I guess there are particular tonal differences when moving up a guitar neck or up the vocal range that make it easy to identify when the shift up is real bit I don't know enough to know if there are ways to imitate them so there aren't the telltale signs that a pitchshifter is doing it. Can anyone tell their tricks please?

As the title says, i've been doing this for around 5 years now, only as a hobby, ill usually make a complete track every 2 weeks or so on average.

Despite doing it for 5 years tho i have extremely limited technical knowledge since i've never really researched anything or gone out of my way to learn new stuff, instead i just go off of vibe alone if that makes sense. When i make something, if i like how it sounds ill go with it, i won't go into the precise technical stuff like most people seem to do.

is this bad? i've been told by others that my music sounds good, but i am very aware that its not as good as so many others by producers that have been making music for the same or even less time than me.

i used to try learning these technical stuff but i just cant get anything to stick if that makes sense. i definitely have passion for music, but i just find it so hard to actually learn stuff that i gave up on that aspect.

Im mostly a pop rock/metal producer but i’m going to make a single and i want to make as poppy as possible.

The verses are fine by now but i’m getting really trouble with the chorus, i don’t know what to do there.

I’m sure i want to put a heavy guitar, but just strumming powerchords or the bass notes would be too heavy… Any suggestions?

I mostly work in my daw getting a midi keyboard soon but Ive been really struggling with my drum arrangements like a lot any ideas on how you come up with them easily or is it always trial and error

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These are vocals used in a hook. I want to rap over them using the same effekts/voice

Does anyone know how the string sounds on this track were made? They sound so incredibly punchy and I’d love to try and create something similar for a song I’m working on.

Thanks!

I want to start making tracks similar in genre to the soundtracks of some video games i like. They are mostly techno songs. I'm on Linux, so i downloaded audacity and LMMS and played around a bit with making some samples and beats but nothing ever sounds quite like it does in my head.

I feel like i often have great sounding loops in my head, but i can never get them to sound the same on my PC. I assume everyone felt this way when they were starting out? Does anybody know some good resources for teaching myself music production?

I want to learn to make music, primarily jazz, lo-fi, and others I don't have a box to put in, but I have no idea where to start. I originally tried using standard music notation software because that's what I could understand right away, but I was unsatisfied with the sound and I feel like I don't yet have enough experience reading sheet music to be able to recreate the sounds and ideas I want on it. So I started looking into DAWs and how I could use that but now I have no idea where to go. Right now I'm trying bandlab because it's free, but that's it. I don't know how to go about making any sort of music, either using samples or midi instruments. I also don't know if I should go ahead and buy even a cheap midi controller or audio interface. I want to be able to record my electric guitar right into the DAW but I'm not sure if I should become more experienced with it before buying anything.

I wanna get into producing music but i know im not gonna make as same quality as my fauvorite artists, im 15 never did an instrument or nothing but i like some hip hop artists and want to mix some generes but i dont have enough motivation, what are some things i could start out with?

Not sure this belongs here but does anyone know what is called when eg the rhythm of a jingle sounds like the name of the brand? Like the revolut jingle sounds like duh duh doo like revolut. Or just when music imitates actual words.

I come up with lots of cool ideas (at least cool for me) that I record on the fly in my DAW and create nice multi-track ideas using my guitars, bass, drums and some keyboards.

But I usually end up with lots of 1:30-2:00 min snippets of cool sounding "full band" ideas all in a different key, but I struggle developing a full song, combining the ideas and also adding lyrics (I'm pretty bad at writing lyrics). When I try to do it, I usually end up with a collage of ideas, and if I try to avoid that I end up copying/pasting a lot of the previous riffs just to fill the song.

My strong area is getting the sounds right and getting a balanced mix that sounds very polished from the start, this is where I spend most of my time and I feel it takes away so much of the energy I can put into composition but it's difficult for me to work with a very raw mix because it bores me and distracts me. Do this happen to you? I try to save some templates so I can save some time on this on the next track, but most of the time I end up doing something very different.

So, I just wanted to know what's your approach on developing a song idea into a full track. And also, how do you do to scale it up to a full EP or Album and keep that connection between tracks?

Thanks in advance!

as the title suggests, I'm debating between the two MIDI controllers as my first. i use Cakewalk, I already have the free version of analog lab v and id really like to know which one would you guys prefer

having your music on a medium like a CD or cassette is so special… I’m Gen Z but I just printed some cassettes of my music, its a tangible physical thing and the fact that their use is finite is just beautiful, more real than it just being data on a computer or streaming service.

In the age of streaming, putting your music on CDs and cassettes, a relatively cheap alternative to vinyl, is fkin sick, highly recommend trying it out

I'm looking for some synthetizer with dark and gritty distorted sounds for a track with a "creepy" vibe. The closest thing i found is the Keepforest library but it needs full Kontakt, i need something standalone/compatible with Kontakt Free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mssxWV93Ru0&ab_channel=iyla

I’m currently really into Tame Impala and was wanting to using some similar sounds they used on my stuff. I was looking for drum sounds that are similar to Innerspeaker and Currents albums’ drums. If anyone has any recommendations, I’d be interested. Thanks!

So once my music is released, are there anything I need to do on each social media platform? For example I saw on TikTok that I need to look for my song and I need to select that I’m an artist who created the song. Do I need to do same thing on instagram or YT too? How I don’t mistakenly get copy right strike on my own song ? I’m newbies, please kind to me

Hey all, this is my first post in the sub, if theres any liquid dnb fans and/or producers out there, it would be great to get some feedback on this tune i released a while back, im proud of it but i feel theres room for improvement as always🙏

https://on.soundcloud.com/3gxLU6nxGGwB93NZ7

It comes in right after the drum fill. It's not the string synths, but the high pitched sound. I have some project that I believe could benefit from something like it.

I've been producing for nearly 6 years on and off and want to take it more seriously and one of my problems is finding that my mixes sound thin, i mix in my headphones which i know isnt recommended but anytime i listen to my mix on a device that isnt my headphones, the mix dosent translate as it did in my DAW. it either sounds too thin or slightly cluttered and muddy. i know the common fixes like use compression and give every instrument its own space but still havent this issue, any advice?

On the chorus / 0:59” in. I work on ableton and curious about what was done to her vocals on here. Please share your best guesses, thanks in advance