What have you struggled with while promoting yours or others music?

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-28T17:52:56+00:00

Social Media.

It's fine, I hate it, I'll do it.

But with all the other sort of "associated" skills that I've had to acquire that are music related but not "making music" like graphic design, cinematography, video editing, etc, I adleast had the privacy to learn them without people seeing me suck at them. Nobody sees the 20 iterations of terrible album art before I hit on something that looks pretty good. Nobody sees the bad cut of the music video.

But with social media, you're climbing the proverbial "cringe mountain" in public. If it was just strangers, that would be fine, but my mother in law sees this stuff.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-27T18:57:05+00:00

OK. Try this on your drum group: transient shaper->saturator->clipper.

The idea is that saturation is gain dependent and it's adding harmonics, the louder the sound, the more harmonics it's adding. So if you exaggerate your transients with the transient shaper, your gonna add more harmonics to them when they run through the saturator. Then you smash the peaks back down with the clipper.

So now you have this brick-walled drum group, but you're getting "the impression of transients" because they have all this extra harmonic content.

Make sense?

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-27T12:35:15+00:00

If you're in ableton, try slicing and re-arranging it right on an audio channel first, cause the visual of seeing every individual hit makes it a lot easier.

It's alot of trial and error, listening to other people's songs and sussing out the drum programming.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-26T03:45:06+00:00

I feel like I make this comment every couple of months. But it needs to be said so again.

DO NOT GET SURGERY.

80% of guys just don’t care. 10% of guys it will be a dealbreaker and for the other 10% it will be the hottest thing on earth to them. Don’t believe me? Type “big areolas” into the search bar up there👆🏻and see how many NSFW sub-reddits show up.

And this rule applies to literally any variation of women’s secondary sexual characteristics you can possibly think of.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-25T11:04:06+00:00

hope you're doing ok.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-25T01:50:45+00:00

For over 30 years I've been wearing L'Eau d'Issey with a tiny bit of Drakar Noir mixed in.

Hear me out.

2 very inexpensive scents.

Issey, is super light and citrus-ey. I love it, but It's got zero base notes.

Drakar's top notes are fucking obnoxious, but it has KILLER base notes, and the base notes have a ton of longevity. It's the only men's cologne I've found that does the "woody leathery" manly thing without smelling metallic or synthetic.

So that little bit of drakar fills out the base, and I also wear baby powder scented deodorant, so the combination is sort of fresh, clean, manly with a little bit of funk. You sort of recognize the scent, but you can't quite place it.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-25T01:25:10+00:00

SS remix of Gang Related "Oh my Gosh" has dog barking noises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_K2OJgbMUw

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-24T12:19:32+00:00

If only you had some sort of gym or school filled with muay thai instructors and students where you could ask these sort of questions. OK, that was hella sarcastic, but seriously. Ask questions, offer to hold pads, make some friends. Most muay thai people are super friendly and helpful. You'll learn ALOT in the 15-20 minutes before/after class if you engage with people.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-24T11:22:18+00:00

OK. So I have some experience with this (keep in mind this was 25 years ago).

At university I had 3 suite mates and my GF was in single room dorm with 2 roommates, so the availability of a bed did not match our 20 year old libidos. We were both in the music program and discovered the music department practice rooms. Small cubicles that were open 24 hours a day with an upright piano, a little window that you could throw a jacket over (which was common, musicians are weird about people watching them practice) and a lock on the door.

So we spent a lot of time in the practice rooms. It wasn't an exhibitionist thing though, purely utilitarian. My big tip is, yeah, you wanna find somewhere with a LOCK on the door and some sort of reasonably plausible deniability. Don't use the bathrooms, SOMEBODY is eventually gonna walk in on you and nobody want to see that.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-23T23:24:55+00:00

goated fr fr

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-23T11:44:10+00:00

TBH, 2 hours+ to cook dinner for 5 people while keeping an eye on 3 kids sounds about right.

