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- prophetone0
since we're chatting about mpc's, here's may fav mpc modder. so amazing and makes me want to create a screen for this 1000 and paint it something special and screen the lettering back on it. nice and clean. and classy.
www.ghostinmpc.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gho…
- oooh that's nicesublocked
- yeah super nice stuff like those custom 3000 walnut front/side panels. so want those for my 60.prophetone
- dat all black 4000...ltjohnrambo
- i wonder how you'd go about making a screen for the faceplate?sublocked
- either finding a nice vector in a manual or creating one in AI from the manual drawings. http://www.mpc-tutor…prophetone
- or i might just scan the faceplate, recreate as vector. then ensure the screen art is 1:1. burn screen. use gold epoxy ink.prophetone
- epoxy ink. profit.prophetone
- hektor9110
Just finished this small loop on my iphone with an app called FIGURE
https://soundcloud.com/hektor-s-…
- ltjohnrambo0
Released this new remix today. I'm finally getting the hang of my new Manley Vari-Mu on the master bus.
https://soundcloud.com/funk-lebl…- I followed you!boobs
- Thanks, I can always use more boobs around.ltjohnrambo
- Really nice!mg33
- yeah this is really well produced...sublocked
- Thanks guys, appreciate it!ltjohnrambo
- prophetone0
some guy on the mpc forum used aluminum knobs pulled from an old tascam DAT deck on his 1k. so cool.
gives me ideas about what i might be able to achieve with the metal lathe i have access to; and a person who is a metal lathing ninja. custom one-off knobs would be the bees knees. maybe make some limited sets and sell them if they are nice enough?
- i also have access to a milling machine, hmmm...prophetone
- time to start designing a snazzy e-commerce site lol. with lots of 'pop'.prophetone
- why not just buy new knobs? tons available. milling while unique, seems excessivealbums
- because it's about making something with my bare hands not convenience, like a manprophetone
- like a maker man.prophetone
- why don't I just buy my beats and sell my drum machines why I'm at it lol.prophetone
- that metal jog wheel is the sexsublocked
- totally different but props to your shitty attitude just the samealbums
- i have zero attitude. i like to make stuff and find it odd when someone tells me it's excessive is all.prophetone
- plus i was having a laugh. no need to get personal ponchie.prophetone
- or maybe you're high fiving me because i sounded owly? i have no idea what's going on. evs, go make beats!prophetone
- peace albums. word.prophetone
- yeah sublocked those are the sex. all nipply and pointy. always a good idea to swap out the crummy plastic.prophetone
- also you can tell they would be a lot nicer to twiddle than the stock jobbiesprophetone
- so goodMiguex
- albums0
for gear junkies in the LA area this weekend
- BANKattack0
dudes, please check out my latest
https://soundcloud.com/sambank/b…
- ApeRobot0
- double the power..
your setup?autoflavour - Yup, my setup.Except the MPC 60. I tried it,sound's nice,pain in the ass to work with.ApeRobot
- dope cash register 60. loving the technics mixer, i remember fiending fir one going way way back way back word wordprophetone
- back in, back in daysprophetone
- i got that technics mixer for more than 10 years,i still use it.ApeRobot
- double the power..
- albums0
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What are the TouchKeys?
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- mg330
Anyone have some tips for working with and mixing drums in Logic? Specifically, standard settings for individual tracks. I'm just curious what some best practices are / things to avoid on individual drum tracks.
I get pretty decent results with a mix of electronic and live drum samples with the 808 and 909 when I'm doing more ambient electronic stuff with guitars and piano/rhodes in Logic. But when I try to do something a bit more synth heavy and electronic, I end up spending too much time exploring different sounds (not that that's a bad thing by any means). I guess I'm just trying to tighten things up by knowing some tried-and-true techniques.
I'd say my more acoustic/electronic stuff, drums-wise is a bit inspired by the drum sounds on the Apparat album The Devil's Walk. As far as full-on electronic stuff, always been a huge fan of Telefon Tel Aviv and the variety of percussion sounds they use.
- make sure your drums are all tuned to the same key if you're mixing one shotsalbums
- It's kind of a cop out, but it's hard to give advice without hearing the track...ltjohnrambo
- As a rule, listen for the problem and find a way to address it...ltjohnrambo
- otherwise you may do more harm than good.ltjohnrambo
- sublocked0
tuning is important, but so is sidechaining and eq'ing...
the basics...
1 - high-pass any tracks that don't need the low-end information. that'll clear up a ton of the "mud" that kicks take up.
2 - high-pass your entire track @ around 15-20hz...most speakers can't play that shit anyway and will just take up room that will drive any compressors you have on the mix bus
3 - sidechain your instruments and key on the kick (or kick/snare). you can "duck" your synths that might overlap frequencies with your kick this way...the heavier the sidechain compression, the more your track will "pump" (they do this in a lot of house/trance stuff...)
