Audio Engineering and Acoustics ebook bundle mega.nz/#!wEVAVbgB!hwd7vmzaZ9C6wAnVbqIQt37pNUpfpn0t2ecSjZGRNe4 (Bobby Owsinski - The Mixing Engineer's handbook 4th edition, The Recording Engineer's handbook 4th edition, The Mastering Engineer's handbook 4th edition. Timothy Dittmar - Audio Engineering 101, William Moylan - The Art of Recording, F. Alton Everest - Master Handbook of Acoustics, Rod Gervais - Home Recording Studio: Built It Like The Pros, 2nd Edition, Philip Newell - Recording Studio Design
how can I use an equalizer to sound good across all speakers?
listen to this with cheap speakers and your sound system
Anthony Price
What's a good 61 to 88 key midi keyboard? The Arturia Keylab looks good. I was looking at the Akai MPK261 but it's a bit more expensive
Brandon Allen
Not really, each thread just needs some traction and a few dedicated posters to stick around. Last few died immediately but the couple before that got like 600 posts together over a couple days
Joshua Cox
does anyone know where i can pirate serum? rutracker is confusing as fuck
Lucas Clark
>clyp.it/fi3cx1su It's more interesting than half the shit posted here, but I laughed at how oddly quirky it sounded. Not sure if that means it's good or not.
Carson Wilson
>clyp.it/nz3s5bch Love it but add more chord changes Maintain that raw sound
What computer do I need to produce? I don't know if I should build mine or buy a prebuilt. My budget is around $800 and I plan on using on photoshop, my DAW and maybe some games.
Oliver Gray
prebuilts are more expensive and shittier components than building your own
David Nelson
any fucking computer, unless your some big name electronic producer or something dont bother it's more important to buy shit like headphones and speakers, honestly headphones and a shitty laptop are all you need to produce. now stuff like midi keyboards i find really useful but not necessary people recommend soundcards too but honestly i haven't tried them
Thomas Jenkins
>soundcards.... I haven't tried them
Jfc this must be bait. Don't give people advice if you don't know what you're talking about
Elijah Bailey
pic related is my current computer
Colton Brooks
HAHAHAHAHA
Joseph Lee
fuck off im poor but now i have a job, what pc should i buy now
John Harris
A Dragondildo 3000.
Wyatt Davis
everything that i said was true though >expensive computers are not a necessity in music production >headphones/speakers are the most important physical investment >other items can be useful but not a necessity (unless you're a pro) as for software just pirate
Surely you don't think it's a good idea to have all your high-precision audio circuitry in a box with a bunch of random high-frequency EM and RF noise sources? External interfaces are the way to go. I haven't tried those Blue USB mics but maybe there's something to be said for them, given a clean power supply through a USB hub.
>expensive computers are not a necessity in music production True, depending on what you're doing. A system that doesn't drop out during a take is pretty important. >headphones/speakers are the most important physical investment Headphones definitely, if you don't treat your room. >other items can be useful but not a necessity (unless you're a pro) A cheap keyboard controller is a must imo. I got tired of carving patterns in trackers very quickly.
I say get started with the one you've got and expand if you start running into limits. It'll help teach you to go light on the plugs if nothing else.
Adrian Gomez
>(unless you're a pro) they're useful regardless dipshit. none of it is any more necessary than a car to drive a few miles- your lack of having every used actual gear only confirms your lack of perspective to any of this stuff and its usefulness.
anything newer will do mostly. if it comes down to budget, focus on ram if you're more sample based and the processor if you plan to use more powerful synths.
>External interfaces yeah no shit (talking about the prosumer range of course) , i think you misunderstood me
Liam Jones
Would love feedback on this. Still working on the mix clyp.it/1ppjku0z
this is really nice
Noah Cook
my laptop starts freezing when i add one effect to a track, just tell me what to buy i want to produce again
Aiden Howard
lol wtf
what are you using now? how many virus's did you download?
Oliver Russell
I'm using an hp elitebook . My computer used to have viruses on it but I fixed the issue. I just don't know which computer to buy to produce music. My laptop crashes every 30 minutes or so no matter what I do.
Samuel Martinez
I've hit rock bottom lads. My studio's packed up and all my equipment in storage, my laptop is broken in a literal half and my phones speaker is fucked so I can barely even use caustic. I gotta go to a mate's house just to play the keys or bass these days, shit's all fucked.
