Hey SA Community, I’m at the stage in my producing where I’m just trying to soak in all the technical information and tricks that I can. Its a bit less intuitive then picking up a keyboard and playing notes up and down in a certain key. You actually have to analyze your mixes more thoroughly, and seeing as I’m an engineering student and a computer geek I’m fascinated by this.
Anyways, back to my point. It would be very useful to me and I think a lot of the SA members if people could post their favorite technical tutorial and why. That way we’ll all improve together. Sweet deal!
For example, my favorite tutorial so far has been about compressors and how they function. This upped my producing game a fair amount because I understood what all the knobs meant rather than just mindlessly tweaking until it sounds a tiny bit less sh*tty than before. (I laugh when I go back and look at my first track and see that I had thrown on a multi band compressor when I barely even knew how to use the mixer in fl studio ahaha :P)
So post away! Lets get something decent started.
Come on guys! There’s got to be some videos that you guys liked!
The reason why I made this is cause as an amature producer its easy to get lost in the abyss of technical information.
This thread could act like a summary page almost. Lets say you wanna improve the “bigness” of you’re sound. How do you know where to start? It’s not like an amature producer asking this question would be like “o yeah, I gotta look at reverb!”
But if someone had posted here: “the reverb video really helped my sound get a lot bigger, it was really lacking in size before”.
This would help everyone else out so much! It narrows down the endless pit of information on the interenet, I don’t know about you guys, but having to filter through less cr*p on the web sounds pretty appealing to me!
i thought a cool tip was when phil made a reverb sound using all the synth parts. blew my mind on that one!(PTT):w00t:
used it in the transition to each part (say when the kick would drop out)
looking for that big sound?
i’ve been spending a lot of time trying to make an epic pad sound. finally got it when I layered that puppy!! same pad pattern but I made one for the low range mid range and a high.
several tutorials that cover just that. very helpful!!!
Yeah sound design can be frustrating when you know what you want to accomplish but you dont really know how to get there.
Tons of time and patience aha. I find its like that a lot with dubstep and glitch tracks. You have to sit there, make small melodies and samples, them re-sample. But the hardest part is the bass for sure! Still haven’t been able to get a full growl or anything brostep-ish 