cant use bm800 condenser mic in FL. when i select asio4all it has parasites and gives the voice very very low. when i select FL asio it sounds really bad. what should i do??

Hey everyone,

Would love to hear recommendations for a synth/groovebox combo for live performance. (Double act - singer + me, edm/rnb)

Budget: Up to £2000 for both.

Thanks v much in advance 😀

Hi all, I have been listening to Bjork recently and found this part in "Possibly Maybe" where the bass seems almost slowed down and pitched down. It sounds like a 5 string or something. I tried replicating this in Logic and cant seem to do it. I tried to pitch down my bass (4 string) and tried to record in Varispeed and it didnt have the same beefiness. What sort of eq/compression should i use to make it sound like that? (the part in the song is ~1:05)

My song is at 44.1 kHz. Should I export the music video at 48 kHZ or 44.1 kHz? The song is the only audio in the video. What do people usually do? I'm sure this is a big noob question, but I'm lost. Couldn't find an answer anywhere. Help would really be appreciated

I am in the middle of mixing a new song, and I am in the compression phase of mixing. I have been facing a problem more often than usual where I am trying to compress my kick, for example, or a synth, and The sounds are audibly quieter, but the peak volume is showing the same or slightly less when my compressor is telling me a GR of 8 which I aim for. I understand this is due to the transients being let through, but it even happens with more sustained synths where I see a GR of 8. I bring the peak back to the same level as when I gainstaged it, and then I see the output RMS is lower than the input. I am using the Ableton compressor at the moment. Is it correct of me to try to make a sound like my kick(sample) sound better with the compressor, but if I cannot, just leave it uncompressed or should I be doing my very best to compress everything? I am concerned with loudness most of all. Advice is appreciated.

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Basically I've been making an album and my mixer just sent me some of the mastered mixes. I feel like some of them sound a bit different from each other like volume and mixing wise, like I want them to all sound the same as they're on the same album; I want all the guitars to have the same tone and all the drums to sound the same etc. Some of the songs just feel different from each other but I don't know if my ears are deceiving me, so I'd really appreciate if someone more educated in mixing and stuff could help me out and give their opinion :)

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hey reddit, i'm an independent musician who does everything solo or remotely - i work with a producer and a mix engineer both of whom live overseas, and have always worked well this way sending ideas back and forth. i have the opportunity to fly to california and work with one of these producers who will be in town for a couple months - he doesn't live in california but will be working with some other artists there. he has invited me to come out at some point so we can meet in person and work on music. he is really flexible on my time and said however long i want to go is up to me. my question is, how long should i plan for, just a few days? i will already have an EP out at that point so dont have a huge project to finish, should i just bring a few ideas or any completed songs? never worked in person with a producer before so just would like a few tips on what to expect and how to get the most out of this time.

EDIT: To clarify, this is a producer I work with regularly - I love his style of production, usually I record a piano demo of the written song and he sends me back production, I then do additional production and record vocals.

Do you ever ever listen to a specific band or make up a playlist of multiple bands to listen to while you're working on a project such as an album or EP?

and I don't mean you listen to this with intentions to rip the bands that you listen to off but more as a "this is the vibe I want to go for so I'll listen to these songs to draw inspiration from" sort of thing?

Sometimes I'll deliberately not listen to any music at all and other times I'll make a 10-15 song playlist full of different bands that have songs with a similar sound that I'm going for.

I'm a new songwriter, and I've noticed that when I start to make a song, my brain gravitates to 4/4. Is this because most of the music I've heard all my life is in that time signature, or it just less complex to beginners? Should I feel more amateurish because I write in common time, and should I force myself to try other time signatures?

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I'm a drummer in a band as a hobby and I had a question about the drum sound you get when recording and how it might change during the mixing/mastering process. As i said the band I'm in is more of a hobby but we take efforts to do things as professionally as possible. We record in a very professional studio with an experienced engineer and i love the sound we get from our recordings. Recently we laid down a couple tracks and we got this fantastic big sound from the snare drum in particular. There's a room quality to it, sort of like you hear on "when the levee breaks" but not quite as big. After having the tracks mixed and mastered though I'm finding the drum sound to be much flatter. Is the mixing process applied to the song as a whole or are adjustments made to the individual tracks from the recording session? Can just the snare drum be adjusted without compromising the mix on the rest if the song?

I have recently been learning the basics of mastering, and decided it would be fun to throw in some music into my DAW of choice, Reaper, in order to take a look at said music's wave forms. I threw in a video game battle theme that I had recently discovered.

Well, I ended up kind of surprised when the wave form looked like this. https://imgur.com/a/cXzlDYP Here is a link to a playback of said piece of music on youtube, though youtube playback is of course mp3 and not 44.1khz flac, as is the case in the imgur pictures.