I'm thinking about buying some type of standalone hardware to keep me busy even though I have more pressing matters like getting a car or finding a place to live. I've become increasingly obsessed with the OP-1 even though I know it's nothing worth the asking price but the work flow seems ideal to me. Any thoughts? I work mostly with maschine, but buying a MPC seems redundant to me.
>clyp.it/nz3s5bch You're gonna have to really work on the drums, notice how absolutely quiet they are, drums are arguably the loudest things in a mix besides vocals, kick and snare are your hammers, especially in rock.
Juan Gonzalez
>clyp.it/1ppjku0z Well senpai, it's pretty boring. The mix is ok, not slamming or anything, but I would focus on adding something to grab attention.
Nolan Gutierrez
it's minimal dub/techno lad, it's meant to be repetitive and simple.
but thanks for the fb
Daniel Wood
Lol I might not be the best for feeback on that, I'm kinda the dude that always posts rock mixes and shit in these threads.
The panning is nice.
Jason Myers
any feedback is OK desu :)
Ayden Clark
what do you think of the direction of this? I need to go back in and really actually do the vocals, I think this is gonna be the demo and then once I move in a month and have my fucking drums, recording it again with a solid arrangement.
i know im not supposed to post soundcloud and im really sorry but i was thinking of going back and working on this track again, what do you guys think do you think it could be improved?
Brandon Howard
>NO SOUNDCLOUDS, YOU WILL BE BERATED
It's like we have a sticky for a reason...
Landon Cooper
How do Yeah a fucking idiot if yoy cant fucking retarded if you think anything of the worst
Carson Nguyen
I said i was sorry ): just another dude trying to get some feedback
Eli Sanchez
Post it on clyp if you actually want some feedback.
Michael Gutierrez
not my thing, but it's not bad at all. If you added some synths it'd be a serious 80's throwback jam
Oh definitely, I just sold off my keyboard and I'm waiting for my new one in the mail. Can't wait, thanks man
Christopher Young
Mi pobrecito... Desktops will give you the best bang for the buck. I recorded this on about 500 burgerbux worth of home build hardware using a Linux/Wine/REAPER setup. >and the $150 interface, and the $500 guitar, but that's just details >this mix is like a year old, I got busy at work for a while and got the depressofeels and never quite finished it up >but I am feeling the itch again thanks to all of Sup Forums clyp.it/vyn40ucl r8 h8 but pls no b8
Josiah Edwards
m8, you gotta work on those drums.
Levi Barnes
The lead needs something... I think it needs just a touch of slow decay, not much, just a db or so. Song is cute overall. The fade out change to the second part was weird and i wanted something more to fill it up.
noted, thx. Drums have always been my kryptonite.
Henry Foster
>common courtesy >common
lol no it's not
i used to be annoyed by this until somebody finally pointed out the kids posting clyps aren't usually who you want advice from
Camden Russell
One of my mixes is in the thread, with some slamming drums, granted the cymbals are a wee bit high imo, but really the best way to get it right is to A/B your mix with something pro-tier
Liam Parker
Aruna's voice. Really, that's it. Lyrics optional.
I can't believe it's not Ozzy Osbourne 8/10
Izzat you, Ozzy? Thanks for the crits. It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools prematurely, but I don't think Battery 3 and Akai fingerpads are helping the quality of my rhythm section much. Suggestions welcome.
Joseph Nelson
I don't know if you guys appreciate this type of question, but recently got a presonus audiobox usb after my focusrite broke, and the box works fine on my mac, but I'm pretty dumbfounded that windows asio drivers apparently only allow one program to access the audio interface at a time. I use it often for practicing guitar along with music on the web, or at least on the mac i do, but on windows this is apparently impossible without buying some workaround program like asio link.
Is this something producers on windows just learn to put up with, or is there a better way I don't know about? I just find it hard to believe it's 2017 and you can't have more than one audio source running at a time, that's just bizarre. I mean i can see this being a major annoyance while trying to audition stuff for sampling and whatnot in other programs and stuff like that as well, so just don't see how it's acceptable.
Luis Howard
I'm on windows with asio and I have no idea what the fuck you're complaining about- you've got something set up wrong.
