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| quote: | Originally posted by cl0ckw3rk
I've been a subscriber for a year up until last month. IMO, there is wonderful material there for beginner to intermediate level producers, but anybody past those skill levels would get minimal benefit.
If you're like me and sometimes just need to see things done, it's great - especially if you haven't finished a track yet.
While I found it very resourceful for learning the process and how/when to use which effects, I also had one major gripe after a while: Their sounds are very basic. You won't find much in the way of advanced synthesis, with the exception of the occasional tech tip which dives into how to get a particular sound from a particular track. In terms of sound, they go for something as generic as possible in order to strictly adhere to that genre. Again, this is why I say it's useful for beginners, because as a beginner you're not as concerned with the advanced techniques yet, but rather how to just learn to do what's already been done. They have two trance tutorials (if that's what you're interested in), one really outdated, and the newer one slightly less outdated but still relevant.
If you're already a pretty seasoned producer, you might get some benefit from their tech tips. They have some interesting techniques that you might find useul, or that might incite some new ideas of your own. Again, this depends on how much experience you already have.
They go over some mixing and effects aspects in depth, which is really useful to hear and have someone explain to you. Compression is one example. After seeing so much of it done in practice to vocals, drums, bass, etc, it gave me a good enough understanding to apply it on my own.
They also did a series on mixing space that was awesome. Just to hear how they make room for everything can help give you a little intution for your own mixes.
I left because I felt I hit a ceiling with how much I'd get out of their content. And while they have a subscriber request forum where you can request certain videos and how-to-get-this-sound, they never seemed to respond to those at all. Since I'm mainly into trance and progressive, I found their new content to be less helpful to me. I don't really care for dubstep or some of the niche house styles, so that was another reason I bounced. If you regularly explore a variety of EDM styles, you'd find that content more useful than I did.
One more note: they seem to favor Ableton Live and Sylenth1. Other DAWs and synths are used here and there, but just keep that in mind.
All in all, I found it a worthwhile experience for the year. Of course, if I put my mind to it, I could have watched all their videos and learned all I need to know in 3 months - which is incidentally one period of their subscription. You could just do one quarter and then cancel. At this point though, I'm content with winging it via free content around the web, as well as truckin through on my own.
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Seems like the same old stuff they've been offering. I'm more interested in synthesis and processing to get a really professional sound. I was trying to duplicate Niton last night and the notes are easy enough to figure out, but I don't know how he gets those fat synth lines. It would probably be easier if I had Logic to fuck around in, but I don't and I'm stuck with Ableton.
I can end up starting a track and then I get side tracked by a million and one quality control questions. I think I need to just work on one thing at a time, or else my head will asplode.
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| quote: | Originally posted by dj_alfi
change your avatar for fucks sake. |
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