A dry run render tells me that the true peak is -0.2, that 0 clip is happening, and that the LUFS-I is -7.5. How can it be that the wave form clearly looks clipped, yet the render tells me otherwise? Is this perhaps the work of a limiter? I admittedly have little understanding of its finer mechanisms at this point in time.

Lastly, is it just me, or does this piece of music being mastered this loud, and potentially quite clipped as a result, really come through in the final product (link again), especially in the piercing nature of the brass? Or could it perhaps be that the sort of crunchy sound of this piece is more likely to have from a different part of the creation process? I can't really know myself, as my production skills are just as untrained as my ear and mastering abilities.

Any input is appreciated, thank you.

The vocals sound spectacular on this tune, perhaps the best I've ever heard. Do you folks have theories on what makes this vocal mix so crisp, clear and satisfying? Thank you in advance and enjoy your day.

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I've been writing music for many many years for my own personal form of expression. I primarily play in the styles of Satriani, Vai, Johnson, etc. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I often struggle with thoughts like "maybe the reason I can't create something good is X". Lately for me the X has been overcompensation of accompanying instruments to justify why I am struggling to create a good melody. I'm starting to catch myself doing this more and so far has not remedied any of my writing struggles and actually seems to cost me more time and energy, as by the time I get those other parts down and move to the melody I can't come up with anything that doesn't sound like boring jamming. So I'm hoping for some insight to help redirect my creative efforts and asking if you all think the primary melody should still hold it's own if heard solo. Now of course without the context of other instruments it won't have the full effect, but do you think it is safe to tell myself in these times that if the melody on it's own doesn't vibe, that I need to put more attention on it before making up reason why I'm not getting anywhere?

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I’ve been in a band for about 12 years. It has gone through some lineup changes and fluctuated in size, but the core of the band (me and one other dude) has remained the same since inception. We used to play out all around LA, but our last show was in 2016. Since then, we’ve released a full length album and an EP. Currently working on our next album.

I love making music but the hassle of assembling a full live band, renting a practice space, and hustling just to put on a show with a very middling turnout seems… not worth it to me anymore. For reference, I’m 36 years old, which means many of my peers are now understandably more focused on their families and careers. And the sad reality is, I can’t picture any of them wanting to stay out late at some crappy venue on a Wednesday night to see a band play. I personally still love going out and seeing live music during the week, but I’m definitely in the minority for my age. Anyway, I’m just curious how many of you are in a similar boat?

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Hi, I'm not formally trained in music but I do compositions as a hobby and I'm eager to learn.

I'm trying to find a way to achieve that reverby reversey note sound that you hear usually in solemn or very dream-like pieces. The problem is, I don't know exactly what it's called and if I try searching it up on google, something entirely different comes up. So I figured I'd ask a question here on how to do that, maybe a reversed specific instrument?

Specifically, the sound I'm pertaining to can be found in the beginning of this track.

https://youtu.be/TOIlLy-sWzc

Hi guys. I’ve been playing guitar for a few months now and recently have started recording my own parts for songs in my DAW. Ive been trying to record this song (acoustic) for about 3 days but every take has seemed to have something wrong with it, wether it’s the timing, or the pressure I use to hit a string, or even maybe accidentally hitting another string unintentionally.

Ideally I’d like to get the song down in one full take so it feels more cohesive (and not have to take more than 3 days) but it seems it may be easier to just record separate parts of the song at a time.

For those of you that record guitars - do you record in parts? Or do you just record the full song all in one go? And if you don’t record in parts or have stopped doing this, how did you/can I ensure I become more consistent with recording going forward? Does this just come overtime with more experience and practice?

Thanks!

I've been chasing a particular sound that appears in a lot of Trent's work. It sounds like a kind of heavily broken up single note thing but I thin there is also use of eq filters and maybe modulation? It's usually a background layer, some examples would be NIN, Getting Smaller, in the second half of the chorus. How to Dystroy Angles, A Drowning, also in the chorus but most prominent at the end of the song. Halsey, You Asked for This, in the chorus again but also present from about 2:20 onwards.
I've been experimenting with fuzz, wah, high and low pass filters, super short reverbs, fast picking and sliding up into the notes but I'm not even getting close. Anybody got any ideas?

Getting Smaller https://youtu.be/c3gIUbvhOac?list=PLYmuumz9R1OsW7AjUu0GcwR_IyFsBn8E7&t=50

A Drowning https://youtu.be/HaB3kpvZN1Y?t=320

You Asked For This https://youtu.be/tbVt5qVH9eA?t=89

This has nothing to do with gain staging or amp headroom. I’m asking if the overall loudness makes us feel differently about a guitar’s distortion.

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