Spending ages tweaking a compressor only to realize it's been disabled in the effects rack

I use my mobile phone to record sounds whenever I come across something cool. "Can you drop that again for me the same sort of way"

I'd get a longer sweep in there. All about creating anticipation. You gotta taunt them before you slap 'em with the bass.

i dont think it is generally i turn everything off before i start. Im just trying to sort out structure and general sounds before all the EQing you guys are talking about. Seems counter productive to learn the little edits when the track isnt even done Well if you're just practicing composition the...

I'm gonna agree with 3ZA. I got into producing when I was pretty young and had no knowledge of music whatsoever. I wasted a lot of time making dumb mistakes because I was trying to produce something I didn't understand. I say this pretty often, but get on eBay and buy a handful of cheap, used books...

Thought these were pretty useful last year. There's 13 parts to it though so patience is key.
The below video is the second video as the first video is just an introduction video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZSR1fZWQPw

Those vocals were uh... rough. Your compressing or limiting your kick, snare, and midrange bass together arent you? im not doing any EQing atall... Ive not learned how to yet, those vocals are from a sample pack and havent been touched. Im learning track structure and getting the sounds needed befo...

I liked the notion of 30 second loops when I started out. Open a plugin, read the manual then make a 30 second clip using it. Nothing crazy complicated just a basic drum beat and basic synth. It gets you used to your DAW, gives you practice in writing melodies/drums and you get to learn your plugins...

Cheeky wrote:ImageLine for sheer ease of use, NI comes second, but they lose out for not being able to spell

Huh?

I just set audacity to record the stereo mix.

SKITSTEP wrote:Hope this helps

Bottom left of screen

Well that's it. The more times you go through that process of sound selection, writing and then mixing the better you'll get.
Captain obvious reporting for duty sir

I don't think you should ever drop the books. Nobody knows everything about music production and anybody who claims to is a egoistical fucktard and wrong. You need to balance your learning and producing. Producing gives you the experience which you can use to work out your weaknesses so you can spen...

Followed by PSP. How do PSP compare to Waves? Never used any of PSP's products. I absolutely swear by PSP's Vintage Warmer. The harmonics it adds to the sound sweetens it greatly and gives it the sort of character which you could never get out of say Waves L2. I find the Wave plugins more transpare...

Native Instruments because of FM8 and Absynth
Followed by PSP.

What price is affordable to you? Some people on this forum will set that bar over an immense range.

Hardware is merely for show in my opinion, it looks good and sounds it good to say you have one. My favourite producers across the genres do work with VSTs, and the only advantage of hardware I've heard is it sounds "deeper", "warmer", and "softer". Haha, these just so...

Not really. If it's a noisy sample I just replace it with a better quality one.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking that having tonnes of analogue gear will suddenly take you to the 'next level'. It won't. You'll probably find these racks of hardware were building up after the artist's tracks were getting lots of attention and it seemed a valuable investment to add that little...