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Coming from a rapper that had some serious issues with his own voice at the beginning, as blatantly easy as the solution sounds, keep rapping and keep recording, it's the only way to train your voice and work on your articulation.
You have a slight lateral lisp, which makes the "s" sounds feel a bit wet, but as time goes on that can be worked on.
And of course, bring some confidence to the mic, make sure that only you can notice the insecurities in your own voice.
Brayden Lewis
>slight lateral lisp you know any way I can fix this? Any techniques? It used to be worse when I was younger. I've been working to fix this for a while.
David Cook
Drink water so your mouth waters less, before recording you can also straight up wipe the front of your teeth where the moisture accumulates, it's weird but who cares if it helps.
Also as my acting teacher instilled in me from a younger age where my lisp was quite intense, open your mouth and articulate as much as you can while speaking and in this case rapping. Especially if you're not going for a Future mumble.
And the last thing is not really recommended, but I smoke so my mouth is generally drier than when I don't.
But don't do that tho.
Carter Cook
Anybody have any tips on recording electric guitar/ any decent tutorial videos. Best mics to get?
Thanks for your response. I'm gonna work on this. Good luck and wish me luck
Kevin Hughes
ok just tried it and it's way easier to rap and talk with a dry mouth, and I'm kinda pissed
you mean all my life I've been stumbling over my words and sounding retarded and shit all because I had too much damn spit in my mouth? I don't know what to say other than that I'm mad at myself that this had to be pointed out to me by a stranger on the internet. Thanks user.
Matthew Evans
Np, the topic itself depressed the shit out of me for months, so I'm glad I can help.
I've transcribed it pretty accurately I think so I'll give my interpretation, but as far as a harmonic analysis goes, I'm confused af. Here's my crack at it clyp.it/qghcsxhs . I can upload the midi to mega or something if anyone is interested.
I think that this track is in E major. The intro of the track (first 30 seconds or so) is just an Esus2. Then those Rhodes chords come in on the off beats and start doing some weird shit.
Trying my best to analyze the first three chords (1st level analysis) I get: Bsus2/A - Badd11/Gb - Gb7/E I'm guessing there is a simpler way to look at this...
So, in terms of function within the E major scale, these chords would be: V - V - ii.
Maybe these chords are non-functional? It does have kind of a floaty feeling.
If I consider the bass as the root note of each chord, the function of these three chords would be: IV - ii - I (I've never seen that progression before).
All of this happens while that Esus2 keeps playing it's rhythmic pattern.
As the track progresses, the chords actually drop away and we're left with only the pentatonic bleeps and whatnot. Then, a different bass pattern plays (Gb-A-Db-E) which seems to modulate everything to Gb minor!! Gb is the 2nd note in the key of E major so this isn't the relative minor.
Sorry for the rambling. I'm sure that I'm trying too hard but meh. I like this guy's sound and I'm curious how it "works". Any insight would be helpful.
that's why I said it was the worst one, I like the middle tho
Justin Mitchell
ngl i just skimmed through all of them (they need somebody rapping obviously)
defs interesting and better than 99% of /prod/ but i think you already know that
only thing i can realllly say without hearing a completed song is that i think you should be using stronger drums and differentiate yourself more- it's definitely dirtier and i think overall your sound is heavier and could benefit by using the appropriate drum samples...
the constant 808's on something like nldw works because of how sparse it is... your songs are not
Jace Campbell
Thank you for the huge compliment. I appreciate it greatly What should I use for drum samples? Some of them are 909s which I feel are more powerful.
Nathaniel Cook
i'm partial to not using the standard drum machine samples, especially for this kind of stuff
i say mangle your own from something else... idk what you tend to use so
Brody Ortiz
thanks for the advice
Aiden Hall
When you finally come up with a bridge and key change for your two chord song. FeelsGoodMan
Henry Phillips
I bought a microphone and thought it'd come with pic related. It didn't and I can't find the motherfucker anywhere. What can I do? I wanna start recording asap I can't afford an interface yet.
Asher Moore
>What can I do? nothing because you need a usb mic or an interface
if you can't afford it just suck it up and use your laptop mic
Luke Thomas
just buy a cheap "interface" to connect it to your pc nothing with a lot of power, just a hub to connect your instruments/mic to that will take off the latency a bit will cost 20 bucks or something like that
Brody Garcia
Are there any good songs that use synths instead of guitars for a shoegaze-type effect? I keep trying but it just makes it sound awful
What is the synth instrument at 0:42 of youtube.com/watch?v=nt5RuhhIUFs called? How do I recreate it if my DAW doesn't include it?
Jackson Anderson
its just one note in a high octave put on it some chorus and dimenson expander and it might sound like it
Jace Phillips
it's an exceptionally mediocre hip-hop beat one you would find on the tape of a promising but not yet fully realised German underground rapper ~8 years ago
Nathan Gomez
very bad
Ian Miller
it does not need to be that bright .________________.
the same idea by somebody with skill would be passible
Luis Brooks
okay guys thanks for the arguments too , though i disagree i think you might be just some lazy critics
Parker King
y i think i puted so much white noise on the synths
Ian Wood
Na its p trash
Logan Russell
>clyp.it/ww2by032 the high-end clicking and popping hurt my ears.
>clyp.it/ndrazjt4 super high-pitched noise at 0:19 hurt my ears.
>clyp.it/wowghncn the drums just sound a little random, there's no pattern or anything I can really latch onto.
