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A friend asked me to make a remix of some old dutch song, while I was messing about with some hardtechno/schranz beat creating in Live.. http://soundcloud.com/piratemathew/pilletje-voor-de-pep
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TIme to shotgun some beers, bro!
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Just finished my first track the other night and I was looking for some feedback. There are some obvious problems (the first kick clips, there are random clicks sometimes, etc) but I'm pretty happy with what came out. http://soundcloud.com/akillia/drug-abuse-akillia-remix I also suck at songwriting, so yeah, i know the structure is weird.
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Heads up Native Instruments are currently doing a 50% off sale for pretty much their entire software catalogue. http://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/five-day-sale/
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Nov 26, 2010 16:49
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squidgee posted:TIme to shotgun some beers, bro! Pretty sick! My latest electro track: http://soundcloud.com/irpat/waxing
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Dicky B posted:Heads up Native Instruments are currently doing a 50% off sale for pretty much their entire software catalogue. Thanks! I'm (finally) picking up Massive.
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Any feedback on the latest mix of my new song is welcome, I really can't get the sub levels right.  http://soundcloud.com/navidnb/sun-wip-11-27 Thanks any takers!
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My friend and I have been collaborating on beats for a couple months, and we just finished our first set of songs. You can catch us at http://soundcloud.com/tembo. Feedback is greatly appreciated! Lowbo fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Nov 28, 2010 |
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I'm interested in how you guys approach your mixes in terms of separating sounds. The arrangement plays a part in this of course, but in the mix itself, what things do you do to create a rich arrangement that doesn't sound muddy and is focused? For instance, the SPL Vitalizer has an actual knob that allows you to select how flabby/focused the bass sounds, how would you recreate this in your mix? Personally I tend to just do very aggressive rejects of frequencies that I don't find desirable, but I have not spent a lot of time doing all sorts of complicated phase shifts to bring out certain overlapping frequencies.
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Lots of EQ, compression, panning. I buss things and compress them. Hell, sometimes I use a stereo imager on my drums group to make all the low frequencies monophonic. I'm also in the habit of giving sounds that are lower in volume more reverb.
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I focus on trying to nail that down when I do sound design. Each sound has kind of a specific function that determines where it will sit in the mix, and I try not to force sounds that mask each other to compete for space. If I really feel like it, I use sidechaining to duck one when the other comes in as opposed to EQing the sounds to sit on top of each other.
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Lowbo posted:My friend and I have been collaborating on beats for a couple months, and we just finished our first set of songs. I like "You don't know". "Unicorn Consumption" not so much. I would like "Marsh" alot more if it didn't have that REALLY annoying bass sound. "Flora" is really nice aswell.
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I didn't know where to post this, but I was curious: Somewhere between five and ten years ago I had a copy of ACID and not knowing gently caress-all about electronic music (I mean NOTHING outside of Nine Inch Nails), I put together this track. I just found it and was curious as to what genre of electronic music it would be (would have been, and don't say "poo poo") as I don't know know from drum n bass, or trip house, or road house, etc. I listed it as techno in the description, but not sure if that's right. Really would appreciate any info or thoughts.  e: I am a musician, but do nothing with electronic music at this time or pretty much ever. Count Freebasie fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Nov 30, 2010 |
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Devil Wears Pravda posted:I listed it as techno in the description, but not sure if that's right. Once you get past the intro, it sounds like an 'Acid Techno' track : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_techno
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new track http://soundcloud.com/scrubby/untitled-9 goes from sorta hiphopish stuff to jungle then back to hiphop or something. IDK. Input would be greatly appreciated.
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Wonder Bread posted:Once you get past the intro, it sounds like an 'Acid Techno' track : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_techno Thanks for the info. I'm assuming from the article that it's a completely outdated style that no one listens to at this point?
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Devil Wears Pravda posted:Thanks for the info. I'm assuming from the article that it's a completely outdated style that no one listens to at this point? Its influence can still be heard, and, like most forms of techno, there are probably a couple of producers who mine the 'classic sound', but it's not common.
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Devil Wears Pravda posted:Thanks for the info. I'm assuming from the article that it's a completely outdated style that no one listens to at this point? Yes. However, the good news is, the only things you need to make that style of music are now available for free: http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/
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Time to visit NMD and learn what all of you young whipper-snappers are into these days. Is trip hop outdated, too? I dug Portishead back in the day.
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Devil Wears Pravda posted:I'm assuming from the article that it's a completely outdated style that no one listens to at this point? *ahem*  Devil Wears Pravda posted:Is trip hop outdated, too? I dug Portishead back in the day. Yes and no. Trip-hop has an overall scene doesn't really exist any more but you can find loads of artists like Wax Tailor taking a lot of influence from it.
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Devil Wears Pravda posted:Thanks for the info. I'm assuming from the article that it's a completely outdated style that no one listens to at this point? No, acid techno is still being made, although I dunno if many people are making acid house anymore.
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Acid house is still the poo poo played a huge role in the evolution of virtually all modern electronic dance music. <3 Acid.