(Also I can't see any of those situations being a problem for somebody who knows what they're doing but that's beside the point)
Samuel Ward
i use windows and i can do this in cubase there is an option to release when application is in background
>Most ASIO drivers allow only one application at a time to access a soundcard.
From this and other sources this seems pretty standard for asio, so not sure how you're just getting around it.
I'm just trying to use guitar rig, which doesn't have that option, and when I set it to not allow apps to have exclusive access to it in the interfaces device properties it just doesn't let guitar rig use it at all.
Sebastian Rogers
Yeah Cubase and Wavelab allow this if you disable "Play In Background".
Steinberg (the developers of the ASIO protocol) released a multi-client solution for people who want to use ASIO with more than one application simultaneously - since all apps would be routed through ASIO you might still not be able to use any applications that can only use the standard Windows audio subsystem, like most web browsers:
>From this and other sources this seems pretty standard for asio
It is, from Steinberg:
>the basic idea behind ASIO is that professional audio applications entirely take ownership of the ASIO device. Only very few ASIO drivers support true multiple application access.
Ian Miller
i have ableton also and can listen to youtube while i use it i have no idea what to do about your problem on my computer i have gone into bios and disabled onboard audio and disabled audio for windows sounds everyting goes through the interface
Jason Barnes
Disabling your built-in audio doesn't mean that your external interface will use ASIO by default, it would still use the Windows audio subsystem unless told otherwise - do you have ASIO enabled in Ableton?
ASIO4All might also allow this use though, but most dedicated ASIO drivers don't.
Hudson Watson
Is there some rationale for this? I just find it a bit absurd that you can't just practice guitar with guitar rig, at least not with music on the same pc. Guess I'm looking for some kind of workaround.
Adrian Barnes
The rationale is pretty simple - it was initially designed as a Windows low-latency solution for people who worked with audio in a professional capacity and (at that time) the assumption was that this would entail a single application or tool being used at any one time. It was also initially only used by Steinberg applications, which you could seamlessly switch between if needed by releasing the driver in the background.
Apple was ahead of the game in that respect since they not only had low-latency audio built into OS X but it also was multi-client from the get-go.
Colton Cox
I need to add here that single-client use is what reduced latency to the extent that it did with ASIO - each layer that you add to the driver model (like a mixer that allows more than one application to use the protocol at a time) would add latency.
The multi-client application I posted above will add latency for this reason, since it is a wrapper or a proxy that "hosts" ASIO and allows the applications to connect to it instead.
i think u should focus on ur drums to be more expressive up the volume of the kick and use more hats/crash/cymbals the rest is ok u can improve it as u go
Cameron Flores
can't let this diiie
Evan Hughes
aye yea this a pretty gay fuckin beat, where ur bitch at imma suck on some feet yuh and im boutta spit some mf heat, do not step to me boy you better take a seat yea and im never fucking stopping, smoke so much i feel my iq dropping hire me please ill mop your floors or something , soon i hope to have goth bitches toppin me for nothing wont return the favor all i eat is fuckin muffins
something like that
Blake Myers
So, I'd like to start actually producing techno music (like acid techno, maybe some dub)
the thing is, I can't find any resource/tutorial
I'd like to use only ableton lite which is what I own. I already have many samples and vsti and addons, but if I search anything related to music production I only find some dudes on youtube that picks up pre-made samples and stick them up and then boom it's a song
I mean, no shit
But I'd like to avoid using pattern created by others
so, any resource I should checkout? am I doomed? should I just listen to someone else's EDM and try to emulate it?
Juan Clark
I think you need to work on your rapping. That was dismal user.
Jace Morales
I really like theese
Asher Ross
your dismal )-:
Lucas James
I don't have any advice because I'm in the same boat
but nice egg
Jeremiah James
How much do you think it's important popularity in music?
Nathan Roberts
im new to this music making stuff, been making tons of loops but never got myself to finish a track. This is my first one
I found a chunk of the first chiptune I tried making in my project folder. If I remember correctly, I never finished it because I accidentally deleted the file.
A little someting me and friends hVe been working on
Chase Cook
Where do I go if I wanna make music for a small indie game? I went to /vg/ agdg and didn't get any responses.
Landon Parker
Is it a worthwhile exercise to practice "deep" listening to music which influences you? Like sitting down and really trying to focus on picking out the different instruments, chord progressions, mastering and such. I'm interested mostly in electronic genres so I feel like it could definitely help a lot.
