On LSD, I made a really cool track. But in a fit of artistic expression, I declared it finished and deleted the save files. I really wish I could work on it again. Most of the time on LSD, I'll just listen to my loops and forget to create anything.

On mushrooms I sat in front of my DAW and I kinda forgot how to even use it. I got frustrated and watched movies instead.

I have some Peyote tonight. I'm gonna see if it sparks some creativity.

And yes, I know "it's all a matter of opinion," but hear me out. This is mainly partaining to organic and psychedelic house, psychill, psychedelic and organic downtempo. I am fairly immersed in the culture. I go to festivals. I have a "tribe" and all that stuff. Within my circle the consensus is that your typical producer with a five year career will generally have three or four good tracks with the rest bring okay to unlistenable. I can't tell you how many times we've been listening to something that sounds great, heads are bopping and suddenly a sample of some indigenous chanting cuts in, or (as much as I love them) a long sample of a Terrence McKenna, Alan Watts, or lesser spiritual/psychedelic guy comes on to take you out of the vibe. Plastic shamanism is perennialy popular in the scene and man, it's a drag when perfectly good, greasy psychedelic music is ruined by someone singing like they're pretending to be an angel or something, or a pan flute busts in, maybe some overuse of a digeridoo. I hate to sound like a wet blanket here but the appropriation of indigenous cultures does come off a little goofy and tone deaf. Especially given that the bulk of the audience and artists are people with disposable income from rich countries. I love the rich textures and use of musique concrete--nature sounds from field recordings--used on a lot of tracks. Inventing new sounds inspired by nature while applying more field recordings would be way better.

Overall, as an audience member speaking on behalf of other audience members, I would like to politely request letting the track speak for itself. Less appropriating indigenous cultures, more celebration of nature itself, less focus on weird vocals and sampling, more focus on inventive, interesting psychedelic beats and sounds.

I just made a remix and I CANNOT figure out how to upload it without getting copyright striked. It’s driving me crazy. I’ve tried formant adjusting the vocal (it sounded terrible with little alter boy so I couldn’t use it, Complex Pro Formants didn’t work). I tried repitching the whole song up 4 and 7 cents. Didn’t work

Does anyone have any advice or ideas? I’m gonna lose my mind if I can’t upload this I’ve been working on it for like a year. It’s too late to go back and build the whole track around a repitched vocal or something :(:(:(

I want to start experimenting with fades in and out embedded into my tracks in a creative way (not mastering), right now I started by adding a gain plugin (on Logic Pro) at the end of my mix bus and started drawing some shapes but whatever I do it sounds off, any help?

I've been studying a lot of techno lately, mainly schranz and acid stuff.

Something I've been trying to pick apart is techno's use of the rumble. It's kind of the antithesis of clean mixing, in the sense that rumbles occupy a space we often try to clean up. I'm talking about the <30hz frequency range, mid/side control, etc. These rumbles are a dirty sound occupying a space we're told not to put things in. Yet it obviously works because there are thousands of techno tunes that sound phenomenal on club systems.

So my question is for you high level producers and engineers put there. How are you making these rumbles work in your mix? What are you doing that makes your rumble add to the track rather than subtract from the other elements?

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Someone needs to make a cover of yakusoku (Leon Chang remix)

So I've been trying to step up my mixing game and I'm using FL studio currently. Previously I've just slapped some reverb onto the mixer track of the instrument (Or maybe a bus of several leads for example) and that has been that. Now I know that this type of way of handling reverb can cause problems and a muddy mix, So I've been researching methods of fixing this.

Either 1: Using some kind of peak controller, that ducks the reverb when lot's of instruments are being played.

2: Using reverb and delay-busses, that only plays the wet signals, EQ:ing these and sidechaining the kick for example. Pros: Makes it easier to automate and control individual reverb on each mixer-track by adjusting the strength to that mixer of the reverb.

Question here is however: is 2 reverb busses enough? 1 for big room reverb and one for close reverb, for all of the synths/leads/instruments?

