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[aholefilledwithtwigs]

And God She Created Civilization by Meg Lee Chin has the best use of the word ‘jizzum’ in a song

Oh and for the music gear nerds she is who started Gearslutz (now called Gearspace)

And she was one of the singers for Pigface (the 90s industrial metal supergroup of rotating members)

[hospitalterrorizer]

diary353

9/7-8/24

saturday - sunday

i saw more bugs today.

so they're probably breeding again and i want to kill myself but it's fine we'll just have to have another fumigation and stuff but i hate this apartment i hate this stupid place it's so awful.

today i worked on drums in a couple songs, as well as getting a song to sound right. now i wanna go mess with the other big problem song to see if i can get that right. but i know i'll go crazy.

i am deciding to go crazy i guess.

today i listened to the album this is off of:

reminds me of negativland, maybe that makes me sound like, maybe that sounds like i don't think this is as great or special as it is, i feel crazy listening to the album, this song, it's so odd hearing these avant garde musicians make this sort of music, with the sound collage guiding them into a pop song kinda. it's strange. it's beautiful, it means a lot and the feeling it gives me of loving and hating music, being about the struggles of making it, of talking about it, of being around people who make it, all of that, that's how i feel a lot. it feels crazy to be spoken to about that kind of thing. and to still be positive about it. i am there with them, i hope. it's so full of this desire to bite and be kind, this simultaneous impossible feeling.

i am definitely closer to the sound i want/need, need to bring back some pick sound into the guitar tone but i think this is way better... it's even got more distortion but sounds better... that's crazy!!!

here's another strange funny song:

i love this strange man pretending to be a teenager. i was reminded of the cuz my friend found him, and she was like, did i show you, and i was like, no, and then i looked him up, and he was familiar so i was like, oh you must have shown me years ago, and she was like, no way cuz i only just found him, and i was like, i swear it was in (x) server, and i go and look in the server and i actually found him in this thread on gearslutz, in this thread. how #funny. anyway, he's got really good new stuff too, including a song about sitting in bed all day and doing nitrous balloons.

now i'm checking this out, she's from providence rhode island, which is cool, lots of cool things are from providence:

but it's 3 am. wow! there's some other stuff from today, that's nonsense almost, but i found out there's a hellp discord, w/ lucy in it, so it's official i guess. it's bizarre and unlike anywhere else i'm in, on discord. but i guess that's interesting. learning more stuff going on in the electroclash scene, lots of weird stuff! some very bad music also, and some super derivative stuff, probably joke-y stuff. weird how all of this is stuck onto spotify, mostly, never bandcamp, no easy way to #stealmusic. beyond that though, i wonder if it's something they want to seem above. it's all weird, and i guess it's more annoying to try and be mysterious on bandcamp. everyone wants mystery these days. everyone's trying to seem like there's more going on. i am so un-mysterious. i am so evident. i am so so.

so,

byebye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stevieweevie71]

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[waltonbill]

Mastering Music Production: A Guide to Learning Online

Music Production is an art form that combines creativity with technology to bring musical ideas to life. Thanks to the internet, learning music production has become more accessible than ever. Whether you're a budding producer looking to create your own tracks, an artist wanting to understand the production process, or an enthusiast eager to explore the world of sound, online resources offer a wealth of knowledge. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you navigate the journey of learning music production online.

Why Learn Music Production Online?

Accessibility: Online courses and tutorials are available 24/7, allowing you to learn at your own pace and on your own schedule.

Variety: There are countless resources available, catering to different learning styles and covering a wide range of genres and techniques.

Cost-Effective: Many online resources are free or much cheaper than traditional in-person classes.

Community: Online forums and social media groups provide opportunities to connect with other learners and professionals, offering support and feedback.

Getting Started

1. Basic Equipment

Before diving into courses, it’s essential to have the right gear. Here’s a minimal setup for beginners:

Computer: A reliable computer (PC or Mac) with sufficient processing power.

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW): Software like Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, or Pro Tools where you’ll compose and produce your music.

Audio Interface: For connecting instruments and microphones to your computer.

Headphones or Studio Monitors: High-quality headphones or speakers to accurately hear your mixes.

MIDI Keyboard: Optional, but useful for creating melodies and chords.

2. Free Resources

There are numerous free resources to get you started:

YouTube: Channels like Andrew Huang, Rick Beato, and Point Blank Music School offer tutorials on everything from basic DAW navigation to advanced mixing techniques.

Blogs and Forums: Websites like Reddit’s r/WeAreTheMusicMakers and Gearslutz are great for tips, reviews, and community advice.

