What are some tips youve learned over the years that you still use daily?

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Posted by DJ Robby Rox on Sep-21-2009 05:50:

Uniformity always trumps complexity:

This is a very basic tip, but another one I often find myself straying from in practice.

I was working on a break one day and was trying to figure out how to drop in the main beat. The main beat was gonna start with a nice piano melody.
So I go searching through my vengeance fx reverse sweeps to find the coolest most elaborate reverse sweep I could find. I put the sample in and think "wow, as cool as the fx sounds, I just don't understand why it doesn't fit.."

So I take the key the piano melody is based on, and play one note on that key low octave with a long release and record it. I reverse the piano note and use THAT to bring in the piano melody. It instantly sounded 1000 times better because rather then focusing on some complex elaborate fx, I made one from a sound that was already in the track, thus making the track more uniform all together.
A great way to keep a track uniform is to make your own fx with sounds already in the track. And because you're making them you can keep them in the key the track is in, its such a simple thing that really helps keep a tracks identity strong.

Posted by mfitterer1 on Sep-21-2009 09:55:

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Originally posted by RichieV
what are the benefits ?
It doesn't seem obvious to me

It just keeps you fresh and open minded with the track. I always hear things better when i'm working simultaneously on tracks. You also don't get bored and don't stress when you hit a rough spot in one of the tracks. It's kind of like a breath of fresh air.

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