull the ratio and threshold to the extremes so you can really hear what the attack and release are doing, then adjust the threshold for when it kicks in, then the ratio for how hard it does so.
Jordan Young
look of the youtube video that compares them against yamaha and jbl. imo rokits were too bassy. I went with yamaha and very pleased
That wobbly bass that appears at 1:14 and doesn't disappear until 3:33 gets pretty annoying as it doesn't change during the whole time and sometimes feels out of sync with the drums.
Anyhow, any thoughts on this? Mellow, lofi shit clyp.it/4budybhx
Wyatt Myers
the rising sound is out of tune, the pianoish sound that comes in 0:49 feels weird. idk what you were trying to envoke with this track.
i don't think mic placement on the piano was the best(if you're even playing it) The reverb on your voice is way closer than the rest of the track, feels quite weird. singing is meh, desu, better than me though. keep going.
I feel like there are too many conflicting elements, and a theme for the song never really emerges. not enough variation.
main chord "progression" is pretty good. drums need more verb, also need a lot more variation drum/percussion wise, maybe cut up bits?
would appreciate feedback on this techno-ish track i'm making, obviously not finished.
The second one is the 1st sample, just shortened with Ableton fades (basically volume automation).
The third one is the 2nd, but with a compressor that lets the peak through and drastically lowers everything else (also with a 19dB reduction to make up for the makeup gain).
The 4th one is the 3rd, but with another compressor on top to squash the peak and make it hit harder.
The 5th one is the 4th but shortened with Ableton fades.
Pic related.
Did I do anything particularly wrong? What can I improve?
Thanks in advance to anyone helping me.
Christian Long
>move production desk to where monitor positioning actually makes sense >have to mix tracks all over again fugg
David James
>clyp.it/cis0r23t I feel that there's a lack of mids You got those pad like sounds in the high frequencies that are really in your face And the bass hits hard But it feels like there's a hole in the middle that makes the track uncomfortable to listen to
Michael Hall
being unsatisfied with my music is what has driven me to get better I've produced tracks for artists known all across my country when I was 19 and I was barely happy about it while I see local idiots bragging about their shit music, I think people who are always happy and satisfied with their music are generally shit musicians the problem is when it degenerates into frustration or self esteem problems and you tell people to fuck off and get a new pair of ears because they appreciate a track you made but you don't like
Aiden Bennett
>clyp.it/eifx2uom I think you can try to apply some reverb only to the last part of the kick, so the punch remains unaffected
Bentley Morgan
alright, thanks lads
Hudson Gray
Its alicias keys, and theres no reverb on my voice, its 100% dry, ok thanks i plan to keep at it
Carson Foster
I'm not really going for that sort of effect. What I'm trying to do is to turn that thumpy noise into a kick.
This isn't for a song. It's just an excersize to get better at making and manipulating sounds.
Luke Anderson
Like the other user said, kick drum and snare (position it between the snare and the hi-hat), hopefully it'll pick up the other cymbals and toms.
So at which point did you feel dissatisfied with your drums? Try parallel compression and some very slight multiband distortion?
They're good senpai.
Not bad but the wobble becomes very repetitive and the drums sound very boring, also that arp thingy sounds like Ghosts N' Stuff. Actually come to think of it, the wobble sounds like Porter Robinson's Say My Name.
Dig the atmosphere, kick is way too thin/weak tho, get something that's a bit more present in the mix. Also like the other user pointed out, you need to fill up your mids.
Landon Nelson
sample roulette anyone?
John Garcia
What's that?
Ryder Fisher
Edited the drums to add more variation Is it better now? What else can I do with them to make them better?
goofy beat I made when a m8 donated some weed earlier
trying to learn the software and the music, but mostly just to relax on off days.
Jaxon Diaz
Sounds super basic, piano sounds very uninteresting and I can't hear the kick.
For being high, new to production and just wanting to chill, this sounds pretty good.
Samuel Campbell
ITS FUCKING SUMMMMEEERRR WOOOOOOHOOOOO just finished my last final now I'm just sitting here churning out beats catching up on lost time. Here's the most recent, think it's my fourth or fifth idk.
No not really, everyone who made shit while high it's just that, shit, but yours was pretty good not gonna lie. Also Savant makes music while "high" but I think it just makes him normal because he's an aspie.
Sweet.
Elijah Ross
and you'll know when you see it cause rhyme gives way to reason
Ian Peterson
hey, thats pretty cool! thanks
Andrew Morales
bumping from page 10
Easton Garcia
What's a sample roulette?
Anthony Jones
bump
Noah Allen
The best will always be something else in a month or two, look for what's good.
