Post Your Random Thoughts: for the production heads

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

I know a guy who has been using the same cracked version of reason 4 for 6 years and its never gone tits up for him

[jaydot]

when you need a piss but are mixing down

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

I always need a piss. and im always mixing down. so i just piss myself

[Harkat]

you just know with ambient sounding rap beats being so popular, eventually some asshole is gonna go through all the good electronic ambient stuff and just add a trap beat to it, and it'll probably sound good, but still be lazy as fuck.

Like you could probably loop up future sounds of london or the beatless boards of canada bits and do a great beat, but what a fuccboy you would be to do that

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you just know with ambient sounding rap beats being so popular, eventually some asshole is gonna go through all the good electronic ambient stuff and just add a trap beat to it, and it'll probably sound good, but still be lazy as fuck.

Like you could probably loop up future sounds of london or the beatless boards of canada bits and do a great beat, but what a fuccboy you would be to do that

If you chopped processed and arranged the ambient bits there might be something legit to be had...

[Alexthegr81]

I have to definitely agree on the whole production vs arrangement thing, my arrangement is definitely a lot worse now that I focused on making my production better, guess its hard to keep a perfect balance.
However I'm really enjoying exploring technical aspects of music. For one I've been working on making a snare similar to how Skrillex's sounds (I know, way too late to be proud of this). But I feel like even though its really too late for anyone to give a damn about it, it's still a recipe that's never totally been figured out. While I don't want to make an exact copy of his snare by any means, I just like the way it interacts with the mix. So I've been trying my best at doing it (and losing my sanity at the same time.)

One thing i noticed is that if it is in fact a 909 he did something to make the bottom end very VERY isolated, its like a straight sine wave envelope from 300-220hz that slowly ramps up from around -inf dB at 300hz to 0dB at 200hz and then goes back down when the tail kicks in, kinda looking like an arrow head. i tried to emulate it using envelopes but it just never sounds right, but I tried a clap, along with another snare that also ramps up in tandem with the low end and that actually had some really good results.

Heres the song I tried this out in:
Soundcloud

So hey if anyone wants to try making a totally unique snare sound try using envelopes to actually smoothen the attack. Probably nothing new here but I thought it was pretty cool.