Thanks, Frederick.

I can relate to what you say. I'm a fan of the early 90's techno (Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Dave clarke). That music was much faster than the average BPM now.

And thanks for the nice words. I wrote a review on one of your tracks.

Thank you very much, guppi, you made my day!!

It seems like you deleted your soundcloud? I can't find anything to review back...

Mixing is about giving all instruments and vocals their own space in the mix. How can we do that if we only have the vocals?

With "shu" you copy and follow the tradition.
With "ha" you break from that.
With "ri" you no longer follow the rules—making up your own.

Great stuff!!

There's nothing wrong about wanting to sound like your favorite artists. After all, we like that music and isn't it great when we can produce music we like ourselves?

And when you know the basics, the foundation of how some artists create your music, you can start adding your own ideas.

It's difficult to make great music from the start without learning and imitating from others.

I'm older than most here, I imagine. Here's some things I began to learn at different ages:

Fear not. : )

That's a really encouraging post, thanks.

I agree with the 'Fear not.' part, I'm 43 and still learning. In a much more focused way than when I was younger.

parallel the entire track?


You must be mad......

Allow me to demonstrate with a sound example:

https://soundcloud.com/silent_frill/reaper-parallel-clip-test

This is a downloadable 24-bit wave file. First 8 bars are unprocessed, next 8 bars are parallel clipped with the master brickwall preset from LVC's clipshifter. I set the wet knob to 40%, so 60 % is dry sound.

The BPM of the song is 115, so you can loop the different parts if you want.

The loudest peaks of the first (unprocessed) part is -0.7 dBFS (left) and -0.3 dBFS (right).
The loudest peaks of the second (parallel clipped) part is -3.2 dBFS (left) and -2.9 dBFS (right).

According to the RMS meter of SpanPLUS, both parts are equally loud but the peaks of the parallel clipped part are about 2.5 dB lower, allowing me to turn up the volume more before peaks are driven into a limiter.

Looking forward to comments on this technique.
Do you think the sound quality differs too much between both parts to justify this way of working?

Here you can see a 3 minute midi overdub video of reaper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrAvL3Xq2ZI

It means you can record midi on top of an existing midifile, without erasing the previous recording.

Overdub can also be done with audio. But the difference is that the previous audio will be erased. So imagine you play a chord progression on guitar and 1 chord is wrong; you can overdub (re-record) only that chord and the wrong chord will be replaced.

thanks mussar! I'll definitely check that link out. I just want to become the best musician I can be, but the thought of taking a class makes me feel sort of conflicted when my idols are against going to school for music.

And you don't have enough personality to decide things for yourself?