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Do you? I have some.

Yes.

dunno i will ask my ghost producer

My secret is stay away from social life (sometimes or maybe a lot if you're serious), forget about tutorials & internet much as possible.
Dig deep into your DAW & try to make things sound spot on with just a few fx.
Layering things together is always powerful.. so is slicing audio & rearranging things.
Techniques like resampling may work for some but there is usually no need, there are ways to flow things together without going overboard on a single sound.
Learn every technique & make up your own.. Eventually you'll stick to the methods you like.

Resampling is one of those things that has been put on a pedestal way too much, IMO.


Like transient shaping, sidechaining...it gets thrown about as a magic cure to all your problems.

yes,

fuck off

my secret is to ignore all the technical bullshit, apart from the basics of course

Id say avoid technical things often rather than never doing/learning it.
I once wanted a certain lead in a song & resampled since i couldnt get it.. I got carried away but made something potentionally better than what i pictured, only it lacked clarity.
I started over and made the same sound cleaner using just 3xosc & waveshaper.
Not a great story lol but moral is try to avoid long winded tactics.. but do them on the rare occasion if your song needs something that your unable to find, it can inspire other ideas/discoveries.

wub wrote:Resampling is one of those things that has been put on a pedestal way too much, IMO.


Like transient shaping, sidechaining...it gets thrown about as a magic cure to all your problems.

Exactly.

Can't say anything I do is a "secret technique" but if you use the tools you got in the right way and don't just assume that techniques or effects will magically make up for your mixing mistakes (see above) then there isn't really anything "secret".

That said, I suppose this thread is more about effects used in a creative way rather than basic EQ/compression stuff? One thing I like to do is stick a delay on a send and then put an autopan and sometimes an autogate effect at twice the speed to make a kind of swirling, glittery soundscape

Yes.

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And one of the best things you can do from time to time is try and learn an entirely new workflow/approach - not to forget the old one so much as prevent getting to comfortable/stale. Shake it up. Challenge your own status quo.

Yes, go write music.... stop thinking about it. Just do it!

Yes...does it matter? No.
Music is art not a science project.

Hex047 wrote:Yes...does it matter? No.
Music is art not a science project.

Well, it does actually matter. By secret production techniques, I also meant secret mixing techniques. You know, if you can't mix your music properly it will sound bad, no matter how good the melody is or anything like that.

mromgwtf wrote:I also meant secret mixing techniques.

If I want to test a tune out I'll put a brickwall limiter on the master and adjust the wet to ~30%. Not perfect by any means but it suffices for a 'roadtest'.

Do a great mixdown, bass boost +6 db before posting on soundcloud for streaming

wub wrote:

mromgwtf wrote:I also meant secret mixing techniques.

If I want to test a tune out I'll put a brickwall limiter on the master and adjust the wet to ~30%. Not perfect by any means but it suffices for a 'roadtest'.

A limiter with dry/wet control is a rare thing... never seen one.

reaper

*cough

mromgwtf wrote:

Hex047 wrote:Yes...does it matter? No.
Music is art not a science project.

Well, it does actually matter. By secret production techniques, I also meant secret mixing techniques. You know, if you can't mix your music properly it will sound bad, no matter how good the melody is or anything like that.

Yeah, but getting a decent mix doesn't require secret mixing techniques.

Hex047 wrote:

mromgwtf wrote:

Hex047 wrote:Yes...does it matter? No.
Music is art not a science project.

Well, it does actually matter. By secret production techniques, I also meant secret mixing techniques. You know, if you can't mix your music properly it will sound bad, no matter how good the melody is or anything like that.

Yeah, but getting a decent mix doesn't require secret mixing techniques.

It does. I have a few, and I haven't seen them anywhere on internet. If I had to work without them that would be terrible. I bet every good mixing engineer has his own tricks.

Kinda yeah... although I post about my "techniques" all the time on places like here and when people message me on SoundCloud. For me it's the way in which I do my kicks and also chain things in a mix to get stuff as loud/punchy as I want it, it's not neccesarily technically correct but it works for me on my setup so yeah...