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    Can somebody tell me what went wrong in this mix?

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    Posted · Edited by ectogemia

    Yeah, those are reverb reflections. Common practice is to raise the low cut on reverb up to 350-500 Hz. It's not a rule, per se, but it's fitting for most situations. The vocals could probably use some low cut attention, as well. Leaving the low cut on a reverb plugin at the default setting is asking for a muddy mix!

    edit: As an added benefit, getting rid of the low frequencies in the reverb would emphasize the higher frequencies which would make her voice sound more airy and ethereal, and that seems to be what you're going for.

    Fl studio 11 : is the plugins package worth it?

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    In the long term, if i put in in 4 level, i would like to be able to do these :

    1-NES style music

    2-Genesis style music

    3-Snes style music

    There's a lot of free plugins out there which will meet these needs. Magical8bit, Peach, VOPM, Adventure Kid waveforms loaded into 3xOsc, Triforce, Toad, plus any loose NES samples or soundfonts you can find. There's plenty more out there. Plogue's Chipsounds is a great one, too, but it's $100.

    Speaking of soundfonts...

    That whole site is worth exploring for chip stuff.

    For Genesis samples, The Ultimate Megadrive Soundfont is the way to go.

    You'll need a soundfont player to run those in FL Studio. Google it up. There's several out there. FL Studio comes with one if you pay the $$$ for it.

    Alex Roe also put out a large collection of awesome SNES samples which run in Kontakt player (free download).

    And in case you don't know what a sample is, it's just an audio recording of any sound. A soundfont is just a standard format for organizing samples in a playable way. Kontakt is another standard sample player.

    Needing some other sources to get started on Jazz

    in Music Composition & Production

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    I've been working through The Jazz Theory Book -- as mentioned by pretty much everyone else -- for a little while, and it's really solid so far.

    I've got The Jazz Piano Book, some Aebersold book on jazz ear training, The Real Book, a Berklee book on jazz piano voicings, and uhhh.. some other book on the way for x-mas. I'll let you know what I think of those once I've sat down with them for a while.

    In the meantime, spend some time working on 7th chords (major, minor, dominant, half-diminished, fully diminished, and melodic minor), common progressions (ii-V-I, ii-V, V-I, V of V, I-vi-ii-V, etc.), and all the modes. Improvise, too. Do everything in every key. Jazz is hard D:

    Intra-Curricular Music Production

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    Youtube has a series called "5 Minutes to a Better Mix" which is really helpful for quick mixing tips with excellent explanations. There's another solid video which covers the basic techniques of mastering called "The Ultimate Mastering Formula" or something, by a guy named Rob Williams. "Dance Music Manual" by Rick Snoman is a really solid resource as well for production, acoustic, and synthesis theory.

    Those were all really, really helpful for me.

    Your list of essential purchases for under $1000ish?

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    Posted · Edited by ectogemia

    ValhallaRoom - $50

    Reverb: done

    YES, thank you! I totally forgot about reverb. I desperately need a better one. I've heard good things about Valahalla reverb.

    Absolutely cannot recommend Steven Slate Drums enough.

    Wow, for $200, that seems like a solid deal. I just listened to a bunch of samples, and this should fill this particular gap in my arsenal nicely. I think this one's gonna end up on the short list, too. Thanks, man!

    Your list of essential purchases for under $1000ish?

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    I ended up getting a grant from a dev I'm working with to buy some music software to the tune of about $1000. I've already got Komplete 8 and Omnisphere. Trillian is on the way for x-mas.

    What would you recommend as the best music purchases to make for under $1000? Just looking for ideas while I shop around.

    I'm thinking of getting some combo of:

    Glitch 2

    EWQL Complete Composers Collection

    Stylus RMX

    Some kind of rock drum library

    Shreddage II or some other good rhythm guitar sample library

    Plogue Chipsounds

    Any feedback on your experiences with any of those things^^?

    Fit Club ahoy! Where men are bros and women are also bros!

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    I think I might have outdone Ecto at his own game. Dinner Saturday night = one pound of ground, grass-fed, organic bison, and most of a bundle of kale sauteed in butter and uncured bacon grease with uncured bacon crumbles in it.

    Take that, dentist-man.:tomatoface:

    My food twin <3 Enjoy your gains, haha. Plenty of protein and then some. Plus, all that shit is delish.

    In other news, I think I'm gonna hit 170 again by MAGFest! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooop.

    Fit Club ahoy! Where men are bros and women are also bros!

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by ectogemia

    Alright I've been doing sets of push-ups, sit-ups, and then body-weight squats. I'm getting bored of the sit-ups and body-weight squats. The sit-ups because of the concerns/preferences you guys have posted previously and the fact that I'm probably still doing them wrong and will end up hurting my back somehow. The body-weight squats because they're, well, boring.

    To review my situation, I don't have cash for a gym membership and I'm much more easily motivated to work out at home since it's "more time efficient" in my mind. Stupid, I know, but that's how I am for now.

    What do you guys recommend that I add to my work out? I can probably afford a pair or two of free weights, some cables, and/or a pull-up bar. Though I'm not sure I want to install a pull-up bar in my house (not gonna lie, I'm at the parents' place to save on rent and I don't think they would want me to install one).

    Well, it depends upon what your goals are. If you're shooting for big strength gains, a gym membership will be necessary to have access to things like a squat rack, barbells, lots of weight, etc. If there's a Planet Fitness around you, it's only $10/mo.

    If you're going for muscle growth (hypertrophy is the googleable word here in case you want to look into it more), you may be able to get by with dumbbells and a chin-up bar. You'd be missing some basic equipment to do certain lifts, but a set of dumbbells and a chin-up bar will still go a long way as long as you've got enough weight to make the dumbbells pretty heavy.

    If you're going for general functional fitness, body weight stuff will get you there. Something like yoga would be a good endurance, strength, and flexibility hybrid exercise for you in that case.

    If you've got fat to lose, daily long walks of 45 minutes+ in addition to two HIIT/Tabata-style sprints per week will trim you down very quickly. Keep in mind that the more cardio you do, the fewer resources there will be to fuel muscle growth from lifting. So for my goal at the moment, which is pure strength gains, I'm doing 0 cardio to maximize my rate of fast-twitch muscle growth. If your goal is to lose fat and gain muscle, you'll gain muscle at a lower rate if you're walking+sprinting as well. Just something to think about.

    Fit Club ahoy! Where men are bros and women are also bros!

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    wisdom

    I love it when life gives you some much needed perspective once in a while.

    I've decided to take a month off exercising due to various and sundry tendonitis problems. I took a week off but that wasn't enough. I'm actually kind of scared to do it, the specter of muscle loss is pretty depressing. But that itself is probably reason to do it... doesn't seem like a healthy headspace to be in if you feel too macho to give something up.

    Well, dude, if it helps at all, I took 4 months off because my stress fractured ulna took its sweet fucking time to heal. I lost 33 lbs during my time off, but I've put on about 14-15 lbs. in the past 4 weeks. So it comes back, and fast! If you need time to heal, take it. Best not to risk permanent injury. Live to lift another day.

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