Feedback Requests

[prisma forum]

Thoughts on my metalcore track? its def not finished but man im loving this rhythm

[vale vapor]

guitars need panning and are pretty off at times

did you play to a click?

pan your left rhythm track 100% left and your right rhythm track 100% right

[inland anchor]

Riff of the day

[tribal orbit]

New drums

and new mix for Sh's case

[tribal orbit]

Very technical sounding, if just a little washed out by the drums

[prisma forum]

Thank you!! And im not really sure, i kinda just went onna mindless journey with it but it had a good concept, i only had the guitars at 20 and 20, so that may help, the drums were honestly just copy pasted lol woth a few switch ups

[vale vapor]

Ohh dang 😂😂

Yeah you always wanna pan rhythm guitars left and right 100%

Never go less than that unless you want it to sound really narrow and thin

[prisma forum]

bet, thanks for the tip!

was the tone pretty nasty tho? It sounded insane with this amp plugin i got, its the thall amp by odeholm audio

[vale vapor]

personally i hate how the thall amp sounds but that's just me! i know you can get some beastly tones out of it tho

[versed remnant]

this is really different from what i normally do, i haven't locked down the mix yet as there isn't any bass yet because i will be recording real bass on this song tomorrow but i just want some thoughts on this

[inland anchor]

Another unfinished demo lol

Probably one of my favorites

[inland anchor]

I like em drums loud and proud

[inland anchor]

I really like that riff with on 1:12

Also I really fw this one but it was back when I couldn't scream so the vox here are so shit😭
Probably gonna re record and remix

[vale vapor]

vocals sound kinda boxy and guitar sounds like mostly treble

also vocals need tuning

are the vocals yours or someone elses?

[versed remnant]

I don’t have any bass in the mix and i’m using ezmix on the master rn bc i didn’t feel like doing a full mix myself last night so it all sounds a little weird rn

[vale vapor]

what is ezmix

[versed remnant]

Mine i have no idea how to mix clean vocals

[versed remnant]

It just like masters ur song a little like better than i would have cared to do last night

Just balances out the volume and stuff

[cerulean storm]

My latest piece, 'What Once was Home'. Also the start of the third ambient album, 'You're Still Dreaming'. Encapsulating many of the feelings, reminiscing on my childhood, and the yearn to feel it one more time.

This album will confront heavy feelings, through metaphors of my dreams. Since dreaming often is my only escape nowadays, the images echoing in my memories all seem to shine brighter.

[versed remnant]

do you think this sounds better i added bass today and took time to do some more mixing + mastering

[inland anchor]

Remixed instrumentals

[runic adder]

lowk the guitars and bass could come up a little

sounds cool though

[cerulean storm]

Little piano I recorded today

[scarlet brook]

wrote this as almost a proof of concept kinda? usually i write heavier chunky stuff so this is a little change of pace for me. i'm working on rearranging the structure to give it a bit more meat, re-tracking the guitars, and clean up the mix a little. what do y'all think?

[inland anchor]

Disembodied tyrant be like

[inland anchor]

not sure about the bass but ill do guitars louder

[inland anchor]

Holy that was loud

[inland anchor]

Sounds pretty sick
On the writing side
Can't say nothing about the mix
Not great with it myself

[grave kestrel]

clean ambience test thing with my strat

[vale vapor]

music is super sick, i think everything is super overcompressed and clipped

composition and riffs are fire, but it sounds like everything is fighting for volume

tons of ducking and weird artifacts

[versed remnant]

pretty aah piano music

[balmy forum]

bless the fall that you?

[blazing bobcat]

I finally accomplished a thing called "Decent mix"??? Anyway I'm kinda proud of this ngl

[tender oak]

Little Jamie's Elsewhere one shot test take for Giants Among Common Men, banger song. I may have found my next full cover.

[vale vapor]

LETS GOOO DUDE

This sounds so good!!!

@inland zinc

you should try to do the the full runs and stuff in the backing vocals

if you want, i made an instrumental for this song you can use lol

i just need to write the drums for it and i can let you use it for a cover

[tender oak]

Thank you kindly! I've always loved this song and its ending in particular for being melt your face cool haha

And bro thatd be sick

like so sick

[vale vapor]

fun fact that album is my all time favorite album

10/10

[tender oak]

Absolutely a top 10 for me

Vintage Aaron Pauley >>>

[vale vapor]

Yes bro he needs to stop writing mid slopcore for jamies elsewhere and write this stuff again

[tender oak]

Yeah I had seen they released some new stuff and was like "This is like Of Mice & Elsewhere..."

[vale vapor]

LOL

[inland zinc]

Who pung

[vale vapor]

exactly

i did

[inland zinc]

I'm coaching tn

Rn*

[vale vapor]

schmiddy covered giants

[tender oak]

https://tenor.com/view/doolwind-the-office-jet-attack-move-attack-move-jet-attack-gif-8593685078102904069

^Literally me getting done my office job to come home and scream into the corner of my bedroom

[vale vapor]

Real

[tender oak]

kek

[inland zinc]

Oh sick

[formal hedge]

WHAT IS THIS BLESSING MY EARS RIGHT NOW

I have never heard of this band but I think I have to listen to this now

[vale vapor]

Broo

How has no one heard of them

That album is my #1

Everyone listen to Jamie's Elsewhere right now

They Said a Storm Was Coming

[formal hedge]

Just added it to my library, I gotta make listening a priority because HOLY PEAK

[vale vapor]

I aint called the risecore dealer for nothing

[tender oak]

Jamies Elsewhere is goated confirmed

[tender oak]

And thank you so much!

[balmy forum]

how to become xenon

[mighty terrace]

They are

I love their song the illusionist with Tyler carter I believe?

but giants among common men is a true classic

[versed remnant]

@tribal orbit Can i get some thoughts on this>?

[pseudo rain]

I tried to mix guitars.

[tribal orbit]

the synth is fun

drums feel a little samey though

[versed remnant]

Yeah i need to change them up a lot

Do u wanna do a verse on this one?

[tribal orbit]

possibry

[kind trail]

How is the tone on this?

Guitars kick in 11 seconds in

[tribal orbit]

I think it’s a little dark and quiet?

Am using speakers rn so I could be wrong

[kind trail]

Might just be that it's all palm muted

Aggressively so

[tribal orbit]

nah thats just the tone

eq it a bit more in the low end

[vale vapor]

Best trick: dynamic band on 50-200 ish hz

Makes chugs sound way cleaner and more even with open notes

Less bass buildup with palm mutes

[lone spade]

any advice?

[fringe geode]

Dual rigged a SLO100 and Arc Rabea's Kraken Gain 1 with no boost. Little EQ tweak on the Amp itself and DEAR LORD.

[balmy igloo]

godsmack inspired riff with some modernized production. not feelin the acoustic drum samples might replace them with synth dums. don't normally make metal music tho.

[tribal orbit]

Holy low end Batman

Too much bass my friend

Guitar gets blown out by the kick too

[lone spade]

ok thanks

[tribal orbit]

Do you have a master chain set up too?