Would appreciate some feedback from you guys. Thank you!

https://twitch.tv/n3ontigerofficial

I have a friend who's into music production. I am not too familiar with music genres but he listens to mostly melodic EDM and I would categorize his music as similar to that. Chill and often vocals-forward. He also sings himself sometimes for some of his music.

Besides the fact that he owns FL studio and maybe owns a MIDI keyboard, I don't really know what he needs/wants, so I figured getting a gift card to a music store would be a good idea. Does anyone here have ideas for a useful gift card to get him? I was thinking somewhere he could use for FL studio plugins, samples, and/or any hardware.

Just curious to see some examples of tracks where people would say the production is top notch. In terms of song writing, sound design, mixing and mastering.

Want to see if anyone else has fallen into this production black hole. It is something to watch out for. I am very aware of this problem yet it has happened with the last three projects that I’ve done.

Basically I’m in a situation where nobody is gonna help me mix or ‘master’ anything. So when I’m done with my mix w/ headroom I go through a ghetto mastering process where I listen to the tracks on every sound source possible, tweak the mix as I begin the process of compression and smoothing out the overall product.

All of a sudden I find myself in a situation where it’s not really sounding better (murkier) and I’ve ended up with some volume issues (too low/too high).

The whole ordeal has a very time consuming and of course, avoidable.

The last windows patch makes it look like your DAC died lol, I almost bought a new one. im just hoping to save someone some money, here's the post

Track is 128bpm which is pretty fast but I think the bassline and hihats give it even faster feel (at least to me). I'm basically interested in the first bar. Could someone tell me how are notes placed for this bassline and how is sound made (oscilators/envelopes/effects)? Also, how does hihat sound so "full" .. is it several of them and/or overdrive..? My point is not to copy but to learn. Ty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_6HYOmGo8

Short kick is also probably giving it such a fast feel.

After using Labelradar for a while, I want to issue a warning: there are some "labels" you should avoid.

I've learned that most Brazilian labels on this site are just trying to quickly make money off of you. It seems like they are all connected because whenever they message me, the messages are almost always the same: "This song is fire! 🔥 Is it still available? 👀" – they all send almost identical messages, worded the same way, followed by two more messages:

1. "I’d love to explain more about our terms, deadlines, promo, etc."
2. "Could I get your email?"

(I tested this with three different accounts and songs.)

Here’s what I found: (You pay them)

• Free – They just release music on Spotify and other mainstream streaming services with no promotional effort. It’s basically something you can do yourself with DistroKid. (Sometimes they ask for a 10-50% cut, it seems random.)
• 25$ – They release it on ALL streaming platforms and share your song with their "popular DJs" (who no one has ever heard of). Again, this is something you can easily do yourself with DistroKid. (They may also ask for a 10-50% cut.)
• 50$ to unlimited – They offer release and promotion on their Instagram, SoundCloud, etc. (often using botted accounts with bot views/likes/plays), and add your song to their playlists (which usually get no plays, or are also bot-generated).

Before anyone here accuses me of having something against Brazilians: all of these "labels" that contacted me are listed as being from Brazil according to their homepage, etc.

I don’t want to name them because I’m not interested in wasting my time with random drama.

Just make sure you don’t fall for this kind of thing or pay someone to get bot plays with no real results in return.

When you see that term it sounds just like a normal thing, but It actually temporary/ sometimes permanent damage, the tiny hairs in the ear that sense sound get flattened from too much exposure. so you lose sensitivity. most of the time they get back up and you fully restore sensitivty,

But heres the thing, with repeated temporary damage like that, over months to years, those hairs will not stand back up and stay permanently flattened. we should change the term

Please post any and all [Feedback] or [Listen] type threads in this thread until the next one is created. Any threads made that should be a comment here will be removed.

Rules:

1. Make an effort to comment on other people's tracks. By doing so, you will find that others will be more likely to help you with your tracks.

2. Be specific when asking for help. Examples of specific questions: "What do you think about this kick sample?" "How's this mix?" "I need some help on this melody, the last measure comes off a little cheesy, any ideas?" etc.

