Production skills, tips, tricks and techniques

[IamChuck]

Finishing a track that you are not completely satisfied...so is it still good practice to finish a track that you started for the sake of finishing?

But it doesnt mean that you need to post it anywhere. So from this point ofcourse you can train yourself to finish your tunes even if they dont rock. But again you need to ask yourself why are you still producing? Mostly because its fun. For me producing tunes that i dont really like is not a fun. So most of time I just save them as ideas in my project folder and take a break. After some time that tune maybe will sound different because of my mood... who knows .

[Maven]

Because lately, I seem to have this quite unsatisfied feeling on my production, I got too technical and forgot to produce and have fun with it. I get melodies and stuff, and them save them up with doing nothing. I feel like I should start back to produce and arrange things back again

[Gabeskeee]

I was wondering if there are any tips on creating your own acapella without having to do reverse phasing? I cant seem to find the instrumental of the track and ive searched through the forum and it came up empty. Saw a "DJ Vespers" on you tube and kinda did what he said to do but i ended up with a lot of snare clashing with the vocals. the plug ins im using are EQ 8 and Multiband Dynamics in Ableton. any ideas, suggestions? Thank you!

[bednarz]

Hey there,

There is this really cool sound that I found a lot of producers are using in there drops, but I can't figure out how to make it, I have Massive, Sylenth, FM8 Nexus and I use FL studio I was wondering if someone could explain to me how to make it or post a link to a tutorial that would show me.

The sound comes in R3hab's and Dyro's remix of Can't Stop Me Now at 1.29



and it also in this song from Stereotronique at 2.18



Thanks guys

[HoH]

Hey guys,

I've just bought a new mac and when I load up Ableton, whatever button I push my audio tracks go nuts and create a high pitched hissing and screeching sound. Any ideas how to fix this? I'm currently using it on the go so it's not connected to my sound card, just running on the mac's. Thanks

HoH

[Q-Co]

Hey guys,

I've just bought a new mac and when I load up Ableton, whatever button I push my audio tracks go nuts and create a high pitched hissing and screeching sound. Any ideas how to fix this? I'm currently using it on the go so it's not connected to my sound card, just running on the mac's. Thanks

HoH

so you are running it from the default build in soundcard i guess yes?
If so, turn off the inputs from the soundcard in the preferences menu.
changes are the audio channels pick up the internal mic of the mac.
hope this could help.

[djtamteo]

Hi, I have one question... Is there any other vst plug-in for mac like iZotope Phatmatik where I can take each specific sound that I want out of the .wav loop and than play them on my piano roll?!

[HoH]

Hey guys,

I've just bought a new mac and when I load up Ableton, whatever button I push my audio tracks go nuts and create a high pitched hissing and screeching sound. Any ideas how to fix this? I'm currently using it on the go so it's not connected to my sound card, just running on the mac's. Thanks

HoH

so you are running it from the default build in soundcard i guess yes?
If so, turn off the inputs from the soundcard in the preferences menu.
changes are the audio channels pick up the internal mic of the mac.
hope this could help.

Thanks man that was it exactly!

[Q-Co]

Hey guys,

I've just bought a new mac and when I load up Ableton, whatever button I push my audio tracks go nuts and create a high pitched hissing and screeching sound. Any ideas how to fix this? I'm currently using it on the go so it's not connected to my sound card, just running on the mac's. Thanks

HoH

so you are running it from the default build in soundcard i guess yes?
If so, turn off the inputs from the soundcard in the preferences menu.
changes are the audio channels pick up the internal mic of the mac.
hope this could help.

Thanks man that was it exactly!

Great

[optixdj]

Hey there,

There is this really cool sound that I found a lot of producers are using in there drops, but I can't figure out how to make it, I have Massive, Sylenth, FM8 Nexus and I use FL studio I was wondering if someone could explain to me how to make it or post a link to a tutorial that would show me.

