Dusty B
ILLIEN
Battle Points: 38
I joined the /makinghiphop and /trapproduction pages a couple weeks ago, and it seems any actual question just results in a dick swinging contest. Recently, I made a beat where I used heavy 808s for the lows instead of a traditional bassline, but I was struggling to get the lows to play across all sound systems, so I tried bumping up the highs and adding some saturation and distortion to the BUS when finalizing the track (it didn't work).
So I posted a bunch of screenshots, explanations, my thought process, admitted that I felt I was going crazy with the mixing. Then I got down voted a bunch, I guess because I'm a n00b. My favorite response was from the guy who said something like "level it out." So I asked if he has any solid references, his response was along the lines of "it's music bro, use your ears." And then I noticed his latest posts/comments around justifying how/why his 808s were clipping in some track he had uploaded.
Obviously this is just one funny/annoying interaction, but it seems to be the general type of conversation on there, vs. the responses and actual help I got here when I also posted the same thing in "The Lab." Also a reminder to make sure we're not just following whatever that top post or YT video says
Reddit seems to be good for general branding/marketing. My YT videos have seen a lot more views by posting there. But most of the feedback is "that's fire bro, here's mine" to bump each others channels (on those communities anyways). The /FLStudio community seems a little better so maybe I'll spend more time there. If anyone knows of any other good ones, let me know!
Anyways, thought I'd share my experience on Reddit since we all know building an online presence seems to be part of the game now.
So I posted a bunch of screenshots, explanations, my thought process, admitted that I felt I was going crazy with the mixing. Then I got down voted a bunch, I guess because I'm a n00b. My favorite response was from the guy who said something like "level it out." So I asked if he has any solid references, his response was along the lines of "it's music bro, use your ears." And then I noticed his latest posts/comments around justifying how/why his 808s were clipping in some track he had uploaded.
Obviously this is just one funny/annoying interaction, but it seems to be the general type of conversation on there, vs. the responses and actual help I got here when I also posted the same thing in "The Lab." Also a reminder to make sure we're not just following whatever that top post or YT video says
Reddit seems to be good for general branding/marketing. My YT videos have seen a lot more views by posting there. But most of the feedback is "that's fire bro, here's mine" to bump each others channels (on those communities anyways). The /FLStudio community seems a little better so maybe I'll spend more time there. If anyone knows of any other good ones, let me know!
Anyways, thought I'd share my experience on Reddit since we all know building an online presence seems to be part of the game now.
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