by General Mumble » 16 Aug 2011 11:11
I know, there's much too much Vinyl in this. I've said to a few others that my excuse is that I had to get it in for the compo real quick, and that I got a little tired and stuff. But really, that's not good enough.
Pointers on how I make beats? Hmm, well as far as THIS song goes, the beats are fairly simple in composition, as you may be able to tell. Sound wise, the drum samples here are probably my favourite that I've used, so I'll be sticking to them for a while.
Because I use FL Studio, I stick the snare through a lot of compressors, sometimes even two or three compressors on the snare channel, it seems to make quite a punch (probably not the most professional way to do it, but whatever). Bass drum usually goes through the Maximus tool thing and tweaked until it sounds nice and beefy (for lack of a better word).
As far as composing a beat goes, I play drums myself, and I guess I just know what sounds good and what doesn't.
Damn these aren't really pointers at all...
I guess I just have an ear for percussion, I dunno. I keep the closed hi-hats quiet, and usually play with the panning on them a lot. Open hihats I'm not sure if I've mastered yet, they normally sound intrusive in my mixes to me... do you think they sound good?
It feels so weird giving pointers to someone who I actually look up to xD
Oh and I switch between speakers, ipod headphones, mega-super-bass headphones, and the giant hipster subwoofer in my car to see how stuff sounds on different devices. I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this to some extent.
Sorry for writing so much, I've been away for a week and typing just feels
so
good.
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Something, something, friendship.