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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Mixing a track in 30 seconds with Pink Noise
« on: January 18, 2016, 07:36:30 pm »
Ideal, thanks friend. I figured you could probably download a sample of it, but the idea of 'buying pink noise' amused me because I am childish

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Bonus points for telling me which ones they are xx

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Mixing a track in 30 seconds with Pink Noise
« on: January 18, 2016, 07:28:55 pm »
Where can I buy some pink noise?

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Sticking to one main volume/pan position per track
« on: January 18, 2016, 07:27:24 pm »


It gets tedious as hell though if you ever have to move all of them.
Doesn't it!


I like what Logic has done with splitting automation into absolute and relative, but it's still not a perfect solution.

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R&A Graveyard / Re: "Finished Tracks" Section Sucks rn
« on: January 18, 2016, 04:35:50 pm »
Urgh


The people wanting feedback are always going to vastly outnumber the people who feel capable/qualified to give it. For that reason alone a feedback forum will necessarily rely on a handful of individuals who readily give their time and insight because they like to help. Fancy rules are simply not going to compensate for that imbalance.


I actually like giving feedback, but I can only listen on headphones and there are only a few genres that I would feel comfortable commenting on, because I don't have enough knowledge of context to have a feel for what's good or not. The more specific the feedback you're looking for, the less likely there is actually anyone willing and able to give you that feedback. I would love to help people out with the finer points of their mixdowns, but I can't.


I really don't understand why you can't just encourage people to be helpful but ultimately leave them to their own devices. That or just come up with a different system altogether. Trying to monitor and enforce feedback quotas etc. would suck the life out of this part of the forum at least as quickly as doing nothing.

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: [TL;DR] Musicianship
« on: January 18, 2016, 04:24:28 pm »

I started a spreadsheet with a bunch of bands in it.
Haha, I love the geekiness of this :D


I'm really interested in why people like the music they like. Sure, the music you get into when you're growing up tends to remain special to you once you get older, but I'm still intrigued by what it is about that particular music that attracts you in the first place. I feel like the music you like is somehow related to personality or psychology, but I wouldn't have any idea why.


Are you sure those things you listed - musicianship, originality etc. - are actually the things that explain why you like the music you like? There's a psychological tendency to come up with an explanation for our feelings when we don't honestly know the deeper reasons behind them. Tight beats seem to be very important in music to me, and I also seem to like a lot of music that's strongly melodic - liquid d'n'b, trance, early east coast hip hop, but also (e.g.) Miike Snow or Tame Impala, even though on the whole I don't like guitar-based music. I dunno just rambling at this point

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Any creative output is always a re-combination of input. There is no innate place from which a pure and untainted emotion flows just as long as we don't ruin it with outside knowledge.
I've been trying to put this into words for ages - the idea that nothing is truly original, because what exactly you create depends totally on your experience and exposure to certain things. I'm totally fascinated by how the subconscious process of creativity works, but I guess we might never know because it's subconscious.


I checked 'Phizzy Drink' on your Soundcloud btw, like it a lot. Is it getting released?

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WIPs / Re: Progressive House WIP - no master.
« on: January 17, 2016, 10:00:47 pm »
Link doesn't work

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R&A Graveyard / Re: "Finished Tracks" Section Sucks rn
« on: January 17, 2016, 10:00:14 pm »
Is it totally impossible for the feedback process to just operate with a degree of altruism and generosity? If you come up with a system to make it 'fair' there will always be a minority who try and game it. I dunno, maybe just give generously and think of it as a chance to earn some karma points.

I know this point has kind of been made, but if people leave half-assed feedback because they have to but can't/don't want to, the usefulness of this part of the forum actually gets worse rather than better. The quality of feedback gets diluted, but the quantity attracts more people looking for easy feedback, and everything goes to shit. Possibly. Either way I think it's worse to have an incentive to leave insincere feedback than to have no incentive to leave any other than decency and consideration for others.

If this really is an issue I think AshleysBrother might be right that the feedback mechanism just needs to be in a non-forum format.

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Hey,


The highs don't sound too prominent (not in my headphones anyway). I don't know this kind of music well enough to comment on how you could improve it, but I like it anyway.

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Dumb question lol
« on: January 17, 2016, 09:42:02 pm »


Man, definitely not this one. I'm from Czech Republic and our prime minister's surename is "Sobotka". I have nothing against him, but you simply don't want that. :D
Haha. Frank Sobotka was a character in the HBO show The Wire. He was a good character and I liked the name ¯\_()_/¯

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WIPs / Re: Late night deep tech sessions, feedback needed :)
« on: January 17, 2016, 02:27:47 pm »
I think the main thing that needs work on this is your choice of samples for the beats and percussion. That thing you've got running through it (that sounds a bit like it's pumping back and forth), and that noise effect on the beginning of every 8 bars I like, but the clap and those noise hits are a bit bland. I agree the kick doesn't sound all that great by itself either.

This has a nice groove to it though, I like it.

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WIPs / Re: Need some feedback on this, feels like im stuck in a loop
« on: January 17, 2016, 02:15:12 pm »
That clip's a bit short innit.

This is off to a pretty good start tbh. I'm not sure the mixdown is a problem. If you want it to sound bigger, experiment with layering your sounds, using FX or other elements to fill out the frequency range, making more use of stereo width, that kind of thing.

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Thanks for the tips in this thread y'all. Appreciate it!

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Dumb question lol
« on: January 17, 2016, 10:20:53 am »
Just 'Kevin' could work tbh. Or how about a version of your name that's not correct but more pronounceable (how do you pronounce it anyway)? Or maybe just whatever the most frequent mis-pronunciation is :D

I come up with names quite often, although most of them are pretty daft. Anyway feel free to copy, steal or tweak as you wish:

Foolius Caesar
Ladio Gaga
Sticky Puppy
Frank Sobotka
Kanutzen
Nameless Dread
Captain Pantalon
Cancel & Gretel
Bitbreaker
Dyook
Billy Idiot
Pretzelhead
Boy Fisk
Mystery Bastard
Devorkian
Paddy Smashdown
Crook
Corgi Minogue (inspired by that 'Korg Minilogue' thread elsewhere)

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