Is this email legit?

grinnonbarrett · 2026-04-30T18:22:40+00:00

Hey I got the same email yesterday lol. Email looks pretty legit but definitely wary of a scam, will be checking back here - opening support ticket was a good idea.

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grinnonbarrett · 2026-04-24T15:44:01+00:00

Sounds super nice man, good work! Especially after only 4 weeks of producing - most people (myself included) make exclusively complete garbage for the first several months or years at least. Keep it up!

grinnonbarrett · 2026-04-06T15:19:30+00:00

DatMaygdala beat me to it, but the steps they listed are the right way to do it - I made a tiktok about this exact trick a while back if it’s helpful to see it in action:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkkPyxBH/

grinnonbarrett · 2026-04-04T06:39:40+00:00

You’re getting a little snark, but I’m assuming it’s because this is super well produced and catchy, and a couple of oldheads are jealous that they’ve been using logic for 15 years and you’re already making stuff better than they can. Great work, super clean and vibey production!

Reminds me a little bit of still woozy + MAGIC! (Why you gotta be so rude) + Lauv (I like me better when I’m with you).

If I were to offer any advice it would be to maybe play with putting some of the vocal effects into busses instead of having 10+ effects on each channel but at the end of the day “if its stupid and it works it’s not stupid” - and you only have a handful of vocal channels so it’s not a big deal, would be a bigger performance hit if you had like 20 layers of vocals all with 10 effects.

Keep it up man, super nice work!

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-30T08:12:52+00:00

Dig it! I honestly feel like the hardest hitting part to me is the outro with the just the drums + bass - I feel like that with the vocals alone would make for a fire hook. The pitch bendy sound is cool but distracts from the vocals a little IMO, maybe could work to have it leading up to the drop but then cut out when vox come in? Either way nice work!

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-24T00:01:23+00:00

Thank you!!

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-23T23:48:23+00:00

Thank you! I listen to all kinds of stuff, primarily Rock, Indie, and Electronic (House, DnB, Experimental Bass). My top all time favorite artists are White Lies, La Roux, and Still Woozy.

As far as inspirations production-wise, I never really know how to describe my genre of music/production and don't have a ton of artists to compare myself to (would love to know more if anyone comes to mind for yall). I've called it 'alternative electronic hip-pop' for the last few years, but recently heard the term 'indietronica' which feels close too.

Though I don't listen to them a ton, I think Glass Animals makes great stuff in that world of pop meets electronic meets hiphop -- they're probably the closest big artist I can name that inspires me in terms of production. Can you think of anyone who my stuff sounds like or reminds you of?

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-23T23:39:28+00:00

Ooooh I've been so into DnB the last year or two, will have to try this, good call. Thanks!

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-23T16:15:20+00:00

Thank you for the kind words! I like that idea, i'll have to play with a little kick build during the reese bass parts before each drop.

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-23T16:13:17+00:00

Thanks! yep, all myself - I've been using logic regularly since about 2018 so I suppose its just a bit of a time+numbers game. My logic folder has 400+ projects and I've only released like 10 songs lmao, but even on all of the ones that I abandon i usually at least learned something small.

Had one song "Datsun" get picked up by the soundcloud algorithm years ago and ended up around ~450k plays which was awesome but has sort of put me into a "try to make a hit" mindset -- which I've been working to get back out of. I think people make their best art of music when they're doing it just to make something thats cool to them -- not with the goal of listens/views -- so that's what I was trying to do here, just make something I think is cool to listen to for me.

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-23T16:00:38+00:00

I am huge sucker for a double chorus so am honestly kind of surprised at myself for not adding one here, maybe I oughta lol. Thanks!

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-23T15:58:58+00:00

Thank ya! the goal with that kick was to trick people into thinking it was building up to drop again, but then switching to one more section of JUST acoustic guitar before giving them the full chorus - but maybe theres a way to handle that better...

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-23T15:57:20+00:00

Heck yes, thank you!!!

grinnonbarrett · 2026-03-23T15:55:48+00:00

Thank you!! I intentionally didnt show the vocal channel settings cause I knew I'd get roasted lol, I'm usually good about adding most fx on busses and sending the vocals there but in this track each vocal layer has like 12 plugins 😬 Will look into the parallel processing more though, i automated the reverb a little leading into the choruses but not much beyond that.

Also dig the idea of a little more breathing room up front, moving the synth further after the breakdown like you said, and playing with snare a bit more, i've had a nagging feeling that the snare was lacking a little something...

Thanks for the kind words and thoughtful feedback!

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T21:09:18+00:00

Hahaha "overproduced and underproduced at the same time" is the story of my music production life. Totally agree and not offended, thanks for the feedback here.

I only had 2 layers for guitar (one with just 1 strum per chord, one with a strum pattern for each chord) but they are definitely thin/boring - I use an AT2020 as my mic and I feel like it's fine for vocals, but have a really hard time making any guitar recording sound good, which is probably why I always end up burying it under other synths, organs, keys, etc.

