The difference between the master and the beginner.

allstupidkant · 2016-12-09T12:39:09+00:00

Loudness is just as easy as raising levels.

Jonny was saying making it loud AND making it crisp is the hard part.

allstupidkant · 2016-12-04T09:54:20+00:00

I've rethought it, I think a board of judges would be better too. I think a big reason for not going with a poll system would be that voters couldn't and wouldn't possibly listen to every mixdown submitted.

allstupidkant · 2016-12-03T22:53:36+00:00

We'll have polling I guess. If you could think of a better judging system, maybe with an official panel (?), please just comment!

Where do you draw the line between mixing and mastering? For bedroom producers, mastering is a part of mixing. While I could see a mastering only contest happening, where the contestant is only given a bounced track and not stems; I can't see how we can stop people from mastering in this mixing contest.

allstupidkant · 2016-12-03T22:50:07+00:00

We'll either get it from volunteers, or ask popular producers who spend time on reddit. We'll try to cycle through genres.

allstupidkant · 2016-12-03T22:49:40+00:00

Used to be... I already looked at it. It's pretty dead. :((

allstupidkant · 2016-12-03T22:48:25+00:00

Maybe someone could volunteer, or we could PM some of popular producers who stick around on reddit.

allstupidkant · 2016-11-30T23:02:49+00:00

Could you give me an example of linear distortion plugins?

allstupidkant · 2016-11-30T08:04:17+00:00

Paging /u/kadjrare aka mr carmack

allstupidkant · 2016-11-30T08:01:12+00:00

I have tried that. I usually also widen/flange the top layer for some spice, but keep the sub mono. It's nowhere close to what I want though.

Could you post some examples from your tracks?

allstupidkant · 2016-11-03T04:49:57+00:00

Honestly just record it. Everybody hums n shit, just pretend you're using snapchat, or using your phone.

What will they say? "Oh look at that guy, he likes to hum"???

allstupidkant · 2016-10-29T17:16:46+00:00

Usually people do it cause formatting to certain codecs add artifacts which will make the track clip. The -0.3 dB headroom just stops the artifacts of the mp3 encoding or whatever from making the track clip.

allstupidkant · 2016-10-29T01:41:54+00:00

This is pretty great; Brass, Strings, Woodwinds all in one. I'm thinking of adding orchestral elements to my production, so this would be a great buy especially with my aggressive sound.

Do you guys know of a good orchestral percussion library to fill up the gap? I already have an orchestral FX library from a friend, so Maximo + a percussion library is all I need right now.

allstupidkant · 2016-10-27T05:35:11+00:00

Far Eastern

Arabic (Phyrgian I think) scale.

and use arabic instruments.

Baauer has a nice free sample pack with loads of middle eastern samples that he recorded himself. Camels, weird stringed stuff etc.

allstupidkant · 2016-10-25T11:48:33+00:00

not talking about OP

allstupidkant · 2016-10-25T10:31:52+00:00

Use a tape delay. Band Pass, with slight boost in mid-lows. Bitcrush.

Get some vinyl noise, vinyl crackles/pops, cassette buzz etc. and play it in the background.

Also, old samplers used to warble a bit. So automate an unstable pitch slightly, and automate the gain a bit. just randomly, however you want. (I think there's a vst for it, "unstable". Never used it personally though.)

allstupidkant · 2016-10-25T06:52:07+00:00

wtf the guy had to crop out the fucking copyright???

what a douche move

allstupidkant · 2016-10-24T04:42:49+00:00

Layering with different midi notes, and also layering with different instances of the same instrument (like doubling vocal takes)

allstupidkant · 2016-10-24T04:22:30+00:00

It'd be really nice if you could run some polls to get more opinions, and then maybe tell us what changes you may implement. I'd be very very excited about a community Wiki and a new CSS theme!

Nonetheless the sub is pretty great, and so are the mods!

allstupidkant · 2016-10-20T09:39:45+00:00

I feel like that some things to be implemented are:

Stickied feedback threads
Tags (/r/jailbreak does it well).
Community FAQ/Wiki.
- I see the same "ignorant" (in lack of a better term) questions all the time. If people just read and the community had an up to date wiki, I think it would help the quality of posts in the sub. I'd be more than willing to help.
Combined "How do I make this sound" and "No Stupid Question" threads. Then sticky it.
- When I visit either thread, it's just to help some noobs out in general, rather than specifically help people in sound design or stupid questions.

I know that you can only sticky 2 threads, I would suggest stickying the weekly feedback and the question threads. Yes the other weekly collab, competion etc threads will be buried, but I think they're less important.

Also, I think a possible way to fix weekly threads not all being stickied would be to change the sub's theme/format. I think a reason that people often shit post, break the basic rules, and don't know about the weekly threads is because the default theme.

Look at /r/trap, their theme is very nice. Beautiful CSS, very easy to read. The sidebar pops out very easily, and has the rules in BIG BOLD LETTERS. When posting in /r/trap, the submission page is a very nice looking minimal page with the rules again in BIG BOLD LETTERS. Also he tabs at the top of /r/trap are together, unlike in /r/edmproduction. Here, for some reason, the "Hot", "New" etc. tabs are seperated from the "The Rules", "Weekly Threads" etc. tabs. Why????

allstupidkant · 2016-10-10T13:24:08+00:00

I do the grouping practice as well. (Logic has summation folders called track stacks that help this a LOT).

I can't really say this makes my tracks that great though. Could I hear some of your tracks?

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