to give to aspiring producers and sheit, off of the top of your head in no order of importance
1. stick to few machines or software and push those to the maximum
(just cause you have 5,000 vst's doesnt make you a good producer)
2. read good reviews about music and hear what it is that made that music special, dont just read the bullshit reviews that use all the same cliches like "club stormer"
"ibiza anthem". The answers to making great music is there, and rather than copying someones sound your able to imagine those ideas first in your mind and what it means to you. a great example -----> http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/dj-sp ... 120-blues/
3. tension is key to making this dope loop into a full track (drum fills, atmopsheric sounds rising and falling, fx <---the most cheesy but effective)
4. once your comfortable, get uncomfortable
5. resample your sounds over and over
6. the more personal you get, the better
7. dont use fx to mask your inability to sequence anything
8. organize your sounds
Best Advice You Could Give off The Top of Your Head
Best Advice You Could Give off The Top of Your Head
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The only advice I can give anyone is to just finish the damn thing you're working on, even if you hate the loop, are pissed off with the sounds or think the bass sounds like sh!t.
Just finish it.
You will learn INFINITELY more from getting it done than you ever will from sitting there masturbating on how good your 4 bar loop sounds.
A truely good song is good because of the tension between sections, builds, drops and all the other stuff around the 4 bar loop.
4 bar loop does not a good song make, even if you loop it for 6 minutes.
Just finish it.
You will learn INFINITELY more from getting it done than you ever will from sitting there masturbating on how good your 4 bar loop sounds.
A truely good song is good because of the tension between sections, builds, drops and all the other stuff around the 4 bar loop.
4 bar loop does not a good song make, even if you loop it for 6 minutes.
n+1 : never over eq any thing. If you are doing it, and it still doesn't sound right. Dump the sound and load another one, you'll save ages and it will sound better in the end.
n+2 : If you have a controller, once you have that loop going, map all the interesting controls and play the track rather than plan it and "draw" it. IT will sound much more natural that way and you might come up with a more interesting structure you would've come up with if you had thought it rather than played it.
n+3 : this was already mentioned and i'll paste it here again :
n+4 : dig deep for different sounds that aren't meant to be "musical" and turn them into whatever you feel like, drums, atmospherics, pads, synth.
n+5 : play with automation as much as possible
n+6 : a good arrangement can make a good loop into a great track. The most efficient ideas are usually the best.
n+7 : can't think of any more now, too tired to even think
n+2 : If you have a controller, once you have that loop going, map all the interesting controls and play the track rather than plan it and "draw" it. IT will sound much more natural that way and you might come up with a more interesting structure you would've come up with if you had thought it rather than played it.
n+3 : this was already mentioned and i'll paste it here again :
It's about how you make things sound rather than what you use.1. stick to few machines or software and push those to the maximum
(just cause you have 5,000 vst's doesnt make you a good producer)
n+4 : dig deep for different sounds that aren't meant to be "musical" and turn them into whatever you feel like, drums, atmospherics, pads, synth.
n+5 : play with automation as much as possible
n+6 : a good arrangement can make a good loop into a great track. The most efficient ideas are usually the best.
n+7 : can't think of any more now, too tired to even think
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JonasEdenbrandt
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+1 on all of the tips here.
My tip is don't just sit down to make a track take time to practice you'r production as well. For example sit down and go through what different waves sound like and what combining them sounds like. This can be applied to grooves and mixing as well. When you get a hold of different things like this try recreating grooves/sounds/mixes that you hear in other peoples tracks and also things that just pop into your mind. Perhaps the stuff you create while practicing turns into a track and if it dosen't you probably learnt something valuble.
My tip is don't just sit down to make a track take time to practice you'r production as well. For example sit down and go through what different waves sound like and what combining them sounds like. This can be applied to grooves and mixing as well. When you get a hold of different things like this try recreating grooves/sounds/mixes that you hear in other peoples tracks and also things that just pop into your mind. Perhaps the stuff you create while practicing turns into a track and if it dosen't you probably learnt something valuble.
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victorgonzales
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Buy a Mac!AK wrote:All the best advice is already there. Here's a thing that was missed.
Got a new DAW? Connected to the Net?
Don't use it to browse porn. Guaranteed to f-ck your system up, take it from a me a been-there-done-it-pervert.
You can make music and watch porn..
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