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3 months no beat makin
Yea... tell me about it... It has to be your girlfriend. Break up with her now, and you'll make Plennybeats! You can't be too hard on yourself when there's a slump. It's a natural part of the creative process. If you pay attention to the patterns in the years, you'll find times of the year... -
Flipsoulfisha On Blasstttt!!!!!!
I hear u... I ain't startin nothin either, just curious about your preference. (Everyone's entitled to their own preference) You're right: sometimes grungier is better, and I'd agree to that most of the time. In this case (my opinion, not trying to bash dude or anything) I hear it sounding...- Hypnotist
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- Forum: The Basement
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Flipsoulfisha On Blasstttt!!!!!!
HOLY SHITTTTT!!!! Yo nomeezie. I'm sorry there's people like that still floatin around. It's like a kindergartener trying to take an SAT and doesn't even spell his name right. It's like a dude trying to buy sand off the desert and think he got somethin hot, and then sells the sand to the...- Hypnotist
- Post #93
- Forum: The Basement
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Studio Monitors
For me, I can't mix without having multiple monitors. I've been accustomed to using the studio technique of the Genelecs and NS-10s, in combination with the far-fields in the wall. You'll be surprised how good your song sounds when you mix on NS-10s, where it's really good for hearing the... -
Eq
brass is usually higher than guitars, and you get a nice presence in the 7-10kHz range that you won't hear in a guitar (only the string plucking or the high grunge of distortion). Try to find an upper range that the horns sit on and the guitar doesn't. Make a notch filter so that one frequency... -
Getting that crowd sound on the hook...
yea... I've done what bastard said a thousand times and most times it's been successful. but the most successful times I've done what they call "gang vocals" is when I actually get a bunch of people in the booth to make noise or repeat one word. Then I have em record again and layer layer... -
Order of Effects when Mixing
Self taught from 14 to 20... made 2 amateur hip hop albums that sold pretty well in my neck of the woods... went to school at the New England Institute of Art in Boston to touch up on my skills... interned at 3 different recording studios, got a job at a major recording studio in Manhattan... -
Order of Effects when Mixing
First, I add a light reverb on my drums, starting with the snare. My drum reverb is light, but depending on the track, I might bring out the snare a little more, like if there was a rim shot or a finger snap, I'd make it real wet. With the keys, guitars, or sample, I first check if they're... -
What makes a street record??
You can make a street record on club beats. It just depends on the mood of the track. Think of R&B when it went to hip hop drum beats and all it did was just spice it up a little. Mary J. Blige, for instance... Puff Daddy was blendin the hip hop beats over R&B... who woulda thought? Now... -
Training Your Ears
Precisamente. The frequencies just out of our reach can be sensed by the body, and the ear strains to hear them. I hear 16kHz just fine, even 18-19kHz, but that's because my story's slightly different from most people... When I was like 16 I was really serious about recording, and heard... -
My keys are Sticky .. EEEWWW
With light amounts of water on your equipment and circuitry, it doesn't harm much unless you turn it on while it's wet, and the water becomes conducive and shorts shit out. But if you cleaned it carefully, then used a fan for a while, then turned your equipment on the next day, it would be... -
Mic
The thing is: With dynamic microphones, the diaphragm is more rugged and doesn't respond as well to softer sounds. Believe it or not, even a loud emcee needs to be picked up with a more sensitive mic. Usually there's a pad switch on condenser mics, that eliminates distortion that can happen at... -
Breakin In.....
I've interned at 4 studios, one of which was a paying gig, with a glorified title of "general assistant". It's hard to get, and like mentioned above, you NEED to KNOW people. My advice: Build up your resume. Look online for studio links and find their address, and fax them a cover letter with... -
Recording in Cool Edit Pro Problem
Do you only have one table? Have you only been troubleshooting through the same channel every time? - try a different channel on your Vestax - try a different needle if you have one for your Technics - try a different phono cable with ground to the same channel - try a different cable from... -
I just sent my beats to be Copyrighted
Yes, you would either need 2 separate PA forms or 2 SR forms. If they contain sampled works, and it's an album, then I would use form SR. Say there are 4 artists on the album, but they appear separately on many tracks. For this example, lets say their names are John, Mike, Chris, and Alex... -
I just sent my beats to be Copyrighted
Somewhat true. Basically if you composed a beat and you want to copyright the actual composition of the beat, then you should fill out form PA, (Performing Arts) because you performed it that way. If you want to copyright that exact recording that you made at that precise time, then you'd... -
Warning: You may call me "Stupid". LOL..
Yea, this is definitely true. Back in the dayz emcees had the same name in different territories, and then they'd come across each other and battle for the name. That's just how it was done back then. -
Training Your Ears
Oh yea... and I forgot: When you generate sine waves, check the levels. The higher frequencies are perceived louder than the lower ones. Don't fuck up your ears. Mix it so it sounds pleasing... you don't want to go deaf while trying to better your hearing.