Do you have your own secret production techniques?

[elyhess]

secrets secrets

[Dystinkt]

bare long reverb tails

[outbound]

Yes and they go from being my best kept secret to the "what the hell was I thinking" very quickly hahaha

[Turnipish_Thoughts]

Yes...does it matter? No.
Music is art not a science project.

Well, it does actually matter. By secret production techniques, I also meant secret mixing techniques. You know, if you can't mix your music properly it will sound bad, no matter how good the melody is or anything like that.

not true. "bad" mixes sometimes make a track.

http://www.dubstepforum.com/forum/viewt ... 9#p3274639

[LilWUB]

I blow as a keyboardist. I would usually only play on the white keys. However, I found out that I like pounding out melodies on pads (Akai MPD18). This way I don't know exactly where the "white" and "black" keys are.

[Libra]

I blow as a keyboardist. I would usually only play on the white keys. However, I found out that I like pounding out melodies on pads (Akai MPD18). This way I don't know exactly where the "white" and "black" keys are.

I'm guilty of this one!

[thekuku]

Some of my secret techniques include

sampling birds, transcribing them and trying to write melody around them

sampling camwhores and using their voices as stabs

improvising on piano trying to write melodies around tape loops

brainstorming about an idea during boring lectures about phonetics

finding rhythm in poetry and then trying to transcribe it

playing Super Mario Bros with my midi keyboard recording it and deleting every note beside the jump button, some interesting rhythms emerge that way

oblique strategies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

[_ronzlo_]

Some of my secret techniques include

sampling birds, transcribing them and trying to write melody around them

sampling camwhores and using their voices as stabs

improvising on piano trying to write melodies around tape loops

brainstorming about an idea during boring lectures about phonetics

finding rhythm in poetry and then trying to transcribe it

playing Super Mario Bros with my midi keyboard recording it and deleting every note beside the jump button, some interesting rhythms emerge that way

oblique strategies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

I do the birdsong thing too. Whoa. (And Oblique Strategies, but that's less out-there)

Some good unusual suggestions. Outside the box, like.

[Kes-Es]

Drugs, but that's never really been a secret.
Also I don't listen to EDM often and I actively avoid it unless I'm in "The mood"
Sleep deprivation,
Also sometimes I write down all my ideas for a track and forget where I put the paper, it has been good to me.

[hifi]

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[Banesy]

Has anyone used or heard of the pink noise trick to mixing? I ran across a random youtube video but haven't tried it yet. In summary, you are supposed to pop in a pink noise track and adjust each track so that it doesn't poke out of the pink noise. Curious if anyone has used it? It sounds like it would be a good way to start off on the right foot when going into a final mixdown stage.

Ah here it is.

[xtcvsmistycold]

no tricks to mixing fam

just experience hard work and prayer

[xtcvsmistycold]

and reliable reference material a/b-ed at a matched subjective level

[bennyfroobs]

er

its probs not a secret
but if ur flipping throygh the samples menu thingy on the left on fl studio

and u wanna test assorted samples with an effect (reverb for example)
put the effect on ur master channel bus whatever its called and then all the samples u click on will play with that effect ((((:

saves u clicking and dragging them into a sampler

[Karoshi]

Has anyone used or heard of the pink noise trick to mixing? I ran across a random youtube video but haven't tried it yet. In summary, you are supposed to pop in a pink noise track and adjust each track so that it doesn't poke out of the pink noise. Curious if anyone has used it? It sounds like it would be a good way to start off on the right foot when going into a final mixdown stage.

Ah here it is.
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This sounds interesting, will give the vid a watch when I get in. Cheers.

[mromgwtf]

er

its probs not a secret
but if ur flipping throygh the samples menu thingy on the left on fl studio

and u wanna test assorted samples with an effect (reverb for example)
put the effect on ur master channel bus whatever its called and then all the samples u click on will play with that effect ((((:

saves u clicking and dragging them into a sampler

Anything that's being played from the preview window, will be sent to that mixer channel. So you don't have to fuck with your master channel. It's useful, because I can adjust the volume of the preview.

[hendrix126]

I've been trying to get creative with how I approach sampling. Lately, I've been sampling from Vine (Iphone and Android video application). I like how with Vine, the videos have very minute cuts which make for some cool sounds. Some more artistic Vines have some very cool background noises which turn into some awesome pads.

[outbound]

I've been trying to get creative with how I approach sampling. Lately, I've been sampling from Vine (Iphone and Android video application). I like how with Vine, the videos have very minute cuts which make for some cool sounds. Some more artistic Vines have some very cool background noises which turn into some awesome pads.

I like it, gonna have to give this a go

[leaflet]

Make one track file as one long track that morphs and changes with shit loads going on and then chop it into five sections and you got 5 tracks

[bennyfroobs]

er

its probs not a secret
but if ur flipping throygh the samples menu thingy on the left on fl studio

and u wanna test assorted samples with an effect (reverb for example)
put the effect on ur master channel bus whatever its called and then all the samples u click on will play with that effect ((((:

saves u clicking and dragging them into a sampler

Anything that's being played from the preview window, will be sent to that mixer channel. So you don't have to fuck with your master channel. It's useful, because I can adjust the volume of the preview.

oohhh sick sick how did u find that out???

maybe i should actually read the manual lol