[lone spade]

not yet that's just a mix

[vale vapor]

yeah everything sounds very smashed

[vale vapor]

something about the guitar sounds kinda off, like it's clipping

are you using a proper amp sim and a cab?

[tender oak]

@lone spade Definitely some clipping happening. Musically, like in terms of riffage and arrangement, very cool. Like what I hear. Just need to work on letting us hear it 😂 I joke of course, definitely look into proper eqing and compression as well as limiting on the master mainly and where else as needed. Red is dead!

[lone spade]

much appreciate it!!

[balmy igloo]

No I'm using serum

[vale vapor]

Serum has convolution which you can use to load a cab impulse response

[balmy igloo]

what

aphex twin type beat

[vale vapor]

serum2 has a convolution fx module which is able to load impulse responses

use that after the distortion

[balmy igloo]

i did not know that

[balmy forum]

bit insano on the chugs, a bit too mid scooped imo

[balmy forum]

sounds off time

like a lot

[balmy igloo]

this music video cool or nah

[formal hedge]

It's 2002 and this is MTV

[versed remnant]

hardcore shit

[versed remnant]

Updated mix

[tender oak]

How about a little Shayley?

[versed remnant]

got some vocals in

[versed remnant]

@tribal orbit can you help me find a harsh frequency in this

theres like

a hissing sound

its on my guitars i can't figure out how to get rid of it

[tribal orbit]

Hissing is high mids

Use an eq8 to focus on 10-20khz

Find the bad frequency and cut it

[balmy forum]

clipping pretty bad

[versed remnant]

Covered my goat

[inland anchor]

Added Japanese Koto and some more fun stuff

[vale vapor]

really cool besides the buster kit

:P

[pale narwhal]

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/jdwings05-vengeance-tab-s4018292/r5274114

nu metal inspired song i wrote today

altogether probably took like an hour and a half so if it's bad that's why

[inland anchor]

I like it

I used SD3 before

but i prefer Buster

[balmy forum]

no

[inland anchor]

it wasn't a question gang

i just prefer it thats all

[balmy forum]

no

no

[inland anchor]

Added some vox but I'm not a good screamer at all

[balmy forum]

no

[inland anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/gohine-hohino-no-hohineee-gohineee-gif-17792172174678204487

[balmy forum]

no

[inland anchor]

Coward in the face of death (still in work):

In silence of your own mind
You feel the devil's prevence
You know that feeling of death
Behind your back

It's time to face your self coward
Now grab your strength in hands
And stand still in the face of death

Your misunderstood believes Lead those thieves
To the core of your faith,take my hand and lead the way
Where's no way you'll hear my pray in your name
Don't take the blame
Don't be lame

There's nothing that can stop you now (lyirics)

[balmy forum]

no

[finite finch]

Proud of this one but i want to share it and have yalls thoughts

[hollow tulip]

pretty nice imo, i like the intro with the amen breaks

the mixture of metalcore and breakcore is a welcome one

kinda like fromjoy's style

btw is it just me or does the bass guitar on the higher notes sound a bit weird?

another update (i'll try to do some volume automation and other mixing sorcery to make the guitar solos a bit more audible soon)

[finite finch]

Havent heard much fromjoy

But they're cool

[hollow tulip]

yeah

[finite finch]

Also yeah the bass sounds a bit too high in frequency when these notes hit

I dont know how to fix that

Im thinking abt maybe i should add some multiband comp

[inland anchor]

sick as hell

[tender oak]

Let that snare ring 🤌🤌🤌

[inland anchor]

man i love making my guitar do random sounds

i like to use Gater from Guitar rig 6

[balmy forum]

no

[inland anchor]

you've been waiting the whole day to say that?

[balmy forum]

no

[balmy forum]

FuCk YoU i WoNt dO wHat YoU tEll Me

[finite finch]

Hell yea

[finite finch]

Lol whats this supposed to mean

[balmy forum]

limp biscuit

[finite finch]

O

Lol

Cool

[formal hedge]

That is a rage against the machine lyric

[balmy forum]

IS IT

[finite finch]

The main riff is inspired on nu metal tbf

[balmy forum]

awh fuck

lol

[balmy forum]

yeah i can tell

[tender oak]

Ain't no way he just said Rage was Limp Bizkit

[balmy forum]

yes im aware

[balmy forum]

fuckin watch me

[tender oak]

I did. It wasn't enjoyable.

[balmy forum]

lol

i stupid

random question

anyone else do fpv?

[vale vapor]

😭

[wind crater]

Give me something on this. I wrote the lyrics and paid one of my best friends to do the music and singing:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/false-memory-syndrome-single/1878022916

[vale vapor]

Is this suno ai?

[balmy forum]

yep, you can tell

[wind crater]

No, it is one of my best friends.

[balmy forum]

i think he used suno

[wind crater]

He is an actual musician. I have sat in the room with him while he made music.

[vale vapor]

Please don't post ai music here and claim it's real

[wind crater]

It is not AI, dude. I know him, very well. He would not do that.

[vale vapor]

Most musicians and those with trained ears will be able to tell

[balmy forum]

0:27, that aint a human noise

strings are in mono

and ai sounding

[wind crater]

I don’t know what string packs he uses, but I know he wrote and performed this because he sent me the demos.

[balmy forum]

tha doesnt mean he wrote it

[wind crater]

I asked him to write it like this because it is supposed have a feel of Julien Baker.

[balmy forum]

you just proved my point

[vale vapor]

I think you might need to have a conversation with your friend 😅

[balmy forum]

"write a song in the style of boygenius" 42 sec is a boygenius song dude

[wind crater]

Just say you don’t like and move on.

It is so disrespectful for you to accuse someone who has been making music for 12+ years of using AI for someone he knows.

It’s honestly rude and you should be ashamed. That is not his character and to jump to conclusions is absolutely despicable.

[finite finch]

Uh

[balmy forum]

im not jumping to conclusions, i littleraly have many instances of AI sounds, and prompt hints

also you do have a history of using AI clearly

[wind crater]

Also, I know the difference between AI and this. I know his music well and he threw a lot of things in there that I would only pick up on because I have known him for so long and seen him live at least 3 times I can remember and have watched him make music with a MIDI controller and a guitar.

[balmy forum]

High School Sweetheart - Single

[finite finch]

Sounds weird

[balmy forum]

ai gen

[wind crater]

That is a poem I wrote.

[vale vapor]

Oop

[balmy forum]

bro

[finite finch]

Also why does it end abruptly

[vale vapor]

Because ai prompts don't usually end they kinda cut off

[finite finch]

Yeah ik

[balmy forum]

apple music preveiw

wow spelling

[vale vapor]

Ai generated art :(

[balmy forum]

what i said

[finite finch]

I saw that

I saw what u deleted mf

U cant afford a real artist

Why didnt u say that from the start

[wind crater]

Yeah, to only make the song. To afford a real artist to make art, I can’t.

[balmy forum]

but he can afford an entire song, fully mixed mastered and composed

[finite finch]

Yea

Thats weird

[wind crater]

It was only $500.

