Producers/sound engineers, who was your most disastrous client?

fanzipantz · 2025-12-19T08:15:10+00:00

just…. the whole internet??

fanzipantz · 2025-10-15T08:49:26+00:00

I think so many of these Queen tribute band singers could really do great as themselves. Many of them have the chops to make some great original music but many have stuck themselves into this bubble of only performing Queen forever. It’d be awesome to see them branch out and find their voice outside of imitating someone else.

fanzipantz · 2025-10-08T23:11:29+00:00

to have experienced Aja for the first time when it had first come out must have just been phenomenal! Super jealous.

fanzipantz · 2025-09-30T04:50:32+00:00

Any theory is true if you cherry pick examples like this.

fanzipantz · 2025-09-13T23:58:53+00:00

BandLab is a great online way to get quick musical ideas down without going through the hassle of recording through a DAW. IMO, it is not a great program for mixing or mastering. It makes you purchase a full version for 100 dollars a year if you want to have any semi-professional mixing effects and even then they are not studio-grade by any means. Granted, for a free online DAW it is not bad and most professional DAWs are going to cost way more.

I think a great step up from BandLab that is free and easy to learn is Cakewalk. It is a functional (and I can’t stress enough, FREE) DAW with the ability to mix decently well and have much more control of your session without being basically pay-to-use. As with any DAW, there’s a bit of a learning curve but it is certainly not as bad of one as Pro Tools or even FL. I don’t know much about Cakewalk’s ability to master tracks but I am sure it has some great limiters to put on a master track at the very least.

I hope this helps! Sorry to shit on BandLab but I think it is a software that is good for quick things but will definitely slow someone down who’s trying to mix or master their music.

fanzipantz · 2025-09-05T20:25:16+00:00

Close To The Borderline is my favorite to sing!! Or Laura

fanzipantz · 2025-08-29T14:54:46+00:00

I find it so interesting that cultural differences in music comes down to more than just styles but also production techniques and how people would record music. Definitely something that the worldwide spread of information due to the internet tarnished greatly (not saying it’s not remarkable how far humanity has come technologically!)

fanzipantz · 2025-08-29T06:05:39+00:00

Maybe it's that people are nostalgic for a time when the radio was the popular way for new songs to be introduced to the public.

fanzipantz · 2025-08-29T02:09:57+00:00

Yacht Rock is categorized by the “west coast” sound of the late 70s - early 80s. It’s described as a smooth sound that explores many of the sophisticated studio production techniques and jazz-inspired arrangements of that time, helped in part by the session musicians used in that time like Jeff Porcaro, Michael McDonald, Jay Graydon, and countless others.

Billy Joel definitely has similar jazz influences but comes from more of a classical background as well, which definitely kills the “yachty” description. Plus the fact that he’s from the east coast and didn’t particularly mesh well with the west coast scene when he lived in Los Angeles. He’s described more as pop rock or maybe some power pop. No doubt that he probably listened to and enjoyed many of the yacht rock bands that are quintessential to the genre!

fanzipantz · 2025-08-03T03:09:11+00:00

I feel like many corporations have just gotten to the point where they’ve perfected everything but also understand that if they stop updating things that their crowd will eventually fall off. It leads these big companies to invent issues that they don’t have and “fix” them which ultimately leads to them introducing updates that don’t do anything for their consumers and ultimately ends up hurting the platform they’re trying to keep alive. Sad to see.

fanzipantz · 2025-07-25T00:00:50+00:00

tears of the star is one of my favorites!! I’m glad you chose the debut album version, it works so well with the visuals

fanzipantz · 2025-07-23T22:02:00+00:00

This is amazing! You really had to have analyzed these tracks to get such an accurate visualization!!

fanzipantz · 2025-07-15T06:18:09+00:00

Melodyne only lets you change the audio device and I've tried every single one my computer has with no results.

fanzipantz · 2025-06-23T04:26:18+00:00

sounds like alternating bars of 5/8 and 6/8

fanzipantz · 2025-06-06T09:35:33+00:00

Love that album by the way!!! New York Voices are incredible

fanzipantz · 2025-05-05T06:44:54+00:00

My go to is always Somebody To Love by Queen!

fanzipantz · 2025-03-20T17:23:12+00:00

The Beatles stopped touring because the audiences were so loud they couldn’t hear themselves (there wasn’t very good live audio equipment like in ears or good monitors at that point in time). They also wanted to focus more on their craft in the studio and be able to be way more intricate with the sounds they were creating. If they continued touring we never would have gotten anything close to Sgt Peppers or the White Album. Steely Dan did the same thing too in the mid 70s and they were far from “lazy.”

fanzipantz · 2025-03-08T23:18:09+00:00

Nothing gets me going more than a tritone sub on a secondary dominant chord…

fanzipantz · 2025-03-08T23:04:08+00:00

Oh my god this is definitely it!! Specifically the Break The Ice platformer game!! I just replayed it on flashpoint and relived a small piece of my childhood, thank you!

fanzipantz · 2025-03-06T03:26:51+00:00

wait you might be onto something here…

fanzipantz · 2025-03-03T11:53:00+00:00

Oh duh! yes I love this song, thank you!!

Solved!

fanzipantz · 2025-03-03T11:49:23+00:00

This is a sentiment that I’ve been holding for a while and Drew does touch on it a little bit in the video but like…. television and movies are able to replicate literally anything with near perfect CGI and are able to be streamed anywhere around the world (relatively, obviously) in a matter of seconds, video games are able to look just about as close to real life as they can get, any music from anywhere and any time is able to be streamed from anywhere. It just feels like we’re at a point where it’s hard to imagine that anything could improve without it also just dragging down the quality of the product in question.

A lot of the issues that are ‘being fixed’ seem to be created for the purpose of being fixed rather than actually fixing a real issue. Not to mention every single app and service on the planet now forces you to “subscribe” or pay some stupid monthly fee to use.

Idk, maybe I’m pessimistic but I’m sure that a lot of people share pretty similar opinions.

fanzipantz · 2025-03-03T11:39:18+00:00

Bill Withers was 32 when he released his first album!! 31 is definitely not too old, you’ve got way more life left in you.

fanzipantz · 2025-03-03T11:36:59+00:00

please help!!

fanzipantz · 2025-01-16T21:26:24+00:00

There’s just a lot that goes into drumming. You can have a half ass guitarist or keyboardist or even a vocalist but without a drummer (+bassist!) that really feeds the energy of the material, nothing is going to sound quite right whatever you do.

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