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Just to fill everyone in, your boy Ace Adams (of the Ace Adams EP) has been collabin' with newcomer Ronzo every week in their series 'Sunday Meds'. a.k.a. Heres my friends rapping, I helped with production/mixing. Heres the third installment: http://soundcloud.com/knightsofthecrunktable/messiah-flow And the rest can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/knightsofthecrunktable Its dope boom bap for all you backpackers and graduates.
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Of course your opinion means something, I couldn't tell you to who tho. But really, thanks. Show your friends. Stay tuned for next weekend, Dopamine Knights weekend, at least three tracks will be dropped.
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Oct 8, 2012 04:49
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Oh and check out this beat I made a bit ago http://soundcloud.com/nate-manuel/woman More to come soon
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Oct 8, 2012 04:52
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http://soundcloud.com/nate-manuel/sets/dopamine-weekend-beat-bundle/ Two beats from myself, and a short one from Ace Adams. For 'Dopamine Weekend', keep an eye on http://soundcloud.com/knightsofthecrunktable in the next few days for a couple more tracks, as well as their weekly Sunday Meds release. Edit: 
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Oct 13, 2012 03:19
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 First single released from the upcoming Dopamine Knights EP "Catching Airwaves"
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Oct 14, 2012 23:47
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guy in a jetta posted:I need to upgrade. I'm currently using FL Studio with an MPD 24. I also have a nice sound card (M-audio Audiophile 2496). I just keep feeling like I've reached limitations with FL Studio. What limitations are you hitting in FL? Buying an MPC, compared to the gear you already have, wouldn't produce any noticeable difference. If you wanted to recreated the digital environment you already have then yes an MPC, mixing board, outboard gear (EQ, compressors, etc), disk/tape recorder or A/D converter, would all be required. What are you looking to upgrade? Your physically playable/tweakable equipment capabilities? Your mixing environment? Your beat making skills?
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Nov 21, 2012 01:38
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guy in a jetta posted:Mostly because I have a friend with an MPC 1000 and he claims that it sounds better than "a computer". This may be a misconception on his and my part. Maybe it's because of the built-in EQs/reverbs/etc that I'm using but I just seem to never be able to get the type of sound I want out of it despite fiddling with it for the better part of ten years. Your friend sounds like hes talking out of his rear end. Using an MPC won't inherently make your tracks sound better, and if you've been using FL for ~10 years you'll probably find they sound worse until you get a handle on the MPC workflow. The standard plugins for FL studio are a bit lackluster, but I still use them for >75% of my effects and synths. Sometimes getting "the sound you want" is a matter of knowing the techniques and effect settings involved, but other times its simply "Use Waves plugin X". As others have said, try out some other programs and maybe they will click better, but IMO FL studio only lacks in the live recording department.
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Nov 23, 2012 22:47
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Unless you do a lot of multitrack recording, or use your own equipment in live shows, I think you missed the point of what we all said.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:16
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 Catching Airwaves - Dopamine Knights EP just released by my two friends Ace Adams and Ronzo. I co-produced and engineered the entire EP. Feedback welcome
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Dec 2, 2012 05:53
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https://soundcloud.com/nate-manuel/a-still-mourning Beat I sampled/produced while I was sitting around (literally) feeling sick today. Feedback always welcome, and I am willing to answer production questions.
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Dec 11, 2012 23:11
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Radio du Cambodge posted:How do you make it so that a bass drum sounds clean even at a high volume? I find when I turn up my speakers, it becomes a flat mess pretty quickly even when it sounds full and punchy to me at a middle-to-low volume. I think this is true of any song, but it seems like a lower threshold for my own stuff. I assume it's a mixing issue but what exactly is the problem? Should the drum be more low pass filtered/EQd to remove midrange frequencies or something? Should other instruments be equalized/filtered so as not to interfere? I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by "sounds clean at high volume". Are you talking specifically about the song you posted, or in general? Is your kick clipping out, or gets lost in the mix, of just isn't 'pumping' as hard as you'd like? Two thoughts I have off the bat are your compressor settings on the kick (if any?), and the general volume of all other instruments in the mix.
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Dec 12, 2012 22:39
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whoknew has the right idea. It sounds like a combination of your monitors and listening environment. At mid level volumes the kick "sounds" right, but is probably louder at some frequencies than it should be. So, when you crank the speakers up, that same frequency physically pushes the diver too far causing distortion. As for solving this... learn your room better. Play sine waves at various low Hz and walk around the room listening for nulls and peaks. And buy better monitors, which still wont solve the room acoustics issue.
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Dec 13, 2012 15:49
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Here's a track I put together with my two rapper-friends: https://soundcloud.com/knightsofthecrunktable/dead-already More on the way - We've been focusing more on getting shows set up than recording new songs recently, but the pipeline is filled with updates.
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Feb 8, 2013 02:58
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Sniped that poo poo so here's another beat from me https://soundcloud.com/nate-manuel/console-yourself
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Feb 8, 2013 03:00
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Two different friends of mine decided to make songs over the same beat! So we had to do both obviously. The first is here: https://soundcloud.com/the-freund/mask-produced-by-moses-manuel The second is here: https://soundcloud.com/knightsofthecrunktable/aliens Which one do you think is better? If you're interested in doing your own song over the beat, get it here: https://soundcloud.com/nate-manuel/sets/rap-over-this (Aliens)
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Mar 27, 2013 05:58
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https://soundcloud.com/nate-manuel/hate-scorn I have a long history of Disney samples. 808's seemed appropriate.
