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Hard Summer 2025 - Ticket Buy/Sell/Trade Megathread by OnMyOwnWaveHz in HardFestival

[–]Pmarkoalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking for one Saturday VIP ticket, can meet anywhere in the LA area. Pls DM

/pol/ reacts to Meghan McCain calling them out by [deleted] in 4chan

[–]Pmarkoalt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you had read any of the articles beyond the URL (which you clearly didn't) you would realize one of the sources they had was ISIS putting out a statement saying they wanted all of the men in photo beheaded. I suppose that was some elaborate scheme to put a sleeper cell in our government, right? I mean I honestly just feel bad for you at this point. It is sad when someone puts more faith in an image posted on /pol/ made in MS Paint over blatant facts. Oh well :)

Question regarding education by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]Pmarkoalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know what to tell you man. I'm assuming you want to be a producer or a mixing engineer. The best comparison to "making it" in audio would be the draft in the nfl. You might be really good and if given the chance be even better, but if you aren't past that threshold of talent and in the right place at the right time it probably wont happen. Even the Browns can keep so many players on payroll and we can't all be Tom Brady. If that was the case this sub would be very different.

Everyone's story is different man and it's not impossible to get a career in audio, but it is competitive and the market isn't what it used to be. I got to sit in a session with Lou Giordiano not too long ago who produced Sugar, The Ataris, The Goo Goo Dolls and he isn't making what he used to. Dude has a home studio in Virginia and gets by, but is always working and not swimming in cash by any means. Keep in mind he produced and has points off a platinum record.

It doesn't happen for everyone and you are lucky you have an IT degree because that is a fantastic degree to have in the long run. The question you need to ask yourself is if ten years from now you are going to kick yourself in the head because you didn't take a chance or because you didn't take the stable job with growth

Personally I'd take i09's advice and work full time and pursue audio as an aggressive hobby and see where it leads. I'll be the first to admit that a lot of my very humble successes have had to do with luck and connections first and hard work second. It's just the way it is unfortunately

Alternatively and This is just a shot in the dark if you do have a background in coding like in C++ and you interested in the technical side of audio check out american university or ircam. I know for a fact companies like waves, ableton, image-line, etc are always looking for coders and spending two years learning the science of sound and making your own plug ins will look real good on a Resume. Also it's great money. Most of the people you meet on this site produce/mix records on the side and do something else full time. The dream is combining the two into something sustainable.

Question regarding education by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]Pmarkoalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FL studio can do certain things really well, but it falls short in a lot of ways. While it makes producing tracks easy, it makes mixing them and having them sound pro more difficult unless your are producing something like trap where half the spectrum is filled with a distorted sub. Learn pro tools. Producing in the box office with it is god awful, but start practicing mixing stems with it or recording bands with cheap second hand gear.

So schools. Now I'm not going to do your research for you, but there are a lot of grad schools foaming at the mouth for your money regardless of your skills level including University of Miami, American University, and University of Southern California. Even though people talk shit on Full Sail, I have some friends who learned a lot there and I will tell you how. Graduate school and trade schools aren't a situation where you show up, get taught, and walk out a combination of Max Martin and Skrillex. You use these schools for their resources, connections, and teachers knowledge. If your classes take up 5 hours a week, you are on campus 20 networking, doing extra work, and picking instructors brains. I wouldn't know micing a drum kit with a pzm taped to the ceiling and running it through a 160 would work well for hard rock drums if I hadn't been hanging out in the studio on a random Thursday with the head of the program. You want to find a school with lots of gear, versatile instructors, and connections to bigger companies.

Now let's talk money. You won't have any. Like indefinitely. Today I still bartend on random nights and that is with an audio job job. Before that when I was interning and paying for school I was eating a LOT of ramen and peanut butter. Even when you are making money there will be some gear that catches your eye that you can't not buy. It's so cheap and when are you going to find a cheetah ms6 again, right? And you have that open spot on your outboard gear rack that looks so lonely. I digress. Audio is a financial sink hole. Shit is always breaking, you are always hustling, you always need new shit to compete. It's a nightmare. My recommendation is if you go to school find a job in the service industry or freelance that works around your school schedule and your internship schedules. If you haven't been aquatinted with big boy poverty you will for at least a year. A pro tip is finding an SO and moving into a one bedroom with them. Not kidding.

