Making the first time I’ve made in a whole last night cos I managed to find the boxes with my laptop and headphones in. Had the most fun I’ve had in ages making a techno tune which is super surprising considering I’m not a big techno fan
Made me realize how much music has been missing from life recently and that I need it
Sample pack competition starts tomorrow brőther
didn’t do the mutant dancehall thing today, tried making a dubstep beat for once.
https://soundcloud.com/saelo_music/02-mars-dubstep/s-fN5lcnYH7r0?in=saelo_music/sets/march-wip-projects/s-xdWGT9gw0ww&si=8fca27ec46584034a00ac564cdf81ed1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
oh and made progress on the synth theme from this one track from last month
https://soundcloud.com/saelo_music/16-februar-nr-2_3-fast/s-1v83vnm5ICi?in=saelo_music/sets/march-wip-projects/s-xdWGT9gw0ww&si=9d054cf079e64bc899b3d50005810838&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
edit: wtf is happening to soundcloud?
They’ve changed the UI for the upload pages which is much nicer but the main UI still sucks
I’m gonna do it
Do it
How does one make a hot track?
I know there are hot takes. Which is a part of it I’m sure
Plenty of w0bz
Btw Serum 2 was released 2 days ago. Free upgrade from Serum 1!
How do you guys layer stuff in your songs? I feel like that’s one thing I’ve been really fuckin lazy in lately. I’ll just have like 1 pad and call it good. I know yall are like spending 5 hours just getting your kicks sounding good, I haven’t done that in years now lmao. Feel like I’ve actually gotten worse at producing.
no im like you, pretty lazy, dont spend more than 20 mins on anything, just whack it all together and try to eq away the dogshit freqs. Sometimes I just move on asap just so i don’t stagnate, even if something is a bit crap lol
I think maybe I’m just making my frequencies a bit to mucky, and that makes it harder to add new sounds. Like, i guess if your pads kinda shit, it’s kinda hard to thicken it up with other sounds.
Pads tend to be pretty layered anyway so you either let them dominate, or choose your preferred dominant frq and eq around that, that’s my approach anyway
my worst is with subs and kicks, I sidechain stuff extensively (and sometimes way too complex) but often can’t quite give 2 competing low-end elements the space they need without losing something important from at least one of them. Hence not caring too much and just getting on with it (as long as it’s not 100% mud or clipping horrendously), otherwise I’d never ‘finish’ a track lol
God my kicks are always fucking shit.
I really struggle with them especially around subs.
I usually just don’t play a kick and sub at the same time because am shit at eq-ing and processing those 2 elements to work together.
side chain compresion apparentlky but Ive only ever got it spot on with abletons glue compressor and 808 kick/bass
Had a moment yesterd-ay. been working on my comp entry, spent the best part of the day mixing the levels and editing channel drops etc and my comp crashed. I think I clicked no when it asked if I wanted to go back to before the crash and lost the lot. was lucky a friend was there so I had to compose myself. needless to say I was pissed.
got it back close to where it was but its not quite the same.
alsoi, bass I struggle with so much. others can make it sound airier but bigger and the mids balanced well. fuck knows how haha
One approach I’ve been using lately is to have all your sub/bassy elements actually come from a single voice. They can’t clash if they never overlap. Elektron gear makes this easy to do, but in a daw you would literally just cut out the bass where the kick is happening and then cut the tail of the kick where the bass comes back in. I think the key to loud punchy mixes is to only ever have 3-4 elements ever playing at the same time. Bass element, noise element, harmonic/melodic element, texture element.
Fuuuck man that’s brutal.
Also this
i pretty much entirely use samples lol
For layering I learned from audioscienceonline that you can duplicate a sound and invert the EQ of each to achieve some kind of pleasant dynamics from the original. They also say to put sound in as many places of the beat/track as possible so to not have a boring track
yes, as Debussy once opined,
“Music is the space between the notes, so fill those spaces with wois, growls, sirens and verb’d out claps that makes you wana dropkick yer nan through a JDSports window display”