Free DAWs and Plugins: Programs like Cakewalk by BandLab and plugins from Spitfire Audio LABS provide quality tools at no cost.

Structured Learning

1. Online Courses

Investing in structured courses can accelerate your learning. Here are some popular platforms:

Coursera and edX: Offer courses from renowned institutions like Berklee College of Music and Stanford University.

Udemy: Affordable courses on specific topics such as mixing, mastering, and sound design.

MasterClass: Features classes by industry legends like Timbaland and Deadmau5.

2. Dedicated Music Production Schools

For a more comprehensive education, consider these specialized online schools:

Point Blank Music School: Known for its extensive range of courses and industry connections.

SAE Institute: Offers diplomas and degrees with a focus on practical skills and industry standards.

Pyramind: Provides mentorship and a robust curriculum that covers various aspects of music production.

Practice and Application

1. Project-Based Learning

Working on real projects is crucial. Here’s how to apply what you’ve learned:

Remix Competitions: Websites like Splice and Metapop host competitions that provide stems and feedback.

Collaborations: Join online communities to find other musicians to collaborate with.

Personal Projects: Create your own tracks, experimenting with different genres and techniques.

2. Feedback and Improvement

Constructive criticism is vital for growth. Share your work on platforms like SoundCloud, Bandcamp, or dedicated feedback groups on Reddit and Facebook.

Advanced Learning

1. Specialized Courses and Tutorials

Once you have a grasp on the basics, delve deeper into specific areas:

Mixing and Mastering: Websites like PureMix and Mix With The Masters offer expert-level insights.

Sound Design: Platforms like Syntorial and tutorials from synth manufacturers like Native Instruments can enhance your skills.

2. Music Theory and Composition

Understanding music theory can significantly improve your production quality. Resources like Hooktheory and Musictheory.net provide interactive lessons.

Staying Updated

Music production is a constantly evolving field. Stay informed by following industry news, joining forums, and subscribing to newsletters from sites like MusicTech and Sound On Sound.

Conclusion

Learning music production online is a rewarding journey that blends creativity with technical skill. With the plethora of resources available, anyone can start crafting their own music. Remember, consistency and practice are key. Dive in, explore different genres, experiment with new techniques, and most importantly, have fun creating music.

[torley]

Hey all, another cross post from Gearslutz, not sure how much overlap there is. I have uploaded the Emu Factory sounds to my Mega drive: https://mega.nz/folder/RZNzHCjJ#eLHLuVZD4lnlLXg11QPSiQ Contents include: Mo’ Pha…

[where-i-bitch-about-nashville]

Melcor AML-27 restoration/racking 1RU stereo preamp

yoyoyo i got something done! i’ve been stuck on this thing and put it on thr backburner like embarassingly long ago and just went thru and got it back up and working:

Melcor Electronics Corp. AML-27 preamp cards, which were made circa 1965-1969 were sold in this backplane format, ordered or installed with fixed gain they were part of the ‘big green machine’ recording console as well as made with the RCA logo and branding for the same 1731 op amp used on these circuit boards. The 1731 uses 9 transistors. Melcor Electronics Corp/MEC still exists, and they made industrial microwaves and peltier coolers and stuff. MEC sold/ended their audio equipment division in a way that gave rise to Automated Processes, Incorporated, API. They still exist making consoles, and may even still make this format of preamp/line amp cards for all I know. It is 300mm not 500mm though, smaller than the popular 500-series lunchbox format. Anywho, API redesigned this whole thing with improved everything. They came up with the 2520 discrete op amp, which has been made along with its subsequent revisions in later years and is still the backbone of API consoles and outboard gear. The 2520 uses 11-transistors.the 400-17 and 400-20 transformers MEC used would be replaced with the API 2622 and 2623’s on their model 312 mic preamp. Or just the 2623, in the case of the 325 line amp card.

The AML-27 is a perfectly imperfect circuit design, lovely in its time, and it balances all of its various imperfections nicely… nay in an electronic sense, it absolutely juggles the metallurgy (and limitations of the transformer designs), op amp instabilities, feedback, gain, distortion, and overall resonance to make a really awesome fat sound. Compared to the API mic pre, it is much more lows and more third harmonic distortion. The distortion also becomes pretty soft clipping in the high gain settings. The API 312’s feedback lends itself to a more midrangey overall preamp sound. The whole sound comparison just boils down to sounding like the late 60’s vs the API sounding like early 70’s circuits, i dont have much better way to describe it. I read on the now-renamed gearslutz that Melcor circuits are all over the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention album Uncle Meat.

