Random Production Tips Thread™

3za · Post by **3za** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:12 pm

Can you recommend a good one please? Anyone? This is something I need to get still.

your DAW should have one. but Voxengo Span is a good free one. just dont get all anal when using one.

3za · Post by **3za** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:16 pm

some times things need to be taken away from the track not add.

dont smoke weed.

r · Post by r » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:18 am

sound > delay > limit/compress > bounce > loop as a pad

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:31 am

Step Correct wrote:
Wub wrote:

Analyse those frequncies - Stick a frequency analyser
Can you recommend a good one please? Anyone? This is something I need to get still.

FL PEQ2

gorbek · Post by **gorbek** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:11 am

while this is just me...

I like getting some sort of exercise before sitting down to work on a track...

whether it be sports or a jog or whatever bullshit makes you move...

I sit down more focused and it usually yields better results...

Might be pyschological too, I always hear about how your physical is connected to your mental... Either way, if it helps it helps

stevenikke · Post by **stevenikke** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:33 am

The_Dza88 wrote:Dont smoke weed ,smoke crack

smoke it, get inspired/get those ideas going, sober up, make the track

antics · Post by **antics** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:40 am

Brisance wrote:
Step Correct wrote:
Wub wrote:

Analyse those frequncies - Stick a frequency analyser
Can you recommend a good one please? Anyone? This is something I need to get still.
FL PEQ2

EQUO is way better as it shows your sound as a graph instead of colours...

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:42 am

when you can't find a midi controller solution for what you want, or it's just to pricey, google the diy route and unconventional controllers to save some scratch and have a custom interface

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:07 pm

http://www.tapeop.com/magazine/bonuspdfs/popquiz.pdf
came across this while researching some things about patchbays and figured it could come in handy
weird i've never seen it before seeing as i subscribe to tape op

stevenikke · Post by **stevenikke** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:04 am

stevenikke wrote:
The_Dza88 wrote:Dont smoke weed ,smoke crack
smoke it, get inspired/get those ideas going, sober up, make the track

haha I did not see that that said "smoke crack" even when I had quoted it! However I'm going to stick to pot

notch · Post by **notch** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:16 pm

OK..
Can we get some arrangement tips today...

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:27 pm

notch wrote:OK..
Can we get some arrangement tips today...

Throw all the tips you've previously heard out the window....

"True rebels walk alone anyway"....

mb · Post by mb » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:02 pm

My Friday Tip:

Try to understand producing as playing. I myself use to compare it to playing with Lego. You build stuff, get bummed about not getting anywhere, rip it apart, build new stuff from the ripped parts, again and again and at some point soner or later you get where you nod your head and say yes, i like it. But all the way from the beginning to the end you should not be concerned about the output but more about the process of making it. Simply speaking the joy of making music. When one gets to the point of simply "playing" for the sake of itself, good things will come along, plus you're not pressuring yourself to produce an end product but enjoy the moment, which might be worth a lot. play. and it enjoy it. instruments are toys, which can be recorded. my two cents.

HAACK · Post by **HAACK** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:10 pm

nowaysj wrote:
The_Dza88 wrote: step 1 open can
step 2 pick the can up in your hand
step 3 move the can stowly to your mouth
step 4 open mouth
step 5 pour some of the content of the can into you mouth
step 6 close mouth
step 7 swollow the alcoholic beverage
step 8 repeat untill light headed and jolly

Whats so hard about that?
step 9 wake up
step 10 catch yourself as you fall over walking to bathroom
step 11 vomit
step 12 evacuate bowls
repeat steps 11 and 12 five or six times
step 13 writhe in agony on bathroom floor for an hour or two
step 14 call ambulence
step 15 spend day in hospital in mortal agony
step 16 rip out IV and attempt to find stairwell to roof to end pain
step 17 realize that too many people depend on you
step 18 try to sneak out of hospital w/o giving your name
step 19 spend the next ten days living off of water and white rice

I don't know mates you got it all wrong, it's a simple five step process

STEP 1: Go to bar
STEP 2: Buy some drinks
STEP 3: Get really smashed
STEP 4: Find your self a girly and get laid
STEP 5: Wake up the next day and do it all over again, and oh yhea, Dubstep!

PRODUCTION TIP: meditation

dignan · Post by **dignan** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:39 pm

here's my production tip:

go out to your local bars, gaze at all the townies that never went anywhere, or did anything with their lives. come home and use that as motivation to make some kick ass tunes so that you can get out of your shitty town and see the world.

yeah, I live in a lousy town where there's absolutely no music scene. and i just went to Europe for the first time about a month ago and loved every second of it. I'm going back in January, with a CD of tunes to pass around. rock!

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:28 am

http://mp3.deepsound.net/eng/samples_calculs.php

a god send for when your effects and such don't have a sync button

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:24 am

my production tip....

buy a proper office chair

think about the percentage of your life you spend in that rickety old piece of crap

spend $100

do it!

reverend flipper · Post by **reverend flipper** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:23 pm

Try writing in a different key signature occasionally. I started to find that almost every bass line or melody was in C, so on the last track I started I arbitrarily kept myself in G flat and got one of the most original-sounding songs I've written yet.

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