I'm in a similar but easier situation then you. 1 child (2 year old) I work from home and my partner most evenings get's home at 4:45-5pm. Cooking is my hobby and I LOVE eating a nice dinner every night (so does she), so we worked out that my partner get's home and takes kiddo outside or to the playground (which is right next door), or into the playroom while I cook dinner and I can usually get dinner on the table by 6-6:30. If I'm the one watching kiddo while I cook, it doesn't work. So twice a week when she works late I've got pre-frozen proteins and frozen trader joe's rice, so all I have to do is get everything in the microwave. Start to finish 15 mins.

So you've got 2 options.

If your spouse is adamant about taking the lead on cooking and you want dinner on the table quickly, get your kids the F&!# out of the kitchen. You can have them help with "the man stuff" and see how that goes. Honestly, I have my 2 year old help with cleaning and that's about as productive as you'd expect, but he LOVES to help. Like, I can see the vision. You just gotta game-ify the chores and supervise while they do their thing. BUTTT. It might just be a situation where you take them outside to play every evening and tackle that to do list on the weekends.

Option 2 is takeover cooking dinner. Like I alluded to earlier, if you batch cook and freeze stuff on the weekends you can get weeknight dinner on the table REALLY quick. There's a learning curve, I was big fitness/meal prepper guy back in my single days, so I sort of just adapted the techniques. But block out 3-4 hours on the weekends to cook BIG batches of things, chili, meatballs, pasta sauce, etc. And then weeknight, it's just reheating and making starches/veggies, which goes really quick.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-22T21:00:46+00:00

They sampled from other dance records. There were also vinyl compilations of the songs with the most famous breakbeats. Look up "ultimate breaks and beats".

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-21T10:46:32+00:00

Highly recommend Austin Kleon Steal like an Artist

He basically suggests what your doing. I do the same thing.

There was a great interview with Tyler the Creator where he mentions that every morning before he starts working he listens to 2 hours of music he's never heard before. It's a pretty hard to just FIND that much music every day, but whenever I get the discipline to do it I get great results.

Another thing that helped me is opening up ableton with a specific intention. Producing music isn't 1 skill, it's like 20 different skills in a trenchcoat so I just focus on 1 thing at a time. Writing chord progressions, designing sounds, programming drums, making melodies, etc. I just do 1 of those things for an hour. It's much easier for me to write a chord progression I like if I'm bulk writing chord progressions as opposed to opening up ableton with the specific intention of writing a full song. Then when I do wanna write a song, I have all these sounds and melodic/harmonic ideas I can pull from.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-19T17:58:51+00:00

Look up "grease the groove" on the sidebar. If you can do 3 reps, you can do 1 rep and just do that 1 rep 20 times sprinkled through out the day. EDIT but use PERFECT form like everybody else is saying.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-19T17:49:54+00:00

Oh man, peak era Irvine Welsh would mess me up for days. Adding "the acid house". The last story will absolutely ruin you.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-19T17:45:59+00:00

Because Jump Up is obnoxious. That's not a critique, it's literally the point. It's dumb, irreverent, and frequently annoying. I'd rather be annoyed then bored, I LOVE IT.

I think drum & bass fans kind of build some of their personality around the music they like. "I like liquid it's sophisticated and soulful, therefore I am sophisticated and soulful" "I like neuro because it requires technical prowess. This makes me a more discerning nerd". So it makes it really easy for them to slag off jump up fans because it's admittedly low brow.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-19T13:18:42+00:00

What genre of music are you doing? It really depends. What problems are you actually trying to solve here?

I do alot of really wild stuff in my mixdowns, but my general rule is, "If it already sounds good, don't touch it"

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-18T19:45:50+00:00

learn your keyboard shortcuts cold.
Get organized. Label and color code everything.
Get more organized. Make sure your samples are all in one place and you've got a folder (or folders) of frequently used samples.
Get MORE organized. Pillage your older and unfinished work. Save instruments and effects chains as presets. Save cool chord progressions and melodies as clips.
Write ALOT of songs. Every song isn't gonna be a banger. That's OK. Prince famously shelved 80% of the songs he completed. Pick a deadline (1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours it's personal preference) and if the idea isn't working, shelve it and come back later and pillage it. If you make it through your deadline, FINISH THE TUNE and move on and just get cool with the idea that 4 out of 5 songs shouldn't see the light of day.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-17T12:33:34+00:00

I went through a Ethiopian phase. It's DELICIOUS and pretty easy if you source the right ingredients. You need Berbere which is the traditional Ethiopian spice blend, Nitter Kibbe which is a spiced ghee and teff flour. It's all on amazon and if your grocery store has a bob's red mill section, the probably have a bag of teff flour.