The sound comes in R3hab's and Dyro's remix of Can't Stop Me Now at 1.29



and it also in this song from Stereotronique at 2.18



Thanks guys

Thats actually a really easy sound to make. I just attempted to make it in 3xosc and got a pretty similar result.
First open 3xosc. Open the piano roll. Make sure your snap is set to 1/6. Draw one note on C6 that fills one full box. (There should be 8 little boxes per beat you just want one of them filled.) Then draw A not on C5 that fills 1 -1/2 of the box. Heres where the sound starts to form. You want to double click on the 1/8 note in C6 and select slide.

Here's a pic I'm not sure If that explanation makes any sense
http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/44439776/file.html

As far as the 3xosc setting go. I think it sounds good when all three oscilators are Square waves. Osc 1 CRS is at 0 semitones. Osc 2 CRS - 12 semitones. Osc 3 CRS 0 semitones. Adding a little bit of LFO also makes the sound. Then of course A reverb or delay or any other effects to your preference Hopefully this helped.

[Nocturnal]

Hey Guys...not sure if this was already posted, if it was my apologies. I've been trying to read the entire forum but I'm only on page 112 so far.

I came across an article that talks about "fixing sounds in the mix" with the use of EQ. It goes back to a lot of what I've been reading on this forum. Finding a good sound source to start with is much better and easier than trying to polish off a less than good sound source.


http://arpjournal.com/584/can-we-fix-it-–-the-consequences-of-‘fixing-it-in-the-mix’-with-common-equalisation-techniques-are-scientifically-evaluated/

[bounce92]

Hi!

I want to know if there's any good sample-packs with 'electrical noise effects' or just things that sound electric. It's hard to explain, but imagine yourself pissing at an electrical fence and record the sparks.

Something like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhPPXUkKyiI

[Nocturnal]

Hi!

I want to know if there's any good sample-packs with 'electrical noise effects' or just things that sound electric. It's hard to explain, but imagine yourself pissing at an electrical fence and record the sparks.

Something like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhPPXUkKyiI

Here you go try these out:

http://www.soundsnap.com/tags/electricity

[bednarz]

Hey there,

There is this really cool sound that I found a lot of producers are using in there drops, but I can't figure out how to make it, I have Massive, Sylenth, FM8 Nexus and I use FL studio I was wondering if someone could explain to me how to make it or post a link to a tutorial that would show me.

The sound comes in R3hab's and Dyro's remix of Can't Stop Me Now at 1.29



and it also in this song from Stereotronique at 2.18



Thanks guys

Thats actually a really easy sound to make. I just attempted to make it in 3xosc and got a pretty similar result.
First open 3xosc. Open the piano roll. Make sure your snap is set to 1/6. Draw one note on C6 that fills one full box. (There should be 8 little boxes per beat you just want one of them filled.) Then draw A not on C5 that fills 1 -1/2 of the box. Heres where the sound starts to form. You want to double click on the 1/8 note in C6 and select slide.

Here's a pic I'm not sure If that explanation makes any sense
http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/44439776/file.html

As far as the 3xosc setting go. I think it sounds good when all three oscilators are Square waves. Osc 1 CRS is at 0 semitones. Osc 2 CRS - 12 semitones. Osc 3 CRS 0 semitones. Adding a little bit of LFO also makes the sound. Then of course A reverb or delay or any other effects to your preference Hopefully this helped.

Hey man,

Thanks a lot I tried out what you said to do, and the sound I got is really close but its not quite WARM enough (I dunno if that's the right word to describe it). Could you maybe explain a little bit more about what the slide function does. Also, I know this might be a noob question but how do you add a bit of LFO? and what kind of reverb and delay do I need to use?

Thanks

[Alean]

Hey bednarz,

You might try 3xosc with first Osc in Saw wave and second osc with very very little white noise, and then thats when you add your fx's, you can try camelphat3 is really good for that kind of bass and eq it around the 800 and low cut it, also layer it with only a saw wave and add a very very little pitch lfo, Hope it helps