My pair of cards was likely parted out from one of these old MEC backplanes around 6-8 years ago. I have serial numbers 012 and 936, but I have no idea their history before me!

For my part, I removed a PCB card kit build in 2010 that I took apart to rack these up, so everything is sort of prototype quality to get them usable and make sure they work right. It has way too many screw holes and scratched up paint, sharpie, and all kind of mess but so far I recapped the electrolytics, matched the feedback and built Grayhill 1073 12-position rotary switches with 1% metal film resistors for the stepped gain control. It has Bourns output attenuators, 110% shielded pure copper twist wire on all the audio path connections with quad 26ga +/- conductor wires. DC supply is on solid 22ga copper throughout, but retains the original Melcor card power LC filter instead of the diodes that were common on the later API mic pre designs that were based on this. I really paid a lot of attention to grounding, shielding, and cable routing, but turns out I did a terrible job back when I first hooked up the audio lines and need to redo it while spacing the cards out evenly in the chassis.

I got these cards stable up to 65dB of gain! :D I have a plan to get the 70dB stable without having to flip 2 switches, but it will have to wait until I can change to a multigang rotary switch.

So far I’ve fixed the input impedance at 600-Ohms, but I installed switches that will allow for the 3-way 300-, 600-, 1200-Ohm input strapping; i still have to wire that up. There is also already functioning 180° phase reverse, -18dB pad, and 48v phantom power on the input line. In the spirit of the 60’s prototype feel, I just went with directly wired mini toggle bat switches.

The gain and output attenuation knobs are a repro RCA skirted pointer knob scaled down to an appropriate size. The chassis is a 1U Middle Atlantic 8” deep steel puppy I got at Randolph & Rice in 2009 or 10 for the kit build. RIP Randolph & Rice Electronics, I miss them every time I build a thing… I am probably going to paint this with the vintage Melcor logo and the logo silhouette repeated as the eye slit in a stencil and possibly rattle-can likeness of the Big Bad of Tolkien lore, Melkor, aka Morgoth. AFAIK nobody else has seized on the company having a Tolkien themed name in arting up any mic pre builds… does anybody have any good Melkor art they’d want hidden in my rack??

So next I have to polish up my racking Valley People mic preamps project, and build an RCA tube console mic preamp pair from scratch of cobbled together vintage parts and new components. I’m also going to turn an Olsen Color Organ deathtrap box into a multiband filter/EQ, and make a clone Audimation Corp. EQ in an original Audimation EQ rack chassis. haha my work is cut out for me… but the mic pre’s will fill out my setup with a pair or two of every decade of noteworthy and/or Nashville linked sounds. for the early 60’s: something like what was originally installed at RCA Studio B, for the late 60’s: these Melcors, for the 70’s: API 2098 console pre’s modded out to the max for what is in RCA studio B now, the 80’s: Valley People/1979 Loft Audio 800 Console MPA5 made hy Valley People in Nashville, for the 90’s and 00’s: i feel like everyone was using protools and mbox interfaces and stuff that kinda didnt have much of a sound so im throwing in MOTU and RME transformerless preamps, and for the 2010’s: Miktek MPA-201, assembled in Nashville version of a rack pair of 1073 mic preamps using correct NOS transistors with 6 AMI audio transformers, dual metering, and lit relay switches for all the controls. 70dB of clean gain. 🔥🔥 I can pretty much make a recording sound like any of those decades with what I have, or combine it all for a mix with all this richness and character of some sick sounding mic and preamp combinations to do all the hard work up front!

[elixir]

i'm just. lon gearslutz thread binge

incense on

[tankraum]

#Repost @gearspaceforum with @get_repost ・・・ A fine collection indeed. Mic Monday again and it looks like someone is recording drums. What are your go to mics for drums? Let’s hear your lists! 📷: @tankraum . . . #gearslutz #studio #audio #proaudio #vintage #producer #producerlife #gear #music #musicproduction #audioengineer #audioengineer #sound #soundengineer #studiolife #homestudio #musicproducer #design #mic #micmonday #microphone #drums #recording (hier: Trick Studio Rauenberg) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNTBGJoHpyx/?igshid=wuzgx087rbrd

[pibza]

