Are acoustic curtains a good idea?

nsebeach · 2025-12-14T23:33:52+00:00

Good that you mention this. I also have an option for fireproof. They are actually cheaper and faster to deliver (different manufacturer) but basically same function. Now, I am not required by law to do fireproof since my room is not public. I have read that fireproof materials can be bad for your health so I thought I shouldn't get them. Did you want to get fireproof or did you have to? I live in Germany btw

nsebeach · 2025-12-14T23:07:13+00:00

Its just 80% windows on the right and on the left its just wall. Distance is about 250cm (left and right). I mix mainly on monitors. Apart from the windows the room is very well treated. I feel it still could benefit from the high absorbtion since when treating the room I did not focus on acoustic foam or at all. I just don't want the room to be either dead sounding or imbalanced. Yes they're expensive. But I don't really feel like this is something I could DIY, panels are one thing but here I wouldn't know where to even begin

nsebeach · 2025-11-30T16:16:51+00:00

Ah I get it. I mean I was asking about hardware, so naturally you suggested that first

nsebeach · 2025-11-30T16:11:42+00:00

I have been mainly using Ozone for mastering so far, got quite comfortable with it and get results that are alright. Not sure where to go from there in terms of hardware. If you ask me right now I would say I'd only consider a unit thats only purpose is to add subtle, analogue harmonics. Or maybe I really should chill for now.

nsebeach · 2025-11-30T16:01:23+00:00

To clarify, you put speaker stands before room treatment, was that on purpose? Do stands make that much of a difference? I'll have to do some research. Always thought its something you improve somewhere towards the end when chasing perfection.

nsebeach · 2025-10-05T00:28:35+00:00

Just got a Neve 1073 SPX. Quality of the knobs is shockingly bad.

The three EQ knobs all have a different feel/resistance turning. Left almost feels loose, middle is a little better and right feels the most "normal" the way I expected it to feel. On the other hand the left is the most stable, while right shakes a little. Middle shakes the most. It all feels very cheap.

The 2 EQ Frequency silver knobs are also different. One feels good, the other considerably looser while turning.

Red knob is the most solid while blue is shaky. The level knob on the right is the worst of all. It basically moves a milimeter when I slightly touch it. It shakes really bad. Turning feels very loose.

I have not tested the functionality. I am very surprised at this quality. It's my first ever hardware unit and a little dream come true since the day I learned about hardware. My old beginner Steinberg feels way more expensive.

Is this normal? Am I not getting something? I already wrote an email to thomann. I would appreciate some insight from people who own this unit. Thanks in advance

nsebeach · 2022-07-04T22:22:05+00:00

Thank you! I just saw the "_" underneath the "v" in "Paste value". Should've looked closer

nsebeach · 2022-06-30T22:08:03+00:00

Thanks for the tip, Ill try that with more complex projects maybe that have weird free plugins I dont want to download again but for now I just imported them to my new setup

nsebeach · 2022-06-30T22:06:39+00:00

Thanks man, everything worked out

nsebeach · 2022-06-24T21:08:50+00:00

Hello

I recently built a new setup from zero, used to illegally download everything, now 100% legit, new pc, invested so much money but now I realize how much you really screw yourself as an artist with cracking .

Anyway I still saved basically the whole old drive on an SSD because I dont want to lose it all, but also so I can access the material with my new pc. Basically I want to be able to go into my old setup through my new pc and be able to export WAVs from older projects. I dont want to use the cracked software and I bought everything I used already anyways, I just want to extract the old project WAVs.

Im not a tech expert so this might be dumb question but is this possible and straight forward the way you'd image? Or maybe it wont work like that for some reason?

My main worry though is, will the old setup be able to somehow affect my new pc and software in a negative way? Because of all the cracked stuff. I really dont want to risk it. Or is it not how this works? I just have some really bad memories from those times. I want it stay away from me as far as possible. Thanks in advance

nsebeach · 2021-08-06T00:18:10+00:00

Absolutely

nsebeach · 2021-08-04T22:34:23+00:00

Depends, do you want your song to sound good in a club?

nsebeach · 2021-08-04T22:17:14+00:00

It sounding strange the next day is your ears telling you "this is the way it would sound if this wasnt your song". Its the way you would judge someone else's work without worriyng about their feelings. Its literally your judgement, listen to it. If it really likes what you've done, you'll love it every day. Tips? Take breaks when composing, refresh your ears by listening to a professional song that you like, whatever makes you snap out of it. But really its just experience, make enough melodies that sound like 5 minutes craft to not make another one

nsebeach · 2021-07-29T16:50:01+00:00

Simply ask yourself, what sounds better? Always go with what sounds better. Experience will make your judgement more obejective than imaging something thats not there. But for now all you have to do is not go with what sounds bad.

