r/musicproduction

My dad has been creating various forms of music for over three decades. He seems to enjoy creating instrumentals and remixes the most. Tons of old school R&B and hiphop. This is one of the biggest memories I have of him, so I would like to save as much as I can, including small samples and plugins he created. I’ve played around with his music for fun before, and would still like that option later on. I also enjoy listening to it, it’s my childhood. Nothing’s really organized on his computer and it’s also outdated. How would you guys go about safely storing such things? His most used platforms are Acid Music Studio, MPC, and Ableton. The music is stored all over his computer. He had an external hard drive with music years ago.. it damaged and I worry that the same result may happen to me later on. Could never find someone who could fix it.

Additionally, I’m wondering if anyone here has had a in bed setup? He hasn’t been able to spend time in his studio due to discomfort, but I’ve been wanting to do a makeshift setup that he could have a decent experience with in bed without hindering sound quality. I’ve only thought of integrating his MPK mini into this concept. What else am I missing?

Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

It's a retro-style TV app. No logins or paywalls. You just open it and flip through the channels to watch different sets. Built it entirely for my own background music, but thought you guys might like it too. I'm not here to promote this and my idea is people can watch this Tv and find new artists and check out their favourite artists set too

check it out https://techno-tv.vercel.app/

P.S. I’m not starting an youtube alternative or trying to build an audience. I just wanted a custom TV interface with all my favorite sets in one place so I don't have to search YouTube anymore. Since it uses the YouTube API, the original artists and channels are the ones actually getting all the extra views and watch time when people use my app. I make zero money off it, I just built exactly what I wanted for my own free time and shared it for free so people like me enjoy with retro tv experience!

Extremely new to music production. How does underscores achieve the pulsing effect at 2:15 on “Lovefield” where the sound cuts in and out kinda?

Hello!

So I've been wanting to get into recording my own covers. I'm by no means a "great" player but I think it'd be fun. I can play guitar, bass, a bit of piano (Which by proxy means I'm halfway decent with most anything else that would require a midi input to play), however I absolutely suck on drums.

I've never been real good at drums. I tried bucket drumming in high school and that was a major disaster lol. I got as far as simple beats, but once you get me out of 4/4 I am so lost it's not even funny. It doesn't help that the drums in the song I wanna cover the most, Meet Me in the Woods by Lord Huron, are hard-ish for me to hear completely. Every time I think I got it somewhat right, I am off by a milisecond or so and it throws everything off.

It doesn't have to be a 1 to 1 recreation, but I would at least like it to be the same timing.

For reference, my equipment is limited but here: DAW (Bandlab and Garageband mostly), Audio Interface (Volt 2 w/ 2 inputs), on Mac mini.

tl;dr: is it a good practice to double track synths, on lets say a melodic synth, on a dubstep drop or other types of electronic music? (dnb)

so i've produced dnb for a while now, and on the drop, i just make my melodic synth and that's it, add reverb or whatever else. but recently i've gotten into a lot of metallica and other things like that and i am aware that they double or quad track their guitars to make them wide and stereo and sound great.

i thought my melodic synths sounded fine before, but i've started wondering if this is something i could do to them too? i've listened to many dnb and dubstep artists and it really doesnt sound like they double track them or anything.

of course im aware too that if i just simply copy and paste the synth i made and pan it hard L and R then it will sound bad and weird when the song is in mono. but i'm making my synths with NI massive and serum so i can slightly change the synth or even turn off that setting where a different sound plays each time the synth plays (idk what its called sorry).

so since no artists do this on electronic music im wondering if its a good thing to step up my production and sound design in this genre and make my music sound better and different to what alot of other people are doing.

and btw this music is mostly played at raves and clubs on those huge speakers so would it sound good on those too?

additional question: all the authentic records from metallica and other bands have the natural room reverb on their drums and guitars etc.. would this sound okay on this electronic music i am talking about? or should i just stick to regular reverb instead of some nice room simulated reverb on the drums and stuff.

thank you for reading!

Hello

Assume you are making electronic music and are performing live (or semi-live) through your laptop on large events. Assume that you use ableton live or whatever other modern DAW.

Question: Will you output your sound directly from your laptop's 3.5 headphone jack? Or will you bring over your external audio card (e.g MOTU m2) and output from the 2 TRS to the mixer?

thanks

I have a phone recording of a demo and I'm trying to edit the title/artist/other tags. I've tried multiple apps, surfed through a few Reddit threads already, etc. and nothing seems to work or help. All the apps seem to recognise the new tags inside the tag list, so they do get edited, but the displayed title/artist don't change no matter what I do.

For instance, my device is a Samsung phone and I have the latest Android version. I remember being able to edit all the tags directly inside the built-in audio player which was handy as hell, but rn the app doesn't seem to have this function anymore so based on these two factors I wonder whether Android/Samsung somehow intentionally hindered the user's ability to edit audio files?

either way, I'll be glad to get any possible help/advice. I know editing files is probably easier on a PC which I can also use, but I still want to be able to do it on my phone so thanks in advance.

To anyone who may respond, thank you so much in advance! (Also for finding presets, if you know any free or cheap ones those would be preferred...)

I was inspired by artists like kanye, Kendrick, Lamar and Drake to start producing music and it's kind of like the Wild West. I do not know which Daw to choose , but I really want to get into stuff like pop,hip hop, soul, R&B, etc. so can someone please help me

what are the pros and cons of each and which is the best in your opinion? I'm looking to.upgrade from mpc beats..

I've started to learn the guitar but it seems to hard and it will probably take me months or even years to say I can play the guitar. My first idea was to transition to electric guitar later and make pop rock and indie rock. Sort of like Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, but what if I just stick to synthpop and electropop and don't learn any instruments at all?

I'm 30 and I'm just impatient. My time is running out. Maybe if I was 18, I'd be okay with learning a guitar and other instruments. But I'm 30, and the idea is to have demos ready by the end of this year and have a label sign me.

Maybe my focus now should be buy a good DAW, a good computer, a MIDI keyboard, and that's it? Or should I be patient and learn how to play the guitar?

Also my depression is slowing me down. A recent heartbreak that I can't get over yet. My life has been shit since I remember, full of mistakes and disappointments, so music is the only golden ticket to get out my misery. Broke, lonely, loveless, friendless. I have to make it. It's my last chance.

I don't want my post to sound mental health related, but this is just to give some context of why my path to become a musician is very important for me. And the last thing I want to do is to waste my time learning the guitar when probably there are other ways, other shortcuts.

i want a mic that has a desk stand that i can hold comfortably. i'm overwhelmed by all the choices, i just want someone to simply tell me what's good. it's okay if it's a bit above $50, like 10-20$ more but i would prefer the cheapest option.