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1 hour ago, OutrageProductions said:

I'd say it's roughly 60% instruments, 40% FX.

My income this year is gonna take a big hit due to the directors, writers, and soon maybe SAG going on strike. Probably not the best time to try to get into this genre.

I will write music for anything, does matter what it is and im sure your the same.  Done a couple of little things but Rome wasn't built in a day  

15 hours ago, OutrageProductions said:

Spot on. I make a very healthy living composing & scoring for film &TV

This is a area i would like to get back into. I lost all my contacts at ITV when the crossover from analogue to digital in UK happened. I changed my work, my mother became ill and i like lost 10yrs before i blinked... 

I like the causal way you say "just 448 plugins" haha that tickled me but i understand many are instrument and sound plugs not just fx

2 hours ago, Danny said:

At the end of the day, someone who knows what they are doing can make a mix sound great with nothing but an eq. That's where everyone should strive to be because if the sound isn't right before you print, you sit their polishing a turd for weeks and no plugin or hardware gizmo will fix that.

Exactly, gold is gold and no amount of plugs  will polish a turd. I spent one evening with my friend showing him some fundermentlay basics and a massive improvement in a week. He heard so much shit about cakewalk, he couldn't believe i used cakewalk and mainly stock. He bought a mac setup because everyone told him logic lol 

All my EQ, SAT, Comp, FX Verb and Delay is stock 90%. The only extras i use is a old Boss Studio, with built in pre amp sims and FX so i don't have latency issues for tracking vocal or guitar.   i bought Ozone 9 which is simple bus or mastering, Melodyne that i don't always use for corrections and some conversions , old vintage 76 drawer i like the sound of, got great air on it.

Yes id like to get RX10, Nectar, Soothe and Fabfilter etc but i only can justify silly money if i had money to burn. 

7 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

The huge issue with comparing analog gear which is composed of a ton of components, like the Distressor, and the software is that you can't claim a "reference" sound for the hardware. You're not gonna find two units of said hardware which sound the exactly same. So, the claim of a plugin not sounding like "the real thing" becomes a really weak argument IMO.

Every Fender strat sounds different, nothing in reality is identical. In the box gives you constancy and all of this talk about the best digital compressors, preamps  and FX etc  is more about marketing and sales. Ego love sound bites of a famous Neve or Comp CLA 2A or 1176 etc even though like you said they all sound different and often repaired with different valves and transformers etc  

My point was more about people mixing into some crazy mix bus combination which often does take the life out of those sounds they are trying to emulate and the tracks going into the mix bus or buses going into the mix bus. Like you said, to then claim the plugin not sounding like the real thing. I checked my friend mixing out who was having some issues. A template he download for logic, which i don't use but obviously i know what a chin is to look at what he was doing.  He always had comp on the track, then the instrument bus, then his mix bus. So its gone through 3 comps before he does anything and wonder why things were pumping and he was buying silly priced plugins to get this neve sound lol People get bogged down in so much bullshit 

On 5/31/2023 at 1:10 PM, Paul Bush said:

Hi Whoisp , youre too clever for your own good , stop it ! your putting us all to shame,,,,,, ..So well done so much in there and the video just so fine ,

how long did this take ? ...if you say Oh ! just a couple of evenings  ... I´m off to join a knitting circle ......cheers great stuff.... paul. ....

Haha Cheers Paul, the 30 second music clip I first was a couple hours jamming and I was not going to do anymore until people said carry on. To be fair it was a struggle and in total four weeks in evenings including some extra hours at the weekends. That is long for me because I like banging stuff out in couple of weeks. I was messing with lots of sampling which was very time consuming with my voice, the side chaining and gating with quite a bit going on round it was tricky, like some people say vocal maybe bit lounder. I was trying loads of things out and got carried away so had to stop.  

In between breaks (ears a rest) I animated the heart with headphones as I seen it on a tshirt lol, so I started in illustrator in vectors export to animation program to make movement tweaks (I know some basic animation) I did work in video and Sounds engineer for ITV. Was very time consuming so I cut corners and managed all animation with lip syncing in one evening. Did not take that long because I looped little movements and “cut them up and stuck them back together” to make them look different from one 30 second dance sequence, so saved me many hours. I can do good animation but so time consuming. You could spend all year doing a 10 min skilful sequence.

Key frames within the video edit was pretty quick layering the animation over the top of my desktop was one evening job. The whole project one month but cut mega corners on the video. I try to set myself time limits with work flow so I always know how long a project will take if someone asks me to mix or master. So I don’t get entrenched doing one thing and getting ***** with tweaks and changes but commit. I could take months doing one song without a video.

Sorry long reply
 

14 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

The more I see mixing tutorials all over the place, the more I agree on how EMI used to teach their engineers back in the day as mentioned by Peter Doell. They learned to master before they learned how to mix. The logic behind that is you learn how the finish line is supposed to be, then you learn how to get to the finish line. Otherwise, you start decorating cake recipes that don't apply to all cases and tend to get stuck. And this is exploited by marketing departments all over to the point of selling falseties as a problem that only secret sauce product X can solve.

Yes, I worked for ITV and you learn backwards even though I did a degree in production and technology. You still have to start off with formats before anything, 24bit 48Khz for studio and broadcast quality to further understand latency for pre, post and live broadcasts. When you understand what the master, then you understand what you want from your mix. When you dubbing, doing scores, and mixing your own music production to broadcasts or dramas etc  you understand all the process but you started in reverse for that specific reason.   

