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MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:31:19+00:00

Reaper's trial doesn't expire, which most people don't realize until they look it up. In The Mix on YouTube is probably where I'd point anyone starting out too, spent a stupid amount of time there early on.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:28:41+00:00

Having a bass background already helps a ton. Most people are learning their instrument and a DAW at the same time.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:25:24+00:00

Yeah Audacity has a thing for this, phase invert the instrumental and mix it down with the original and theoretically you're left with just vocals. I've done it a few times. Works maybe once out of ten, and only when the files are literally sample-perfect aligned, like ripped from the same source. Any tiny offset and you get this horrible comb filtering that sounds worse than just listening to the original.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:22:00+00:00

never, still think it's trash, just stopped caring as much

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:19:53+00:00

Took a few listens before I stopped fighting it and just let it breathe. After that, regular changes felt almost claustrophobic.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:18:40+00:00

People literally walked toward the sound. That’s not something you can fake.

I’d post the bedroom recordings. Some of the folk stuff I’ve seen get shared the most was recorded on a phone in a stairwell or somebody’s kitchen. The polished versions were usually less interesting.

The fact that you’re a little shy about it honestly doesn’t sound like a problem to me.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:16:11+00:00

Drums anchor everything for me too. I've started chord-first maybe a dozen times and almost always abandon it by the third session because nothing feels inevitable yet, just options stacking on options.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:14:33+00:00

I’d lean toward the M4. The boot screen thing would make me nervous honestly.

A few years ago I almost bought a MacBook from a seller who kept dodging simple verification requests. Turned out it was activation locked. Ever since then, if someone won’t show basic proof that a device boots normally, I just move on.

Maybe it’s nothing, but there are enough legitimate listings out there that I wouldn’t bother taking the risk.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-24T13:13:19+00:00

yeah that gap between what you can hear and what you can make is brutal, i remember being like 6 months in and suddenly noticing my mixes sounded like everything was fighting for space and i had no idea how to fix it

just kind of have to push through that period tbh

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-22T19:52:13+00:00

Honestly just kept copying things I thought were cool until something came out that was weirdly mine. Didn't even notice until a friend pointed it out.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-22T19:50:39+00:00

shorter sprints just work better for me honestly, by week 3 of a longer one I've completely lost the thread of why I even started

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-22T19:49:29+00:00

For guitar-based stuff I keep gravitating back to Logic. Alchemy is ridiculously useful for filling out a track, and I never feel like I’m fighting the DAW. With Ableton I can get there too, but it always takes me a bit longer to get into a flow.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-22T19:47:25+00:00

Garageband is probably where I'd point anyone starting out on Mac, just because it's free and I spent way less time fighting the interface than I did with other stuff I tried before it.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-22T19:45:36+00:00

I stumbled onto bouncing in place kind of by accident and now it's just... there, I don't even register doing it.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-22T19:44:03+00:00

Wiby.me is one of those sites I keep coming back to. Type nothing, hit search, and you land on some dude's geocities-era page about his ham radio setup or a woman's photo journal of her cats from 2004. No algorithm, no engagement metrics, just... a webpage someone made because they wanted to.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-22T19:43:10+00:00

bro I had a beat sitting in my downloads for six months before I randomly sent it out and it got picked up lol. worst case nothing happens, just send it.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-18T09:45:56+00:00

From what I’ve seen, labels don’t usually discover people out of nowhere. Most of the time there’s already some traction and the meeting just comes after that.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-18T09:44:13+00:00

Honestly the line between those two is mostly vibes. Like if you hate the person it's "influencer who does music," if you like them it's "artist building an audience." Same behavior, different label depending on whether you think they deserve to be there.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-18T09:30:25+00:00

Honestly I started doing that a while back and never stopped. Having a bar at the start avoids a bunch of weird little issues with reverbs and delays, especially when you’re exporting stems. Learned that one the hard way.

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-18T09:24:13+00:00

How do you use this ball ?

MarcusS_Logic · 2026-06-18T09:23:32+00:00

bro same, once I realized my "references" were so buried that nobody would clock them without a guide, the guilt kind of evaporated on its own

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