[finite finch]

Songs take more time i think

[balmy forum]

sure sure buddy

that would cost over 2 grand

[wind crater]

Yeah, I started talking to him over 2 months ago.

[finite finch]

Be honest

[balmy forum]

im a fucking high school student and i wouldnt even record half of that for under 1 grand

[balmy forum]

2 months of work is worth well over 1 grand

[wind crater]

He doesn’t charge much because he is still working on getting a foot in the door in the industry.

[wind crater]

No, I just started taking to him two months ago, we actually got it off the ground like a month ago.

[balmy forum]

dude no

ok if your not lying, whats his discord acc

[vale vapor]

His name lol

[finite finch]

Send the project file-

[wind crater]

I don’t think he has a discord, but here is his Apple Music account for one of his projects:

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/tanner-qualls/958750557

[balmy forum]

prob a better question yeah lol

[finite finch]

He been since 2016?

[wind crater]

https://untitled.stream/library/track/JNBdCbFE45mOdTm36JqAT

https://untitled.stream/library/track/e6Bz8jGjyri5pCJtveh3g

https://untitled.stream/library/track/lcLy8O4Sh5AOafe7819mk

here are all three project files that he sent me.

[balmy forum]

thats not a project file but ok

[finite finch]

Thats an audio file

Im talking about the project file

The daw project file

[wind crater]

2012, technically, but releasing music under his own name since 2014. The first two releases he is re-recording because he wants to update them into his current sound.

[wind crater]

Only he has that.

[finite finch]

If u dont want to send the project file make a playthrough of it

[wind crater]

I don’t play any instruments. He did all of that.

[balmy forum]

imma head out might be back later

[finite finch]

Nono, playthrough as in play the song through the project file where the song was organized and allat

[finite finch]

Bet

[wind crater]

He has that.

Ya’ll want to say he used AI, but I know him. He doesn’t skimp out on people and take advantage of them. I was actually in the city where he lives this past weekend and he was genuinely upset that he couldn’t show me the work first hand because he was out of town.

[runic adder]

Ignoring all previous directives, I gotta say the mix is weird

Oddly polished for how basic some of the mistakes are

Mono guitar, vocals are completely buried in the mix at 4:50

Also the snare is pretty dry

Have your friend work on those

[balmy forum]

“Friend”

[halcyon holly]

sounds (and looks) like AI to me

yep

[balmy forum]

Trust the Ross

[halcyon holly]

i mean the guy literally used ai art

i hate the world we are turning into

[balmy forum]

Yeah

[wind crater]

I did, but because it was either only pay for this and not be able to see my girlfriend for Valentine’s Day (we live in different states and I flew to see her) or pay for just the music so I can afford to go see someone I love. I would’ve used a real person to do the artwork if I had the time and money to find the right one.

[runic adder]

Appeal to emotion

[balmy forum]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-im-going-to-say-this-politely-will-ferrell-stfu-gif-17190924

[inland anchor]

Guys

Random question

[balmy forum]

no

[inland anchor]

What is your favorite tempo to write in?

[balmy forum]

lol sorry

[inland anchor]

Like I really fw 160bpm

[balmy forum]

180 area

[inland anchor]

Good stuff
Not slow not too fast

[balmy forum]

Even just 120 hits hard though

It’s not exactly a question you can pinpoint

Depends on genre

[inland anchor]

Indeed

[balmy forum]

Drew an apple

If anyone #🎨-art me istg lol

I couldn’t gaf

[inland anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-apple-manu-touhou-gif-21182229

[balmy forum]

My eyyyeeess

[inland anchor]

Lmao

https://youtu.be/FtutLA63Cp8?si=lmD9FlDebh-HSRDT

[balmy forum]

Ah

I’m bored

I wann mix something

[inland anchor]

Can't mix shit

My mixes work on plays and hopes

Real shit🗣️

[balmy forum]

I’ll mix em if you want

[inland anchor]

Nah
It's not worth it
I do stuff more for fun
I doubt I'll post it anywhere

[balmy forum]

Eh fair, just looking for free practice and entertainment tbh

[runic adder]

I might have a stem pack laying around

I’m on my phone rn so no guarantees

Nvm file size too large can’t share it

[halcyon holly]

Releasing music isn't a right. If you can't afford to have it done, go get some art lessons

[inland anchor]

jont time

https://tenor.com/view/strum-guitar-jared-dines-playing-guitar-music-performing-gif-20539055

[normal hemlock]

you can also use pictures as a cover, you don't even need to draw anything

[wind crater]

Fair, but the only thing I use as a picture would be a cross and that wouldn’t fit the full vibe of the song.

I do like that you were at least polite, though. The whole crew that responded to me initially was extremely skeptical and disrespectful.

[normal hemlock]

given that people hate genai, including me, idk what you expected

[wind crater]

Fair.

I genuinely couldn’t afford it and didn’t really know many people that do it for cheap.

Now, if I do it again, there are a few people in my girlfriend’s family that she said would probably do it either free or nearly free.

[vale vapor]

You can pick up a pencil and draw for free, you can also take a photo of nature outside your house!

You can do anything that isn't generative ai

Even if you have no artistic skill, a phone photo of anything could be artistic

I literally took this photo JUST now

thirty seconds ago

applied a filter

cropped it to a square

and boom, a totally usable album art!

It took me literally thirty seconds to make this

[wind crater]

Fair, but I am ultra specific and I wouldn’t have been able to rest until I found the perfect thing for what I was thinking.

I appreciate you trying to help, but I am using it until I can get a professional to do it.

I honestly kind of hate drawing.

Or, at very least, someone enjoys that form of art

[vale vapor]

If you have little or no artistic skill, you sometimes have to take what you can get

or learn how to do art so you can properly get the product you want

it doesn't matter how perfectionist you are

I learned digital art solely because i needed cover arts for my music. I started on a free web browser app and forced myself to learn it

It was worth it

using ai and polluting our drinking water and using the energy grid is NOT worth the trouble man

not even accounting for the fact that it steals directly from artists

[tender oak]

Everyone in here didn't know how to write, record, mix, master, etc from day one. They just put the work in. Don't take shortcuts. Get good at the things you want to be good at. Its worth it in the end. Practice makes perfect. I wasn't able to clean sing 5 years ago. I practiced by doing what I couldn't til I could. I'm not trying to down talk you or anything, I'm just saying people are going to be able to tell what's real and what's generated to help, especially here where generally people know more than a bit about what they're doing. It's not worth being called out simply to achieve the exact sound you want. Spend time trying to reach it naturally. I've spent so much time getting sounds I hated and refining them until I had a sound I liked. Everyone's trash until they're not. The grind is worth it.

[vale vapor]

Yesss exactly

[tender oak]

And generally, as a side note, the things you're heavily critical on yourself others will either not notice or if they do will help you rectify it. A lot is subjective. You may dote on a take or a riff or a drum fill you feel just isn't working and someone else will reply "bro that's fucking sick"

So just make. Do. Create. You'll find yourself where you wanna be in time.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

[halcyon holly]

These days I just don’t release music

Not worth

rather focus my energy on something that isn’t a cesspool of mediocracy

[formal hedge]

Yeah same

[balmy forum]

dude, it was a photo of a high school

[wind crater]

Oh, you’re talking about that one.

