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Hi, Not technically a production question but how would you recommend a good way of promoting your work without spamming. Cause the market is flooded soo much with producers spamming their tracks its hard to get your tracks noticed. Any Suggestions? cheers for your help

If they're good enough a decent label will pick them up. Send to DJs you like and labels. They'll take care of the spamming for you.

Not really a production question, but how is your cat? hahaha

furry

How do you organize your music?

not very well. just by year -> month -> sometimes a dated batch. then I just use the Mac OS search.

Master processing.

Arnaud Martin: can u please describe your pre-mastering process? what kind of plugins/eq/compression stuff u usually use to perfect your sound on the master. I'm curious to see how far you can go on a track before sending it to be mastered.

I don't do much tbh. There's always bus processing on my tracks; drums, bass, synths. I don't work at a particular level. I hear of other guys having all different db levels etc, I'm not that technical of a producer. Honestly I just make the track then bounce it and normalise to -6 and send it off.

I don't have anything on the master during production. I have done in the past but those tracks ended up sounding like crap. Usually I'll do some light EQ work when the track is done and bounce a few versions. More tops, less tops, scopped mids etc.

I'll do a quick crunch on Ozone on the master just to see how it sounds when it's squashed. I'll do that on my own version to play out while I'm waiting for the master to come back as well, just so it holds up in the club. These are rough as hell usually.

#master processing #premaster #mastering #home mastering

Tempo change with audio.

Jamie Marshall: I want to automate tempo (logic) lets just say i like to work from audio if i automated a tracks bpm would it depitch things. or should i do it from midi.

I save as a lot in FL so all my bounced parts have an associated save as file. Hopefully you've kept your midi tracks somewhere in the project. What I've done in the past is this: Have project at X tempo with bounced parts. Save as to a new project at Y tempo. All elements live. Bounce each one. Save as to another project for the transition and change the bpm. Bounce that out. Go into a final project, chop up and paste the audio together for the final track.

In Live it's much easier obviously with warping. You could always stem the section you want to change, put it in Live (I think their demo allows you to bounce but not save, I could be wrong) then do the bpm change. Cut and paste together.

#bpm change

You going to do an album anytime soon?

Not any time soon but there's an EP on the way.

is the phase "Some of my best friends are house producers" Xenophobic, racist, homophobic or normal? Also for bonus points who won the 1992 Ladies hockey Olympic final?

They're usually racist

Excuse me, Mr. Phetsta, on the "Itchy & Scratchy" CD-ROM, is there a way to get out of the dungeon without a wizard's key? Also what are your thoughts on the "Montreal Screw Job"?

http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2013/12/tumblr_mx8evtJFf61sgh8r8o1_400.gifThe Montreal Screwjob turned out to be one of the best things to happen to pro wrestling.

Drum Samples

@EvilHabit: Good packs/resources for nice snare layers? Also for nice cymbals?@@ The vengeance packs are good obviously. I'll use their kicks for low end. Also bounced and crunched rock kicks out of the kontakt library. Layer them up and create your own kick samples. You can get good character kicks out of old breaks as well. Snares are the same, generally I'll later hits from a break etc. Also gate vengeance claps. Combine them altogether and compress them. Check out XLN Addictive Drums. Sick for rock kicks. I use that a bit for cymbals. Bounce out a loop of rides or open hats then sidechain them to your kick and snare.

#drum samples

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Dardy Dee: How do you process your sub bass?

There’s not much going on with my sub, just a synth patch where I can adjust the pitch envelope to taste. Sometimes it’s flat, sometimes it has a bit of an envelope to give it a percussive hit at the start of each note. There’s usually a...

If you were both clean shaven, who would grow a more epic beard within 30 days, you or ShockOne?

Mine would be bigger but worse looking, his would be smaller and better looking. I have thick, raspy facial hair but it can also be quite sparse.

Sub Bass processing

Dardy Dee: How do you process your sub bass?

There's not much going on with my sub, just a synth patch where I can adjust the pitch envelope to taste. Sometimes it's flat, sometimes it has a bit of an envelope to give it a percussive hit at the start of each note. There's usually a bit of LFO -> pitch as well, not much, just enough to give it some movement.

It's usually got an EQ on it, depending on the tune I'll have to cut out lower mids if some of the notes go up higher.

Then some sidechaining to a muted 4/4 kick or the main kick and snare. See this post: http://phetsta.tumblr.com/post/75355420430/do-you-sidechain-to-your-drums-or-use-a-muted-kick

#sub #sub bass

As a man, how do you get your music to sound so girly?

Autotune vocals from pop songs generally help with that. You can also add lots of chords, both house and trance. Make sure to replace all the high hats with kissing sound effects.

What's the best thing to have in mind, when trying to achieve a good mixdown?

For me it's just about getting the track to sit right. It all depends on the style and the tune. I mix roughly as I go tbh, the core elements I use are generally the same so it's only minor adjustments that have to be made later. Reference on a few different systems, on your laptop speakers, in the car, on your iPod headphones.Also reference it against other tracks that sound similar. Sometimes all that could be wrong with a track is the high hat is way too loud. Then you check say a Wilkinson track and hear how far back he sits his and adjust yours accordingly.

Bouncing & committing to audio

Matty Mahy @dylan not sure if its what u mean by "bouncing" but it generally means exporting a riff or pattern to audio so ur plugin isn't running. When there's a lot of phasing and fx and things bouncing down keeps the phases and stuff constant cos plugins will vary slightly throughout ur track. If its a wav its the exact same every time. Hope that helped dude

Dylan Shaw Sure did, thanks for the indepth explanation. That's actually what I've had to do a couple times; I try to avoid it cause I'm OCD and I hate having a bunch of audio files clouding my system when I could just keep them confined to my project... Plus I always want the ability to adjust my sounds lol. But I should probably just stop being OCD/lazy..Anyway thanks for explaining what the term meant!

Interesting, I'm the opposite. When stuff is live the infinite possibilities make things harder. When they're bounced they're commited and I build on them and move foward. Everyone works differently though. One way to avoid mix issues later but also to commit is I'll bounce a 16 bar stem of something but with the EQ and verb etc turned off. Then when I bring it back in I can EQ it properly if need be.

Track sounds whack in mono, how to fix.

Daniel Van Mourik: How do you go about getting a good mono render of your stereo produced track? I often hear things falling away when I listen back in mono, I haven't found a good solution for this yet. I get a nice simple plugin that has a mono switch on it and put it on the master. When it comes time to start mixing synths etc I'll check them individually. Trance pads in sylenth often have a huge stereo spread that fucks with shit later, so I'll usually pull that back a bit. Some DAW even have a mono switch on the master I believe.

#mono #stereo #final mix

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