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ahem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj4SCVTMgg4
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I regret buying Aether now. I'm not saying it's a bad plugin, it sounds great, but the layout isn't really doing to for me and it's a huge resource hog. I find myself using Live's native reverb more than Aether, even though that was what I was trying to replace.
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Vector 7 posted:I regret buying Aether now. I'm not saying it's a bad plugin, it sounds great, but the layout isn't really doing to for me and it's a huge resource hog. I find myself using Live's native reverb more than Aether, even though that was what I was trying to replace. I feel your pain man, after buying countless reverbs, the best one I've used is a free one (of course): http://www.kvraudio.com/db/classic_reverb_by_kjaerhus_audio
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Well here's a disco-house ish song that I made a few years ago, but since then I think I've improved on mixing and mastering so I decided to touch it up a bit and see what you guys think? I remember Melee Beats gave me a lot of really useful tips on it, which I used to fix the song.  My only concern is that when the main dancy part kicks in, there isn't enough bass. What Melee suggested to me before was to use a different duplicate track and bring out the bass from the original, but the problem is, in the original the bass is really hard to filter out. Any suggestions? I've been trying to replicate the bass with various synths to no avail. Here's the original song I sampled from for reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHEuAN4tX34 Any advice would be awesome, thanks again you guys GbrushTwood fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Dec 2, 2010 |
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Vector 7 posted:I regret buying Aether now. I'm not saying it's a bad plugin, it sounds great, but the layout isn't really doing to for me and it's a huge resource hog. I find myself using Live's native reverb more than Aether, even though that was what I was trying to replace. Eos The price is right. http://www.audiodamage.com/effects/product.php?pid=AD023
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KryonikMessiah posted:Lots of EQ, compression, panning. I buss things and compress them. How do you use compression for this? What does bussing and then compressing do? This is something I don't really get and as a result I don't use compressors much at all and I think my mixes suffer for it. JamesKPolk fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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Quincy Smallvoice posted:Eos Seconding this.
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I wish there was a demo to try Eos out, but for $50 I'm thinking about buying it. The interface looks appropriate for how I use reverb, and the audio demos sound good to me (of course, they always do... that's kind of their purpose, haha). Anyone want to comment on the kind of damage it does to CPU load when you have a few instances of it running?
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GbrushTwood posted:My only concern is that when the main dancy part kicks in, there isn't enough bass. What Melee suggested to me before was to use a different duplicate track and bring out the bass from the original, but the problem is, in the original the bass is really hard to filter out. Any suggestions? I've been trying to replicate the bass with various synths to no avail I can't listen but I'm going to try and clarify what I said before so I hope this helps Essentially what you want to do is split the track into two sends, High (A) and Low (B). On your High (A) send, start by shelving all of the frequencies under about 300. Add other effects, then compress with sidechaining. On Low (B), start with a Low Pass Filter and only let through up to 300hz, or whatever you set the A channel to. Adjust the Q/Resonance to give it a little more thickness, and compress with sidechaining. If I find that there still isn't enough thickness, you can boost the lows with EQ until it's nice and warm. I'll listen to your track tonight to give you detailed feedback.
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Big thanks to Quincy and Squigdee, I pulled the trigger on Eos and my very pleased with it. My music sounds just a little bit better because of you guys.
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yeah its great - bot for plates and rooms, and those infinite spaces too. not to mention its so fast to adjust.
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Indeed. loving love Eos, it's the reverb I use on most everything.
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So if you were to choose between Eos and Sonnox Oxford reverb, do you guys think Eos is better?
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Better is offcourse a very relative term here. Eos does beefy plates and large halls wonderfully and it is VERY fast to get a good result from it. Very good UI design. The Infinite button is also a godsend. If you try to use it on say a Piano - or a string section, it MIGHT at times sound a little artificial - or atleast you'll be able to say "thats an EOS" right away. But I dont think theres anything wrong with that, personally. You cant ignore the price either. Audio Damage make nothing but quality, and most of their plugins are below $50. If I wanted something unique and original I'd probably go for Aether - but Eos is simply better on the bread and butter application of reverb. edit: forgot to answer your question. Eos - every time.
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http://soundcloud.com/downpour/downpour-henry-chinaski Finally got over my writing block and made some loving music! Slow deep house. All the percussion is done with maschine, I started that this morning then exported it all as loops for arrangement/synths in ableton. It's quite unfinished, but the themes and sections are there. Needs some heavy editing and moving around. The vocal is taken from a hawtin track - it's a placeholder until I rip something from a movie, i've already got a bit in mind. Feedback as it stands much appreciated. 
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This one needs a little something, but I am not sure what: http://soundcloud.com/toaster-1/matool-take-2 Your thoughts would be appreciated.
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So I have a somewhat ignorant question - When a DJ/DJs like Daft Punk or Major Lazer are performing life, what are they actually doing on stage? Some electronic music sounds way too complicated to reproduce live, but I know they aren't simply beat-matching their songs or hitting "play" on their iTunes playlist. I've only ever been to one electronic music thing and it was WEMF and I was a security guard, so I didn't really get to watch/pay attention to what the DJs were doing.
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Audio clips/parts and a wall of effects usually. In many cases also live tweaking of synth patches.
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