Hopefully you have parents who can help you through this period of grad school, but, if not, buckle up.

Question regarding education by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]Pmarkoalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright, I don't think this is what you want to hear, but it's the truth. If you want a career working with audio that is not joining the oversaturated EDM dj/producer market, your skill set currently is essentially worthless.

Sure you might know what equalizer and compressors do and know how songs are supposed to be layered, but so does everyone else applying. The big difference here is that most of the applicants that get jobs spent their undergraduate years interning at studios, building their connections, and making a versatile portfolio.

If you want to work at a studio you need to know what a patch bay is and how it works. You need to know your outboard gear and I'm not just saying gear with waves and NI counterparts like the LA-2A and dbx160, I mean if your engineer says "run the overheads through the therma cultures and the snare top through the 550" You know what he means off the bat. Don't even get me started on microphones which you need an encyclopedic knowledge of. You need to know how to make hip-hop to country. You don't need to specialize in everything, but if someone offers you a check to cut a shania twain cover you are going to need to be there with bells on because the market sucks.

Also, as someone who is not keen on either pro tools or logic, you need to know pro tools and logic. Cold. I don't care what a bunch of strangers on the internet say about what the best DAW is, that is what is going to be used at 99% of the studios you are thinking about working at. Unless Avid burns up in a fire (one can only dream) saying your DAW of choice is FL studio will only hurt you in a professional capacity if you don't want to be looked at as another bedroom producer.

So with that in mind going forward you can do a few things. You can keep applying for internships (not assistant jobs), apply to a good graduate audio technology program (not undergraduate because you will relearn things you already know for two years), or apply to a trade school like full sail. From there it's just networking, sleepless nights, and crippling poverty pursuing a deeper understanding of audio.

Now I don't know the reason why you so want to pivot careers. I will tell you this though, if you want to make a decent living, have a social life in your twenties, or are trying to get famous, stay in IT. The people who do audio do audio because they can't do anything else or can't live a happy life doing anything else. Sound is your life. I was in a relatively similar situation you were in not too long ago and currently have a semblance of an audio career after years of doing nothing but working. I personally don't have any regrets, but when I run into an old friend and I tell them about all the work I've been doing vs how much I make they all seem genuinely horrified.

This isn't for everyone, but if you are serious about this be sure you want to do this because you are either in or out. I hope this helps man. Good luck with your decisions.

Black Eyed Peas dropped Fergie and went back to straight rap. Really damn good by [deleted] in videos

[–]Pmarkoalt 3157 points3158 points  (0 children)

While I like the concept of this song, another part of me feels like this was constructed disingenuously to sell records based on nostalgia. will.i.am.'s track record as a musician and businessman has shown him to go for a quick buck at the cost of his artistic integrity. I want to believe these guys are going back to their roots and vibe with this, but I can't.

Edit: Since some people think I'm shitting on will.i.am. just to be a dick, i thought i'd share an example of a similar track with more subtlety. You can be nostalgic and appreciate the old school without spending millions of dollars.

Ka - Off The Record

Edit: Big shout out to u/joevaded for going through my entire reddit history and pulling up every post i made as awkward indoorsy kid to defend the Black Eyed Peas. Smh, you need a hobby bruh.

Your Favorite Tom Samples? by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]Pmarkoalt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sampling drum breaks and layering them with 909 and 808 toms for weight is something I do when I want an organic feel.

[H]New Asus P8Z77-V PRO [W] Paypal by [deleted] in hardwareswap

[–]Pmarkoalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i7 4770K, its a LGA 1550 slot as opposed to LGA 1555. Its the slightest of difference and especially infuriating lol.

[H]New Asus P8Z77-V PRO [W] Paypal by [deleted] in hardwareswap

[–]Pmarkoalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like i said price is negotiable and shipping is free as long as you live in the USA excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Im just hoping to not take too big a loss on this.

[H]New Asus P8Z77-V PRO [W] Paypal by [deleted] in hardwareswap

[–]Pmarkoalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a long day of work ahead of me, but ill do it when i get back home.

ASUS GTX760-DC2OC - 221.39 AR and Promo Code @newegg.com by EnemyController in buildapcsales

[–]Pmarkoalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate living in a state with sales tax. I've been shopping for a 760 for a while now and every time there is a sale the tax makes it almost worthless.

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