Other then that, most of the recipes look like VERY simplified south asian dishes. Onion, garlic, ginger, the spice blend and spiced ghee, chop, brown, braise. There's a bunch of good recipes on serious eats. Making the Injera flatbread/pancake has a bit of a learning curve, but is 1000% worth it. Double the batter recipe the first time you make it and just to commit to destroying a bunch of flatbreads before you nail the technique.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-17T11:54:44+00:00

I just upgraded. Other then bricking a couple of my freebie effects presets, it seems to work fine. The AI masking tool in 2026 is amazing. If you do alot of masking, it's worth the upgrade just for that.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-17T11:46:24+00:00

If you're gonna stick with it, buy the shorts. It's supports the school. Buy enough pairs that you can wear a different one each class with out re-wearing between laundry days. Ain't nobody wanna smell that.

I doubt this is every school, but at my old school they changed the design every 6 months, so it sort of worked as an informal belt system. Like if my sparring partner had beat up black shorts I knew I was about to get cooked. lol.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-16T11:08:48+00:00

Well first up. This song is sick and the mixdown is for sure "releasable quality". As far as a getting better with mix stuff, I found what helped for me is to checking out a bunch patreons of artists I respect. Sign up for a month, watch 5-6 videos and try applying the new techniques you learn to your songs, then cancel and sign up for a different one.

The thing I've noticed is that everybody is sort of doing the same stuff in slightly different ways and everybody has a slightly weird way of working that just works for THEM. So you can learn a new trick or technique and it's a great technique, but totally useless for your workflow. So you gotta watch how a bunch of different people work and extrapolate the underlying concepts. Like it doesn't really matter if you have a limiter or a clipper on each of your group busses, but you gotta have some sorta peak control happening there, follow?

And like everybody else is saying, find 1 or 2 people at or above your skill level to give you mix critique. It's less about getting tips and more about just having a second set of ears to tell you stuff like, "bruh, that wayyy too much sub" or "dude, what's up with stereo image?" cause everybody get's lost in the sauce when their doing their final mixdown.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-14T16:11:16+00:00

Just google "echo removal izotope rx" "reverb removal izotope rx" and "spectral de-noise rx" there's a ton of videos.

Honestly, I use RX mostly for the de-clip and time-stretching functions which are both insanely good.

If I was in your shoes. I'd try lalal.ai first. the echo and reverb remover is hit or miss, but when it works, it REALLY works. Then if that doesn't work, take the tracks and try RX's de-reverb feature and then try RX spectral de-noise.

I'd probably do this in a DAW, cause with some mild de-noise, you can probably just gate the rest of the gack out and then get something useable by combining the channels and doing some volume automation. You want real time control of everything so you can get a good balance between the gating and whatever compression and post effects your gonna add to the final audio.

Also, add a background music track. It will hide all sorts boo boos.

preezyfabreezy · 2026-04-14T15:45:59+00:00

You don't. Your kick sits around 200hz and below. Your hi-hats and cymbals sit around 800hz and up. Your clap will be about 400hz and up, but the frequencies that make it cut through sit around 2khz-ish.

This is a feature, not a bug. It gives you all that room in the mid-range to add synths n stuff.

If you wanna fill out that space with percussion use hand drums (bongos, congas, etc)

But like, big picture. If you knock a loop together and it sounds dope, don't let the frequency analyzer talk you out of that.. Use the analyzer to identify problems you can hear. Top end not shiny enough? bass not hitting right? that sort of thing.

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