nuggets of wisdom

foxington · Post by **foxington** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:20 pm

if you could go back to the start of your production 'career' and tell yourself a few things, what would they be?

1) use good samples rather than spending aeons tweaking shit ones trying to make them sound good
2) buy the best monitors you can afford
3) force yourself to arrange a tune as early as possible rather than making a decent 8 bar loop and fucking about with that for hours

afdafsf · Post by **afdafsf** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:30 pm

brilliant thread - I'll get back to u

high eight · Post by **high eight** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:43 pm

strategy wrote:1) use good samples rather than spending aeons tweaking shit ones trying to make them sound good
2) buy the best monitors you can afford

Definitely these two!

Also I'll add:

- Don't over compress everything - use it wisely and when needed!

blimbo · Post by **blimbo** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:45 pm

- Put a touch of overdrive on (almost) everything to bring out a bit of grit

- Use logic's tape delay loads

shapshankly · Post by **shapshankly** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:45 pm

learn to play piano, learn music theory, don't get obsessed by what software is "best" just learn the one that you like the most/have got to the minutest detail.

El Huracan · Post by **El Huracan** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:55 pm

1. dont expect youll ever make a living out of this

Joebot · Post by **Joebot** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:55 pm

stick to house music

BLista · Post by **BLista** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:06 pm

Get a spectrum analyser

NoHanded1 · Post by **NoHanded1** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:07 pm

buy a really good chair

El Huracan · Post by **El Huracan** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:20 pm

dump your girlfreind

Hedflux · Post by **Hedflux** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:20 pm

cool thread ...

a few good ones here already (monitors, learning music theory, and getting to know your software rather than always searching for the next best thing).

Heres one:

Music is mathematical. Music has rules. They have been around for hundreds of years, and they exist because they work. They are present in almost all music. Dont try to re-invent the wheel every time you start a new tune. Learn to obey the rules before attempting to break them.

Like mathematics, the rules allow for endless permutations and possibilties.

Part of the culture of underground music is nonconformist, challenge authority and accepted norms etc, but musical rules are good rules, embrace them, conform to them

oh, and READ THE FUCKIN MANUAL!

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:23 pm

http://www.nubreaks.com/forum/index.php ... 9b3ccf7e28

Hedflux · Post by **Hedflux** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:28 pm

and another:

Set aside entire nights to create/find sounds so that you have a large pool of your own stuff to choose from when you begin arranging.

BLista · Post by **BLista** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:36 pm

steelz wrote:dump your girlfreind

no need - give it 3 months and she'll dump you.

foxington · Post by **foxington** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:43 pm

Tarekith wrote:http://www.nubreaks.com/forum/index.php ... 9b3ccf7e28

hey, great minds! not been on nubreaks in months now you mention it...

El Huracan · Post by **El Huracan** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:00 pm

B-Lister wrote:
steelz wrote:dump your girlfreind
no need - give it 3 months and she'll dump you.

ah but if you get in there first you wont be writing missrable shit for months

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:08 pm

Better yet, find a girl who writes music too. I can't imagine living with someone who doesn't

Love my wife...

BLista · Post by **BLista** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:16 pm

steelz wrote:
B-Lister wrote:
steelz wrote:dump your girlfreind
no need - give it 3 months and she'll dump you.
ah but if you get in there first you wont be writing missrable shit for months

Bird or no bird, my production's always been miserable

El Huracan · Post by **El Huracan** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:50 pm

Tarekith wrote: Love my wife...

Hedflux · Post by **Hedflux** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:52 pm

A good woman will support you and help you make better music! And all you have to do in return is take a break from it and be nice once in a while ...

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