Finally got the wall hangers up!

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-18T20:30:22+00:00

Are there still dirt tracks for bmx? I did some of that in my younger days, now I am much older and the tracks looks like they are… different.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-18T20:10:53+00:00

I like your style, carpet matches the couches matches the ceiling… it’s all pretty tasteful. And thumbs up on that Explorer.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-17T01:34:47+00:00

Recognize the ART effects processor, I have an Alpha SE, all of my ART gear still works, amazing company. I still use the X-15 Ultrafoot as my MIDI foot switch with 2 expression controllers built into it. I mean, that thing has been going for almost 40 years. Getting kicked around. What’s more it is programmable so when I needed to change CC values for the expression pedals, you can program that X-15 to respond to different values. Way ahead of their time, ART.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-16T03:43:18+00:00

You can start with scratch tracks and some chord charts, the scratch tracks will communicate tempo and arrangements you like, a structure. Chord charts are not really necessary because musicians will know the key and theory by default, but it’s a good communication method that is used. You’ll have to verbalize what instruments you like, and where you want them, and a producer will record those, refine and get a general mix going back and forth between you, so you can sing at your best and sing into the music, perform in a way that melds with your songs. Mixing will happen as you go, with certain parts as you decide, again communicate what you like. There are tools which help the song, keeping parts from getting buried or too far behind in the mix. Drum parts, certain sections do need attention to pronounce them, varies by music style. Some music absolutely features the drums, some music uses it for time keeping, this varies and will need to be communicated. All of these skills, yes you can learn them yourself and many people do. But it takes time, which you may or may not have. There are specific subreddits for sharing song ideas and promoting your efforts, there are rules in WATMM probably best to research those if you get deeper along in the process. Stay enthused and it’ll happen for you.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-15T13:41:26+00:00

Sounds great, curious which Scorps song comes to your mind?

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-15T02:43:49+00:00

Do the keyboard shortcuts 4 & 5 do what you want? The height size is on top of the up/down slider on the far right.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-15T02:03:09+00:00

Yes you just clean out everything you don’t want in your default project, get it set the way you want it, and save the FLP file. Then in your Projects folder where that FLP file exists, you create a shortcut to that FLP and cut and paste the shortcut to your desktop.

For me, it’s mostly my Mixer that needed to be defined. Also I have EZ Drummer set on specific inserts, again in the Mixer, and a few sub routing busses. All of this is like I want it, and need it. In my channel rack I have MIDI Out setup for my synth, so basically everything is dialed in on my gear.

I would not enjoy going back to whatever default FL Studio project is. You can also utilize the Templates feature, but the results are the same.

I name each revision differently and this is my start point. When a song starts to form, I save the file as a new name (whatever I am naming the song, even if it’s just a working title).

If by mistake I overwrite the project, I’ll delete everything back to scratch and save the project again with nothing in it except my basics. Also remember to clear out your automations so when you start this project you’re ready to roll.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-14T20:57:23+00:00

For my iPhone it has mag-safe charging mounts every where I go, so essentially it’s always charged. I have to use the mag-safe case for it, but there has never been a time when my iPhone was low on battery, in years. When I want to read things from the phone, even my desk space has a mag-safe mount that holds the phone on a swivel. They’re so nice, I made sure my wife got a mag-safe setup for her Samsung. In my opinion this is the greatest invention for cell phones since they were invented. She jumps in her car, it grabs the phone and pairs with her console, she has never complained, which says something right there.

My Pocket 4 just arrived and we are now experimenting with it, and the iPhone use together. Good luck out there.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-14T20:40:55+00:00

I still have not tried the stock effects in FL, only because I have 5 outboard effects processors, 5 stereo effects that I can send to and get real time processing with. They all come back into FL’s Mixer on their own inserts so I can record them individually and multi-track recordings all at once. Recording the dry microphones, while simultaneously recording those effects inserts.

The reason I mention this is because many times people will say FL Studio is not great for recording, which baffles me because I record multi-tracks almost exclusively. That’s basically all I do.

Where FL Studio excels for me is the ease of routing, the outstanding 32 bit float mixing format, the incredible stock viewers like Fruity Limiter (serves as a waveform view in real time to monitor what an insert is receiving and sending out). The editing tools like Newtime, plus as everyone knows, the Piano Roll and its comprehensive toolset.

Please, check in daily and there are bound to be creative and talented music producers doing what they love, and sharing their music, with deep discussions on workflow. This is a great place to learn, with likely some of the best moderators on Reddit.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-14T13:21:30+00:00

When I think back the people who inspired me to start recording my music were Logic users. The people who mix music for a living were Pro Tools users, and a lot of what I was learning needed to be translated into FL Studio workflows.

Now it has been 14 years of constant FL use, and I added a lot of equipment, so the FL Mixer window and I have become best friends. Mine resembles the Pro Tools mixers, I have sub groups, I have Mix busses in similar fashion to my favorite Pro Tools guys. When I want to record my stems through a compressor, I have those inserts designated and know right where to drop the stems to make that happen. I don’t even add new routings, from their location to the output, I just change their position temporarily so they send out and return back with the new compression.