I'M ACTUALLY BUSY BEHIND THE SCENES🎬📸 RYT NOW, I CAN FOCUS ON MY MUSIC. #BLACKMIRROR FLM COMING SOON. BUT MY SINGLE #NgyaySOLA OUT NOW EVERYWHERE 🌍🔥😹. OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO COMING SOON. Second pic tells how hard I've been grinding. Thank yall💚💙💛💜❤. . . #plugin #vstplugin #musicmakers #beats #mixing #reverb #uad #wavesaudio #soundtoys #gearporn #gearslutz #proaudio #audio #studioporn #music #musiclife #mixingengineer #musician #mixengineer #musicproducer #mixing #artist #studio #producer #recording #singersongwriter #songwriter #band #bands (at Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPEGgzprxPC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[phil-denton]

Workstations. Been #jammin with @bar_ton_mcr at @decloakstudios Video will be out very soon on the Decloak YT channel #techno #undergroundtechno #hardtechno #decloak #hardware #hardwarejams #hardwareonly #producerlife #productionlife #hardcoretechno #liveset #livesetup #livetechno #electronicmusic #gearslutz #gearheads #elektron #digitakt #novation #bassstation2 #arturia #microfreak #ableton #abletonpush2 #push2 #abletonlive #abletonlive2 (at Decloak Music Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9wFb9gAPfq/?igshid=1vbakkaalcrvw

[djbrahmin]

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👈Cute & Amazing 👉 ⚙️⛓⛓⚙️🎛🎚🎙⛓🎙⚙️🎛 . . . #skratch #skratchlife #turntablist #turntablism #portablist #portablism #fingerdrumming #fingerdrummer #scratchacademy #abletonpush #midifighter #ipadmusic #jessedesign #innofader #iosmusic #classof808 #beatmaker #beatmaker3 #numarkpt01 #gearslutz #djroutine #studiogear #livedj #vinyl #recordstore #45record #djbrahmi #khatibass #khatiswag #gagfam (at GAG Digital Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCqAcOPB8d9/?igshid=1esi961f0wzdx

[locustphotography]

Look what I've found! Cleaning my studio computer hard drives, I stumbled upon some footage from @pablocamachofilms. 2 years ago we were jamming and making a demo for fun. Great shots dude! . . . . . #bass #metal #vintagesound #producer #mixing #heavymetal #mixing #studio #audiostudio #gearslutz (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCbFhiHJXEG/?igshid=209ouhrdyffp

[obliterations]

Hard to keep these in stock! Just finally got another Hyde/EFCcv combo box on the website. www.RMLfx.com ....Natural oiled walnut. #gearslutz #modularsynth #retromechanicallabs #yolocounty https://www.instagram.com/p/B9biD2-FkzT/?igshid=1pa7otod83czl

[boyomega]

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I made a new song & video featuring the Zvex Fuzzolo pedal on both bass and guitar. Hope you like it. 🦩 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 . .. ... .... ..... ...... ........ ......... .......... #boyomega #zvex #fuzzolo #isolationcreation #guitarpedals #jazzmaster #hofner #violinbass #fuzz #gearporn #gearslutz #studiolife🎧 #musicvideo @zvexeffects https://www.instagram.com/p/B_DI5WYJFip/?igshid=1b834ia296v87

[franksemi]

Repost • @martinyammoller Check out @franksemi answers to '9 Odd Questions for Music Gear Junkies' - Music making and music hardware is a process for Frank, who regularly buys and sells a lot of eurorack on his quest to find interesting soundscapes👌👍 His answers are in the link in my bio🚀⬆️ ...and remember to share this article with any music gear junkies in your life🤟😜 . Also, I gotta say. It's getting a little embarrassing for you guitar pedal junkies out there.... Coz the eurorack modular dudes are overtaking you guys by a country mile!😉😅😻 . I've asked nearly as many pedal dudes as synth dudes... And it's only the synth dudes who have replied. So if you know of any cool FX pedal dudes or dudettes (especially dudettes) that want to answer 9 odd questions for music gear junkies, then hit me up in the DMs🙏 . #interview #gearjunky #gearjunkie #musicgear #musicgearporn #gearporn #gearslutz #gearslut #gearsluts #gearaquisitionsyndrome #musicblog #musicinterview #musicinterviews #composer #eurorack #musicproducerlife #musicmaker #musicmakers #gearjunkielife #musician #eurorackmodular #modularsynth #musicproducers #musicproducerstudio #electronicmusic #electronicdancemusic #eurorackmodularsynth #musicambient #musiccomposer (at Capital Region of Denmark) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-KpEvGBVqk/?igshid=yo6g68cjaq44

[theartisticboundariesco]

📃 Bucket List!!! Cheers to the night shift… #studioporn