Can anyone shed some light on how he makes the lead during the break melody? I know its some sort of saw with some internal clipping. I just can't seem to get it full enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vc6TJC9Ub4

Okay so I started this yesterday and worked into the night getting the levels to hit right. I don't even know what's going on anymore haha. I hope you can give me some comments and feedback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=typGOuhRt3Y

This one bumps And Grimes is dope I hope you all can appreciate this.

I donno why this works for me, I think I have struggled with caring what people think of me in the past.. But i like to tell my self that the majority of people on this earth will not give a single care about me or my music. Even if millions of people follow my sound, it's still a meager fraction of people on this Earth. When I tell myself this, it completely puts my mind at ease, I don't give any thought to anything accept why I want to make music in the first place. It helps me not give a fuck about what people think essentially. Pure creative freedom. It helps you get into the mindset, that I think is essential, that you can't please everyone.

If you want some compressors that are amazing and based off analog performance, pick up Slate Digital Virtual Bus Compressors. The response is unreal. I recall reading up on how producers were saying how some compressors worked better than others and I didn't have the experience to really recognize the difference between compressors...slate compressors are the only compressors where I was actually amazed at how good they sound in comparison to stock compressors. Highly recommend them if you can afford it.

I recently picked up a copy of Zen and the Art of Mixing written by Mixerman, I highly recommend it for everyone it's a good read.

Anyways he talks a lot about arrangement decisions coming from the point of a mixer. Although not all his points apply towards electronic production, I thought he did dish out some good tips as far as what makes songs successful. Basically he stresses the functions of 5 elements of the song:

(1) Melody:

-This is the main focus of the song (obviously) and is more often than not placed center in the mix and is among the loudest elements

(2) CounterMelody:

-A subordinate melody to the main focus of the track, it serves to contrast the main melody and support it, never to take away focus. Often times the countermelody works opposite to the automation of the main melody. When the main melody goes up in pitch the countermelody will drop down, when the main melody drops out the countermelody comes in etc.

(3) Rhythm:

-For us this will be the bass and drums. What I thought was helpful from the book was a mention of internal Rhythm. This is the rhythm that moves us in between the main kick and snare hits. These are the hihats, percussion etc. and they serve to provide a secondary rhythm for the track that works with the main rhythm, similar to melody and countermelody.

(4) Harmony:

-Harmonic support for the melody. These could be underlying chord progressions, white noise or a multitude of other mixing decisions that help our ears reach satisfaction with the melody playing as well as the drums we hear.


I hope this begins to help some of you in arranging decisions. It's hard at first but once these are ingrained into your brain it really does help to start producing cohesive melodies. And again I'd recommend picking up a copy of the book there are other jewels inside

This is something I just made. I'm not sure where to go with it I'd love some feedback! Or if anyone wants to work with me on it that would be kewl.

I've been producing on a PC my whole life, and it's getting to the point where I need to consider buying/building a new one for my production needs. I wanted to hear from you guys about your experiences of PC and Mac as far as processing power is concern and how much RAM you think is suitable for production.

Thanks in advance!!