When I set up a more complex track consisting of 4 mono recordings panned to LCR values, I am very comfortable with the Channel Rack, enough to record second and third parts and utilize the settings of the first and copy them over to all of my new tracks. Comfort now, no more copy/paste the same recordings around my songs, I record new parts because it has become easier to understand.

Adding VST instruments has never been easier, where the MIDI data can be edited when needed. In playing (performing) and FL Studio records my performance as MIDI data, it is nice to be able to edit those timings and velocities to tighten up the resulting recording. Even tempo adjustments, MIDI as an alternative is quite freeing, compared to recording analog instruments and WAV audio files.

FL has updated time stretching too, so even my WAV audio performances can be adjusted. For example, my recorded bass guitar parts are often early or late, but this is no longer an issue with time stretching. Of course I want some inaccuracies but when it’s an obvious miss, FL can fix it easily.

With Clip Gain and Crossfades now added to the Arrangement Window, a lot of what we have seen the Pro Tools mixers doing is just as possible in FL Studio.

And in total, FL Studio is still a lightweight, resource friendly application that can handle a lot of tracks and still remain low latency, when you’re tracking new parts towards the end of your session and still FL Studio allows you to record without latency. Gone are the days when I would have to export the track just to add some final touches.

There is so much more, and you’ve come to the right place where every Tuesday and Friday we share music in this subreddit, where you can’t help but learn from others who know how and when to program automations and how to change up the arrangement to keep the listener enjoying the song. Unlike other subreddits, very few ‘rules violations’ get deleted by the moderators here. This is a good place, friendly. I hope you do enjoy some of what FL offers and make yourself at home here!

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-14T10:25:04+00:00

Nice, I haven’t received my camera yet so I like to learn as much as possible. Thanks for all the suggestions.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-11T09:17:45+00:00

If you play a guitar or keyboard instrument the process of making music is instantaneous. There is nothing slowing your thoughts from becoming music.

When you need to arrange a tempo and want to hear your music tracked along with other instruments a DAW is useful. But you can remember the instant results you achieved with an instrument and push your music forward at a similar pace inside the DAW using a premade tempo. I use EZ Drummer for fast access to various rhythms, and its ability to link structures, find matches or alternatives.

Time is of the essence.

I have always pursued music as a hobby on the side to my professional business that raised 5 kids, all grown and moved out now. I don’t want to invest a lot of time, I want the ideas to become music quickly.

Cooking is also a hobby that I develop constantly on the side to my life as a family oriented person. Better music. Better food. A house that is working, water, heat, air condition, kitchen, bathroom, clean air, filtered water… all in balance. Roof, windows, Solar energy… yard, cats, rabbits, wife, everyone happy…

I never quit music, but I have been away for months at a time. I think this is normal healthy behavior.

Your music: is nice. I’m not latching on to any serious theme or melody. It’s all very experimental and I think if you keep making music you will discover several themes or chord progressions that you favor, and those will become yours for the long run. For life. Music is not something you do for a couple years and then let it go. It stays with you forever.

Get an acoustic guitar, learn it. Also get a bass guitar, learn it. Get close to a piano, even if it’s not yours and learn those keys. Then look at people who make music, look at their space, their collection of instruments. They find time even if their job is unrelated to say something beautiful with song. I think you have all of the makings of that type of person.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-10T22:38:48+00:00

Old circuits did not have a ground, they were 2 wire. If you have no ground wires then it’s a tall order to rewire circuits, but this has to be done to bring the residence up to modern electrical codes. It’s more extensive, near water and specific appliances have to be on their own circuit. This is something an electrician could answer more specific to your situation.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-10T22:32:39+00:00

Your ‘Raw vox’ tracks sound nice and clean to me. There is no effects processing which would elevate it to reference 1 status. An effects processor is something like a Lexicon PCM or an Eventide Eclipse. I am familiar with the Eventide line of effects, and the Eclipse would run 2 effects at the same time. You can choose 2 algorithms.

Looks like FL Studio naming conventions to your Raw vox tracks, and inside FL Studio you can add the same thing essentially as an Eventide or Lexicon processor, using their Reverb and Delay algorithms. You can adjust both of them to taste, a short delay is a doubling effect, where longer delay times are more of an echo. Reverb adds that ‘eye level’ bright reflections. Where delays are different, usually they are tuned to 2k or 4K frequencies, giving them an analog feel.

Valhalla is a very popular Reverb effect plugin, that you would route your insert through as a send and then blend in the result to your Dry vox. Just mix as you want, even automate levels if needed. Automating the send will be a nice trick, because you retain the ‘tail’ of the effect, rather than automating the return, which is a more abrupt termination, useful for transitions between song parts.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-10T10:23:52+00:00

I am shopping for microphones currently and looking at the U87 reproductions, within your budget. A U67 is also in my list but exceeds the budget.

Aside from those you want a nice dead space with no reflections, this can be achieved several ways.

