I have the opportunity to do a 6 month sponsored marketing course, but I have to choose one. I am a musician too, and would like to engage with an audience and drive traffic to relevant sites and promotions etc.

So my options are essentially as in the title:

Content

Social Media

Digital

AI

I don't know much about marketing and am reading as much as possible + watching youtube vids on it etc, but hoping to get some first hand insight here because I feel like I may be missing something.

Thank you!

I'm mainly an electric guitarist who likes making songs on Logic. I'm looking for an upgrade from M Audio AIR 196. I use audio interface for recording electric guitar, vocal, and for live electric guitar using Neural DSP Amp Sims. I also would need to travel with it frequently.

UA Apollo Twin X Gen 2

Pro:

• Released in late 2024
• Far better plugin bundle
• Better design/build
• Better headphone amp

Con:

• Only one instrument input
• More expensive
• Needs a power supply

Apogee Duet 3

Pro:

• More portable/comes with a case
• Bus powered
• Two instrument input + two headphone output (with Duet Dock)

Con:

• Released in late 2021

I'm also planning to get Apogee Duet 3 and the dock so the cost difference would be $830 vs $1000.

I think the deciding factor for me is A/D and D/A conversion. I did hear Apogee's conversion is better than the UA Apollo Twin X 1st gen, but I also know UA Apollo Twin X 2nd gen got new converters. I don't think I was able to find any direct comparsion of conversion between these two, so that's the part I'm most unsure about. Any recommendations or comments about these two products will be greatly appreciated!

I want to upload bass cover to youtube and not be copyright striked, I was doing research and I found a service called WATH that people have used in the past to be clear of any copyright strikes as well as monetize their cover songs, is it still relevant? Is it legit? Does anyone use the service?

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to figure out the best midway tuning to play songs in non standard tunings from System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age and Slipknot. Most system songs are in Drop C, qotsa use C standard and slipknot drop B as I understand.

I have a fixed bridge guitar and a couple of others with a tremolo so was thinking to have the fixed bridge one setup to be in C standard. Someone suggested buying a baritone guitar which apparently can be tuned to a wider range than non baritone guitars.

I've been able to use software to pitch shift to drop B by tuning my guitar to drop D (at least it sounded like drop B/slipknot when I played it at the time). I cannot remember what free pitch shifting vst that was though.

I would mostly be playing my favourite songs from home and it would be cool to be able to record some songs. I've heard the digitech drop pedal isn't ideal for recording at least isn't the best option for good quality recordings along with if you're dropping too much, it's starts to sound more digitalized.

TLDR; how to play soad, qotsa and slipknot songs without too much hassle of tuning (will consider both software and hardware options).

Any suggestions would be awesome.

Thanks

Hi, I’m a music student (main focus is performance) but I’m required to create a piece for a horror film, the film chosen is split starring James Mcavoy and I’m really not sure how to go at it, any tips would be appreciated greatly!!

I'm making ambient music for a long time. Finally I'm publishing them on Spotify soon but the problem is, I need to clean them one by one and since its ambient I need it to sound atmospheric. They sound like they are playing on a mono headphone. What can I do to increase the music quality and make them sound like its reverbing in your head (but like its reverbing in your ENTIRE head not like right to left ear, left to right ear.) I hope I was able to explain my problem, I hope you can help me :)

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Hello all! My band is about to go back into a studio to record our 2nd album and I have a few questions on what we need to do and how to properly communicate our wants to the producer.

On our first go around, we went in completely blind. We had a few producers to choose from at the studio we went to. We selected one, he dropped out, and we were assigned a new one. He is a fantastic fit for the process but, he has a very hands-off approach - so we quickly learned that we were going to need to learn a lot more about the process of recording professionally.

We are an indie rock band trying our hardest to sound as full and powerful as the albums that inspired us - American Idiot, The Black Parade, Blink-182 unitiled, Riot, etc.

We understand there's always going to be the gap of the 100's of 1000's of dollars spent at labels studios, tenured mixers & masterers, and the talent we lack, but we want to bridge the gap as close as possible.

We are happy with how clean our first album sounds but it lacks the fullness, power, and width of these albums we grew up loving. The only problem is - we are still learning and I do not know what it takes to get as close to these as possible.

Is it layering more and more instruments, tracks, and vocal harmonies? Mixing differently? Compression? Someone else to master?

I am just trying to absorb anything and everything I can to bring to round two.