>clyp.it/0o5nzqq2 I like that sound in the intro. then the synths hurt my ears.
Sebastian Brown
well i said i disagree , whats your problem ? quit being a baby
Jeremiah Kelly
>though i disagree i think you might be just some lazy critics hmm is that so? Because whether I'm an experienced or inexperienced producer myself, you just dismissed a free, unsolicited opinion on your music because you didn't like it. You as a musician do not get to pick and choose who likes your music and who doesn't. You need to wrap your mind around that before you can understand how to begin to operate an equalizer or compressor, clearly.
Anthony Cooper
>clyp.it/cx20o5ac I think this is p good actually. Better than a lot of stuff that gets posted here. I dunno about the different bass(?) synths panned hard left and right.
You could also do some of those selective track solo-ing/ muting tricks to make things lock together a little more. A tad generic but not bad, really.
Jeremiah Scott
pair of these at the shop for $150 used can't find much info on them out there but i gotta get some speakers anyone have any experience here?
Matthew Walker
Bump
Hunter Diaz
human music, i don't know what to do with this project, or how to end it clyp.it/i3flxvip
Christian Carter
Its a vintage orchestra impact sample! Very common in eurobeat.
Christian Gray
shut. the fuck. upppp
Henry Howard
thats why i said i disagree, i dont care if you like it or not, saying someone music is trash is so retrograde, we are no going anywhere whit being a hater, be a little more constructive if your going to criticize for the humanity's sake
David Ward
>be a little more constructive if your going to criticize for the humanity's sake >a little more constructive >if your going to criticize crit·i·cize (v.) 1. Indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way.
Nolan King
criticize to improve it , saying something is "trash" is just retrograde and not gonna change anything
Jackson Turner
listen nigger I am not that other dude I was the one who just said it was "very bad" because it is, and to have to deconstruct everything wrong with the mixing, chords, melody, and yes, presets, would be like trying to salvage an already sunken ship with a cork
Jaxon Smith
no presets
Isaiah Gray
I dun geddit
Juan Reed
I used to be nice. But now i agree with the dicks. We have to become kind of masochists and realize that only a small fraction of 1 percent of anything posted in these threads is any good. Diamonds are formed in the harshest of conditions. And its also more fun to point out other's flaws
Levi Bell
that's surprising, the lead in the second half scarily resembles a nexus preset. Regardless, the whole thing still sounds like it was mixed on dollar store earbuds
Jordan White
are you that guy who used to posts that navi song...?
why don't you ever add a beat to this? or something... it never takes form...
stop shitting up the threads you both don't stand to gain anything from this argument
Luke Martinez
so I just tried to do my own "against the clock" thing but I knew (because I've tried before) that I wouldn't come up with anything in 10 mins so I set a timer for 15 and this is what I got
yeah dude dont expect so much im not pro producer and did it in 2 hours, but im practicing
Brody Hill
This is nice actually. I like how crisp it sounds.
Ian Allen
navi song? as to why it never takes form, idk what it's supposed to be, i don't have a way to transfer guitar to my computer to the songs i hear never really happen. i need a band.
Jeremiah Wilson
Easy on the limiter there bucko. Other than that I think it's pretty sick tbqh
Jacob Watson
you should have prepared all your samples, loops, melodies, ect in advance if you wanted to replicate the real against the clock experience lmao.
Joshua Price
for real... presets are fine but premade melodies are bullshit
>i need a band. i feel you. i want to do some industrial punk metal shit but i'm making techno and idm because i have no friends and nobody will ever rap over the hip hop shit i make :^(
Gabriel Edwards
ah come on guys
Blake Powell
I dunno man, any sampler should be able to pitch things up and down slightly.
Midi data is what it is, so you can't really alter your input device
Jeremiah Kelly
microtonality is a meme and you will never be KGATLW, happy?
Jeremiah Cooper
i thought about answering but i'm ignorant
early thought: that's more to do with how you program synths and midi
i highly doubt anything is out there with a piano roll that you can program to go 10-50 cents apart or whatever, that sounds pretty ridiculous (as is microtonal music but whatever you want dude)
Chase Anderson
I don't want to hijack the thread but this is the only good microtonal music I've heard.
Yeah, I can see how the physical layout would be an issue, but that isn't really something that could be solved with software. I'd say just put stickers on every "tonic note" key.
desu I only use reason. I think the NNXT sampler would do a good job at this. This is what I would do.
1) load your selected sample to every key individually so that no matter which key you press, the same sound is heard.
2) start adjusting the pitch of the sample on each key in order.
Adam Parker
I think you're getting hit by choice paralysis. Make something out of you hitting your desk or something, or make something with all one instrument.
Good enough is fine, you don't need to go for perfect. Just make something.
Hudson Parker
HAHAHAHAHAHA In all honesty, why do treble sounds hurt your ears so much? Should you turn down your volume.
Andrew Ward
High end hurts everybody
use a reference mix noob
Angel Butler
Hey, Sup Forums
Do any of you enjoy this type of music? I don't know if there's listeners out there that would enjoy something like this. When I sit down to produce it just turns out like this. Is a sound like this worth releasing?
So what is a good music making program for Windows? I've got one from a few years ago but I've never heard anyone mention it ever when discussing making music so I figure I should jump to something else to more easily find support.
Gavin Gray
i like cubase but youll get the most online support and tutorials using ableton live or fl studio
