I never really understood the hype about fabfilter pro-q. It's nice and all but I dislike the workflow of it.

Anyways...

EQ - Logic Pro X EQ
Reverb -Waves Rverb
Delay - Waves H-delay/Fabfilter Timeless
Compression - Waves Rcompressor
Synth - Sylenth/Massive
Daw - Logic Pro <3


Extras...

Stereo Imaging - Waves Doubler & S1 Imager.

Hey guys. Right now in the track I'm working on the verse is shamefully louder than the chorus. I want to lower the balance of the instruments in the verse so that they are balanced with the chorus but if I do that then I'm also going to be lowering the balance of some instruments in the intro, (Intro and verse share a few sounds) which will result in the balance of the intro being messed up.

How do I adjust the volume between the verse and chorus without completing screwing up the balance of my intro? If that was unclear then let me rephrase the question. How do I deal with unwanted dynamics between song sections? Better yet... how can I prevent this from happening in the future?

Very interesting and you guys are correct. My speakers do have a wall behind them. There are also two pretty big windows behind them as well. (A little bit higher though)

I never actually realized the limitations of my listening environment until now. I'll study some room acoustics and see if there's anything I can do about this.

Hey guys so I'm not very used to mixing on monitors but I've been making more of an effort recently to use them instead of my headphones.

I have the monitors in the triangle position so that they're at a little bit of an angle.  One thing that I just recently noticed is that when I bring my ears closer to the computer screen the bass gets louder. With that being said... when I'm sitting down normally on my chair with a tiny bit of distance between myself and the monitors the bass gets softer.

Which one do I base my mixing decisions off of? Is this what people mean when they say that you need to "learn your monitors" or "learn your room"?

Savant definitely works fast. I enjoy listening to Madeon more though. The adventure album revolved around more of a songwriting perspective rather than producer chops which is something that worked out really well for him.

Definitely puts me to shame. Makes me wish I had started producing at a younger age. I can only imagine the amount of effort he must have put into honing his craft having all that free time as a teenager not going to school. (I can't remember what age he dropped out.) Not to mention the serious balls and faith in himself he had to have had in order to do that in the first place.

I never thought selling samples was such a shady business until I was on beatport and heard my cousins track being used as a preview for a sample pack that was being sold.

My cousin never consented to the use of his track in their advertising. The advertising was obviously false because none of the sounds from the sample pack they were selling were used in my cousins song because they ripped it off soundcloud.

I mean... eventually he filed a complaint and beatport took it off but whoever did it must have been a real scumbag.

Reminds me of spazzkid. ^.^

I think presets are a good choice for beginners who don't really have an ear for sound design or synth programming. They're the equivalent to me of guitar tabs. As training wheels they do their job but eventually you want to take them off as you get more familiar with sound design.

The reason why I like presets is because they can help you discover new sounds that you didn't think were possible.
The reason why I dislike presets is because they overcomplicate the amount of choices you have to choose from. (At least for me when I was a beginner)

I remember being so overwhelmed by sound design when I was first starting off because of how many presets there were to choose from in instruments like Massive or Sylenth. Once I realized that the majority of these presets were just variations of a square wave or a saw wave it simplified dance music instrumentation so much for me.

When I choose my sounds I like to browse through the ones I've already memorized in my imagination. In the same way I imagine drums or a bass in my head I do the same with commonly used synthesizer sounds. (supersaws, plucks, leads etc...) I find this method to be much faster than browsing through 100's of presets hoping that I come across the right sound.