Random Production Tips Thread™

[antipode]

Reverb on your delays.

trust me.

[hudson]

Reverb on your delays.

trust me.

This.
I always send delays to bigger rooms than I'm sending the dry track to. It adds a really nice extra layer to the image.

[dubstep22]

PLEASE PLEASE use dblue glitch!!

[antipode]

PLEASE PLEASE use dblue glitch!!

Or not. That thing is rinsed to fuck, I cringe every time I hear it.

[wub]

Reverb on your delays.

trust me.

This.
I always send delays to bigger rooms than I'm sending the dry track to. It adds a really nice extra layer to the image.

Reverb (short tail) > Delay > Reverb (long tail)


Awww, yeah

[Electric_Head]

PLEASE PLEASE use dblue glitch!!

bad idea
manually glitch things
or if you use Dblue just use it lightly

[jrisreal]

PLEASE PLEASE use dblue glitch!!

bad idea
manually glitch things
or if you use Dblue just use it lightly

this. or you can heavily glitch but filter out the lows or the highs and layer it with the dry effect. can give interesting results, especially if you're modulating that filter.

[wub]

Or just whack it on the Master 100% wet.

Everyone does that at least once

[erratech]

Modulating comb filters on white noise can make cool sweeps and risers. Its all about light and darkness, contrast. Be prepared for disappointment. There is no magic plugin, find things you like and learn them inside out. Once youve done that think about new plugs. Learning things by yourself is really underrated, how can you expect to find your own sound if all you do is emulate tutorials?

There is no right and wrong, but stick a limiter on your channel to stop you destroying your ears anyway. Save as a new file constantly, back up consistantly. Be prepared to lose the best thing you have written multiple times regardless. Cut the lows on reverb and delay sends. Perfect is boring, subtle differences will make things stay interesting. People on the internet have no credentials, take what anyone says with a grain of salt. Take what I say with several. Learn what you hate and dont do that.

[hudson]

Create an audio track, eq out all the highs, lows and a bit around 500Hz, send to a delay, then to a big reverb and throw a slow autopan effect on it (mda roundpan for example). Add any sound you like to this track and boom: instant ambiance.

[antipode]

Modulating comb filters on white noise can make cool sweeps and risers. Its all about light and darkness, contrast. Be prepared for disappointment. There is no magic plugin, find things you like and learn them inside out. Once youve done that think about new plugs. Learning things by yourself is really underrated, how can you expect to find your own sound if all you do is emulate tutorials?

There is no right and wrong, but stick a limiter on your channel to stop you destroying your ears anyway. Save as a new file constantly, back up consistantly. Be prepared to lose the best thing you have written multiple times regardless. Cut the lows on reverb and delay sends. Perfect is boring, subtle differences will make things stay interesting. People on the internet have no credentials, take what anyone says with a grain of salt. Take what I say with several. Learn what you hate and dont do that.

Ummm.

What?

[wub]

you HAVE TO get out of thinking about it like a number. IME, every drum hit is going to have a "sister resonant frequency", if you will. a pitch at which a doubled version of itself will sound great underneath. its never the same. I STRONGLY IMPLORE YOU TO NOT EVEN LOOK AT THE NUMBER. pitch it up or down with the knob, and close your eyes. seriously. this is how i do it. it might be 2 semi-tones. it might be 8.

it sounds dumb, but im being serious here folks: the arguably most important studio technique EVER CREATED IS TO CLOSE YOUR EYES. seriously. cant stress this enough. across the board, this is a crucial discipline to have at your disposal.
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[Today]

is that a brilliant tip from the real rjd2?

[erratech]

They are random tips??? Or should I just suggest using supatrigga for messed up drums? Or maybe adding distortion to a sound for that dirty sound? Boost 200hz on everything to be like skrillex? That better mate?

[wub]

is that a brilliant tip from the real rjd2?

It is.

They are random tips??? Or should I just suggest using supatrigga for messed up drums? Or maybe adding distortion to a sound for that dirty sound? Boost 200hz on everything to be like skrillex? That better mate?

Steady, this isn't the place for bad vibes.

I think epoch was more curious as to your inclusion of a limiter, that's all

[antipode]

you HAVE TO get out of thinking about it like a number. IME, every drum hit is going to have a "sister resonant frequency", if you will. a pitch at which a doubled version of itself will sound great underneath. its never the same. I STRONGLY IMPLORE YOU TO NOT EVEN LOOK AT THE NUMBER. pitch it up or down with the knob, and close your eyes. seriously. this is how i do it. it might be 2 semi-tones. it might be 8.

it sounds dumb, but im being serious here folks: the arguably most important studio technique EVER CREATED IS TO CLOSE YOUR EYES. seriously. cant stress this enough. across the board, this is a crucial discipline to have at your disposal.
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interesting, might play around doing this. often layer my tams and hats etc at different pitches.

I think epoch was more curious as to your inclusion of a limiter, that's all

yep. easy champ.

[erratech]

Sorry just travelled 800 odd k today. over tired and get trolled sometimes. apologies.

[wub]

Sorry just travelled 800 odd k today. over tired and get trolled sometimes. apologies.

So, why would you include a limiter to reduce the signal on your channel vs. turning the volume down on your monitors?

[erratech]

Random massive peaks that certain effects and chains can cause mainly, clipping the output massively and very much louder than the source material and the rest of the song. Absolutely brutal on headphones. You cant really gauge the volume off of the orignal signal. Hope that makes sense, sorry for snapping. The damage the transients do seems to be less too but that may be psychological

[Warwolt]

If anything i keep a limiter to keep feedback delays from raping me if I keep the send to high