Any tips and tricks to vocalize to our producer would be greatly appreciated since these are things we are relying on them to do rather than an in home studio. I am sure I will get dinged if I leave a direct link so if you need our first album for comparison I will comment or DM it to you for reference. If not a good example would be the quality jump between 1039 Smooth/ Slappy Hours and Dookie by Green Day.

Thank you all!

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My studio setup consists of my audio interface connected to the computer. The output 1 and 2 from the audio interface go to the L and R inputs of the subwoofer, and then the subwoofer connects to two speakers via XLR cables. However, whenever I shut down my computer, the speakers start producing a low to mid-range buzzing noise. When I unplug the audio interface, the noise disappears. But when I plug the audio interface back in, the noise returns.

I purchased a SubZero Hum Destroyer and connected it between the audio interface and the subwoofer, but the noise became even louder, and it appeared even before I shut down the computer. So I decided to abandon using it. I plugged all the cables and power cords into a single power strip, but that didn’t solve the problem.

I know I can turn off the speakers’ power to stop the noise, and I do so. However, I want to understand why this happens and how to solve it. I’d like to learn more about this issue. I hope someone can help me solve this problem. Thank you, and best wishes to everyone!

I’m new to recording and i have a Shure Sm57 mic plugged thru a cloudlifter preamp, and then lastly connected to my iRig Pro Duo i/o.

I am using garageband ios and everytime i attemp to adjust the input gain it starts to sound very distorted and awful on my headphones but my Spectrum Analyzer/ VU meter plug-ins show that my peak db is still below -20db. My recorded track shows a fair amount of signal but it won’t reach the desired input gain. Idk what to do any tips would help

I should also mention that I can’t turn the gain on my iRig above a certain level without the audio sounding super crunchy. However the audio i record when testing won’t reach anywhere near -18 db and will sound somewhat low/ not the desired volume.

I'm a sync licensing professional and wanted to raise this question to see how artists adapt their songwriting and performance styles when creating music for sync licensing. Some of you might not be familiar with sync licensing, so I’d also like to highlight its growing importance as a revenue stream for artists. There’s no right or wrong answer here—I'd just love to hear from fellow artists about how they approach sync and maybe share some examples of music that fits this purpose

So I recently got a couple bits for a home studio like a focusrite etc but I only have one mic slot. I’m only going to be making simple acoustic tunes with some electric maybe some bass but should I just lay down a rough guide track first seeing as I have to record vocals and guitars separately? I’ll just record the guide track in one mic so won’t make the final mix but used to label each section.

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I'm attempting to make the keyboard sound that comes in at 0:14 and 0:27 in this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evvP9bSS8Oo

I'm trying to do it digitally, but it's a sound I recognize from a lot of tunes from the 70s era, so I know it's originally an analog instrument sound. It's common enough that I think it must be a well-known instrument or preset. I use Diva and Vital as my synth plugins. The closest I have gotten is the Solina Strings synth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtxEVFYU4BA) but that is not the sound. It sounds like synth strings to me but also a lot like an organ or electric piano. I have some Diva presets designed to mimic the Roland Juno series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8YbxuH0tT4) and some of them get close but not quite.

I'm hoping someone just recognizes the sound and knows the right direction to point me in, but I am also down to try sound designing in Diva and tweaking settings if anyone has ideas on that front.

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Hi! I've been trying to recreate a guitar tone seen on this song, best heard between 0:08 - 0:26, although I can't seem to get it right...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64CndlJT2GM

The main thing I'd like to know is how to create the reverb-y and ambient feel of the guitar AND what effects were used in the making of the tone.

Some information for guitarists: I've already figured out this tone is likely coming from a Les Paul connected to some kind of Marshall Amp.

Any information asked will be rightly answered if I am able to. Any help is appreciated!

My current setup is:

Guitar / Bass / Keyboard -> BOSS GT-1000CORE (guitar effects processor with amp/cab simulation) -> hi-fi amplifier > floorstanding speakers

It sounds great - but the general consensus online is that it'll blow the speakers because "they're not designed to handle the transients of instrument outputs".

I think this makes sense if I was plugging my instruments directly into the amp, but the GT-1000 has 44Ω outputs for headphones so I can't see how it could damage my speakers. Thoughts?

Hello! Apologies if this doesn’t fit here, but I’d love some perspective.

I’ve been learning guitar and voice for about a year now. Im proud of how far I’ve come and I can play most chords in most keys but I am still very much a beginner and struggle with many things.