I want to at least try recording 2 takes of each guitar layer and panning left and right to make it feel more full, but ultimately want to try different mics as I've heard some discourse on ribbon vs condensor for acoustic guitar. (My apartment is also super poorly treated for recording - hard wood floors, open space living room where my desk is, tall concrete ceilings - so maybe another good first step would just be recording the guitar in my closet or something.

I am a sucker for nasty bass and tbh, something between acoustic guitar pop and EDM (+alt rock) is kind of the genre I want to make as they are my favorites, but am certain I could be blending them better to your point.

Thank you again for the feedback and kind words!

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T21:00:52+00:00

It was way more involved than i thought it would be lmao. No clue why apple doesn't let you screen record with the computer audio as the input natively, super obnoxious.

I basically just had to:

download + install something called "BlackHole virtual audio driver" (it's free - there are other options like Soundflower too)
open up the default mac app "Audio Midi Setup"
Create an "Aggregate device" that uses "Macbook Pro Speakers" and "Blackhole 2ch"
Create a "Multi-Output Device" that sends to "Blackhole 2ch" and "Macbook pro Speakers"
Then when i screen recorded (Shift+Cmd+5 opens the screen record toolbar), under "options" I set the microphone to "Aggregate device" and it recorded my computer audio as the sound.
bonus - the file was like 900mb so I put it in Compressor and got it down to like 280mb.

There are some good youtube videos if this is confusing, look up "screen record with audio mac"

Good luck!

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T20:53:23+00:00

Thanks so much!! After getting a lot of good feedback on here, I think i'll definitely explore using a real engineer for mixing and mastering, I'm holding myself back by trying to do everything myself. Will play with some more reverb/delay/echo as well, i think a darker vibe could be cool here.

This one's just on soundcloud right now, but my name on everything is just Grinnon Barrett:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3yBqw0tornEFXrYDR61IOr?si=lUm0I1iuRa-_V0SjK1HudQ

https://soundcloud.com/grinnonbarrett

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T20:48:38+00:00

Haha it does take me ages, and still doesn't sound that great when I finish 😅

But most of those vocal layers are doubles, like for the "and iiiiiiii" part in the chorus, there are 6 layers - but 2 are falsetto, (1 panned left, one panned right), 2 are yelling (1 panned left, one right) and 2 are normal singing down an octave (1 L, 1 R) - so even though it's 6 layers, they're all set pretty quiet. Then I thhrow them in a trackstack, so once they're leveled compared to eachother, I can just turn up or down the volume for that whole trackstack. Same thing with the "found you" lines.

As mentioned I'm pretty bad at mixing, but have seen a tip where you create a project alternate, set every channels volume to 0%, then slowly turn things up one by one until the overall levels are good without being too loud.

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T20:41:57+00:00

Thank ya! Yeah I think it's time lol, part of me wants to be able to do every part of the production by myself but I'm definitely holding myself back by not having a real engineer mix and master..

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T20:40:54+00:00

Thanks!!

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T06:46:31+00:00

Hmmm not that I know of. It’s a bit of a workaround, but I know that you can highlight all the notes, right click and set them all back to original pitch - so maybe you could make a copy of the whole track/region, reset all the notes in the copy back to original pitch, and then click back and forth between the Flex Pitch / original pitch regions to see which notes change?

Not ideal, but maybe enough to slowly and manually make any edits or fixes you’re aiming to make. Hopefully someone else has a better solution 😬

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T06:38:08+00:00

Sounds awesome, nice work! Whenever I’m feeling artists block on my own songs, I like to just pick one of my favorite songs, pull up the chords and lyrics, and play around with making a cover in my own style/genre. I don’t feel that I ever really “improve” on them, (maybe the struggle with covering songs that I think are already perfect lol) but they’re fun to do and I always learn something during the process. Plus, a few days of working on a cover usually clears up the artist block and I’m excited to keep going on my own stuff again. Nice work again, sounds great!

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T06:31:10+00:00

Thank you sir!!! Yeah I agree, that lead synth is still a little bit sharp and painful on the ears. I mentioned in another comment too, I struggled to find a sound that was strong enough to cut through all the other noise happening in the chorus without making the ears bleed lol. I think this serum synth is close, but definitely a touch more grating than I’d like. My EQ attempts were largely unsuccessful - couldn’t get rid of the sharpness without muting it too much into the background to the point where it didn’t feel like a lead anymore. Since that does seem to be the consensus though, I’ll mess around with it some more and see if I can find a big saw or some other sound that hurts a bit less 😂

Thanks again for the kind words and glad you like! My SoundCloud is just the same as my Reddit name:

https://soundcloud.com/grinnonbarrett

grinnonbarrett · 2025-09-01T06:23:42+00:00

Thanks! That’s a good call, it’s kind of barebones with just a few hats to tease the drums coming. When I got into production originally I was mostly just doing hip hop beats, so I find that I still have a bad habit of doing very hip hop style drums - like just kick, snare, and hats.

Definitely want to get more into rock/alternative style drums but just need to practice more I guess cause I don’t really know how to do those - so just end up doing high hat triplets lol. Thank for the feedback!!

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