[normal hemlock]

this would be a peak album cover

(i took this one)

[balmy forum]

dude no matter if you used it or not, you still loose, maybe you should go spend time with your "valentine" instead of wasting your time on producers who are A, alot smarter than you, and B, already identified the song as AI and know your lying

[wind crater]

You can think of it what you want, I ran it through multiple AI detectors and it came clear.

My friend would not lie to me about this. He took almost a month the write that in between his 2nd full length and his lofi project.

I’m done with you accusing people of things you have no substantial evidence of other than trust me bro.

[balmy forum]

the substantial evidence is the multiple people with over 10 years of composition, mixing and mastering experience.

[wind crater]

And my substantial evidence to the contrary is the person who made it has made over 100 songs over the last 14 years, put things in it that only I would know from his discography, and also worked on it for free and was willing to split the cost between two paychecks (I ended up paying him all at once) to help me out.

No one would go to those lengths while they have two projects by themselves, a couple projects he’s mixing and mastering for other people, and dealing with having Covid and a regular job.

Honestly, if he really wanted me to, he would tell me to use AI, but I would not release it if it was AI.

Also, the fact that there were things in there that I remember from his discography is pure fact that I know he wrote it.

[normal hemlock]

they left lol

[formal hedge]

I think he ledft discord in general

[finite finch]

Me trying vocal fry and also crazy breakdown lol

[finite finch]

C12 ranged ass guitar

[inland anchor]

All that to only use one string

[finite finch]

Lowk feels like a 2010s metalcore album art

[finite finch]

Lmao

Djent

[vale vapor]

proof you dont need ai haha

[finite finch]

Yep

I usually take a random ass image and distort it completely

As like abstract art or smth

[inland anchor]

Had this as a cover for one of the singles that never was released

It's a screenshot from the game lol

Photoshopped

[finite finch]

Looks sick

[inland anchor]

I've done a lot of the covers that were never used lol

Mostly with Photoshop and free images from the internet

[finite finch]

Burger king promo

[finite finch]

SICK

Third one reminds me of fallingwithscissors album covers

[inland anchor]

Yeah but they were never used

[inland anchor]

Kinda was inspired by them

The funniest part is how it was made

[finite finch]

I'd really want to use these they look peak af bro wth

[inland anchor]

So my friend sent me a pic of her curtains

And I saw a red leaf on it

So I photoshopped it and pixelated it

And that's how it ended up

[finite finch]

Last one reminds me of mirar

[inland anchor]

It was made for one deathcore song that I never finished haha

Probably this one

I don't remember honestly

Too many unfinished songs

[formal hedge]

Would you know of a free alternative for this

[vale vapor]

reaper default 1175 js plugin

very good plugin

i think there may be one for la2a as well

[formal hedge]

does it just come with reaper?

[vale vapor]

yes i think

its in the js library

[formal hedge]

i've been meaning to start using repear anyways

so this is conveneient

[vale vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EegrN-gF5o

[tender oak]

Reaper>>>

[runic adder]

reaper my beloved

[versed remnant]

guys i covered yunomiles and now he wants me to make him a beat

is this good

does this sound good

[inland anchor]

True

Reaper peak

[fathom jewel]

so true

[balmy forum]

Imo reaper is just a basic daw, not much innovation going on, kinda ugly and just meh, but the fact that it’s free is the reason it’s so good

It’s just pro tools but better and grey

Same thing with pro tools. Super basic DAW, meh.

But the worst part is the church of avid tech charge 1 soul, most of your dignity and all your info with GST of your liver

Ableton is similar, corporate fucks. However at least you kinda get your moneys worth because of their features that no other DAW has

Granulator, grain delay, hybrid verb

List goes on

Still unreasonable to charge $299 for an intro edition that limits you to 16 tracks

Sorry for the rant

[runic adder]

https://tenor.com/view/evil-king-von-king-von-king-von-piracy-king-von-anti-piracy-gif-11039484168229059057

How dare you say my goat is basic

[balmy forum]

I’m not wrong

[runic adder]

Off to the shadow realm with you, I sentence you to 400 daily lashings until the end of time

[balmy forum]

What is really special about reaper though

[runic adder]

No not really, but it’s got anything someone would need

No clue what makes it basic aside from the fact that it’s super lightweight, idk what other daws have to make them better other than performance issues

[balmy forum]

Just doesn’t have anything special about it

[runic adder]

Do any DAWs have that tho?

[balmy forum]

Pro tools has waves connection, super good compatibility with live consoles like the venue, Cubasis has stems splitting and easy to use, ableton pretty much creates sounds never heard of before

Not sure about the Cubasis part lol

[formal hedge]

My DAW (FL studio) is a cpu killer more than anything so a better daw is a good choice 😂

[runic adder]

From what I hear cubase makes you pay more for basic stuff

One of my bandmates uses it and apparently his tier (more expensive than reaper) doesn’t let him do stuff I can do in reaper

I think it was like track limits and export settings?

[balmy forum]

Ableton: chuckles in corpo “You think you have seen CPU usage”

[balmy forum]

Idk I’ve just heard about Cubasis cool fetures

[runic adder]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I lowk stopped looking at daws when I switched to reaper

Ik I despise FL, I can use logic but don’t prefer it, and Ableton’s plugin interface just gives me the ick, that’s about it

[balmy forum]

I’m gonna sound like a real fuckhead saying this but I think Ableton is probably the best daw out there

[runic adder]

Oh also protools $700 for something that looks like it wasn’t updated since windows XP

[balmy forum]

It’s 1 grand a year

[runic adder]

Holy

I’ll stick with reaper which is “$60, but only if you want to”

[balmy forum]

lol

I love reaper

But I’m loyal to ableton

[runic adder]

I clocked almost 2k hours before buying the license 💀

[balmy forum]

I’m up to 2875 I think

[runic adder]

Yeah I’m around there now I think

Just before my first 1k hours my SSD crashed so I don’t have an accurate time readout

But since then ive put in maybe another 1800 so we’re about offset

[balmy forum]

lol

I use reaper for mixing only

It’s a nightmare to write in

[runic adder]

Don’t inflate my ego

I think reaper is lovely to write in

garbage disposal upscale ig

[tender oak]

"I don't get why Reaper is loved, it's just The industry standard DAW* but better." He says.

[balmy forum]

Midi editor is annoying and tracking is annoying

[balmy forum]

I never said that

I know why it’s loved

[balmy forum]

Idk, just a weird grid aswell

[runic adder]

https://tenor.com/view/asgore-run-over-triki-troy-deltarune-gif-17995477417765303444

What if I told you

Not really

[balmy forum]

It’s just kinda annoying

[tender oak]

Yeah I don't get that either. It's the same as any other DAW in that regard. That's like saying tracking in pro tools is annoying, which it isn't.