Herein is my predicament- I was invited by a much more proficient musician to jam with them and some other musicians at a “jam night.” I really want to go, but I’m worried that I’ll slow people down or mess up the music if I try to get involved. I don’t want to be seen as the girl who messes up the timing of a song or distracts others. How do I get involved without annoying others?

Any tips for navigating this? I’m much more accomplished vocally because before receiving vocal training I was still singing all the time, but I also don’t know how to approach singing at a jam night or if that’s something that’s seen as appropriate or not.

So, I was told I might get a better answer here, what makes a Ric 4003, sound the way it does? Like hypothetically, if I put 4003 pickups in a schecter stargazer, would it sound like a ric or is there a lot more to it?? Thank you Reddit!

Had this before and i Never really know how to handle it.

Maybe you have examples of Tracks with such Busy orchestral samples? I have 808‘s in it and sidechain it to the sample.

The EQ‘ing kind of confuses me. I guess such dense samples Need to be thinned out quiet a bit? Just turning the sample down a Lot Sounds Not Good neither. It’s a pretty hectic sample with violins, violas, celos

General Advice on such situations would be great. What would you try to do?

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Hey everyone!

My band and I are in the process of putting together our first album (jazz fusion, recorded live on the studio), and we noticed it is quite hard to have song structures that still allows some flexibility. In particular, we started getting various ideas for moments in each song, and we noticed it was quite hard to keep the entire structure in a paper/tablet while playing, much less the structure of an entire album / live set. And whenever new ideas pop out, putting them in the sheet and sharing it with everyone is slow and tedious.

Wanting to keep everything in at most 1-2 pages for when performing live, but also thinking about keeping the structure for the album and ease of editing, my google docs just ain't cutting it. It started with a 1 line table per song with various stuff like: Intro | Chorus | Solo Guitar | Solo Keyboard | Chorus | Outro but quickly needed text in between explaining groove switches, set phrases, etc written with pen.

How do you typically organize multiple songs with various "moments" but also combat ease of editing for an album or live performance?

Context: 4 person band (keyboards, guitar, bass+voice, drums); by moments i mean stuff like a particular phrase before a solo, a change of groove, a return to the chorus, who solos and who stays put, etc.; I mention live + album because we're also using the structure in live performances while we work the songs for the album); although we have the sheet music for the most crucial parts, we rather have compacted views that allow us to see stuff like "chorus".

Thank you! Apologies for the convoluted phrasing of my question

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I'm very sorry in advance for the obvious lack of experience and foresight I'm about to exhibit, this is a long and expensive process that I have no issue spending time to learn.

I am currently setting up some cheap vintage recording gear that I've both bought and inherited, with the aims to record some crappy sounding analogue music.

At this stage I'm just learning and messing around with the signal, but at last here's my question; I am using 4tr cassette to record but I want to send the mics through a mixing console first.

Am I correct in assuming that I can either use the desk to combine the 8 channels into a stereo output, or use it to add efx to each channel and send them to the cassette separately (or in pairs)?

I want to eq and compress each channel, and record them separately to each cassette track, however I can only see mixers with a stereo output, none with a specific output for each channel.

Am I missing something really simple?

I have a question for all singers. I’m a beginner who has recently started taking singing lessons, and I really enjoy it. Singing makes me feel free and alive. However, I have one issue: when I record myself and listen back, I really don’t like the sound of my voice. I know that becoming a good singer takes years of practice, but I can’t help wondering: what’s the point of studying singing if it all comes down to the natural tone of someone’s voice? I mean, I could train for years, but someone who has never sung before might naturally have a voice that’s more pleasing to the ears of others and get a much better result in that sense. How should I think about this?

I personally use mid/side capture most often. Interested in learning about other people methods for doing this.

I've always loved the mixing on Emily Alone by Florist, and Songs by Adrianne Lenker. Always wondered how to get that sound.

Hello all,

I recently heard that it is better to use the TRS out of an external preamp into the line input of your interface rather than doing XLRs.

Is this true? And if so, what is the benefits of it?

I have an Art Pro MPA II that I run via XLR into a Clarett Octopre 8.

I have used it via XLR for awhile now to good results, but now wondering if this could be reducing quality in some way?

Also, I’ve heard I should not have the phantom power on from my interface if it is already on my preamp. But I do use inputs 3/4 on my clarett with phantom while using the preamp on inputs 1/2. Is this also wrong?

Can someone educate me on the reasons why this is wrong? Or is the way I’m doing it ok? I don’t have time to A/B test all this anytime soon so was hoping to get some info on here.

Thanks

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