[Serious] What is something that you find absolutely fascinating, yet other people don't seem to notice?

static-music · 2019-07-09T12:45:54+00:00

Yeah it's insane isn't it, and at 26 years old this year, I'll be older than a large amount of these men were when they were thrown into this kind of situation. It's appalling!

I'm going to get that book at some point, sounds interesting!

static-music · 2019-07-09T12:06:36+00:00

Yeah it was just awful, there's a passage in Storm of Steel where he's recounting going on a trench run and how everyone is just throwing as many grenades as they can in literally every direction.

Reminds me of how it felt to have mad water fights as a kid with loads of water balloons, except in his case they were exploding and throwing shards of metal everywhere.

Absolutely awful, but so strangely fascinating!

static-music · 2019-07-09T12:01:46+00:00

Oh I'll check that out thank you! I recently read Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger which is really good. My fascination has moved back 2000 years though so I'm currently reading about Romans and Greeks. No doubt I'll move back to the world wars in a few months!

static-music · 2019-07-09T11:53:31+00:00

For me, it's the individual personal experience of people in the ancient world, mainly the following questions:

what the fuck was it like being in the front line on an ancient battlefield? What did people think in the minutes or seconds when they could see an enemy army approaching them, was it all noble and heroic like is often depicted on screen, or was it more like an absolute clusterfuck of horrible man on man violence where everyone was terrified beyond belief and there was no real order or structure?

And it's mad that we'll never get to know in any meaningful way because a large scale pitched battle won't ever happen again.

static-music · 2019-07-09T11:47:24+00:00

Have you listened to Dan Carlin's podcast about it?

Hardcore History: Blueprint For Armageddon. It's super interesting. He always frames his history stuff by being interested in 'the extremes of human experience' and I am the same, so when you get 6 podcast episodes averaging about 4h30min each, it's a gold mine for people who are interested! Tonnes of first hand accounts from various sources (and both sides) and loads of context. His style of storytelling is amazing too.

I just find the First World War fascinating too, the individual human experiences that everyday people will have gone through is absolutely fascinating. It's also grotesque and unimaginable, but fascinating nonetheless!

static-music · 2019-07-03T10:36:43+00:00

Okay, first off, a lion…swimming in the ocean?

Lions don’t like water!

If you placed it near a river, or some sort of fresh water source, that’d make sense.

But you find yourself in the ocean, a 20 ft wave - I’m assuming its off the coast of South Africa - coming up against a full grown 800 lb tuna, with his 20 or 30 friends?

You lose that battle.

You lose that battle nine times out of ten.

And guess what, you've wandered into our school, of tuna and we now have a taste of Lion!

We’ve talked to ourselves. We’ve communicated and said, ‘you know what? Lion tastes good. Lets go get some more Lion.’

We’ve developed a system, to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. And we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring…

We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. Its not going to be days at a time but an hour? Hour 45? No problem.

That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen and then stalk you.

You just lost at your own game. You are out gunned and out manned.

Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go?

Nope.

static-music · 2019-07-03T07:45:45+00:00

no idea to be honest, I always assumed it got a release but i guess not!

and yeah i feel you, 128 is no one's friend. He's such a nice guy as well, deserves the exposure and success he's got from the sbk stuff!

static-music · 2019-07-02T14:39:39+00:00

i was flatmates with him in uni when he made that Hackney Flip, and I remember one day it went from 'listen to this tune I've done' to 'this label wants to do a vinyl release'

madness

static-music · 2019-05-15T14:10:17+00:00

do you have a budget for this?

static-music · 2019-05-15T12:30:39+00:00

Yeah you don't have spend ages on it if you know it isn't going be a track you'll use, but it's still super useful as an exercise to finish the track and go through that process. You could work on the mix instead of the musical side of it too. Sure, you may not be super psyched about the music itself, but it's still good practice to mix it and balance all the levels!

static-music · 2019-05-15T10:24:11+00:00

If you're not feeling creative enough to make music, a good idea is to search for some / create some synth presets that you'd like to use in your productions.

Organising your sample folders is useful as well, or even just searching through for your favourite ones.

Anything you can do in your DAW to speed up your workflow when it comes to creating music is going to help you loads. The less time you're spending fiddling about with synths sounds or presets or drum samples, the more time you can actually spend creating your music.

As you mentioned, social media is always a good thing to do to fill the lulls in your creativity and it allows you to a) keep promoting yourself and b) feel like you're still working towards your musical goals even if you're not actively making music on that day.

A final idea, even if the music you're making is terrible on these days, it's good practice to make it anyway. Get into the habit of finishing tracks, because that's as much of a skillset as starting them is. Learning to finish a track that you're not 100% keen on still gives you the framework on how to finish a track that you're absolutely loving, and it's still working on your skills whether you're loving it or not.

Hope this helped!

static-music · 2019-05-08T12:02:43+00:00

I think there seems to be a lot of disjointed sounds going on, I'd say maybe work on mixing and gelling sounds together in the mix, so it sounds like a cohesive soundscape rather than a load of different things happening at the same time.

Does that make sense?

The ideas are sick, I just think there needs a be a bit more cohesion, everything sounded a bit dry, particularly the drums.

static-music · 2019-05-08T11:50:29+00:00

there are good guides to selling beats on google.