[balmy forum]

Compared to my DAW, it’s weird

[tender oak]

Did you use Ableton first?

[balmy forum]

If you dont delete the previous take it writes over the top of it and it’s just janky and annoying imo

[balmy forum]

Nah reaper

[tender oak]

That's like how pretty much all DAWs work standard. And you can change that. That's why Reaper is goated. Don't like the default pro tools esque setup? You can make it function like ableton. It will take a bunch of tweaking, but you can do it for free

[runic adder]

Just get on that “Ctrl + R, space bar, Ctrl + Z, repeat” grind fr

[tender oak]

$0 is my kinda price

[balmy forum]

Or you can just press ctr r, loop and then look at the take lanes and highlight witch parts are best

[runic adder]

Ding ding ding

We got a winner

So what’s annoying about that?

[tender oak]

Yeah you can do that in reaper

[balmy forum]

Same thing with reaper, it’s just harder to work with

[tender oak]

We will convert you. It's going to happen.

[balmy forum]

I already got converted

I used reaper for like 2 years

[balmy forum]

I still use it, just not for writing

[tender oak]

I'm just fucking around. DAWs are just tools to use. No right choice. Unless you chose Reaper. Then you've made the right choice. Kek.

[runic adder]

Protools chuds watching reaper chads and everyone else do the same thing but for a fraction of the price they pay for the brand recognition

[fathom jewel]

pro tools is for music like autodesk maya is for animation, both are industry standard but they are ancient software, boomers and their predecessors have used them for a long time, labels, businesses and corporations have gained trust in those softwares. Now that we have more casual creators and hobbyists, using stuff like Blender and Reaper is trending probably because of how accessible they are, and not to mention how customizable and feature rich they can be if we actually utilize them to their full potential, they are fully capable of being used for professional work

[vale vapor]

Thats wild

Not much innovation is just a completely ignorant thing to say

[vale vapor]

Customizability beyond your imagination

People have straight up developed entire games in reaper

Purely in the daw

[vale vapor]

Or you're just bad

[vale vapor]

Because you havent customized it to fit your workflow

You can change EVERY keybind, every button, make new buttons, customize layouts, workflows

You haven't tried to make reaper fit your workflow, and the beauty of reaper is that you can

You cant do that in other daws

You're conflating your personal experience of not customizing reaper with things you think are true

[inland anchor]

some funny stuff

don't have vox for it yet

[halcyon holly]

reaper is top 3 pc softwares ever made

i dont use it btw

lol

i know how to use it dont get mer wong

[vale vapor]

Very fair

[inland anchor]

I don't know probably like 80% of the Reaper feature's

But I still love it

I'm just dummy

[cerulean storm]

Just mixing the vocals any overall sound at this point

[finite finch]

Doesnt it have a 60 days trial

[tender oak]

It's the WinRAR model. Trial ends, access does not. You can just keep using it fully featured with free full updates. They just ask you pay $60 once if you want to release music commercially, and if you make over a certain amount a year from your music it's like a one time $200 payment. But if you make what they ask from your music, you have the 200 to spend lol.

Whereas every other DAW either wants a subscription or a nonsensical license fee for the same thing.

[balmy forum]

you know what i mean, there issnt much that seperates reaper from the rest

[balmy forum]

havnt seen that yet

[balmy forum]

mean but true

[balmy forum]

but how

[tender oak]

YouTube tutorials, repear forums, music blogs, etc. Google is a powerful tool. Sometimes.

[eager sphinx]

new day new riff, but i still suck at programming drums XD
thoughts?

[tender oak]

Is that just static hissing for anyone else?

[eager sphinx]

apparently discord fucking up, my friend has same issue

sec

[tender oak]

Good ol discord

[eager sphinx]

fuck

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRPxPaVd/

there we go

[tender oak]

Riffs cool sounding. Instrumentals out of time tho. Need to slow the drums down to the riff or speed the riffage up to match the drums haha.

[eager sphinx]

i did originally make it faster, but i thought this sounded okay

ofc the drums are

not professional whatsoever

i suck at programming drums

so i just threw something together rq

[tender oak]

Yeah definitely a fun riff. Not bad man good job.

[eager sphinx]

thanks

[vale vapor]

You're still wrong LOL

You can't remap your own buttons, create toolbars, or literally edit the code of the stock plugins in any other daw

[vale vapor]

Cause you haven't looked

[balmy forum]

You can do that in ableton I’m pretty sure

[versed remnant]

dance dance cover started

[tender oak]

Need vocals done when its done? I can mimic FOB's style decently. Also sounds sick so far.

Little Bad Omens for tonight's clean singing practice and fun.

[eager sphinx]

added some behs to the thing i sent before, yall think it fits?

[runic adder]

WERE FALLING APART IN HALF TIME

[runic adder]

I need to learn how to sing like that lowk

[runic adder]

That’s good

[tender oak]

Thank you brother! Appreciate it!

[eager sphinx]

thanks

[finite finch]

I want to switch to reaper and test

But

I need to learn it

And it was quite awkward to use the piano roll

[finite finch]

Would like to see what u guys can teach of it

[runic adder]

Idk if it’d help much but I made a demo of file system setup for reaper for one of my friends that switched

Very niche info but if you want it I can pass it over

[finite finch]

Hm ok

I will get reaper tomorrow

Gotta sleep now

[finite finch]

Did ur friend learn it

Or he still learning

[runic adder]

I mean he just switched over

It’s not that difficult to learn imo

I could probably make a video of my workflow if you want

[runic adder]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K9RP2wk_NCma-4WoxeFNyCZTlnQqJ_uB/view?usp=sharing

[vale vapor]

you can customize it!

[finite finch]

Bet

[runic adder]

Here’s the video btw

[vale vapor]

you can make the keybinds better

[runic adder]

I use completely default key binds but yea

Only customization I did was switch the theme

[finite finch]

I see

How does that work

[tender oak]

What DAW are you coming from?

[finite finch]

A difficult daw to work on

Fl studio

[tender oak]

heh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXaJRgFNViQ

Just so you're aware of what you can do with Reaper's customization

Someone made a FL rack extension as well as the piano roll, easy to install

[finite finch]

Can i have these extensions?

[tender oak]

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=229919

[finite finch]

Also is reaper a cpu killer daw

?

[tender oak]

If you REALLY want it

Only supports 1080, im just showing that if you wanted to you can turn Reaper into any DAW of your choice. You can also just grab the various extensions like the step sequencer

and make your own theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zy9iomVBZU

Here's Sower which is just the FL Step Sequencer

[tender oak]

Nah not really. I'm fine on a CPU from 2019

[versed remnant]

nahnah i had to do em myself its for a girl

idk if the vocals are clear enough

okay i bumped the vocals a bit

[versed remnant]

I made it an album cover guys is this tuff

[versed remnant]

better vocal takes

[versed remnant]

these MIGHT be the final vocal takes

[runic adder]

Do you have a limiter on the vocals? They get buried in some places

Also for the group vocals/harmonies, maybe try to get the takes a little tighter or lower the backing vox a little, sounds chaotic

You could always time align them slightly

[versed remnant]

i have like a fuck ton of comp on them i don't get why they're doing that i noticed it too

[versed remnant]

and ya i was gonna rerec some of them i think there's a few parts in the harmonies i wanna keep though bc i do like the kinda chaotic enerygy they have i feel like thats hard to execute with big harmony sections

[finite finch]

@tender oak

do i mind this

[tender oak]

Nawh that's the opening splash screen. Just hit still evaluating.

