Producing Tips/Tricks?

[EmmitBrown]

i agree thoroughly with wiltz and pawn

@pawn even if its samples, all of those are important. they can help you get the best out of the samples and eliminate the stuff you dont want, plus panning into a good sound hole in the composition is always important

[pawnluvguitarist]

i agree thoroughly with wiltz and pawn

@pawn even if its samples, all of those are important. they can help you get the best out of the samples and eliminate the stuff you dont want, plus panning into a good sound hole in the composition is always important

Oh yeah EB, don't get me wrong it's all important no matter what you're doing, especially with the panning. I meant more with the compression and eq. Most samples will have already been processed to some extent as opposed to my acoustic guitar which sounds amazing live but when recording requires a lot of work reducing all the bass to get a great tone that works on its own and blended with other raw real instruments.

[EmmitBrown]

yeah definitely. i just know ive spent some time playing with sample sources for a while and ending up with something i didn't know could come from the original material.

i don't even know what type of media/source material Noah feels comfortable with, just throw some more tidbits in

[pawnluvguitarist]

Definitely EB, I didn't mean to downplay how you can go a step beyond with samples and loops and really make something special. You just have more leeway at the beginner level if you just threw together a drum loop and some samples without eq, panning compression ect in comparison to a handful of live recorded real instruments, that would be a mess.

[EmmitBrown]

i like all this music talk. i might try to produce some shit tonight. haven't seriously messed around in a while. might even start a soundcloud. does anyone know if we have to copywrite shit before we throw it on soundcloud? youtubes fine print scared me a while ago so i havent really put much of my stuff online.

edit: @Noah can this be a general music production query thread? we have a lot of musicians here...maybe it could just be a homebase for flucker music q&a &tips/tricks/advice?

[Antwan]

@emmit
As far as I know soundcloud is non profit.
I've seen original works and remixes though.
I've had instrumentals I didn't make up with my voice for years now.
I don't have it downloadable don't know if that matters.
Any copyright stuff is low on the radar especially if it isn't popular.
You're not making money so I said fluckit.

There's some really interesting setups out there.
I've been learning about midi stuff..
There's one that can translate your humming into a midi file, pretty wild.

[EmmitBrown]

@antwan im worried about people stealing my beats

[Noah eh]

@Noah can this be a general music production query thread? we have a lot of musicians here...maybe it could just be a homebase for flucker music q&a &tips/tricks/advice?

Go right ahead haha

[TheIronz]

One more:

If you can find clean samples of it, 80's Thailand Funk/Soul has some of the best samples I have ever heard... But production quality on MOST of them is HORRENDOUS!