On my masters I aim to have my sub hit roughly between -12 and -9 fwiw

Vocals are always a struggle. Over time I've found that less is almost always more with them, and if you find yourself struggling after a certain point, it's probably the wrong performance/vocalist.

There's no bass

Mr Bungle-California
Porcupine Tree-In Absentia
Opeth-Blackwater Park
Shining-Blackjazz (some of the most aggressive production I've ever heard)

Meh solid start. I don't listen to a crazy amount of electronic stuff lately. Hard to recommend new albums with the music industry being so single-focused.

There's a well trained classical pianist who does work with CERN....

Quote from: attila on June 11, 2016, 10:03:46 pm

Quote from: ion on June 09, 2016, 04:13:59 pm

Well, I´m happy to read that any kid from an African country can make a living by serving tables while working hard on making it big in the music business...

You do realize Africa isn't just one giant desert with impoverished villages right? There are plenty of huge music producers in Africa that started out just like anyone in the US or Europe. Like this guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Jazzy) who moved to the UK when he was 18 and worked in restaurants while building his music career. Dude has a net worth bigger than almost any producer any of us look up to.

Winners look for opportunities, settlers find obstacles.

That's fine. but I bet that person was also focused on music exclusively.

you're also focusing all of your efforts on to one person, and not the entirely of the country and the entirely of every one's interest.

People might have other considerations as to the life of a musician, which isn't easy by any means. They also might have talents that lie else where.

But to blindly give advice based on your situation, and not understanding the person who is asking the question, is just bad teaching. and poor advice to give.

If you're not with out empathy, then i don't see how you(general) can be in any sort of position to teach.

Tailor the advice best suited to the individual, and be a great teacher. That takes much more skill, and we can use a lot more of it.

I'm not writing blindly, I'm giving my experience because my story started much the same as the OP's. Turkish family wanted me to become a doctor or lawyer and thought music was a waste of time (starting about 15 years ago). I kept working on stuff through school whenever I could and left the country when I was 18. Traveled around, hopped around a bunch of jobs and landed where I am now. Dropped out of music school a few years early because the program director told me there wasn't much left for me to learn and production was already taking up the bulk of my time. Now that music's starting to bring in money and everything's working, my family's happy I didn't listen to them.

To the OP-your parents don't think with their heads, they think with their hearts. They want your life to be stable so they're not stressed out all the time, it's gut-wrenching to see your child struggle etc... The problem is, their ideas don't jive with yours because they lived a life of logic instead of passion, and people who've dedicated themselves to a life of logic can't wrap their heads around someone living a life of passion. It's not unfounded-pursuing music, logically, is a really bad idea. You'll, statistically, almost certainly never get anywhere, and just set yourself back when you accept the alternate career path they wanted you to start in the first place. The good news is, the vast majority of musicians are absolute trash and lazy to no end. So if you have any streak of originality and a good work ethic, it's completely doable if you bust your ass.

They have for a good while. Especially with the capabilities of quality IR's...id argue digital has surpassed analogue. Unless your track relies on the unpredictability afforded by physical electronics.

Ew I'm surprised how many people here are suggesting focusing on school if music's what you're into. I dropped out to focus on music and I feel like my lifes finally in my hands. I make ~$30/hour serving at a restaurant two blocks from my house a couple days a week, which is enough to afford a nice loft downtown while leaving at least four days a week off to work exclusively on music. Money's easy, schools overrated unless you're trying to be a doctor or lawyer or something. Just remember, part time effort bears part time results.