I am curious about this because although I am a person who will always share what I have learned, I realized that even if there were little secrets or tricks to withhold, I do not have any. I mean I have my routine when it comes to getting certain sounds, but as far as actual "secrets" or tricks that producers tend to keep to themselves, label mates, or other producer friends, I'm more curious about that. Can there possibly be any tricks that people would intentionally keep a secret, that someone else wouldn't likely find out on there own? I just don't imagine that. Regardless, if you know of any, share them. Or, if you have any that you use and would like to share, go ahead.

I would like this to be a tips and tricks thread, when it comes to certain quirky routing, modulation, processing or et-cetera, that is either not well known, uncommon or untraditional. Or a thread where you can reveal so-called "coveted" techniques...

you know, like slapping a limiter on every channel to get that super "pro" feel.

i disagree. You can use how you do shit as a valuable marketing tool bringing people to your site and using that to your advantage. If you are a one trick poney, then ya, isuppose it sucks but if you are talented, by the time people want to copy you , you've aready moved on.

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I share that sentiment. I don't want anyone to reveal too much, just what they want to. Nothing more, nothing less. If you feel like you want to, go ahead.

When i finally get my edm project thing rolling, every track, after the first month, will have a tutorial on how i did everything. As sort of a blog on how to produce.

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That's cool. I have a blog, started off really well... but haven't made any worthwhile videos yet, they always end up being like 30 minutes long. Working on getting a few more tutorials set up around 10 minutes long. It's hard, will need to do some pre-planning and editing to get it in the 10 minute range. Eventually I'd like to start doing it way more often, get a popular YouTube channel going. So many crappy tutorial videos out there... be nice to get some decent ones set up for topics that haven't been properly covered in a video. My next one I have planned will be 10 minutes, and will cover writing a melody. Being only 10 minutes, not sure how well it's going to work out since melody isn't that simple at all, but I can walk through my melody creation process in 10 minutes in a video.

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Originally posted by Evolve140 I mean I have my routine when it comes to getting certain sounds, but as far as actual "secrets" or tricks that producers tend to keep to themselves, label mates, or other producer friends, I'm more curious about that. Can there possibly be any tricks that people would intentionally keep a secret, that someone else wouldn't likely find out on there own? I just don't imagine that.

How many people sound like Daft Punk?

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Well I doubt there was a tip or a trick that made them sound the way they do, to be able to get close to their sound would take a lot of compromising and years of hard work and tons of emulation. Let's focus on the precise subject of this thread, which I have described.

Well, this may not be a secret, but I'll post it since it's what I'm currently doing. If you are working with an audio track that was recorded in a not-so-optimal environment and it has audible background noise, try using an expander (downward expander, to be precise), rather than a gate, to reduce the background noise. The problem with using a gate for this purpose is that they can be very touchy, sound unnatural and, especially, can cut off the sustained portion of notes or start to chatter on/off as the vocal fades down to the threshold level. The expander OTOH will gently push the level of the noise down, rather than cutting it off, and you won't get the on/off chatter around the threshold level.

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not so much a secret, but i tend to almost everytime put some distortion on my subbas, just to add some flavour and thump

Nice, now we're talking. Yeah, I tend to meddle with distortion for sub as well, it tends to add extra flavor to the harmonics down there. Any particular plugin you use for that distortion, how much mix do you usually add?

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#3 If it's Sounds Good it's Good!

#4 Less is more.

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