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Ask me a question! Anything relating to music production, mixing, mastering etc. (Patreon)

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2020-12-09 18:01:15
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Topic says it all.

I'm making this a public post, so anyone can join.

I'm totally feeling festive on my holidays, and will be glad to answer some Qs relating to what I do: making music, mixing it, samples, sounds, mastering…nerdery!

May be slightly slow as I'll be sipping on my holiday brewskis 24/7 but will try to reply all Qs – unless they're huuuuge like "How to make good music that sells?", ha!

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Brendan Locker

Waves plugins don't seem to be revered in the same way as those from many boutique companies. Are there decent Waves plugins (compressors, reverb, limitor, drum shaping, etc.)? Do the bundles have value? (Horizon, Platinum, etc.)

All Hail Eris

Happy well deserved holidays man. Imma use this opportunity to casually remind you about posting/walking through your template Live project. Also, Fanu ambient when

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49234115

I'm ssssuper sorry to say I've never really used any Waves stuff! Main reason for me is their annoying license thing: technically plugins can work on only one computer at a time, and you have to go thru cloud hassle to switch it to another computer…and soon you'd switch it back. I only have their Abbey Road Vinyl emu, and that is grand. I bet they are good, and I guess pros use them, too…and there are signature Waves plugins like Andrew Scheps, CLA etc., so cant be bad.

Brendan Locker

How do you mix projects where you don't have the same plugins as the producer? Does the producer bounce all tracks down? If so, all prior (good or bad) choices they have made with reverbs and compression would be embedded...

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49234347

Good reminder! My Patreon topic list is long; will bump this in the list, as it's truly a good one. Ambient…I do a have deeper, "genreless" album in the works, and some of that would prob classify as ambient :)

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49234627

I only accept audio tracks: saves all the hassle…no time for that! This is somewhat the industry standard way of working, as not having the same plugs can be a time-waster. Reverb and comp: will have to get to that later!

James Green

Apologies if you have already covered this elsewhere, but do you have any particular favourite approaches to creating tension and release in a track beyond things like risers?

J Centrik

What compression setting would you recommend for sub bass?

Mark Contrite

Hi Janne. Greeting's from the UK. I was wondering. How many of the projects you start get finished. Do you try and finish all of them. Have you ever spent hours and hours on a project. Only to realise the next day it's totally turd. Do you ever have bad days in the studio where you feel like packing everything up and selling everything. I'm asking because that is the Roller Coaster im on at the moment. It's a psychological question but could be encouraging. Regard. Mark

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49238095

Hmmm, not really! I actually often do these what could almost be called "anti-drops" where the track drops from a point where I make it nearly silent…I think that's what I do more often than builds-ups, actually!

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49242716

Yeah! I live close to a nice park actually…but the season here is pretty short, so I mostly skate from April to Aug/Sep…there are indoor parks, and there's one somewhat close but it's so small and crowded, I don't really go there.

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49243310

Whatever works, really – might try 10ms attack, 50ms release, 2:1 ratio…or maybe even double those. I don't compress it per se unless it's too loud, obviously.

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49243326

Yes, Ive def spent hours and hours and it's not getting any better. I do have moments when things ain't working out even though I'm really hungry for it. And yes, not being stoked about something you loved yesterday is common. All this is part of the game. I recall Optical saying the same thing in his masterclass…one day you feel you got it, and the next day you dont get sh*t done or something, I do finish everything I keep, BUT I only keep what I find really good. I'm ruthless at deleting things. We can always create more. So trying to avoid the feeling of having too much to finish. Keep at it!

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49234627

Reverb mistakes: too much low end, making things muddy. Also just too much reverb. The last song I mixed before my holidays had too much reverb on its big, dubby snare, and it just kind of masked everything in the song and competed with all of the elements. I'd say most of the time reverb should be a tasteful spice, not the main ingredient. Compression: well, compressing too much. Going below 10ms attack on beats and smashing the transients. Compressing the life out of elements.

Neal Schlatter aka VariableOp
>>49242716

Fresh! I have slowed down now that its getting cold here too. We have one indoor park and quite a few outdoor ones near me, but I usually just find things to skate around my house. If there's one thing that this year has been good to me for, it would be skating and making beats. Here's to keeping the momentum!

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49242716

That sounds good! Very few street spots near where I live. Man I can't wait till it's April or so again...sometimes I've been shoveling off the snow and ice around that time to speed up the spring :D

Neal Schlatter aka VariableOp
>>49242716

I forgot you are probably thick with snow there. We have only started to fluctuate below freezing here. I'm still tryna find a good place to practice some slappies round here tho. Never really tried them I hate to say.

Fanu/FatGyver
>>49242716

Ah, we're still around the freezing point (zero celsius)…still no snow! I live in the very south, and it's not as snowy here these days as it used to be…and i aint complaining! Man, I technically still can't slappy either: my local park has this super low slappy step but I still do this mega-small ollie into it…I still dont kind of "get" how to drive clean onto a slappy!