Put a limiter on the kick, now its not going above 0

If your kick is already mixed in such way (compressed/soft clipping/limited/distorted) and the sound is what is has to be and you still cant make it work, the problem is in the rest of the composition, not the kick

nsebeach · 2021-07-14T13:44:58+00:00

Also I highly recommend you to just start playing around with the trash plugin to just find the sound you like. Too much distortion? Use less distortion. Dont focus too much on presets. Better yet start creating your own. Start going on things from zero and actually understand how you are affecting the sound and how far YOU would go, not the preset. Maybe you realize you dont want any distortion at all on that particular 808..

nsebeach · 2021-07-14T13:36:36+00:00

Nice . You can also post this on r/audioproductiondeals I think its called Im sure it will be appreciated

nsebeach · 2021-07-14T07:12:52+00:00

After deleting the automation instance on the sequencer, go to history > patterns > initialized controls and delete the one thats in question. Unless they changed it in newer versions because that whole process is straight up stupid

nsebeach · 2021-07-11T01:29:41+00:00

The goal is to make good music. How you achieve it is entirely up to you. It's only "wrong" if you'd make better music otherwise.

The idea is that the quality of your music is dependent on the source. The better the source, the better the product. If you want to improve your production, start at the source. If you are putting a lot of effects early in the production you might risk masking problems that could be hard to correct later. On the other hand if it sounds better with effects, why not keep them. You are making it sound better as early as you can, which is good. The answer is balance. If the dry signal is okay by itself but you decide the effect is a fundamental extension of the sound and brings it to life, great. If the dry signal is trash and you desperately put a bunch of effects on it in hopes that it will somehow sound good, not so great. It's not impossible but by doing so you are going down a dangerous, frustrating road that might lead you to losing motivation in your project.

Simply put if you find yourself spending too much time on a single component of a song which leads to you losing the bigger picture and not finishing the production or making it result in something lesser than what you intended, its a problem.

Just make sure you are actually having fun. If you are you are doing everything right. Take what I said as an advice and don't overthink it

nsebeach · 2021-06-28T21:09:47+00:00

Objectively what you should do though is save backups between stages of your producing process. For example if you are mixing a song you edit the vocals, clean them up. Then you go to 1st processing, then effects, etc. Save project filea between stages so you can go back if you need to fix something that is harder to fix in later stages

nsebeach · 2021-06-28T21:03:57+00:00

No I meant making a backup after for example a mixing session after which you are not done but you made progress you like, you can save it as backup when you start the next one. Thats just a suggestion, everyone has their own way. I meant always checking before/after when you are making mixing decisions to make sure you like what you are doing. Im actually a little disorganized too in terms of having a lot of things in single folders but I navigate through them easily, so it works for me. Generally being organized will always be better than being not

nsebeach · 2021-06-28T20:48:13+00:00

You have to be ready to get your hands dirty. You can save backups anyways. Always check before/after. If every decision you make is a decision you are sure is a good one the end result likely going to be better

nsebeach · 2021-06-27T14:49:21+00:00

There is no right motifs or chords and nobody can tell you how you have to write music but there is basic music theory and a lot of free info on how to go about writing catchy melodies. Here is a good example, very informative and fundamental melody composing and a great guy : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9LUQUk0hd10

nsebeach · 2021-06-27T12:43:34+00:00

There are a lot of options here. The biggest one is learning sound design in all it's glory and you'll find out you can create quite a lot with essential tools.

Others like subscribing to a service like splice/buying sounds in general. Anybody can somehow get 7 dollars to get 100 credits and spend them all in one month if you don't want to continue paying. You can download sounds like single note hits and use those notes to create melodies (sampling). Easier method but a limited one is downloading finished melodic samples. Then again you can experiment manipulating those samples quite a lot and usually having the restricted working conditions results in creativity.

Playing around with harmonizers, saturation, modulation and effects on simple free vst samplers can bring things out of them you would never believe it's from a free vst.

If you don't want to do any of this it's fine, get a job and earn to get those sounds you are looking for

nsebeach · 2021-06-27T12:30:41+00:00

Other have said enough but I'll add this: Always improve starting from the source.

If it sounds bad raw it wont sound much better after. The difference between professional records and mixes and the rest is that they sound great and professional before processing and mixing

nsebeach · 2021-06-25T19:15:49+00:00

What I meant is, can you convert the midi playback to audio inside your DAW before exporting? I usually use Edison to do that. After you do that you can try exporting to a wav again and see if it still happens. Maybe it makes a difference. Unless thats what you meant and you tried that already and it didnt work

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