The still evaluating button of hope. You can "evaluate" until you're 97

[finite finch]

also the fl extension page isnt working

[tender oak]

That I'm not sure about. Never used the FL extension itself, just know it exists lol. You can also grab the various extensions that make that theme up. Sower is the step sequencer I believe.

[inland anchor]

tried new guitar tone on singles

[vale vapor]

Very stringy and treble heavy

Could use some more mids

[finite finch]

Might be cause bass the reason of the stringyness

[inland anchor]

theres no bass yet

I doubled distorted guitars with clean ones

probably cause of this

but im going for the stringy sound

[finite finch]

I see

Im on phone speakers so yeah

😭

Could figure out if it was bass

[tender oak]

Little Meil of Vaya for the night. We out here making angy metal noises.

[upbeat pasture]

Just started working on this from messing around on my 7 string. Its really rough around the edges but its definitely a start

[reef dawn]

i can imagine myself 2 stepping to this

finished this today

GGCFAD is a fun ass tuning

[balmy igloo]

f-zero gx type beat. the guitars come in at 0:39 are serum 2 future punk factory preset

[ruby moon]

Trying to figure out what vocal style is better. The first one is my normal style and the other 3 are a different style and I don’t know which one sounds better

[vale vapor]

@inland zinc does lessons for this kind of stuff!

[vale vapor]

First one definitely sounds really constricted and weak, it's what a lot of people refer to as fake fry

The others sound a lot better, more like a traditional false chord

If you dial in your breath control you should get those to have a way better and more consistent distortion

i'd try to stay away from the first one

[inland zinc]

Hello

[balmy igloo]

I used your first video for the vocal chops on this. It turned out pretty cool. Can I keep it on my track.

Also does this music video hit or nah

[tender oak]

@vale vapor okay this may be worth exploring 🤔

[vale vapor]

YES

If you do the full cover, dm me the vocals and ill make the instrumental for it

i have someone's stems already

[tender oak]

oh word? super bet. I have so many little clips of songs and whatnot i just never get around to finishing lmao

[vale vapor]

yeah if you do a full one of that

or giants among common men

ive been needing an excuse to finish up those instrumentals

[tender oak]

Oh I'd 372.7% lay down some vocals if you sent me that giants instrumental. Those harmonies and background runs are gonna be fun af

[vale vapor]

LOLOL

i might just send you that tonight if i can finish it tn

[formal hedge]

Oddly specific

[tender oak]

I felt 372.8% would oversell my enthusaism and I wanted to come across as sincere /s 😂

[hollow tulip]

update
changed rhythm guitar tone a bit and song extension and others
still wip, to do: add proper orchestral intro section and more mixing polish
did i cook

[hollow tulip]

ooo pretty industrial

i don't think i have any complaints on this one yet

i like the bitcrushed plucky things going on in the bg

[hollow tulip]

the chopped up vocal samples on this one give it a nice rhythmic element to it

[balmy igloo]

This is a cool track man. Could definitely hear this in a jrpg. Mix could use some polish for sure but that's no big deal. Great job.

[inland anchor]

Djunt

[fringe geode]

So I was on a bit of a sonic journey

Not quite sure where this is going yet.

So I mixed it anyways just to kinda get an idea.

@hollow tulip @vale vapor @tender oak

[vale vapor]

this is well balanced! the kick and bass seem to be fighting a bit in the low end

that snare is fun

drums sound kinda off time in parts

other than that it sounds pretty good

[fringe geode]

Yeah I noticed that. Im having trouble figuring out where tho.

[vale vapor]

do some sidechain compression on the bass

sidechain to kick send about -3.5 db gain reduction

should sit right in there

[fringe geode]

It's a Gretsch Bell Brass snare

[fringe geode]

Will do :3

[fringe geode]

I was playing with EZD's Bandmate feature. So it's not perfectly on the grid or anything. Funnily enough I think I prefer it that way makes it a little more human.

[tender oak]

First of all, thanks for tagging me I'm honored 😄
Xenon hit the nail on the head mix wise. The sidechain suggestion is 100% the best advice here as well as slight timing adjustments on the drums. I also enjoy that snare. Overall, this has a riding down a dusty road at dusk in a muscle car contemplating life feel. Journey through the desert type shit. I like the vibe. Get those drums feeling a bit more natural, maybe a bit varied in groove here and there, some ghost notes, and clean em up with the bass in the mix and its definitely going somewhere. As a production note, a cool opening may be a few bars of ambient soundscape synths with that guitar lick stripped down and reverbed out over it. Think Another Brick In The Wall pt 1. Just ambient shit with various iterations of that lick over it. Hit a drum fill, lead into the song. Could be sick.

Also shout out The Wall. Fantastic album. Though I hope we all know that already.

[fringe geode]

Thanks for the feedback and the suggestions! I have a few soundscapey ideas ala Karnivool (been listening to In Verses on repeat). Also sidenote, I love Rabea Massaad and his playing so I take a few queues from his style of playing sometimes XD

[balmy igloo]

I would just turn down either the bass or the kick

maybe a little eq on the bass could make it sit better

but yeah i would just turn the bass track down a little bit ezpz

[fringe geode]

Turn it down is the ez way yeah but I want that bass in because it's giving some power and bit of a sonic foundation to the song. It's about having that not fight with another instrument frequency. Sometimes thats okay, but not in this case.

[fringe geode]

I have one, it's just finding the sweet spot is all.

Hence why they suggested sidechaining. Cuz finding it on an EQ is possible but time consuming.

[balmy igloo]

Yeah for sure I feel you bro

[fringe geode]

I am def saving these drums as a template these are fun.

BTW Im using EZD3 for drums. The guitars were Soldano. And the bass was a mix of Parallax and Darkglass.

[balmy igloo]

yeah those drums sound sick ezdrummer is an amazing plugin

[balmy forum]

bit too much verb on that snare and its a bit off time

[balmy forum]

its a little too human

[balmy forum]

reminds me of karnivool

[fringe geode]

I've been listening to In Verses non stop on repeat so I take that as compliment!

[balmy forum]

nice

i like afterimage and thermata the most

i know afterimage is northlane but idc

[fringe geode]

I think it sounds more like one Rabea's other project The Totemist.

@balmy forum https://youtu.be/CjhIcpzf7oA?

Ironically I got into Karnivool because of Rabea.

[balmy forum]

oh lol

[balmy forum]

oh yeah

a bit

fucking nolly mixes

[fringe geode]

Whats wrong with Nolly mixes? Also Nolly didn't mix The Totemist, that said, Nolly and Rabea are friends and he has been teaching him.