3. Be descriptive when giving feedback. Use timecodes to highlight certain parts.

4. Please link to the feedback comments you've left in your top-level comment. This will show others the feedback you've left, and you're more likely to get feedback yourself! Also, please notice those who are leaving a lot of feedback and give them some, too. This is a cooperative effort! Update: Any comments that do not follow this format will be automatically removed.

For example:

feedback for Esther: "link to feedback"

feedback for Fay: "link to feedback"

feedback for Minerva: "link to feedback"

Here's my track. I'm looking for ___

Ok so it's been about 2-3 years since I have started listening albums whole heartedly, and I really enjoy the process of music production it's always been so fascinating to me and I have always wanted to try all of these things as a hobby , now searching on Google I found out that you need DAW and a Laptop/Pc a decent headphone and you can start producing music , but I also saw someone said to have a MIDI keyboard controller, now I am not gonna buy any MIDI keyboard now, cause I am just testing waters, but I do have a Casio so is there anything I can learn on Casio before moving to a MIDI keyboard? And with regards to DAW I am actually building a PC cause of my college work as well so I won't starting on DAW anytime soon (a month or so) basically, the gist of it is that I just have a Casio for now and can I like start learning anything that helps me in music production ? Also some advice regarding DAW would be helpful

Hey,

I've been mixing for a year now and wants to venture into the production side.

Through my digging, I noted that a lot of tracks I like have the same kind of offbeat :

A lot of Polyamor label tracks :

L.zwo - House On Fire

Jim Jonathan - Pushing On

DJ IP - ROCK THE PLACE

WATTO - SHAKE N BAKE

2HOT2PLAY tracks :

Ida Corr, 2HOT2PLAY - Think About It

2HOT2PLAY - Keep The Balance [Hot Meal Brigade Vol.3]

Klubbheads - Bounce 2 Da Beat (Discoschorlee, Nightsub & 2HOT2PLAY Remix)

Hard house (rarer and softer but still present) :

22 Interns – Second Phase [TNT022] around 1:10

Baron Von Trax - Come Back To Me

During this set (or any other set of modern trance DJ) :

https://youtu.be/BG4RoPHzrBg?si=8PeBF6YiefE-ggDw

At 04:32, 13:36, 20:37, etc.., and particularly the banger at 1:07:35

It sounds like a saw wave 2 octave down with a filter, but well, that's basically every offbeat tutorial on youtube, and I can't figure out what to do next haha.
I tried to use vital to recreate this sound, but with no luck for now, it doesn't look that it's the hardest offbeat to produce, as I sounds simple, but I don't know how to progress, as I'm pretty new to this.

I know that a quality mix can be achieved with stock tools, but I got a $100 gift card to sweet water as a present I’d like to use. I’m looking for some plugin recommendations that you feel helped take your mix to the next level. I’m generally open to anything. I don’t really like Ableton’s stock limiter, so I was looking into Pro-L. Also, Ableton’s stock EQ is great! But pro q4 just dropped and also looks pretty sweet. Everyone raves about Soothe 2 and I’m leaning into that as well. Trackspacer looks interesting too! If anyone has any suggestions please let me know! (I have a good delay, reverb, and saturator already so I’m good on that front.)

Hey. I'm producing in Fl and have ozone 11 on my master just to get loudness. Is there any way to get it from -8 lufs to -3 without super distortion of output signal. Thank you< thank you!

UPD: thanks guys for huge feedback. I didn't expect this.

I've been wanting to make rendition of songs, but want to know what type of licenses I would need, since what I want to do doesn't neatly fall into either category, based on what I've seen so far.

I want to make a version of someone's song where the only thing in common with the original is the lyrics - I rerecord the voice and don't use any samples from the original composition, but I do significantly change the melody and structure of the song. Would this be a remix or cover under US copyright law?

I’m asking this because I split my main bass leads and sub. I’ll have an EQ on my sub with a mild slope low pass filter at 100hz, and then I’ll have an EQ on my bass leads with a HPF mild slope at 100hz as well. Then kickstart is on my sub only channel.

