Reveal your dirty production secrets...

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:50 pm

Cut below 30 and above 16.

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:52 pm

Aequitas123 wrote: Your small font is no match for my Ctrl-ScrollWheel!

LOL. Can't believe I didn't know that shortcut. I use Ctrl&+/=. Well, I did!

funky shit · Post by **funky shit** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:00 pm

Another thing I have started doing...
Is open up ableton and reason on my laptop while in bed. Write a rough sketch. Use the synths in reason etc.

Then if i like it and think it could be something, take it to my main machine and tweak the shit out of it. Replace the reason synths with my nordlead etc.

So basically.. rought sketch with shitty software synths.
Then get ready to rock on your prefered setup.

j2j · Post by **j2j** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:03 pm

Hardly use compression....

With todays software, it is so easy to control volume with envelopes if you are not a lazy boy. You can run through your whole track, balance all volume, hardly use compression, and at days end you will have a fatter track, with an overall higher bit quality.

Soaring high's, milky mids, rolling bass...

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1) I compress my kicks n snares.....

2) This theory may not work if you are recording acoustic instruments.

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:25 pm

To decrease mud, Hi-pass your reverb and delays.

roach808 · Post by **roach808** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:41 pm

Bang your roommate's sister then tell him about it, when your remixing a track with him....oh, wait that's not dirty its just plan wrong........sad but true story btw.

Only use guitars if its a full moon, and you have a midget in the studio. Its be best way to really get a great track started in no time.

funky shit · Post by **funky shit** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:42 pm

roach808 wrote:Bang your roommate's sister then tell him about it, when your remixing a track with him....oh, wait that's not dirty its just plan wrong........sad but true story btw.

Only use guitars if its a full moon, and you have a midget in the studio. Its be best way to really get a great track started in no time.

hahahaha!

roach808 · Post by **roach808** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:07 pm

funky shit wrote:
roach808 wrote:Bang your roommate's sister then tell him about it, when your remixing a track with him....oh, wait that's not dirty its just plan wrong........sad but true story btw.

Only use guitars if its a full moon, and you have a midget in the studio. Its be best way to really get a great track started in no time.
hahahaha!

It was one of my most interesting studio moments to date.

aisling · Post by **aisling** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:30 pm

ChiDJ wrote:To decrease mud, Hi-pass your reverb and delays.

thanks for that cool tip, makes a lot of sense. I can't believe I have never considered that all this time.

aisling · Post by **aisling** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:32 pm

funky shit wrote:Another thing I have started doing...
Is open up ableton and reason on my laptop while in bed. Write a rough sketch. Use the synths in reason etc.

Then if i like it and think it could be something, take it to my main machine and tweak the shit out of it. Replace the reason synths with my nordlead etc.

So basically.. rought sketch with shitty software synths.
Then get ready to rock on your prefered setup.

yeah, shame reason won't output midi via rewire. That would allow us to make our reason tracks and assign them to infinite 3rd party synths......

Superchibisan · Post by **Superchibisan** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:38 pm

reverse your sample. run it through a reverb. record the reverb. reverse the reverb sample and make your sample play forward. then put the reversed reverb before the sample.

if you don't know how to do this yet, god help you.

condra · Post by **condra** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:59 pm

funky shit wrote:Another thing I have started doing...
Is open up ableton and reason on my laptop while in bed. Write a rough sketch. Use the synths in reason etc.
............Replace the reason synths with my nordlead etc.
So basically.. rought sketch with shitty software synths.
.

I sold my Nord Lead because I thought most "shitty software synths" sounded much better.

Still, I agree, composing in bed is cool.

roach808 · Post by **roach808** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:19 pm

condra wrote:
funky shit wrote:Another thing I have started doing...
Is open up ableton and reason on my laptop while in bed. Write a rough sketch. Use the synths in reason etc.
............Replace the reason synths with my nordlead etc.
So basically.. rought sketch with shitty software synths.
.
I sold my Nord Lead because I thought most "shitty software synths" sounded much better.

Still, I agree, composing in bed is cool.

That sux, as I'm sure most ppl around here know im a nord lead junkie. one my favorite digital synths any day of the week.

Superchibisan · Post by **Superchibisan** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:31 pm

also, contrary to everybody else. use compression! its fun, makes stuff go boom.

got a bassline with not 1, not 2, but 3 compressors on it, freaking thing is HUGE

funky shit · Post by **funky shit** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:48 pm

condra wrote:
funky shit wrote:Another thing I have started doing...
Is open up ableton and reason on my laptop while in bed. Write a rough sketch. Use the synths in reason etc.
............Replace the reason synths with my nordlead etc.
So basically.. rought sketch with shitty software synths.
.
I sold my Nord Lead because I thought most "shitty software synths" sounded much better.

Still, I agree, composing in bed is cool.

First.. hello fellow irish citizen

Second.. Some people just cant bare software but whatever you feel comfortable with is best for you. I myself am a synth junkie (i have two virtual analog synths

) lol. They may be digital but they still have that dirty feel to them.

Third.. I just realised, this is a good thread.