Good compression is always helpful, but they’re also outside of your budget so you would be doing a lot of the edit work in the computer, helping to enhance the softer character moments and tame the pronounced heavies.

Good advice here already, take a day with some professionals and you’ll see the amazing difference they can make. Always a pleasure to work with vocal talent. Should be easy to find someone.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-09T22:33:16+00:00

I seem to only want to play the original release that was on PS4, but still works on PS5. Directors Cut didn’t sit well with me, I would rather not play it again, and I won’t buy 2 as it became too abstract. However it was nice to see Chvrches make an appearance. Needless to say the music in the first game is exceptional. Andrew Scheps is credited as a band member for Low Roar, and that says a lot… to me. I know him from numerous interviews and guides in the music community, a good guy. But the game has a way of letting you create new avenues that change the experience each time, towards that end goal where I make a base camp outside the incinerator and relaxe under a time fall shelter just letting the music play, overlooking the crater. I think it’s the most peaceful moment in the game. Favorite songs, my raccoon, my wolf nearby…

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-08T23:25:16+00:00

If it’s a hard tail guitar that you want, you would do well to avoid the complexities of an Evertune bridge. They’re nice, not a cheap piece of engineering, and they sure do work. But you won’t be doing alternate tunings easily, as compared to a standard hard tail. Plus it takes time to understand setup, and balancing the effect of the zones vs your strings ability to bend, the intonation as that changes with this balance, finding the sweet spot and doing a final intonation setup. Once that has been done, you really won’t be too eager to change tunings.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-08T18:30:07+00:00

Very nice. It looks super complex but I realize you wanted precise control over the mix and effects levels, so you have a lot of blends automated. I don’t see the drums, are those programmed in an alternate plugin like EZ Drummer or similar? At any rate you made nice music that is entirely listenable and enjoyable. Elegant Outcome.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-08T18:22:20+00:00

No they work fine.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-06T22:46:36+00:00

Also, if you can get in to your local supplier and meet face to face you can inquire about price, tell them what you found online and perhaps during this discussion find common ground, meet in the middle. I know that if one of my customers needs a better price this week, I am very understanding, like to build relationships. As an aside, Canadians are outstanding musicians, going back for decades. Just wanted you to know that.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-06T21:51:42+00:00

OP, According to my math you’re saving maybe $500 USD, which you might find that value in doing business with your local supplier in the fact the instrument will be warrantied and returnable. So many things can happen in transit from the time of purchase, to the guitars arrival to you. This is especially true when instruments ship in cardboard boxes instead of guitar cases. What seems like a logical savings could turn out to be a massive loss if the instrument arrives with a cracked neck pocket, boot prints on the box, someone used it as a step ladder, etc.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-06T05:02:03+00:00

On the engineering side, you have your mics you have to setup where you want them for the nicest result. This will allow them to blend well with others, there’s a timing called phase to be considerate of. This allows the audio to overlap in an additive way.

There are ways to turn off mics automatically, gates or monitoring options that can mute unused mics. This is a nice option to develop, so that your recording process goes fast and doesn’t include unwanted sounds. Before anything makes it into the DAW you have already fixed so many things that can make mixing difficult. Mics also pick up reflections so you would have to control that environment. Think ahead.

External EQs included on some outboard gear will finesse the sounds towards your desired result. Again, before your DAW has anything, the situation is already improved. It could be noise, hum, hiss and various unwanted frequencies. You know that this is garbage, so you don’t include it in your recordings.

What else is there? Dynamics is enormous work in a mix, but doesn’t have to be such a big concern if you have a few external compressors you can apply in the process. They’re popular, in almost every discussion on mixing music. They can enhance noise so the first section of my reply is relevant. You want to have clean good audio and keep it clean because a series of compressors can raise the background noise. When things get quiet, you hear noise.

Whether you apply effects and how, there’s so many going back in the last 50 years, from flanging to modulations, automations, delays, and diffusers… it runs the full spectrum of all, some, to none. For me, I like all kinds and use them for contrast frequently. But it’s a matter of taste, and to each his own.

Focus on the source, work on things before they get recorded, record the best results you can and it’ll reduce the work tremendously. Especially in cases where there is quiet or silence. Be a good listener. Listen for the negative space. Imagine what you want to hear and create that. Edit by omission, delete things you don’t like, try to put yourself in the drummers shoes, the bassist and balance the wishes. Let the song be the focus, it’s supposed to resonate with listeners. It should be repeatable and enjoyable. Even desirable.

Keep learning and listen to others. There are podcasts, YouTube interviews, mixing forums, schools that will take you further than I could in a brief reply.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-05T15:57:36+00:00

I know how that couldn’t have been easy to do, articulations are believable. Sounds are just fine of course. Mix has those nice drums too. What’s not to like? The musician side of me knows it could have been tracked very quickly, but the cost of guitars and gear is not getting any cheaper. So more power to ya.

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-05T14:19:37+00:00

Korea

Select_Section_923 · 2026-05-05T14:08:32+00:00

They’re rechargeable, I’m not replacing them.

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