Thanks!!!Kory wrote: ↑11 Jun 2021, 10:18pmThis stuff sounds great, definitely better than mine. I’m missing some kind of fullness that I can’t put my finger/ear on. I think I need to be more diligent about having a reference mix going at the same time. I’ll definitely be checking these out further this coming week.sonnyburnit wrote: ↑11 Jun 2021, 8:13pmI moonlighted as a beat maker/producer for a hip hop project that me and one of my best friends worked on 10-12 years ago. Demos got passed around to some heavyweights in NYC & we got an offer from Rockafella which fizzled out but I look back on that time fondly, so much creativity flowing, lots of herb & fun basement studio sessions. Self taught myself everything from tons of different software/hardware, plugins, mixing & mastering techniques and although the recordings don’t have that professional radio-ready polish, I’m pretty proud of what we were able to do.
Here’s some assorted tracks/instrumentals: https://m.soundcloud.com/sonnyburnit
I had an obscene amount of plugins that I was playing with at the time, compressors, eq’s, limiters, etc. I learned a little about each and I think I got them as good as I could am being a mixing/mastering novice. I was more interested in making the music but with no real musical talent, as in playing an actual instrument, I was drawn to sampling because it made my workflow easier and it helped me bring a lot of my ideas to fruition… I also knew that there wasn’t a great chance these would ever come out commercially so I wasn’t worried about clearance.
I used to play the tracks on our studio monitors, burn to cd and play in the car and on home stereo system, headphones, etc. to try and help with fixing some deficiencies, it was so damn time consuming and laborious. I have dozens of versions of most of our completed tracks with different vst’s used, little tweaks, etc. I really can’t believe now that I actually did it because it’s been years since I made a beat, I wouldn’t even know what to do now, it seems like a lifetime ago. I used Fruity Loops exclusively although I did dabble a bit with reason and a few others. I just found it to be the easiest as far as workflow and learning curve… although I only utilized a small % of its overall capacity as a DAW.