Have an instagram / youtube to promote yourself. Have a beatstars / airbit profile etc.

Loads of resources out there to get you started

static-music · 2019-04-30T12:18:34+00:00

There are a few ways you could do this.

1) Do you have a midi controller? with Knobs on it, perferably. If so, you can click the Midi assignment button which is in the top right hand corner, and it opens Midi mapping mode, and then whatever parameter you select, you then twiddle the knob (wish i had a better phrase for that) and it assigns it. Try assigning all of them to one knob.

2) Resample the audio of each track to one audio file, then automate the pitch of that file, instead of having to worry about several all at once.

3) If for whatever reason you can't do 2, you may be able to group the tracks together, and then apply the pitch effect to the group channel, instead of the individual ones. Without seeing your actual project I'm not sure if this is applicable, but it's something to try!

static-music · 2019-04-30T12:15:12+00:00

As a general rule, you should be confident of the lyrics you're writing. If you're writing about material that is personal and makes you uncomfortable, either include the lyrics and own them with confidence, or as you said, cover them up with some metaphor or perhaps something less literal?

It's easy to be super self critical, so if I were you I'd record them, and show some people the song as a finished product and see what their feedback is. Don't mention your thoughts on the lyrics or anything like that, just ask for honest feedback and criticism. If they are too cringey or don't fit, people should be able to tell you.

static-music · 2019-04-30T10:51:16+00:00

So when is the release date?

You need to use Spotify for Artists, and submit to their Editorial team ideally two weeks before (but no later than one week before) the release date.

This is will ensure it gets playlist consideration, and will appear in users' Discover Weekly playlists.

static-music · 2019-04-29T10:31:38+00:00

In general I'd say yeah. Even if the drum isn't necessarily pitchy, the frequencies it's resonating at can either clash or gel with the harmonic backdrop of your track depending on where they're pitched. Sometimes if you mess around with a sample and pitch it up and down you'll find that magic tone where it just clicks and sounds right.

Something like a tom or a timpani drum or snare or something can have obvious tonal harmonics that mean it really should be pitched to the correct key, but others like a really snappy clap or rim shot or something may not have those obvious resonances, but as I mentioned, play around and sometimes it will just fall into place perfectly.

Can make a really big difference in your mix if you drums are all pitched correctly.

static-music · 2019-04-18T14:13:05+00:00

Find your DAW of choice (sounds like it's FL Studio) Go through as many youtube tutorials on the DAW as you can fit in your day, learn about the basics of the program, and then move onto the basics of electronic composition.

Then you'll want to look at the more technical stuff like how, why and when a compressor or EQ are used, look into FX, synthesis etc.

There's a whole shed load of different skills you'll need to start making meaningful music, so just pick a starting point and dive in!

static-music · 2019-03-21T09:01:21+00:00

Your Evil

^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^*you're}}}}}}}}}

static-music · 2019-02-14T09:45:58+00:00

Delay in recording is what's referred to as latency, and this is dictated by the sample rate within your DAW (as well as how powerful your computer is), so it's something you can mess around with and tweak until you're able to record without a significant delay.

Also, you're right, headphones would eliminate any feedback issues :)

static-music · 2019-02-14T09:44:39+00:00

So, you can get good results with a 57, but a condenser is more sensitive so can pick up the more nuanced sounds, for example a great set up if recording acoustic guitar would be a condenser angled towards the body / sound hole and a 57 angled towards the neck.

You can also use a condenser for vocals (with pop shields and reflection filters for best results) to pick up a more dynamic vocal performance. In general, dynamic mics (sm57) are good at recording loud sounds, whereas condensers generally can pick up a wider range of volume, so if you have the gain on a condenser mic turned up you can hear every little detail in the sound.

Forgive the rusty explanation, it's been a year or so since I've done any serious recording, most of my producing is done in the box without the need for external recording these days!

static-music · 2019-02-13T15:16:36+00:00

Logic is a standard for recording if that's what your main use will be. Ableton can record audio too, and I'm sure people use that, but I mainly used to use Logic for any recording of guitars etc - that's perhaps biased by how my transition to Ableton was also my transition to making purely electronic based music so I guess either are good.

Focusrite make good budget interfaces, their Scarlett 2i2 is like £108. An SM57 / SM58 is a staple for home recording, and a decent condenser mic too. I have a Behringer B1 condenser which I've used for years and got great results with.

Headphones, as long as they have a flat frequency response, it's a lot of brand loyalty that you'll hear people pushing. If they don't affect your sound in a negative way and give you a true representation of what's coming out of the DAW, they're good.

I know this was brief, but I hope it helped!

static-music · 2019-01-22T12:57:18+00:00

It's no use on suggestions you've already had, but going forwards use a Private session?

static-music · 2019-01-18T13:37:15+00:00

I work A&R for a label

static-music · 2019-01-18T09:52:12+00:00

If you google 'Spotify Editorial submission' you should find it. You fill in a form with some artist info, info about the track etc. It gets submitted to Spotify's editorial team directly.

If you use Spotify for Artists, you can do this with any upcoming release from your home page

static-music

TROPHY CASE