looking for a rock producer

[solar spade]

hi!! i'm kelsey lavey and i'm thinking about making a 15-song album named "hypothetical persona" like lullabies in a glass wilderness by katie jane garside on soundcloud before making an real album, but i'm very terrible at producing, is there anyone who can produce in the rock genre who can help me? i would like to see the examples on dm after you send a friend request, thank u from now 🩷

[neat quest]

You can also look for online beats on Google or YouTube for specific artists and genres you want for a beat as well - that’s how me and my singers when we record or mix/master a song does after recording 🙂

[solar spade]

thank you but it's very hard to produce a song at all.

[neat quest]

No I get it - yeah if you can’t produce yourself there’s resources online or find in people online ofc

That’s also why I took the position of mixing and mastering and audio stuff - producing was not my thing I was good at

[solar spade]

oh lmaoaoao

[near scarab]

hi

[solar spade]

omg hi

[near scarab]

hru

[solar spade]

i think im fine ty for asking, wbu?? (sorry for late answer also)

[calm yew]

What’s funny is how people demand free beats when they don’t realize how hard it is to produce stuff, especially with live instruments and performances

[calm yew]

I wouldn’t be against producing rock based stuff but I’m currently backlogged months out 😭

[solar spade]

like yeah omg it seems easy but its literally hard inside

[solar spade]

what kind of music r u doing?

[tall idol]

get a daw and go hard

[calm yew]

Mostly RnB, Pop, and Hip Hop based stuff

[calm yew]

Until you’re stuck trying to learn the engineering side of things which isn’t easy to learn 🤣

[solar spade]

that's very great!! i would love to see some work of urs

[calm yew]

A lot of misinformation and gatekeeping that goes on unfortunately

[solar spade]

oh.. yeahw

[calm yew]

https://open.spotify.com/album/5K7o7tUsraYWHToXnHZ0bf?si=0tiSwrTkSr6J_dzCCZW23Q

[solar spade]

i'm trying, fl studio is very hard, bandlab sucks and windows is not good place for garageband

[solar spade]

let take a look at it..

[calm yew]

Wait until you learn about pro tools 😭

It’s great at what it does for recording and editing audio but yeah doing midi on it is an oof

[solar spade]

THATS VERY GOODD

even tho songs like this aren't my style i still really liked it sm

[calm yew]

Also the other thing is for most people pro tools is complete overkill, literally just get Logic Pro and you’ll be good

Or another one that’s nice is studio one

[solar spade]

im gonna search for itw

[calm yew]

Ableton too if you wanna make electronic based stuff and like the workflow with it

FL I started with and still use mostly cause the piano roll is awesome on it

[calm yew]

A lot of my discography is unfortunately unreleased but I’ll be releasing more stuff over time

[solar spade]

tysm for ur recommendations!! even tho it's so hard to produce an song i can get better.. i think

[solar spade]

u should've done an album

[calm yew]

Eventually I’ll offer services up on EngineEars for mixing and maybe mastering if I get some decent speakers and a treated room

[calm yew]

For the artists I work with it wouldn’t make sense cause of the Spotify algorithm, singles and EPs are the move until a fan base is established

It’s just a lot of work and the payoff ain’t worth it considering how singles are heavily pushed

Especially considering how budgets have been cut significantly

[solar spade]

yeah, that's true too.

[solar spade]

it is a very wild situation that most of the labor goes unrequited, it sucks

however, these labors are so valuable that

[calm yew]

That’s the arts in general, you’re underpaid until you make it, then are overpaid

It’s just only a select few get into the club

Everyone else is left fending for scraps

[solar spade]

and people who do terrible jobs are extremely popular for that, for an example; taylor swift..

[tall idol]

it is very hard for me at the start but you get better every day

you can also study music theory like keys,,,,, alot of resources on youtube

and you can take inspiration from your favorite artists

[solar spade]

omg i'm literally looking at them like EVERYDAY and it's very fun at all, but really hard tho

[tall idol]

im sorry im just a really diy person i like to do everything by myself but you can look for a producer but i dont know how cause i dont do that

[solar spade]

i'm working on my vocals and song ideas for 3 years from getting references from my favorite artists, i really have great songs too and i even have an album with 19 songs and it's not the album im talking about in this forum, the problem is actually production and even tho i can create melodies with my mouth it's hard to make it on computer..

[solar spade]

and it's okay

[calm yew]

One of the studio owners I frequently chat and visit used to be in a rock band actually although obviously he's a professional that has a nice spot and quite a bit of work with clientele

[solar spade]

that's so nice tho

but i don't rlly think that can help me with my album

[calm yew]

I can ask him for some pointers and pass it along

Don’t mind sharing advice considering how hard it can be to sort through all the noise