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Apr 16, 2013 03:46
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First of all tell the producer to cut that stupid rear end tag out, nobody is trying to steal his underwhelming drums and four synth patches. Also he should compress your vocals a little more. Your delivery could be tighter, especially if you're going to fast-rap for most of the song. I liked how you switched between rhythms often and smoothly, but you stumble over your tongue at times. For the number of clear take splices I hear in these verses, you couldn't get a better version of some of the sloppier lines? Overall I like the hook and see potential in the verses, you just need a better tracking session. Maybe do some tongue exercises (not kidding) Unrelated: Thanks for the feedback on "Hate-Scorn". Those two responses were oddly mirrored in the two friends I showed in person.
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Apr 17, 2013 00:35
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Admittedly my use of primarily 808 sounding drums (which are layered with non-808 samples in this case) is very overused- but for a reason. Motown drums have a specific sound, jazz drums have a certain style, and hip-hop has been intertwined with the Roland TR-808 drum machine since the 80's. This next bit is my opinion, which is obviously fallible. Where are all these similar sounding beats? If you mean specifically the drum patterns, I'd challenge you to create ANY rhythm sequence that hasn't been used multiple times in recent history across multiple genres. I know of few producers who will gently caress with anything Disney related, for both 'street-cred' and copyright issues. I'm not angry or hurt at your statements, I just don't see the validity of them. This is a constructive argument among peers, not a flame war  If you want a crack at making a more original beat, heres the exact youtube video I sampled from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLtGZ6dX88 also lol @ "indie rap songs"
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Apr 17, 2013 21:59
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Run peep game on this track I co-produced, a teaser for an upcoming double-mixtape release from the Dopamine Knights https://soundcloud.com/knightsofthecrunktable/ronzo-kick-another-one-feat
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Apr 20, 2013 02:09
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Here's another teaser, for the other side of said double-mixtape. This one is real hype to balance out Ronzo's chill vibes. https://soundcloud.com/knightsofthecrunktable/ace-adams-guerrilla-tactics
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Ladle Lady posted:Hey guys, it's me again. I just put a mixtape out last night featuring production from Chwoka and Ayatollah Hermione. I'd really appreciate it if I could get some analysis on what I can improve about my mixing process, writing, presentation...anything really. Thanks in advance for taking a look You've gotten better at rapping, the confidence comes through on the track. I am interested in your recording setup. Did you just do the vocal mixing or more of the track(s)? The first thing I noticed on most of the songs was a lot of reverb on the vocals. Used as an effect on some songs, sure, but the reverb seemed similar from song to song, and not interesting in any case. Are you setting up a separate track as a vocal reverb bus, or just adding it to an existing vocal track? Consider using delay plugins in place of reverb, or in combination. I also noticed lots of doubled vocals that were not properly lined up. It sounds sloppy and in some cases diminishes the impact of the lyrics. Some songs didn't have this problem though. I think all of your vocals could use another 3+ dB of compression on a master vocal bus. It would make the vocals more intimate and present, and really blend/polish those hooks where you have two or more takes at once. Overall the mixtape is cohesive, but the vocals don't jump out at all. In some cases the beat almost drowns them out. If you're alright with it I would love to try my hand at mixing a song off the mixtape, for your reference only (well, mine too!)
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Ladle Lady posted:... and yeah, please take a crack at a mix on any tracks you want to. I'd love to hear it. Gimme yo e-mail or better yet shoot the stems to whichever song you would like me to mix to the.moses.manuel at gmail (stems = individual tracks stripped of effects)
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THNDRTHF posted:NEW TOPIC: If I am making my own beat from scratch, Randomly hear something I want to sample, or listen through movie soundtracks and videos to find something I want to sample. Load into FL Studio, chop out samples I want, further chop and arrange samples into song format. Add drums- usually in the order kick, snare-type, hats/cymbals, percussion. At some point I go through everything adding plugins and mixing. If I'm really feeling it Ill keep working and arrange the entire song, adding an intro and outro, transitions, etc. Then, upload the beat to soundcloud within a day. Mixing a song from stems is pretty different, I could outline that too if there is interest.
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Sup chill people. Everyone else too. Remember me?! The true ML-heads will  . I stopped using SA a while back to increase my "free" (read:studio) time, but here is a collection of dope poo poo I've been working on since then.Here's a beat I made, which will soon be re-created as an official remix with cooperation from the artist I sampled. If I made a beat-tape called 'guitar samples and chipmunk voices' it would contain too many tracks for one disk Silence Here's the first in a series of well-known samples turned into gratuitous Youtube remixes. Millions of views anticipated (by me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ge58bd20Go Here's two notable tracks off of my rap crew's series "Sunday Meds II". New track every sunday, no end in sight 14 weeks in Steve Smith Grand Scheme (Happiness) (Full playlist) Here's a single off my boy Ronzo's upcoming debut mixtape, "The Ronzo Show". Clean version for the single, purely for shats and gags Customer Service Here's a secondary soundcloud page I made for beats not good enough! All are available for download and use by anyone, I can even spiffy the production up if you message that page with a request Moses B-Cuts  SHAMELESS PLUGSHAMELESS PLUGBut for real this is hot poo poo, don't miss a chance to make your own day better by hearing the wonderful sounds I've carefully crafted for you. Too pushy? Sorry babe, I didn't mean to scare you. Of course you can listen some other time. u know I know I got u.
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How could I forget this from my list! Another Mixtape from Rapper/Producer Ace Adams, 'Above & Beyond' Notable tracks if you have no patience for dope beats: Smoke me Down Hero Let me know which tracks you like best!
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