symphonious7

I'm still working on learning to produce better but when I'm finished with that I'll be needing help with this as well...

What would you say, if I told you I knew of a keyboard, that's only 50 bucks, anyone can play, even comes with a microphone, and freakin turn tables. You could be a god dang DJ. It even has a stool. You'd probably say I was crazy right? Old Symph's gone nuts eh? Well, scroll to the end of this post, and you will see your brand new keyboard in all it's glory.... Did I deliver or did I deliver.

Oh well lol. I'll figure it out I'm sure. On the positive side, I just finished what to me is a decent mix, first I've been able to get since studying up on techniques and doing more than just fiddling with knobs. I'll post it soon as it's mastered

Oooooo I have never tried that before. To be honest I did find a solution. Not a perfect one, but one that was good enough for me. And that was panning my guitars wider than I had them, it seemed to create the space I needed to get it in there. Also, as far as the spectrum analyzer is concerned, I made a thread today earlier about how I can't get Span to work and asked if there was another spectrum analyzer I could work with in Studio One hahaha

Dude. How did I not think of that myself. *facepalm* THANK YOU

as far as I know, mixing is what I do in studio one, where you effect the volumes and balance of each individual instrument and mastering is what you do after you have what you consider a decent mix, meaning you dump it into a program like audacity and then add compression to the mix as a whole and boost the highs and lows. And frankly, audacity would work just fine for me if you could hear more than 5 seconds of audio and make changes to settings as the track played. But the fact that I have to listen in 5 second snippets is so difficult to do anything with.

Does anyone know of a better free mastering software than Audacity?

This is something I do that helps alot. Granted I know very little about recording, but basically I go to youtube or think of a visually stunning movie or something like that, it needs to have alot of motion in it and fit the "mood" of my song, so this could be a first person perspective bike ride, or someone else's music video, or people dancing, or you can look up "electric sheep" and watch one of their visual stimuluses. And when I think my mix is getting close to finished or is finished, I mute the audio in whatever I've found to watch, and play my track while watching it. 9 times out of 10 I notice things that are off while doing so, as the visual seems to get my mind out of the technical mode and back into an emotional state of listening, and if your mix is correct, then your song should flow well with most anything you choose to watch, and if something is buried too low or not carrying the "message" of your song, it will stick out to you and you'll realize how poorly your mix would be as a soundtrack. It's good to note though that you don't want to get into the habit of doing this at every stage of the mix, or the visual will lose it's impact and start to make you think your mix is good when it isn't. You basically do this when you think you're ready to move on to mastering as a last check like "could this be the background music to a movie?"

What do you do? I've been studying about mixing and production for a few days now and I've managed to get such higher quality than I was getting (which was crap) And it's finally starting to come together. And in some songs I get everything placed really well sounding and it all stays inside the mix and works well and compliments each other, but there's this one song that needs a keyboard section in it. I've eq'd it every which way I know how, applied compression, removed compression, added chorus, it's midi and I even went through other keyboard sounds to see if it was just that sound in general, but nothing I'm doing is working. It's either buried to where it has no impact, or it's outside of the mix and over the vocal and I have no idea what you do or how you figure out what the problem is. I suppose it could be the rest of the mix, but that would suck because I like how everything else sounds and it took me a while to get it that way. Any suggestions?

So I've been researching recording techniques, the results I'm getting are definite improvements over where I was before, one thing that a site mentioned was the use of an audio spectrum analyzer to tell you how your frequencies are balanced. As far as I can tell the idea seemed to be that it would analyze your mix and tell you how top heavy, bottom heavy, or mid heavy it is and the ranges within so if you're putting out too much mid or high or low you could see this and adjust it. It sounds helpful, and they gave you this link to an analyzer called Span I believe it was. I downloaded it but then it doesn't seem to show up anywhere on my computer! I'm not sure if it's compatible with Studio One, which is my recording program. Does anyone know about these things? Know of a different analyzer I could try or why I can't seem to get Span to work?

David Bowie as Jareth from the 1980's classic movie Labyrinth.... is that you?

Dang it, that Pumpkin King gets away with everything. *grumble grumble*

So energetic in fact, that we seem to have stupefied a poor innocent stick man. Sorry little fella, you'll be able to stand up normal again soon enough.

Oh wow!! How nice of you!!! I'll try to make it uber popular hahahaha

So basically I came in here looking for a "general chat" thread, and saw no sub forum. Now I realize you can post any generalized topics you want in here, but there's not a stickied thread to just talk. You might want to put a sticky with a "hang out" type thread in it because for alot of people we get to know forums by looking through the long random discussion thread and just seeing what everyone's like. That's what I was looking for and I see now you don't have it. But for now. Hi. What are you guys up to? Anybody doing anything super exciting today? You guys like pin striped suits? I do. I do not own one, but I will dang it... I wiiiilllllllllllll When you type will with extra letters it looks like WEEEEEEE Just sayin.

I'm.... highly interested to see what you could do... though you posted this a while back didn't you? Do you still do this for people?