On 5/27/2023 at 2:23 PM, mark skinner said:

I don't think I can add anything meaningful to what has been said. I was mesmerized by your creativity in the video. Loved all of it ..            mark 

Cheers Mark. Week off from music now 

Best Monday in a longtime lol 

On 5/25/2023 at 9:05 PM, Johnbee58 said:

Cool!  You've given us an audio-visual tour of your music creation system.  The heart character is very entertaining.  How creative!

🙂John B

Cheers John, i tried to keep it entertaining so at least i don't waste people time haha 

YouTube is terrible for trashing videos and the audio you got to use twice the video res. 

Facebook  is a bit better but both can trash audio, ive notice they prefer 192 kbps audio  rate, if you us 320 its converts it to its death 

Nice emotional track, 

Beautifully written, this is a song for woman with a big range.  Adele did this it be number one  

3 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

Listening in the van today, and it hypes the bass and low mids. You’ve got a bass guitar and synth bass going? What I’m hearing as the bass guitar sounds really good. I’d bring the vocal up; based on what I’m hearing in the van. 
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Im going to start mixing through my crap headphones lol

I was so entrenched with creating samples with the bass and drums on my monitors with sub  it appears i neglected the vocals. Maybe because i  sing along in my head and know the words it affected my judgement on the vocal level.  

This is so funny because i don't like pushing my vocals to much but my friend said the same at BBQ, that's 3 of you so im doing Instrumental next in protest lol 

4 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

Hi

Sounds great and a very cool video - enjoyed that.

Mix sounds good - i might have just brought the vocals up a little but that's just me.

Otherwise all good and very enjoyable

Nigel

 

i noticed at a friends BBQ on his Bluetooth speakers how it pushers mid to top end so i did a few tests with my own Bluetooth and PC speakers, phones and phone with headphone's to get a average.  Iv'e notice my crappy test headphones are the best mix judgment with vocal's (best average).  

Seems most people these days listen to music through phone headphones or Bluetooth and PC speakers which really does effect bass, mid and top end, bit of a minefield really finding a average when you do something a bit Dancy which i finding out.   

Nice, sounds a bit like a Spanish guitar which i always love. Iv'e actually got a Fender Spanish that i never play and today will play it lol 

Ive just notice "Fundamental Bass" gone on sale for £4 that's it lol, when i first bought this it was over £100 i think. Iv'e always used it for my all in one Bass chain balancing mostly on its own due to the built in simple Multiband Compressor,  hi/low filter, tube pre amp Saturation and Split-stereo Imaging for less than 5 quid its a no brainer. I use it on any bass guitar and some of the sound engineering when creating samples or synth bottom end. I would say the main  concept is in the way it splits audio into high and low modules for independent processing.

https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/fundamental-bass

I like the vocal, gets me thinking of war of the worlds for some reason...  

Interesting combo Mark with style's. Iv'e always liked guitars and vocals but iv'e strayed away and maybe should go back haha

Nice and slick, love it and had a second listen

Soundtracks are my favourite maybe because of my TV background  in production. This is very well done and hits the spot for certain sound scores on a variety of programs to add that emotional vibe, which i call proper music lol You could haev just filmed yourself walking across a field with different headshot pontificating and it would haev worked to this lol  well done Ross 

16 hours ago, Ross Smithe said:

This is very cool! Great tune, well performed and produced. And showing the CW plug in stuff is the cherry on top!

I didn't know what to do for a video, so i always wanted to learn the free OBS software so had a play 

20 hours ago, Larry T. said:

Excellent. Music/vox: this one has all the bells and whistles. Well crafted, recorded, mixed, mastered. Video: really enjoyed seeing all the software settings, not crazy about the ladybugs though lol!!🎶🎶🎶🎶

Its the words which related to the ladybugs, in house joke haha 

Finished the 30 second demo at the request from many on here, i extended it. So i decided to take the track on a cakewalk stock  journey and a few other  plugins thrown in for good measure with my own created vocal, drum, bass and guitar samples which are time consuming.  So I had some fun with the little  animated heart showing cakewalk some love with the little fella dancing in the daw. 

Hope you enjoy, what you think?
 

21 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

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Yes i have extended it. Will have it finished tonight and bang a quick video together. Had a few family issues which been slowing me up

Yes i have this problem with OBS it will record my mic in OBS and video or MP3 etc i play from desktop but will not record Cakewalk output thats going to my desktop audio interface. My interface as SPIDF and 12 outputs but no loop back lol

13 minutes ago, mettelus said:

Side comment: I very much appreciate the feedback forum members over the years! When delving into unknown territory that has been a tremendous help, so thank you for taking the time to advise. The "trick" is asking before making big leaps.

We live and learn, audio interfaces are a minefield when you consider that you need ASIO, MIDI, phantom 48V  (MIC) and working at 48Khz on 24bit as standard really, maybe with 2 headphone monitoring if you collaborate or record anyone.    

I needed mix monitoring for tracking with 2 headphone monitoring and SPDIF the min. I really want 8 in/out which really did limit my options when you talking about price given at the time the cheapest  8 port i think was Scarllet at £700 UK pounds compared to the Behringer i got for £250 in sale with a 30 day return and its been solid for yrs