Short Production Tips & Tricks

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Some nice tips in this thread.
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When anal-ysing kick and bass relationship- Find a few reputable reference tracks and load them into your DAW, match the volume of these to your mix roughly. Use a low pass filter on the master to compare your low end mix/ weight to theirs A-Bing between them.

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ICN wrote:
Chizmata wrote: ive really tried to find a godd use for arpeggiators but theyre really just for people who dont have own ideas.
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Oh.. really don't agree with this at all.

Apart from anything else, you can get some great shit from throwing an unsynced arp on a single Porc hit / hat / sample / whatever.. the rest being very glitchy or rhythmic, allowing get you to adjust where it sits by dialling back & forth the time.

If you have a nice chord progression on a pad, an app playing the same notes but at a higher resolution can add so much. I love the computer gurgle of a fast high pitched arp, where the pitch of the synth is being slightly affected by a noise or sample & hold lfo. Slower playing can turn into something else with a slow tri or saw-up lfo on pitch.

Love arps.

They can make pretty cool grooves on a drumkit if you you draw some long notes in a midi clip.

The serial thing is cool also.

Pads can be nicely morphed or vice-versa if you group the arp.. making a 'dry ' channel & a 'wet' channel with a single arp. Put it BEFORE your pad synth. Keep them separate.

You can then automate the wet / dry control between the clean, dry unaffected channel & the arp channel, gradually changing get the sound from pad to faster notes.

I like arps.
I have to agree with ICN here (lovely tips btw).

Do you play keys mr chizmata ?
If you do, that's probably why you feel like arps are just cheap tools for those with no inspiration.
I know I used to feel like that for years.
Arpeggio's are originally nothing but an exercise, to play broken chords so you could get a better playing technique in all 5 of your fingers in both hands.
Hanon has tons of those.
I used to play arpeggio's for ages and ages just to get my fingers more up to speed.

But like any tool, all you gotta do is find a way to use them in a more original way than what most people use it for.
John gave some great tips. :)
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* Gain stage between your effects properly. Try to aim for the same volume on the channel regardless of whether you have your plugins active or not.

* When applying mixing effects like compressors, tune the effect to where you want it and then just back it off a little so it's less pronounced.

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This gain staging will remain a mystery to me. Call me stupid but I just don't get it. :?
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The reason I do it is simple: if I match the output volume of an effect to match the input then I can remove that effect from the chain without having the change the rest of them. It's a godsend when dealing with long fx chains that I'm likely to change when I mess around.

A couple of plugins practically demand you do it, Satson/Britson and Disto off the top of my head.

I also understand its pretty important when working otb which you're now an expert at ;)

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A good strong cup of tea before a session, can work wonders!
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I think my tip will be to save the project you are working on as a new copy once in a while and go bananas on everything and see what comes out, maybe a new track or some new ideas to bring back to the original project. Works for me.

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Merah wrote:A good strong cup of tea before a session, can work wonders!

nah man, us proper EU-members will never be able to understand that whole tea thing you guys have going on... :lol: :mrgreen: ;)

man, that was some proper depressing news this morning,
though tbh, I didn't expect it to be anything else.
Stuff like that, mostly idiots and extremists go to vote...
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Planar wrote:
I also understand its pretty important when working otb which you're now an expert at ;)
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Planar wrote:
I also understand its pretty important when working otb which you're now an expert at ;)
You sold your account to BandoftheHand?

Hell, even in the interview I did for subsekt 2 years ago I stated that I don't understand gain staging.

Fuck gain staging (except otb). You happy now?

Good, then go and get yourself a Snickers.

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Mono-xID wrote:
Planar wrote:
I also understand its pretty important when working otb which you're now an expert at ;)
You sold your account to BandoftheHand?

Hell, even in the interview I did for subsekt 2 years ago I stated that I don't understand gain staging.

Fuck gain staging (except otb). You happy now?

Good, then go and get yourself a Snickers.

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man, you always make me hungry for snickers, you shit-city fucktard !
and I never even eat candy bars normally :lol:
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Mono-xID wrote:
Planar wrote:
I also understand its pretty important when working otb which you're now an expert at ;)
You sold your account to BandoftheHand?
I think his mrs just wasn't getting wet enough any more... :lol:
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Mono-xID wrote:
Planar wrote:
I also understand its pretty important when working otb which you're now an expert at ;)
You sold your account to BandoftheHand?

Hell, even in the interview I did for subsekt 2 years ago I stated that I don't understand gain staging.

Fuck gain staging (except otb). You happy now?

Good, then go and get yourself a Snickers.

:)

2 years from now when you understand gain staging and love it I'll come back to whatever forum you're on and remind you in the most cunty way possible :lol:

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autofilters or sequenced gates on field recordings or heavily distorted rhythmic patterns sitting extremely low in the mix. Elements that you don't notice but when you take away, can realise something is different. Bringing these in and out abruptly with new sections or slowly introducing with volume automation.

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Planar wrote:2 years from now when you understand gain staging and love it I'll come back to whatever forum you're on and remind you in the most cunty way possible :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Hades wrote:I think his mrs just wasn't getting wet enough any more... :lol:
You're dead wrong you hoofwankin' bunglecunt. Last time we met she squirted me a river while i was playing on the elektron.
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Many great tips have already been mentioned I can only add

Flangers on hi hats are really great
Little amounts of saturation on everything is rather great too
Extracting grooves from old Dance Mania records is fun :)
Stop arranging with your eyes, turn off your screen or cover it and just listen.
Listen to your arrangement the whole way through. This was how it was done when tape was king.
Same for mixing, better to mix with your ears.
Invest in quality monitors and comfy chair.
Buy a mic and start recording percussion and things.
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msl wrote:
Flangers on hi hats are really great
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you're showing your age as an electronic music producer... :lol:
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Yeah.. the hihats have had a referendum & left the flangers.
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Hades wrote:
Merah wrote:A good strong cup of tea before a session, can work wonders!

nah man, us proper EU-members will never be able to understand that whole tea thing you guys have going on... :lol: :mrgreen: ;)

man, that was some proper depressing news this morning,
though tbh, I didn't expect it to be anything else.
Stuff like that, mostly idiots and extremists go to vote...
If you guys fully understood the power of tea, maybe you would too leave the EU...
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