I’m kinda tired of splitting my sub and bass leads like this and just want to duck out only the sub bass on the bass leads with trackspacer. Is it able to do what I want or should I just stick to what I’m doing?

Edit: imma stick with kickstart 2 y’all. I don’t want to lose the ability to automate and control the volume on the sub being separate.

When I started this music hobby, I was all "JUST DO IT" "LETS GO" attitude, I downloaded FL Studio, was amazed there was a VST that could even emulate guitar. I just experimented and made a lot of silly fun songs (about 25 or so full songs) that first year... The next year I did almost the same but was mroe focused on trying to build a profile for myself online.......... Then the next 3 years, It kinda waned down.

Now... years later, I noticed I slowly got into GAS syndrome, and Research syndrome (about other peoples gears LMAO) and looking up music theory a lot. Watching mixing/mastering tips / tutorials, looking for best monitors/headphones, going kind of audiophile with a DAC and shit lol

I realized, the last 3 years, I have only completed 5 or so songs? A lot of short WIPS and most of my time has been spent buying / selling gear, researching, and shit...

I Want to go back to the first year, where I was innocent, oblivious, new, unjudgemental, and just opened the daw and played around, I had a set of AKG k240s (50$), NO AUDIO INTERFACE, NO SPEAKERS..... I'd mix with Fruity EQ and slam MAXIMUS on everything.......

Somewhere along the line I was like "i have to be pro, I need the best now, I need better this that etcs...."

Now I have so much gear and research and bookmarks and plugins and other things I don't even complete songs anymore

I've been saying to myself for a year or so now
"Once I'm done watching all these MWTM, once I'm done researching and trying these plugins, Once I setup this room and get better speakers, I just need to fine tune this and that......."
and of course I'm still stuck in the same mode

I've thought of just selling everything and starting over again on a macbook pro with a bare DAW and just keeping maybe 5 or so plugins and only use a waves bundle or something lol

I just want to go back to making complete songs again, posting them online with a profile, and keep doing it for fun and see where it gets me, I'm so tired of GAS and research I dont even know why I do it...

Any advice?

Anyone use more than one DAW to produce or familiar with more than one? I love Ableton and feel very comfortable in it almost like second nature at this point but I’ve kinda been itching to try logic or maybe another DAW. I’m sure the skills can translate well from one to the other just wondering if anyone has had any experience good or bad.

Also I make mostly edm music but go off path into hip hop sometimes too

I use FL 24, it has organizer for Samples to search in, however it isn’t that great.

I’m looking for an alternative.

Isengard gard gard gard gard

ISOxo has some of the best sounds I've heard in trap. I love his style and was wondering if anyone had any tips to help recreate it. I watched his nightrealm breakdown as well as many style recreations on yt, but nothing really seems to get at how he creates his unique sounding leads. If anybody has any tips or ways to recreate sounds like the lead in kidsgonemad, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

hey guys, need help to find this loop that ive been hearing on several house music tracks and i have no idea where it comes from, it's driving me crazy lol, i appreciate your help, thank you.

i separated some tracks here that have this loop

https://open.spotify.com/track/2TQHE5bJmg119fU4eAKQ8H?si=3yqEtBN3RXONVS0Kr2EsIw

https://open.spotify.com/track/63G26wyRVzWcfCIUa8WUUM?si=JUQuabRYQD-P0D93vZZcUw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A01dCPwuW4tG60zhi2PlVwL

https://open.spotify.com/track/2i85422YzCgV8gvwy5mfvU?si=grKl8Ou1TemYVPj_tMf86g (2:30)

https://open.spotify.com/track/6qUuM1Um9i18cTGMDZvrHK?si=2Fan1fv5T6yqH830PFF3Tw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4vO9gPQBnyCNZZJwjdSoh2

https://open.spotify.com/track/1rKC4E9Rh9xznfBxj3MBQe?si=YbuuYUhSS_a-6smUD2zGWQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4vO9gPQBnyCNZZJwjdSoh2

When you produce a track, do you start from a “radio edit” arrangement with a distilled idea and then make an extended DJ-friendly version or the opposite? Do you even bother with multiple edits?