Music Production

[neilhavkin]

Music production deserves a thread. I know a few people on here aside from me who produce music, but I'd like to get to know all the producers here and their little production methods and tricks.

My name is Neil and I produce psytrance for fun. I'm getting better and better every day. I started out producing hands up, then transitioned to trance and now I've branched into psytrance.

One of my favorite plugins is Psytrance Bass X1, a VST plugin made by 123creative. It's really cheap and is just great.



And there's some great free kick samples out there that I found, they sound superb.

Free Trance Kick Samples by Markus Hakala

G-Sonique Psytrance Drum Kit

I also started reading a short online trance production guide, which is very informative and simple.

[Gage]

Oh boy! Lemme share a few things

Acapellas

Spoiler:

Zire's Sharing of Acapellas
Some guy on G+'s Acapellas
Acapellas4u

Drum Kits

Spoiler:

My Free Drumkits
WarBeats
Crispy Dinner on FreeSounds
Nice dood on redit giving out his finding of drum samples

VST's

Spoiler:

My VST
Plugin Boutique/free
PreSonus

Re-Sample Worthy/Misc

Spoiler:

BHK Tutorials
NASA's Sounds
Launchpad Samples & Files
ACIDplanet
Dubstep Forum
Dave40

I had a whole bunch more links but didn't bookmark them me sorrys ):

[neilhavkin]

Some of the best psytrance samples can be gotten from Terence McKenna speeches.

Good stuff.

[Daniël]

I've been interested for a great while in producing music, the only problem being I have no idea where to start and learn.

I have that feeling with so many things.

[MCToast]

You people are forever failiors

[Peebles]

I have a p good friend who makes music and he's inspired me on many occasions to jump into it, but I can never get around to it. I admire people who try it though, even if it is half assed brostep.

[Lukas]

lole frooti loob dubestp

[Gage]

You people are forever failiors

mctoast pls

lole frooti loob dubestp

is that the new skrillex single m8? lel kek lmayo *barks*


Also if you're wanting to start making music on your laptops here are a few things that would help you
http://www.musicradar.com/us/tuition/te ... day-238905
https://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/
http://www.image-line.com/flstudio/
https://www.apple.com/logic-pro/
https://www.ableton.com/en/help/
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

EDIT:
Also don't mind if I put in my free mastering tip


Choose the "Max loudness" in the Preset section in Fruity Limiter and just turn Thres down on Fruity Fast Dist

I assure you that you will be making music like a pro once you keep these settings

[neilhavkin]

Also don't mind if I put in my free mastering tip

Great mastering tip! Helps a lot.

Anyone here know any good tips for EQing? I've been working on this new psy track at 164 bpm but I'm having trouble adding anything but kick and bass because everything keeps effing up EQ wise.

On a similar note, anyone know of where to find some good samples for psytrance, like swirls and stabs - or any good plugins for this?

[Chris]

Oooh. Good stuff. I have started making some beats in the studio.

[neilhavkin]

Oooh. Good stuff. I have started making some beats in the studio.

What genre do you produce and what DAW do you use?

[tuna]

Choose the "Max loudness" in the Preset section in Fruity Limiter and just turn Thres down on Fruity Fast Dist

NO
NO
NONONONONO
NO
don't do that unless you a)want a song with the exact same volume all the way through or b) want layers of sound to be dipping in and out of the mix. both of those things are terrible and that tip is not good

[neilhavkin]

Choose the "Max loudness" in the Preset section in Fruity Limiter and just turn Thres down on Fruity Fast Dist

NO
NO
NONONONONO
NO
don't do that unless you a)want a song with the exact same volume all the way through or b) want layers of sound to be dipping in and out of the mix. both of those things are terrible and that tip is not good

But... but it sounds good!

Any alternatives? Should I do this to the individual tracks?

Sorry, new to mastering.

[Gage]

Choose the "Max loudness" in the Preset section in Fruity Limiter and just turn Thres down on Fruity Fast Dist

NO
NO
NONONONONO
NO
don't do that unless you a)want a song with the exact same volume all the way through or b) want layers of sound to be dipping in and out of the mix. both of those things are terrible and that tip is not good

Actually that's what the Fast Dist is for, also it's mainly just for the beginning process since it sucks to be making something and having it clip like hell

[tuna]

Choose the "Max loudness" in the Preset section in Fruity Limiter and just turn Thres down on Fruity Fast Dist

NO
NO
NONONONONO
NO
don't do that unless you a)want a song with the exact same volume all the way through or b) want layers of sound to be dipping in and out of the mix. both of those things are terrible and that tip is not good

Actually that's what the Fast Dist is for, also it's mainly just for the beginning process since it sucks to be making something and having it clip like hell

what is it, some sort of compressor/limiter? either way it's always a lot better to manage the mastering manually