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?

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.

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?

https://whyp.it/tracks/271239/lucid-dreams-cover?token=bhPwK

idk what to do, ive tried EQ and lots compression, but it sounds really lackluster to me nothing like how Juice sounded when he recorded Lucid Dreams

If I have a song called «Misbehave» I didn’t feel this much, and made a new version of it to a much better version, lyric is nearly the same thing, am I able to delete the first one, to then release it later?

I’m trying to help a friend out by setting him up with the basic necessities of music production specifically for instruments with guitars and bass. I use pro tools and was planning on setting him up with pro tools intro for now until he gets into it more. I recommended he just start with a used strat, behringer interface and any used bass he can find. I don’t know what computer to set him up with. If he goes PC route, what CPU and ram should I try and focus on getting, or is there a used laptop that works well that I can find online for under 500 bucks?

Hey guys,

I just got my first request to fully mix and master a song but I’m a little worried.

This guy wants to release this song on streaming platforms, So I asked him to send over the stems because the beat itself is very muddy, distorted and all around it doesn’t sound good. I figured if he could send over the stems for it I could clean it up. The vocals itself sound fine.

But he’s refusing to send over the stems for the beat, I’m not sure why, he told me to mix it that way. I suppose it could be possible if I separate the stems myself, but when I think about it I’m guessing he may have ripped a YouTube beat or something that’s why he’s hesitant on sending the stems. I don’t mind artists using beats to record over, but I’d like to know if he owns the rights, or has permission to use it for commercial use. But everytime I ask he is either dodgy with the question or just changes the subject.

My question is, I don’t really feel comfortable mixing a song for full release if he doesn’t own the beat and I don’t want to be associated with it if it gets taken down/in trouble. But at the same time it’s my first opportunity to mix/master a song for someone else. What do you think?

Hey! My band is looking to get inner ear set ups for shows but also for rehearsal. We are wanting to use them for rehearsal so that the acoustics of the space don’t matter as much and we can possibly save some money on rehearsal space.

Curious 1- does anyone use them for rehearsal? Would our plan be realistic? 2- what set up is the best!

The parameters here are:

1. We only need 4 sets, nothing bigger necessary
2. We can probably (I think) run monitor mixes from my portable mixing board, so probably don't need to buy a fancy monitor mixing setup
3. We need good noise cancellation from the in ears, but need a good solution for how to be able to hear the crowd so that our singer can respond to them (piping in noise, etc.)

We know it will be a big $$$ without having gotten to try them out so would love to hear what set up everyone loves!

Thanks so much!

This is in GarageBand. Thanks! https://imgur.com/a/OJwC19P

I‘m a day-one-user of Splice and have the "Sounds 100" subscription plan. I noticed that they increased the price from $7.99 to $12.99 plus tax starting in February.

The problem is: They never notified me about an upcoming price increase and I never agreed to any changes of my subscription.

Another problem is: Since I only have the "Sounds 100" subscription I don’t have access to the features of the next higher tier,but I now pay the same price as the "Sounds+" subscription, which doesn’t make any sense.

I don’t need more features or more credits (I currently have around 4K laying around), so I wrote the support about all of this in hope they revert the changes to my subscription plan.

Has anyone similar issues with Splice at the moment?

How can I create the same sound that you hear from the start of this song

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