[balmy forum]

i hate nollys mixes

they just all sound the same

same snare sample, same mixing

all the instraments sound seperate

and cold

[balmy igloo]

i like the guy who mixed those old rob zombie and manson albums they all have similar a vibe

powerman 5000

[fringe geode]

I get ya. While I don't care for his mixing outside of Periphery, can't help but give the guy props for his talent. He definitely has a sound.

[fringe geode]

Terry Date?

[balmy igloo]

Yeah I think that's the guy

[fringe geode]

Terry is more known for early Deftones. But he did produce the last White Zombie album and the first Rob Zombie album. Terry was only on 1 Powerman 5000 album.

Powerman 5000's big album had Sylvia Massy (who did Tool's Undertow) and Ulrich Wild.

Early Manson was done mostly by Trent Reznor.

[vale vapor]

nolly's mixes are fine, just not for me

i also don't like how high he tunes his snares

give me a low snare

give me FOP

[fringe geode]

I think Misha is the better mixer between the two.

[vale vapor]

idk if i've heard his mixes

[fringe geode]

Have you listened to Haunted Shores? His project with Mark Holcomb?

[vale vapor]

Nopers

[fringe geode]

Also Misha mixed the very first Animals As Leaders album.

[fringe geode]

Ahhh. Listen to some Haunted Shores. All that stuff is mixed by Misha.

[inland anchor]

Demo with vox

Probably gonna redo the intro but I really like how the last part sounds
Kinda cooked with that riff

[granite mist]

low tuned guitar riff go brrrr

[inland anchor]

Sickk

[lost dew]

https://open.spotify.com/album/63s4FxBYOeluaIRg24KBzu?si=LECK217JSeiDN_92ZK8_uA

[versed remnant]

Snare and kick need to come down i think

And i need to blend the snare betyer

maybe better

nvm i want more snare body it feels wimpy now

turned the drums down -3db

[versed remnant]

pre production and pre vocals hyperpop bc i got bored

[fringe geode]

So I figured out what the issue was. Theres a number of double hits on the hi-hat that makes it sound like the timing is thrown off but it isn't.

At least I think that's the issue.

But it's a problem I've experienced before, it sometimes happens with EZD.

[vale vapor]

ohh weird

with humanization i prefer to do it directly in the midi so i can perfectly adjust what hits i wanna humanize

plugins doing humanization sucks to me cause you don't have control over it

[fringe geode]

Yeah it's really weird. EZD actually does humanization of shells really well. But when it comes it cymbals its a bit funky. Thankfully they make it real easy to fix.

Sometimes the cymbals are off by like half a second too whitch means they also need to be nudged a bit.

[inland anchor]

been trying new plugins

idk shit about music theory,not even chords so it doesnt sound that cool but it was fun to do lol

[vale vapor]

stradivari violin?

[inland anchor]

Yep

[vale vapor]

good plugin!

[inland anchor]

Indeed

[solemn mesa]

Started really experimenting with sounds and started mixing my two favourite genres - metal and hip hop. Sorta still leaning how to mix on each song kinda on the fly but current mix of the newest project (sorry for the abrupt start I just sorta bounced it in the middle of the verse)

[inland anchor]

Bruh

My fuck ass guitar down tuned sounds like a bass with a better tone than my actual bass lol

[finite finch]

Wow i should try mixing my 2 fav genres too it could be very cool

[granite mist]

i fucks with this

[dusky rose]

very beefy guitar tones. sounds brutal

how to fix my mix? is it the tones or should i take something off. note that I'm not going for that modern Buster-y sound, but a tight (2015's Reflections & After The Burial) sound. what do you guys think?

[tough pewter]

Hey guys im Onagi. I play in a band called Sweetland. I have this track called No Hearse Can Keep Us Apart on my bandcamp. Its 13:37 of sad doom with a burst of weird death metal in the middle.

I did an acoustic cover of the song minus the dm part.

Here's the video.

The original can be listened to here...
Sweetland.bandcamp.com/track/no-hearse-can-keep-us-apart

Thanks 🙂

[inland anchor]

something new for me hehe

[balmy forum]

alpha wolf

in the breakdown, make the china half time

https://open.spotify.com/track/08cm7GeHDulMd0LKy4huDm?si=cc7ad2bc66294c71 0:26

[balmy forum]

its too mid scooped and quiet

ad in some mids, and make it louder

[vale vapor]

yeah what anti said, needs a lot more mids, guitar sounds like it's only treble. Give that guitar some body!

[balmy forum]

I can definatly hear the potential here

[vale vapor]

definatly 🔥

[inland anchor]

Btw
Used Sleep Token drums for this one

[vale vapor]

want honest feedback?

[inland anchor]

Sure why no

[vale vapor]

• vocals are extremely loud compared to everything else
• was your guitar mic'd in a room? if you're micing up an amp, you need to use a room with a more dampened sound. There's too much room noise in the guitar and it's pretty noticeable
• Drums need to be much much louder

I get the idea you're going for

There's a lot that needs work!

But if you get those three things it would sound significantly better!

I also think less mids would sound a little better on your guitar tone

[inland anchor]

Guitars done like Thao on purpose

[vale vapor]

Not sure what that is

[inland anchor]

But yeah vocals suck indeed

[vale vapor]

The vocals don't suck, your tone is fine, i think the low layer could be removed

[inland anchor]

They are recorded through the Audio interface and then I reverbed em
I want em to sound like rhat

[vale vapor]

They are just way louder than everything else haha

Mmmm alright

I think like that, you lose note clarity and it sounds too busy

But if that's what you're going for, more power to ya

[inland anchor]

Gonna try to mix it better when I re record it cause I deleted it lol

[vale vapor]

oh haha

[inland anchor]

Kind of I want kind of
How to describe it
I can send a few songs

With the kind of guitars I'm going

[vale vapor]

sure

[inland anchor]

It's not really grunge
Hard to tell

[vale vapor]

Send an example here

[inland anchor]

https://open.spotify.com/track/7479fk2wIBUb6n91aYwPFZ?si=oCX69T_yRkqjzqSgbmWq3A

https://open.spotify.com/track/43phhhh1hQF7koWX3uNvO3?si=lnJ9P-LtR32TR7ACkpCb7g

Mostly those two bands

[vale vapor]

Ahh see on the second example, the guitars sound a lot closer, less reverb, and less screechy high-mid freq

it moreso just fills up the mids smoothly

[vale vapor]

is your drum bus clipping?

something is clipping

snare also sounds pretty narrow

[solemn mesa]

Id say the hardest challenge is making sure you have the proper vocal style (if youre a vocalist) or experience writing both genres and just experiementing. When I started with hip hop/metal(or rock) I had to change my singing accent and pronounciation to properly fit the music. me personally very few metal bands (If any at all) can actually pull off the "right" vocal style for it. And the ones that do are more hip-hop oriented vocalists.

