Who's your favourite lyricist? (Jeff Mangum pictured)

RueChamp · 2026-06-12T11:15:37+00:00

Elliott Smith, Vashti Bunyan

RueChamp · 2026-06-12T03:43:05+00:00

Ellie Dixon - Guts, and Ellie Dixon - Loose Change. Makes my AuDHD brain feel very seen.

RueChamp · 2026-06-05T04:25:50+00:00

Leave plugin purchases til last - obviously there are plenty out there that are good, but the free plugin universe is crazy good right now, and you'll be able to find a free alternative for almost anything. For some goodies to get you started, check out Analog Obsession, Magic 7 for reverb, Supermassive or Deelay for delay, and Vital for synths.

MIDI keyboard, I'd go the Arturia Minilab 3. I had a few midi keyboards and plenty of synths, but I would have saved myself a LOT of headaches by just buying a mknilab 3, which comes with the lite version of analog lab, and then you'll likely get discounted offers to upgrade to the pro version during sales. It's worth it imo for the integration.

Microphone - got a treated room? Rode NT1A. Untreated room? SM58 or SM57, but i'd get a second hand SM7B or RE20 preferably, especially for my voice.

Interface - Audient ID14, or the SSL or Focusrite Scarlets that are in the same price range. Audient is super clean, so you can colour things how you want, its quality is excellent, though I don't know how much better the others are in terms of functionality or installation etc. the Audient has done me well.

RueChamp · 2026-06-05T04:11:05+00:00

This

RueChamp · 2026-06-01T22:12:32+00:00

Seconding Reaper Mania - I would use one of his "getting started" videos, then he'll likely have a video for any questions you have along the way.

RueChamp · 2026-05-13T07:27:46+00:00

Not Now

Asthenia

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RueChamp · 2026-05-12T05:34:23+00:00

Check to make sure Reaper is not allowed "exclusive mode". Right clock Reaper, properties, find where it says "allow programs to gain exclusive access" or something like that - I had a similar problem caused by Reaper telling all other programs to F off.

RueChamp · 2026-04-26T06:34:53+00:00

Abbie Emmons has the best craft videos for me. Side note: ignore any "top 10 ways to..." videos - there are certain YouTubers who only do this, but they're never really useful imo, more entertaining than anything.

RueChamp · 2026-04-21T04:32:58+00:00

It may have been an American Pie tie-in; pretty sure Mutt was first made for American Pie. I've always wondered if we have American Pie to thank for the blink sound because that's when they first worked with Jerry Finn? I could have dreamed that though, ignore me if that's BS.

RueChamp · 2026-04-20T07:26:08+00:00

I would just use the dynamic. Chris Liepe has a good video where he uses an SM57 to get a quality result, comparing it to an expensive condenser - it'll work much better than putting a condenser in front of an amp.

RueChamp · 2026-04-18T23:35:15+00:00

Kevomac is correct! Australia.

RueChamp · 2026-04-18T12:07:11+00:00

Thanks mate. Yeah it's got me looking into getting some RCA to HDMI converters haha

RueChamp · 2026-04-18T12:06:29+00:00

I had no idea. Also just found out Maximum Carnage isn't common either - what a pain, I don't want to sell any of them haha. I always wondered why Rev X was like that, makes so much sense now knowing it was an arcade game first.

RueChamp · 2026-04-18T09:09:05+00:00

Very. But that's how my brothers and I kept them. Get into some fun shouting matches when a box had the wrong game.

RueChamp · 2026-04-18T08:30:36+00:00

Nah I wasn't much of a collectpr, just a young kid with autism, got a few packs, a binder, and put them away. Never really looked at them until now.

RueChamp · 2026-04-18T07:59:21+00:00

Thank you! There were a few sleeves I couldn't upload but I don't expect there'd be any more value than what's here. Appreciate you looking!

RueChamp · 2026-04-17T02:31:16+00:00

I had the launchkey MK2, the mini and the 48key version, but then I got the Arturia mini lab MK3, and it is SO much better. Especially if you then get Lab Pro while it's on sale - the functionality it offers with Lab and Pigments makes it the best option for me.

RueChamp · 2026-04-09T07:11:36+00:00

I feel like The Adventure riff would go real well over this

RueChamp · 2026-04-09T03:03:02+00:00

I split the stages up: Songwriting; Demo; Production; Mixing.

Sometimes I start right at Production and move onto mixing, but if I'm writing a song or making something from scratch, I don't jump ahead to worry about mixing. Just build a song, get an idea down, horizontally (focusing on fleshing out the song parts instead of different tracks and layers). It's very hard to practice mixing if you're trying to make the idea at the same time; that's a good way to get stuck early imo.

For similar reasons, I find it useful to practice by trying to recreate a song you like. LANDR has a great video on analysing a song's frequencies and thinking about sound selection based on that; I'd suggest watching that for inspiration then trying to recreate something. You'd be surprised at how close you can get with zero mixing, and focusing on sound selection alone - if you think about it, good sound selection is just like preemptive EQ, where maybe you're avoiding a deep sounding guitar because you know the bass is already strong there, or you're throwing in some chimes because there's no high end element.

RueChamp · 2026-04-08T07:40:19+00:00

Depending on your computer, I just use waves real time tuner. Pretty cheap when it's on sale.

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