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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Sidechaining everything
« on: January 08, 2016, 11:46:24 am »
Quote from: MifzanHerawan on January 08, 2016, 10:34:06 am
Quote from: Joseph on January 08, 2016, 08:43:52 am
Quote from: Mat_Zo on January 08, 2016, 08:42:15 am
I don't think its poor engineering. Sometimes you want nothing but one element playing at a time like the kick and snare. Some people even go in and paste the transients into the track after they bounced it just to make sure nothing else is in the mix during the transients

Do you know of any videos/articles that explain what transients are? Can't seem to get a grasp on it...

the wiki said "In acoustics and audio, a transient is a high amplitude, short-duration sound at the beginning of a waveform that occurs in phenomena such as musical sounds, noises or speech." is it true ?

yeah so in electronic music it's the first 10-30ms of a kick or a snare impact.

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Tell us your master chain!
« on: January 07, 2016, 04:37:39 pm »
Quote from: Zenkrey on January 07, 2016, 04:32:03 pm
I heard from Virtual Riot he sometimes uses Waves Maserati GRP for adding extra loudness without distortion on top of an Ozone chain with Maximizer, do you have experience about that plugin or that use of it as a mastering plugin?

I've never touched Maserati TBH before, I'll look it up. Thanks!

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Tell us your master chain!
« on: January 07, 2016, 04:14:13 pm »
ok without going into much detail it's actually something like:

Waves Center → SSL (Duende Native Bus Comp) → Maag EQ4 → Izotope Ozone 6 (Multiband Dynamics + Maximizer)

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Tell us your master chain!
« on: January 07, 2016, 04:13:46 pm »
OTT → OTT → OTT → Soundgoodizer

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: Headphones for mixing - need help
« on: January 07, 2016, 03:46:34 pm »
Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro



indestructible studio standard for years now;
when i use these for 8hours in a row and then take them off - i feel naked.

then again it's always good to have a couple of different points of reference, so use the shittiest headphones or earbuds you can find and compare the sound once you're confident with a mixdown. remember that not every person who listens to your music will have the best headphones or audio equipment - in fact they'll most likely have the most basic speakers available, so make sure it sounds good on that, too.

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: Do you play an instrument (exept the piano roll :D)?
« on: January 07, 2016, 10:44:08 am »
drummer here, used to play melodic hardcore punk & ska and later metalcore for a while lol

it has definitely helped me build interesting, complex, and most importantly believable snare/tom rolls in the stuff i produce now. being a drummer in a band made me realise that for instance suddenly switching to triplets in the middle of a song adds to the power; tricks like syncopes and tremolo's, even in dubstep, also add to the effect.

(inb4 "drummers are not musicians")

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: Piano Plugins?
« on: January 07, 2016, 10:29:00 am »
Before I switched over from Cubase to Bitwig I was using the HalionOne package.
Now I'm all about Alicia's Keys for Kontakt.

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / F**k S**t Up plug-ins
« on: January 06, 2016, 09:05:17 pm »
It's funny because I've been asked this question in an interview for Beat Mag and I could have written a book about it, since my music is quite glitch- and stutter-based. The question was initially regarding these plug-ins being a "temptation one should resist in your opinion, or actually an improvement", but I'm just curious about your choices.

To me, FSU Plug-ins are a 'complextro'/dubstep producer best friend when hitting a writer's block or when simply too lazy to edit tiny glitches by hand, which don't stand as a significant, memorable part of the track. Illformed's Glitch2 and StutterEdit with BT's awesome banks are my favourites, not only for live performances. For additional crazy movement, Fabfilter Saturn or Timeless2 seem to be doing cool stuff when EQd and controlled properly.

What are your go-to FSUs?

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: Sub-Bass/Bassline Theory
« on: January 06, 2016, 08:38:55 am »
Quote from: Ocular on January 06, 2016, 03:31:35 am
Typically your sub should only be the root of the chord.

^this

also, let's not forget sub portamento gliding, which i'd usually play solo unless parallelly with a growl above it (depending on the genre)

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: Stick with headphones or go all in and buy monitors
« on: January 06, 2016, 08:25:54 am »
90% of the time I stick to my DT770s, 10% of the time it's the KRKs.
It could be caused by the quiet hours too or mostly because I get the most ideas at night.  8)

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: Good Vocoders?
« on: January 06, 2016, 08:21:49 am »
layering multiple vocodexes usually, best results for me since i can remember  8)

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: favorite synths?
« on: January 06, 2016, 08:17:13 am »
serum = mid-basses/growls
sylenth1 = pads/leads
massive = subbass, supersaws, arps
sakura = organics <3

it's weird lol

can't wait to dabble into Omnisphere2 once it's on sale

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