dont be afraid to delete

after you've made a bassline, try shifting the whole thing left or right by a beat, 1/2 beat, what have you.
changes the feel and might be better than your original idea!

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Heres a valuable tip I learned:

Make music that pleases, expresses, and relates to yourself instead of trying to please other people or record labels because there's always gonna be some who will dislike it and there will always be some who absoultey love it.

my 2cents.

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Originally posted by meriter Your primary focus should be making good music. That's all. No one gives a shit how you do it. And the people that do are fags.

Things I have learned recently

1) Mixing into a pre prepared mastering chain can give the benefit of knowing how it will sound as you create. (some dont like this and tbh i only just started) This allows you to pick sounds and set levels based on how it would sound compressed and exited etc

2) Apply low cuts to reverbs this has massively improved my sound but dont be too harsh. for example my label asked me to put some of the mud back in to my mix on my last track!

3) Get creative in your FX if you use pre-sets i do most of the time then think how can you change the sound. Would it be interesting with glitch set to reverse every 3rd beat of your plucks I like it?

4) Layer things got a slow piano? layer the melody with a bit crushed delayed distorted synth adds to the overall mood

5) Apply a cut of everything below 50hz we cant really hear it anyway and it removes some of the high energy speaker moving frequencies that cause mud. just try this go to your project and apply that cut on your master bus notice how your levels shoot up? thats because your song has more room.

6) Got nothing to do? go round to peoples myspace and offer remixes to people free of charge. I dont do this but i know a guy that built his reputation doing this and now he charges for remixes

7) I use this to make melodies play/write a little pattern into your seq based on a chord say A minor. Quantize it as you want it then copy it to the next bar and just change 1 or 2 notes up or down 1 or 2 semitones/tones remembering to keep it in key and do this 4 times. you now have a 4/8 bar melody

well thats a few tips i picked up last few weeks

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

when mixing,

you should have a reason for every decision. Listen , learn to pinpoint why the mix isn't working then take a course of action to solve the problem. Aimlessly tweaking is not a very successful approach unless i suppose you are starting out.

spend time listening to music. Take notes, listen actively.
Don't multi task. Do one thing at a time and do it properly.

Almighty, this thread FTW.

My workflow has improved recently from distinct separation of Producing&recording&sequencing / Mixing / Mastering. producing and sequencing into a "Static Mix" i.e. Everything fits musically, all breakdowns and pruduction related automations are in place, all the "ideas" are complete but everything sounds bunched together and muddy before you set one panner, eq, even compressor. Mixing so easily gets smashed in with production the way DAW's are today, it takes discipline to separtate the 2. mastering, if doing it yourself should be even further spearated, and avoided if possible.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Dude, music is only second to beer in allowing ugly people to have sex.

I forgot another key thing I ALWAYS do. You should always work on 2 projects simultaneously. I'm sure you could do more but two is perfect for me.

The benefits of this should be plainly obvious.

what are the benefits ?
It doesn't seem obvious to me

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Originally posted by mfitterer1 I forgot another key thing I ALWAYS do. You should always work on 2 projects simultaneously. I'm sure you could do more but two is perfect for me. The benefits of this should be plainly obvious.

Yeah I always work on many projects simultaneously, especially in the later stages as its important to get quick and fresh perspectives.

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Send the instrument genres to separate busses, and soft-clip them all just a tiny bit. Then, REMOVE THAT MAXIMIZER PLUG-IN FROM YOUR MASTER CHANNEL. IT MAKES YOUR TRACK SOUND RIDICULOUSLY LOUD.

Sorry for the caps, had to let it go.

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Originally posted by Lolo Send the instrument genres to separate busses, and soft-clip them all just a tiny bit. Then, REMOVE THAT MAXIMIZER PLUG-IN FROM YOUR MASTER CHANNEL. IT MAKES YOUR TRACK SOUND RIDICULOUSLY LOUD.

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Originally posted by cryophonik Simplify, simplify, simplify. And, ask yourself at every step, is this part or effect really contributing positively to my song? It's so easy to fall into the trap of doing certain things just for the sake of doing what you always do, without stopping to think about whether it's necessary or if something else would work better. Well, that's the case for me at least.

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