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Sound Designer or Musician?
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| J.L. |
I've noticed, that different producers come from different background, and they often have different focus in their music.
Sound Designer
The first type, is, more often than not, the one without a musical background, and is often involved in maybe DJing or sound engineering.
This type tends to focus more on the sound design, the quality of the sound, synth designing, and etc...
Pros: Produces cleaner tracks, sounds more "professional"
Cons: Lack of power melodically, tends to be unoriginal
I find these type of producers tend to produce more cleaner more well-mixed tracks with less emphasis on melody, but this may not be true for all cases.
Musician
The second type, is, more often than not, one with some musical background, and has often played an instrument before maybe. This type likes to jump into producing and get right into the meat of things.
I find these type of producers tend to produce tracks with stronger melodies and their tracks seem to have more style, with less emphasis on the sound quality, but this may not be true for all cases.
Pros: Powerful sounding melodies, tends to be more original sounding
Cons: Has more weaker mix usually, tends to neglect quality in favour of style
I find this is actually pretty important for each producer to step back and evaluate themselves because it lets them see more where their strong points stand and where they could work on more towards.
So, which one do you believe yourself to be more??
For me, personally, I am the second type. |
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| Chronosis |
| I guess I'm somewhere between. |
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| Subtle |
| neither, i cant compose I cant program synths :nervous: |
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| ErikC |
| I'm definatley a sound designer.. I allmost never finish my tracks but I allways finish my heap of synth patches :p |
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| serp |
| yeah it is quite true and more often than not when there are two (or more) producers like gabriel and dresden for example, one may be mostly involved in the sound design and mixing while the other has the strong musical mind and does the sequencing and arrangement, of course there are exceptions |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| I guess I'd be more of a sound designer... I can rarely come up with any decent melodies of my own but I always have tons of ideas on how to improve the work of others... |
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| djbruuen |
i'm obviously a musician since i'm about to graduate university with an honours degree in music.
my musicality is awesome, but most of the sound design field i've had to learn on my own with the exception of a few classes that helped a bit. to bad its a world where you gotta learn most things on your own to make it anywhere. ohwell, i'm starting ot get a bit better in the latter department too. |
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| ronk |
| musician :) pianist. |
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| Massive84 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
I guess I'd be more of a sound designer... I can rarely come up with any decent melodies of my own but I always have tons of ideas on how to improve the work of others... |
goes for me also :) |
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| aquila |
| designer here too....with a hint of family musical background thrown in for flavour. |
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| Aquarian |
| Neither. I wasn't interrested in music to the slightest until I started listening to trance. For the first few years of playing around in programs making simple tracks and melodies, I didn't even know what EQ or mastering was. It wasn't until recently that I started reading about it, and learned that "sound tech" aspect. |
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| TranceMasterUk |
sound designer for me
i have no musical backgrond.
and when it comes to melodies, well that is definetly not my best point, i struggle alot with melodies.
other parts of the tracks though im fine with, its just melodies thats holding me back i think. |
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