- agree with 1, 3 but number 2... you mean LPF but still, terrible advice!kingsteven
- (on a mix bus)kingsteven
- no...i mean high pass...because it lets the "high frequencies" pass...sublocked
- and it's good advice. i've been mixing for years.sublocked
- sublocked0
some of my new jams...all fairly aggressive 140bpm-ish stuff. (post-brostep? no clue)
https://soundcloud.com/cynicone/…
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- sublocked0
oh and some instrumental hip hop shit for good measure...
- ApeRobot0
MicroKorg - free soundbank http://www.synthtopia.com/conten…
- Nice, this is relevant to my interests... and MicroKorgalbums
- ApeRobot1
WANT!!!!
- prophetone0
just traded my microkorg for this sexy beast...
- damn...i think you won that trade maybe. how are the preamps on it?sublocked
- i have yet to run some tests with it to see how warm it is, apparently it does nice things to mids/lowsprophetone
- yeah it's funny when you trade someone something that weighs 2lbs and u load up the car with this monsterprophetone
- it's in really nice shape though and really clean. i may take it apart and give it a thorough once overprophetone
- found this vid review of sorts, interesting. can't wait to see what it can do. http://www.youtube.c…
prophetone - the VU lights are dead which is a bummer. i read you can upgrade them to a nice bright LED thoprophetone
- with a few tweaks + cleaning I think it'll be dope. i kind of want a big, vintage boardsublocked
- been looking @ the toft ATB stuff lately....sublocked
- the toft mixers are super nice but too $$ for my blood. the teac 5 got some praise here: http://www.gearslutz…prophetone
- wow. nice trade! i sold my mikrokorg at about 3 years old but for £5 less than bought for!23kon
- section_0140
mg33 & sunblocked:
High-passing everything that's not kick or bass is a good rule. Nothing should really be going lower than 20 (or 30 really), so the high-pass on the master shouldn't be necessary. In fact, in experiments I've done, high-passing something really low like a bass or kick can have weird unexpected effects.
Sidechain? Eh, only for effect. The only way for all of your synths to gel together is to make sure they're tuned to each other. The harmonics need to be aligned to avoid muddy sounds when multiple things are playing.
As far as general rules for mixing drums, make sure you have different levels of drums. There should only be a few main sounds for the drums to sound crisp (Kick, snare, hihat). The rest should have the volume considerably lower. Also, try hard panning these supporting drums (bongo hard left, cowbell hard right). Also, keep an eye on the spectrum analyzer to make sure certain frequencies aren't spiking. Try adjusting the pitch on a drum sound instead of eq'ing it to get it to sit where you want.
- lol @ sunblockedalbums
- 20 or 30.. more like lower 70-90..
also, it should be EQ, not LPF
autoflavour - 70-90? never. the root note of my basslines is always in the 40's. Also, the filter is on my eq (logic's channel eq)section_014
- mg330
Thanks for the tips. I'll have to do some reading about some of the stuff you're saying but it's really helpful. I actually got signed up for the Logic class at an Apple store here in Chicago starting in August. 4 weeks, each Saturday - I figure they'll be teaching Pro X so it will be a nice intro to that.
On a non-beats making note - I'm really loving my setup at home lately. I'm using an Alesis Micron through my guitar effects chain and Apogee Duet, but also have MIDI going out of it. I'm finding it really convenient to be able to record the midi notes should I dump the audio track and go with a synth in Logic.
My goals in getting better at recording are to hopefully pursue doing more instrumental and film score stuff. I've wanted to go in that direction almost from the beginning of even having a band years ago. Going to keep working on a batch of things that are sort of 1/4 done and eventually put them up on SoundCloud and my own site. Might have posted this before, but here's a short example of something I'm continuously working on (though I did this in an afternoon back in January).
http://mg33.net/music/2013/01011…
- sublocked0
section & kingsteven don't know shit about bass, or mixing it properly apparently.
Trust me, high passing your tracks and especially the inaudible rumble around 15-20hz is good. Each track in this mix was HPF'd - INCLUDING the 808 kicks.
These days I don't HPF as much as I used to on the mix bus - but I do the "dip and boost" trick on the Pultec EQ (uad version), where you cut around 20-30hz while simultaneously boosting. Tightens up the low-end on master busses properly!
As with anything, do it to taste & consider the nature of the track, but this is what works for me.
- Signed, the dude who produced & mixed this 808 banger.: https://soundcloud.com/cynicone/…
- I like this tooalbums
- could always use more bang / anger though :Dalbums
- hah man, i read that as 15-20kHz above and thought you were insane!. your totally right...kingsteven
- ahhh ok i was gonna say... :) ... i'd think the same thing if i read it that way alsosublocked
- albums0
Trap track I worked on a few months ago, still not mastered but fun I think
https://soundcloud.com/steppoten…- I dig but kept thinking "where's the snare?" ...peep izotope ozone 5 for bootleg mastering I'm loving it just got the demo!sublocked
- I always hear that i have weak snares... I need proper monitors. I just think about the bass.albums
- check this ep, much better drums I planned on posting it during the day tomorrow https://soundcloud.c…albums
- not trap though, some hip-hop dubstep influencealbums
- Thanks for the listen :)albums
