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Has there ever been a successful TA collaboration effort?

Been thinking about that one dude's post about wanting to collab, was wondering how you even approach something like that over the internet? Sounds like it would be fun if it worked out.. meaning everyone was responsible and met their deadlines ect. Anything like that happen here before?

Immersiv (or Scott, or novastorm, depending on how you know him) and I worked together on my track Dream Machine. He uses Reason and I use FL Studio, I'd say we were successful. The mix wasn't great but that was pretty much all my fault, haha.

How did you go about doing that exactly?

i had some success about 5 years with niklas groswald aka charlie brown or on TA as soundrush. ended up getting him to remix my track lost which led to him being signed to recoverworld.

thats why i wanted to try it again. 2 minds are better than one.

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Originally posted by meriter How did you go about doing that exactly?

Lots of back-and-forth discussion and working with exported loops. Wasn't really difficult. Though there's probably better ways to go about it.

did you use soundcloud to upload/download everything?

I don't remember what we used. Does it matter? They're just audio files, as long as it works for you and the people you're working with you could do it however you want.

I've facilitated and provided some input on many collaborations between some of the singers I work with and several TAs, including Eric J, Richard Butler, Zodiacal Light, etc. Also, Mia Valo and I have an upcoming EP release that will feature an Eric J/Mario remix - they actually finished their mix long before the original was done, so in a way, it was sorta like a collaboration. The guy who I collaborate with the most is also a TA (Avery Parker aka justjabbin), but he is local and I knew him personally before realizing that he was a TA! It helps that he is a fellow Sonar user, but I've collaborated with numerous people from other forums who use different DAWs and we just shared audio/MIDI files.

So, yeah, it can be done. Depending on who you work with, keeping schedules/deadlines can be tricky. Personally, I try to keep both personal and collaborative deadlines, but I have many other priorities (family/career/life) that often get in the way, so I find that I have to be realistic about it myself and acknowledge that the same thing applies to others. And, of course, I've had many collabs that never worked out for one reason or the other.

i'm 99% sure i met mezzir on TA, he & i have done a few tracks together. One of the first ones we did was a bootleg of Lady Gaga (i know!) in like 2007/2008? anyways i still hear it being played at my gym and even saw her manager tweet about it once when he was out at a club lol. it was unofficial but did better than any of the real mixes. in addition to that we did this together a few years ago:

mr.mystery + echano did a lot of work together

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Originally posted by BshidoHEAT mr.mystery + echano did a lot of work together

ah ya, i liked that first album they did. probably been 4 or 5 years since they did that huh? would like to listen again for old times sake

With both people having different gear did that hinder the process of making songs?

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Originally posted by -FSP- With both people having different gear did that hinder the process of making songs?

I guess so, it's just a little more work though. And you have to be able to work with audio samples instead of synths in some instances but it's not that much work. At least I didn't think it was.

i like it when you have to send over audio files. It mostly means you have to commit more and in turn it speeds up the production process a lot!

I really couldn't see how 2 could collab w/out some sort of exchange of audio files.
Even if 2 people take on the obligation to work on specific parts of the track you're still both putting your name on the track so reviewing each others work and getting that feedback seems almost mandatory.

At any rate I think collabing 90% of the time is better than working alone. I mean just think how often we all likely work alone and how little feedback we get on the multitude of things we work on. I'm sure certain people like cryo regularly collab and the potential for learning gets smaller the more you do it. But for more avg producers like myself just to get a breath of someone elses work flow could serve extraordinary gains to your own workflow/style.

I've always been down for collabs you just really need 2 or more people that are willing to commit and get it done no excuses. Problem with me is my many excuses. Usually starting with "the bassline just isn't doing it for me" lol.

This will be great for it. http://www.ohmstudio.com/

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 ah ya, i liked that first album they did. probably been 4 or 5 years since they did that huh? would like to listen again for old times sake

You mean Glaciation? I still have that if you need

Collabs are cool. if anyone uses SX5 and are on an imtermidiate level then hit me up www.soundcloud.com/scott-lowe

send me an email [email protected]

Sorry for going off topic but i saw the oppertunity and took it haha

Scott

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