What are the most advanced production techniques you guys know?

[u/Best_Bit4431]

I have a competition and Im tryna impress the judges.

[u/DjTrailblazer]

Dada life sausage fattener into 3 soundgoodizers should wow the judges with your intimate understanding of dynamics

[u/BitcoinsOnDVD]

Putting your logo or an image of your name into Harmor.

[u/whatupsilon]

I think if you can just write something cool, that's the most advanced thing. The production is kind of secondary. But for production, nailing a sidechain, having it loud without distortion, taming resonances, gating tails of things to keep sections clean is pretty standard but most people still seem to struggle with it.

[u/sluyvreduy → u/whatupsilon]

Hi there, wym gating tails? Ive come to the conclusion that gating doesnt mean what i think it does

[u/whatupsilon → u/sluyvreduy]

So technically I'm referring to automating a Fruity Balance to prevent a reverb tail from continuing into the next bar. This is important during breaks and for example in EDM there is often a drum fill or vocal right before the drop, that needs to sound quiet and in order to do that you automate everything down that you don't want in that little space.

The term gating refers to an actual noise gate with a threshold, which can still be used for some of those situations, but is usually for dealing with a noise floor, guitar with distortion, or sound design such as a gated 80s snare (has reverb and cuts off) or the Pryda snare.

Gating in FL can also refer to Gross Beat and Effector which both have a trance gate effect, essentially a volume LFO with a square shape. This idea of trance gates or gated synths is more about creating a rhythm, and is seeing a spike in popularity with "stutter" house.

[u/sluyvreduy → u/whatupsilon]

Thank you for the info 🙌 

My immediate thought is always gross beat unfortunately

[u/Thelostrelic]

Parallel compression, sound design and advanced mixing techniques. (Actually, knowing and understanding EQ, compression, saturation, reverb and delay, etc as appposed to slapping on presets and understanding frequencies better to use EQ more proffesionaly)

I was going to include sidechain compression, but that's honestly something you should learn near the start.

[u/Hfkslnekfiakhckr]

i gotchoo

[u/itsJEBU]

Use Stem Seperation software on a reference track you like the sound of and apply a match EQ to each corresponding group in your own track.

[u/Pladeente → u/itsJEBU]

Here's some sauce I don't let too many people in on. Stem separation, melodyne and then throw it into a synth. Or another one dynamic EQ side chain (Soothe2) your vocals into a synth or sample, turn delta on, take the vocal track off the master and record it into Edison and you have a super cool talking synth.

[u/TheMayorOfDC]

Parallel compression.

Proper sub bass compression.

Frequency-specific sidechain compression.

COMPRESSION. 🤣

[u/GregTarg]

Change the popup logo when you start FL to something cool.

[u/donkeyXP2]

Not rly production techniques more important is song writing techniques.