Music Production

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This is Music Production. A place to share anything and everything you want about your music making journey! Learning is the goal, so discussion is encouraged!

RIP Waveform.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/musicproduction
 
 

This is a simple technique that creates a beautiful spread on acoustic guitar. It requires a few things first:

  • Acoustic guitar recorded on two tracks.
    • One track with a mic capturing the neck. I like to use a small diaphragm condenser.
    • Another track with a mic capturing the body. I usually go large diaphragm condenser.
    • (or go with some other XY/stereo mic config)
  • Two aux channels with a reverb. One aux panned hard left the other panned hard right.

Usually when guitars are mic’d with two mics like this, in the mix you pan them hard left and right. Like body left, neck right.

The trick here is that for the guitar track you pan left, send a bit to the reverb aux panned right. For the track panned right, send to the left reverb aux. What happens is that the reverb will fill the opposing sides and creates a super spacious and wide sound unlike just sending both guitar tracks to one aux. You can get an even better effect if the reverbs each have a slightly different setting. That’s all dependent on the sound you’re going for though.

That’s it! I hope the explanation is not too confusing. If so please let me know so I can clarify any questions. Give it a try!

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Especially for recording vocalists, I've found it much easier to mix dynamic mics. Dynamic mics don't often get the praise they're due.

Condenser mics are more expensive to build, so they are regarded as more expensive-sounding, which hasn't been 1:1 in my experience. I find that a 57 sounds better than most budget condenser mics. I think they're a much better bang for the buck.

What do you think?

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I'd love to discover a way to record a continuous performance (no cuts/overdubs) that starts without click and then continues to a click in the middle of the piece.

An external metronome could be triggered by foot pedal, for instance. But could it be done all within the DAW? Has someone devised a Reaper script for such a thing?

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  • (gaussian) blurring = low-pass filter?
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Something something sine waves?

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Edit: Walk Like A Man by Four Seasons thanks and credit to groucho for finding it!

~~Not sure if thats in the chorus or somewhere else in the song, i just sort of vividly recal all the oooos and wooos 😅~~

~~Makes me think of Spandau Ballet and also that quartet group Frank puts together in Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia a bit but I just mean the sound~~

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Tips after musicvideo is made? (self.musicproduction)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by allo to c/musicproduction
 
 

Just made an epic music video for the song I submitted to Routenote a month ago. I have never made a music video for a song and when I search to find advice it's not about what I'm curious about. So here are some questions and I would also love any advice from anyone with experience distributing songs with music videos.

  • As my song is not yet processed, I can still cancel and switch distributor. Are there any Distributors that are extragood with having music videos for songs? Any to avoid? Why?

  • I do not like google and would prefer to not touch youtube. What is the ideal way that does not feed in to google's empire to have the music video available online? Or should I make a youtube account and play their game?

  • other tips?

Thank you.

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The picture shows how it looks like when I´m planning the structure of a new piece of music. This time it´s Ambient Techno. In the book I explain each step, lay out the “whys and hows”, show alternatives and – first of all - “detect” the characteristics of the musical style, which the pieces are going to be examples of. If everything develops according to my plans, I´ll be able to publish this e-book on the 30th April. I´ll keep you informed, here as well as on my website https://dev.rofilm-media.net. Cheers and peace! Rolf

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Is there a way to turn most music into something more "triplety" for example by setting a delay of 0.33 seconds or something like that?

Love me some 6/8 time (or triple time maybe, I like 3 a lot) haha. I suppose I might looking to confirm or adjust my working theory that delay of 0.33 seconds to the point there's kind of a 2x echo after the initial beat would roughly equate to this but its a very rough draft

The only actual recorded example I can think of that illustrates the end result I'm interested and also aware of altho I think its more implied than actually necessarily in the music is Debussy's arrangement of Gymnopedie N. 1 by Erik Satie. I feel like the orchestra is basically generating this effect at least evocatively if not in fact. I

Might not be articulating this fantastically, not sure if I even know what I'm asking for or if it makes any sense 😅 If not, just making conversation i guess

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https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/337 In 12 articles I write about funny, strange or extraordinary experiences on my ways to discovering new “fresh” sounds to sample. Cheers and peace! Rolf #music #musicproduction #sound #sounddesign #musicstudio

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A series of serious thoughts on a popular but rarely though through matter: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/503 Cheers and peace! Rolf

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A series of serious thoughts on a popular but rarely though through matter: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/503 Cheers and peace! Rolf

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Not looking for a specific special plugin, just trying to reason thru if its possible or how best to create a similar effect to someone holding the piano sustain pedal throughout

Closest I can think of is increasing the reverb decay times for both low and high notes but I'm just going off the parameters I can see that are adjustable, maybe add a low-pass filter for added blurriness/hazy-ness

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My understanding is it sort of relates to a simulated acoustical physical space the music is intended to seem as if it is reverberating throughout

Is it correlated with the intimacy or closeness of the music, what else does it evoke? What is its relationship with artificiality and nature respectively?

What is its evolutionary purpose in terms of why we can parse and interpret it?

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A series of comprehensive in-depth articles about wheter, why and how to make generative music: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/335 Cheers and peace! Rolf #music #generativeMusic #musicproduction #musicstudio #modularsynths

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Now you can experience the atmosphere and the workflow of the 1950s Electronic Music Studios: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/507

#music #electronicmusic #musicstudio

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My Musical Dialogue With ChatGPT Does it make a point to discuss with AI about Music? A series of articles: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/532 Cheers and peace! Rolf #music #AI #AImusic

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A comprehensive series of articles on https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/336 Cheers and peace! Rolf

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by can to c/musicproduction
 
 

Why is this so hated? Title may be hyperbolic but there's well presented info there.

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In which Dan examines the oft repeated advice to "only dither once" and attempts to show why this should be "only dither to 16 bits once".

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spent a hot minute getting the drums to slam and bump like in those old Neptunes beats, although I think it could do with a few more finishing touches haha

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33078444

Just a heads up to anyone who might not have seen it or own it yet, but UA is giving away their 1176 Classic FET Compressor plug-in for free until 02/28!

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You can sort of still feel and sense the attatck and the vestibular effect of the keys being played despite their tones being filtered out?

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This is a neat demonstration of how low-pass filters affect D/A converters. Might mess around and try to replicate this test.

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