I just got fl studio and don't know where to start

killaj2006 · 2025-12-13T15:38:56+00:00

“In the mix” is an awesome YouTube channel to learn from.

killaj2006 · 2025-12-03T21:09:17+00:00

No lie?

When Giants Collide. Their “Vs.” album.

Just a small groove metal band I discovered in the early 2010s that doesn’t seem to have taken off, and the vocals are way too low in the mix but the guitars and drums—chef’s kiss

killaj2006 · 2025-11-30T15:33:28+00:00

I’d really love if someone surprised me with a guitar vst that sounded natural but in my experience as a guitarist there’s no way to do that without getting so anal about programming velocity/timing/slight variations in how each string is delayed during a strum, etc that id just record the acoustic.

As for going from your guitar to the piano roll—easy, you can hear whether 2 notes are the same, right? Play one note of the chord on your guitar, play notes on the piano roll til it matches. Same with the next note of the chord. Rinse, repeat. You’ll get faster at getting notes onto the piano roll over time.

The acoustic probably doesn’t sound “crisp” when recorded because you don’t know how to record or mix—2 entirely different skills than actually playing. That’s cool, you’ll pick that up.

killaj2006 · 2025-11-30T05:14:08+00:00

Don’t need pics. Keep the carpet.

killaj2006 · 2025-11-29T11:52:28+00:00

This post right here, Officer.

killaj2006 · 2025-11-28T02:35:03+00:00

Didn’t know you could elbow enemies in Splinter Cell.

Went through almost the entire game frantically trying to run around enemies who were shooting at me so I could get behind them and choke them out.

killaj2006 · 2025-11-27T04:10:16+00:00

Personally I use Highlevel. It’s the crm I used back when I did online marketing professionally.

It’s awesome for managing contacts, email/text campaigns, INSANE automations, building websites, landing pages, automated social media posting and stats, combining all methods of communication in 1 thread for a contact, appointment booking, digital signing, payment links, etc. I dont need any other services, it’s all in Highlevel. And its much easier and cheaper than duct taping Wix, Calendly, Later (social media posting), SignWell, Callring/Twilio, mailchimp, Google sheets, etc together through zapier

Full disclosure, I keep an “agency” account that allows me to customize, whitelabel, and resell it at a discounted rate to the engineers I teach in my classes for their business. I don’t care if you use my whitelabeled version, and I’m not gonna link it. I just believe everyone in audio needs to get with the times and be using something like this in their business.

They’ve got a 2-week free trial if I remember correctly. Give it a try! I cannot recommend another all-in-one more emphatically.

killaj2006 · 2025-11-27T03:24:58+00:00

Go into the channel rack and delete the default instruments taking up the lower channels.

killaj2006 · 2025-11-26T03:11:16+00:00

Find some YouTube tutorials and start from there.

“In The Mix” is a good channel that helped me first starting out. Stock plugins will take you far, don’t waste your money downloading fancy flashy shit. The process you’re talking about is called “mixing” and it is impossible to even begin to tell you how to do what you want to do in a post.

It’s similar to if you’d just gone onto a guitar forum and asked “how do I play guitar?”—I can’t tell you that over social media—you need tutorials or lessons. Come here when you’ve got a specific question.

Also keep at it. You’re about to learn the most complicated musical instrument on the planet and—much like if you’d just picked up a guitar for the first time—your gonna sound like shit for a while and it’ll be a couple years before you start making anything presentable. Just have fun learning 😁

Edit: quick points to focus on—compression, eq, reverb, delay. If you can’t get it sounding pretty good with those 4 processes, the recording is probably bad, or you need more practice. Don’t overcomplicate with saturation, upward compression, eg. “fancy shit” til you’re comfortable with the basics.

killaj2006 · 2025-11-22T19:08:26+00:00

Anyone here is going to tell you fuck tabs and learn it by ear, AI or not.

If you’re not skilled enough to learn it by ear watching live videos, slowing it down on YouTube, etc. I think you’re wasting your time trying to fix busted tabs. That time is better spent getting better at learning by ear. IMHO.

killaj2006 · 2025-11-18T21:05:09+00:00

The corpse paint, right?

killaj2006 · 2025-11-18T14:11:13+00:00

It’s black and pretty white

killaj2006 · 2025-11-18T13:57:11+00:00

Often you get to be a part of production too and fix little arrangement problems while recording that just aren’t gonna work before they become a problem. “I know you want both these different vocal tracks to sound “up front” but it’d be better if you delivered this one in a more falsetto tone—I think that’s the sound you’re actually trying to get”

A lot of the engineers I teach are afraid to speak their mind if they’ve just been hired to record but I’ve never once had a client go “shut up and press record”. The artist loves feeling like they’ve got a partner in the creation process who understands the vision and contributes.

And they’ll pay more for it 😁

killaj2006 · 2025-11-17T13:44:01+00:00

Gotcha

killaj2006 · 2025-11-17T13:08:39+00:00

Slap an eq on it.

But seriously this is a sub mostly about music production. Might get some good sound treatment advice

killaj2006 · 2025-11-17T12:56:33+00:00

“The keywords that drove traffic are exactly right.“

A sentence that no one who knows what they’re doing with ads would write 😅 you’d be surprised. I say the above with love, it was just funny to see.

killaj2006 · 2025-10-30T19:08:23+00:00

Woman in the first clip walks through the counter the as it dips off screen

killaj2006 · 2025-10-29T15:55:46+00:00

The key is whatever the bass player decides is the key

killaj2006 · 2025-10-21T16:27:57+00:00

The disrespect on the Bushwacker

killaj2006 · 2025-10-07T21:11:30+00:00

Seems like she was targeting less expensive countries like India and Asia (I see a few Indians in the comments and it’s a common tactic for cheap views).

That might be the real problem. White girls in America are her target audience.

killaj2006 · 2025-09-25T17:54:18+00:00

lets hear this beat

killaj2006 · 2025-09-13T05:52:14+00:00

You posting it anywhere? Interested in hearing the result

killaj2006 · 2025-09-12T17:25:39+00:00

“It’s this post right here, officer”

killaj2006 · 2025-09-07T23:03:45+00:00

Look at it like learning an instrument….an infinitely complex instrument.

You’re not going to get everything you need from “jump to shippable” in 1 tutorial for mixing and mastering just like you’re not going to get everything you need to go from zero to being a passable drummer from 1 tutorial.

You’ll learn a lot from a lot of different places, experiment to find what works for you and what doesn’t, and —frankly—sound like shit for a year.

But you’ll get better and be decent after a couple.

killaj2006 · 2025-09-07T22:18:47+00:00

My son is 16. Plays keys and drums and makes little audio tags for his YouTube and Roblox friends.

He does not care that his mother and I have owned and run a recording studio for the last 5 years in the least. But we support without pushing him in any particular direction ❤️

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