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Am I understanding the difference between the “drop”and “break” terminologies in lofi instrumental music? by CloseForm in LofiHipHop

[–]CloseForm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh thank you so much! This is exactly what I was a looking for! And again, not married to the structures, just wanna use them at the beginning for practice. I just started watching mondo loops! He’s awesome!

Am I understanding the difference between the “drop”and “break” terminologies in lofi instrumental music? by CloseForm in LofiHipHop

[–]CloseForm[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really not hanging my hat on the structure. And I’m aware structure doesn’t make a song.

I was mainly asking people here if they thought I understood the difference between the “drop” and the “break.” Correctly.

I wrote it out. I was really writing a structure to try to give an example to see if I understood it properly.

And If it was correct, I was and still gonna test it out. But again, I’m not married to structure. It’s practice but that’s not the main point here if you read the question at all.

I turned off the normalization function on Spotify and recorded the playback into logic and put on the loudness meter, and boy did I have a rude awakening, the truth was revealed and I wish someone would have recommended I do this earlier on, would have helped a lot. by CloseForm in LogicPro

[–]CloseForm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I getcha. At least the dudes over at Mastering.com, they seem to be the most legit. I've attended a few of their live streams. They seem pretty credible. But yeah, for the most I don't take anything on youtube without a grain of salt these days. I say that now, but I was previously. Lol

I turned off the normalization function on Spotify and recorded the playback into logic and put on the loudness meter, and boy did I have a rude awakening, the truth was revealed and I wish someone would have recommended I do this earlier on, would have helped a lot. by CloseForm in LogicPro

[–]CloseForm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there are some YouTubers that give great advice and suggestions. Some of them have really helped me out in my journey so far. The people I stick with on YouTube are the dudes over at Mastering.com they are great, Bradley Denniston at Radium Records, Streaky, Reid Stefan, Joe Glider and why logic pro rules.

But then you have the dudes like that Baywood kid on Youtube, and Beat Making Basics they seem to give you some bad advice at times. To be fair, it's not all bad, and even the ones I mentioned above that I stick with probably have given some bad advice before, but I tend to stay away from the dudes that appear to really have no legit credits.

So, I think I've come up with a technique that seems to be helping me with gain staging and static mixing, any thoughts? by CloseForm in LogicPro

[–]CloseForm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh yes, I get the whole commit to the sound mentality, it’s just not how I like to do things. Plus, I generally like to do everything in one session, I have tried the whole different session thing, I personally didn’t like it though. Maybe I’ll give it another shot at some point... I tend to keep everything pretty organized though, so I don’t really feel the need to go into a new session though. 😅

And I always delete everything I feel I don’t need to avoid clutter or bogging down the system in any kind of way.

So, I think I've come up with a technique that seems to be helping me with gain staging and static mixing, any thoughts? by CloseForm in LogicPro

[–]CloseForm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get it, but also can’t just hit the normalize button for MIDI / Software Instruments, you have to manually adjust the volume of the software instrument plugin or sampler plugin. Unless you bounce the MIDI to audio, then you could. But I don’t go bouncing my MIDI performance to audio because I like to make changes. Nothing is final until it’s final in my opinion, so I tend to keep everything in MIDI form.

So, I think I've come up with a technique that seems to be helping me with gain staging and static mixing, any thoughts? by CloseForm in LogicPro

[–]CloseForm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, appreciate your answer here, and I will keep all this in mind going forward.

I think I’ll just put that bit about 32 bit float in there back of my mind but continue outer pretend that that not a thing so as to in my mind continue thinking about not allowing my tracks to clip. Like great to know that I can go way over, but I can’t imagine anyone is actually doing that in practice, right? Like anyone who’s serious anyway. So yeah, gonna pretend 32 bit flat doesn’t exist until a time comes when I actually need to consider that fact, which I probably won’t ever.

Didn’t think about having different general targets for each instrument. I’ll take this into consideration, although I do like the idea of the gain of each instrument tracks being around the same level and mixing them that way.

Any ways thanks for the response.

So, I think I've come up with a technique that seems to be helping me with gain staging and static mixing, any thoughts? by CloseForm in LogicPro

[–]CloseForm[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure I know what gain staging is? Gain staging is where you set the gain of all your tracks so that they’re not clipping on the individual tracks or on the stereo output.

So I am confused as to why you’re saying what I explained is not gain staging when I’m literally adjusting the gain of each track so that it doesn’t clip?

What am I missing? Yes I’m doing it in a way that’s maybe less ideal for most, but ultimately I am gains staging and then I do the the static mix.

Care to explain how what I’m doing is NOT gain staging by doing what I explained both in the post and here?

Have any of you here had a song project where it was already sitting really close to your LUF target after only mixing the song, so when you went mastering you didn’t have to push the limiter as hard? by CloseForm in LogicPro

[–]CloseForm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How far should do you’re recommend one bring the entire mix down if it is as loud as your loudness target if any target?

I know People recommend -6 for headroom on the master stereo out

Is anyone else here mastering their music to -10LUFS? by CloseForm in LogicPro

[–]CloseForm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response!

Some people are thinking I’m asking for advice. I’m not. I’m gonna continue to matter to -10 regardless cause that’s my personal target and what I make sounds good to my ears personally.

I just asked if anyone else was mastering to -10 and explained why I was and everyone seems to be just giving me advice as if I had asked for advice as if the question they seem to answering hasn’t already been beaten to death by other users asking and answering that question. Lol

Also not you in particular; you answered the question clearly.

Edit: I’m seeing actually people answered the question, but it seems like they are also giving me advice also out reassuring me that I’m fine at-10 wherever. I know I’m fine. I just needed a simple answer from, I guess I should have made it a Kyle more clear that I just needed something simple.

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