Easily done sleeps, I found when I stopped listening to music like it was some sort of competition it’s much easier to be content just expressing yourself…
It’s a bit of a losers way of looking at things but I find it helps me complete more music.
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i don’t use compression these days apart from some parallel on the drums, scarcely use eq and just use saturator on the master sparingly
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Your beats sounding great lately J (last time I checked) can’t tell much difference between yours and a lot of innamind type gear… Sonically anyway !
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The depth might not be what’s important in a chune. Everything within a chune can be translated to taste. When I see serum tutorials and the author of the tutorial says something like “because I like fattness in my track” I remember that this author is speaking about a vst that was created within like 5 year ago. Not exactly a timeless script like I guess Oscar Wilde.
In this case Tolsof, I would encourage you to save individual elements that you can come back to later. Even if that means no sound at all but instead automation lanes, sidechain lanes, networking lanes?, pretty much anything that you consider a big FLEX that you can come back to EZ.
I notice that some chunes sound like they were made for like HD 8-bit video games. Others more like for to broadcast through the internet well? Then of course big chunes.
some day I will finally learn to stop taking hubb’s posts seriously (love u buddy) but - while it’s true that they’re all powerful tools and important in the right usage, I feel like half the battle is learning how to use them, and the second half is teaching yourself to stop throwing them on every track except when they actually make a positive difference to the mix… which is a lot less often than you think when you first learn what the knobs do lol
tbf in terms of how often I use them I feel like definitely eq ~= saturation >>>>>> compression
compressors are certain cases only but I will never understand hubb’s hateboner for eqs
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needs a very specific and narrow form of local filtering to understand that tbf
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hpf
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hey hey hey!
Someone ought to create a chune called BOLD and on the dubplate, make the text BOLD then a second chune on the plate called Big Chune in Italics
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I found a bunch beats made in chaabi style
Pretty cool that people out there are doing stuff like this
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They shouldn’t then.
thanks man thats a great compliment
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outamind is a good prod name
How often do you guys use vst presets in songs? I went the longest time without using them but I’ve been doing it a bit lately just to get a sound in there even if it’s not exactly what I’m going for. Especially since I’ve just been making quick practice tracks lately, it’s not worth spending the time on sound design.
I use them sometimes to get close to the sound I’m looking for and then tweak from there.
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i use presets just cause it’s faster. even if i have a particular sound in mind, i’ll just find a preset thats close and work from there to get what i want
I basically stopped making tunes because my hd crashed and I lost access to all my favourite vst:s and their presets, and they proved to be too difficult to warez again. I cba to make my own sounds
A couple of vsts I use the presets coz they’re good sounds
Other I use presets then tweak.
Others I go from scratch.
Depends on the vst really
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