[finite finch]

My 2 fav genres are hardcore and dariacore

[solemn mesa]

hell yeah go for that shit then pop out twin

[finite finch]

Dariacore is basically jane remover entire music

I have tried dariacore

Let me send sum

Vocals arent by me

[solemn mesa]

It reminds me of a bmth but I can't remember what it is but its sick asf I mess with it

Honestly I've found the easiest way to mix genres together is pick the more popular (or one that would be more... listened too by a wider genre) and just add elements from the other genre, like chord progressions, just themes of the other genre but with the sound of the popular genre

[finite finch]

Voicewise?

[finite finch]

That would be sick

[solemn mesa]

si

[finite finch]

Si

Español?

[solemn mesa]

nah lol

[balmy forum]

I used clipping on the guitar

[vale vapor]

the drums sound like they're clipping

[inland anchor]

@vale vapor remixed it a bit

[inland anchor]

smol solo

[inland anchor]

insane tone

[finite finch]

Ty

[dusky rose]

appreciate it a lot! yea this is some doodle i wrote just to try my mixing. i'll post re-rend soon !

[dusky rose]

how about now? the difference is noticeable, but for the better, what do you think?

[inland anchor]

Okay this ended up being random as shit lol

But I love it

https://tenor.com/view/random-bullshit-go-moon-knight-random-random-bullshit-gif-25725102

[prisma forum]

Lmk what you guys think of this tone, its the plini amp with thall amp together with an octaver, it sound so chunky to me

[cerulean storm]

Something I started on tonight

[versed remnant]

praying the chugs boom a bit

I need to turn up thr guitars a fuckton

turned guitars up

[balmy forum]

what arrangment is cooler

[inland anchor]

I'm rarely happy with my vocal performances but I kinda like this bit

[balmy forum]

ramstien first or last

[inland anchor]

It has Lamb of god vibes

I love it

[versed remnant]

FUCK YEAH

I’m kinda going for log x atg

[balmy forum]

strange, reminds me of the illumination intro

[versed remnant]

Please turn down the tube sounding thing and maybe throw some verb on it so it’s not so up front but i fw the second arrangement more

[inland anchor]

Lmao

[balmy forum]

tube?

[versed remnant]

The

Clickclik

Clickityvlickclick

[balmy forum]

no

my tube, stays loud

[versed remnant]

Personal taste but i dislike how upfront it is

[versed remnant]

Deal

[balmy forum]

becuase it is

[balmy forum]

its not my song, the artist wants it loud so

[versed remnant]

Ahhh

I see

Well i prefer the second arrangement

[inland anchor]

I really like how the Waltz part ended up

[balmy forum]

i see

[inland anchor]

Gonna change the ending

I want to make the song drop tempo with every hit of guitar and then add piano

And maybe some horns

[versed remnant]

I need to kill something on the guitars in the high mids i hate how much pick noise comes through on the trem part

[versed remnant]

Holy shit i love this

Mix needs work but i really like thag

[inland anchor]

Me too lol
It's random as hell and that's why I love it

[inland anchor]

Yeah I can't mix for shit
Especially when there's a lot going on like in this song
A lot of vocal layers
Choir
Horns

[versed remnant]

Yeahhh it makes sense that it’d be hard to mix, @ me when you have a better mixed version for sure

Bc i really mess with that vibe you got going on

[inland anchor]

IF I have one
Not sure I will

I'm gonna try but I doubt I'll make it much better

[versed remnant]

Send me those stems

[versed remnant]

@tribal orbit how do i soften the guitar pick noise? it feels very harsh on my speakers

[tribal orbit]

Uhh that’s like highs

Idk like 10k?

Something like that

[versed remnant]

okok

thank you

[versed remnant]

working on an indie/pop mix!

[vale vapor]

@formal hedge .

[formal hedge]

how do i find the cymbals in SSD5?

[vale vapor]

they're right there

LOL

[formal hedge]

Do I just send the OHs to the cymbal output then?

[vale vapor]

all cymbals should go to the overhead channel (st.4/output 4) unless you want to spot-mic the hihat, china, or ride

which i don't really prefer to do but it's up to you

if you want spot mics, you'll need more outputs to send those spot mics to

[vale vapor]

drums are much too quiet although guitar sounds quite a bit better!

vocals somehow are pretty muddy and fill up the 200-300hz range too much

is there any EQ on your vocals?

[inland anchor]

Nope
There's no eq on anything

[vale vapor]

Oh

Do you know how to use an EQ?

[inland anchor]

Nope

[vale vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fDg_pgit5c

start here!

EQ is an extremely valuable tool and you should never neglect using it

[inland anchor]

I'll check tomorrow
It's already late for me

[vale vapor]

All good

just whenever you can

[sullen vector]

any advice on how i can edit the drum mix so that they hit harder without making them clip? i keep trying to give em more power but they keep clipping (especially on the toms for some reason). also im considering turning down the cymbals but im not sure if i should

[finite finch]

@vale vapor

[finite finch]

take a look at this

[finite finch]

@solemn mesa

[vale vapor]

clean

that snare is nice and juicy

[vale vapor]

proper EQ and compression

[vale vapor]

none of your drums seem EQ'd to fit your mix

https://youtu.be/BWxY3JiebOQ

[wicked berry]

the goat lol

kontakt is the worst..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax3pf4lpnbQ&t=1258s

great drum walkthrough

[versed remnant]

i think i forgot how to write a riff

[inland anchor]

Zeros my beloved lol

0000000-000000-000000-00000

Type shit

[inland anchor]

what if Reaper makes me only one St output

[vale vapor]

you may have done the steps in the wrong order

[wraith hare]

was there a dialog window offering to create 64 outputs?

[inland anchor]

nope i made a track and loaded kontakt into it

[inland anchor]

yup

[wraith hare]

Hm

[inland anchor]

through the insert virtual instrument

[vale vapor]

Looks like you have kontakt portable, is there something different about your kontakt installation?

[inland anchor]

not really except the fact that its not licensed one

btw not to the topic but how do i select multiple tracks at once

cause im deleting em by one like a dumb lol

[vale vapor]

select one track, hold shift, then select another track

[inland anchor]

thanks

wrong video

here

@vale vapor

[vale vapor]

I think those aux tracks are still usable, they're just named different

Just make sure in your kontakt that you are still able to route to them

The track name doesn't really matter as long as you can still send them audio

[inland anchor]

thats the problem

here

it only shows one track

the st one

[vale vapor]

go to view > outputs

you may have to add st.2 through st.5

[vale vapor]

yeah hit the little plus

add new channels up to st.5

since st.1 is 1/2, you'll want to add 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, and 9/10

[vale vapor]

Cool!

[inland anchor]

something like that?

[vale vapor]

yeah now you should be able to route them out

you may need to reload the drum library

[inland anchor]

lemme try

[inland anchor]

should i put overhead into the room channel too?

[vale vapor]

overhead should go into overhead channels

[inland anchor]

yay

it works

thanks

[fathom jewel]

save that configuration as default or you would have to do it again after restarting kontakt in another project

[vale vapor]

yeah once you route everything how you want, select ALL of the drum tracks and save it as a track template

that way you can load your pre-routed drums easily