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Hearing the Lows
Besides deadening your room, here's a couple more tips for making up for the low-end loss in a small room: -put the sub in the corner of the room. each wall adds 3dB, and you need not know where the bass is coming from. You won't hear its direction, but adding 6dB in the corner of the room... -
Beats sounding the same
Aight, they say the best advice is your own. These are things that I have either done, or have been trying to do for years. -Layer layer layer. When your beat sounds dry, have three snares (not the same notes, don't copy & paste; gotta offset em slightly to let em "drag" across the beat)... -
Production RECORDING VOCALS -- Drop ur techniques and tips!
Always own voice with the beat thru the cans. The artist needs to hear what's going on. Now there IS an art to this... You can make the artist louder or quieter depending on what you want him/her to do. Say he's not pushing the envelope and you want him to really use his diaphragm. Turn...- Hypnotist
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Training Your Ears
The thing about a good engineer: He sits in front of the board and makes sure the kick is tight, the guitars are at a decent level, the vocals are nice and bright, and the overall level of everything is good. The thing about a GREAT engineer: He can listen to the same mix over and over... -
general panning guidelines
Yea, you'd be lucky to find it tho. Sometimes you'll find those kinda samples in some new-age stuff, or some East Indian music. Hmmm... I wonder what year they actually used potentiometers instead of switches, but I was talking about the experimental phase of pot panning, like veon said. -
general panning guidelines
To clarify about panning: When you have one track and it's a mono track, you will have one spot to put it between two speakers. There is always a relationship between one speaker and the next. So if you put it 40% to the left, then it's still "leaking" a little in the right speaker. (40 to... -
general panning guidelines
20%? I go everywhere from 1% to 100%. You gotta double up your sounds to make a difference with something panned hard left and hard right. Remember that true stereo means that there is two signals of the same source from different angles, or two takes from the same angle. Rarely do I take... -
placing the hooks in protools
Yea, this is true. I've worked with a lot of emcees who don't do it on time. For that, I try to direct them a little... but some just don't have the talent to get it every time. As for the consistency, this is for when it's actually ON time. For when you actually DO correct it and manipulate... -
The overall sound of your beats
Ok if it's buried in the mix, or distorting noticeably, then I will assume that you're using some mastering plug in. I could be wrong, but that's usually the case on this problem. I've said this about 15 times on this forum before and I'll say it again and again: DON'T MIX WITH THE ULTRAMAX... -
placing the hooks in protools
This is the best bet, if you're not gonna do it all live. It's nice to have live hooks, but only if the emcee is consistent like that. I always look for quality shit like that. Like, if I have a guitarist, I'd PREFER him to play all the way through the track instead of copying n pasting, but... -
Is this crap? Or does it work?
It actually sounds like the audio is degraded. I understand it's an mp3, and the original is degraded as well, but the "AFTER" version sounds like there's some processing going on, and you don't want that. I wonder if it actually does take everything that's out of the dead center. It can work... -
Protools Regions
Yea, just drag the region in the edit window when in spot mode. Or just click on a region that's already in the edit window and it'll ask you where to paste it. -
Sample BPM slower than Track BPM
Seoul, Time compression can work if it's minimal. It basically inserts tiny bits of space into the sample so that it still has the same frequencies and pitch, just slowed down a little. Sometimes it can work, if it's not far off from the tempo, other times it really sounds choppy because it's... -
I need help from my illmuzik fam !
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Production Notes
This is definitely true. When I'm creative, I just want to be creative, and if I were to interject with how I felt about what I was doing, it would take away from it. In this case, take the mindless notes that only take a few seconds. If you find a patch that could really work, but you want... -
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Drums first?
I usually start with the lips, then move down to the nipples. But like everyone else said... it's all about how you FEEL it. -
i'm having trouble making basslines
Exactly. Sometimes I take the main melody (if it's made already) and solo that with the kick drum itself. That helps come up with the rhythm sometimes. Other times I won't even have the melody composed yet and I'll work with the bassline off the drum rhythm, and come up with a melody from... -
Any good links to where I can sale my beats
http://www.beatbuyer.com It's my boy's site... don't know how successful it is, but he puts the prices up there for $199 each if you're interested. -
I need help from my illmuzik fam !
Ha Syg I was gonna say that same shit! I once did that at a [show] in some girl's huge basement with like 30 of her friends. It's actually fun as hell and you keep everyone's attention. Bring in a mic and sample people in the room. Make everyone a part of your performance and they'll...