The producer is kind of like a project manager. His job is to get all the individuals - musicians, vocalists, engineers - to each do their part to achieve the overall goal.
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I want to learn how to make electronic music. Where do I start?
First of all, I hope this is the right place to ask this question.
My desire is to make electronic music; what I have in mind is something between glitch, IDM and ambient. In the last 1-2 years ...
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What production tools should we look at for a weekly podcast
Back in the day, right at the beginning, we had a podcast and we each recorded seperate audio through our mics and had our land-lines going as we are in different locations - then we emailed the audio ...
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What's the difference between an Engineer and a Producer?
People seem to be making a point of the distinction of the role of Engineer and Producer. What's the difference?
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Noise removal vs. adding bed noise
I've been recording podcasts and screen casts for a while now. I've always ran all my audio through Audacity and used the noise cancellation to clean up the audio. I've been happy with the results ...
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Propellerhead Reason: Tutorials?
I just love the kind of electronic music that people create with Propellerhead's Reason. I just acquired the software but I find it very difficult to use (I'm not very experienced in producing music) ...
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How to recognize if Auto-Tune has been used in a recording? Is it needed?
Auto-Tune is getting way too popular nowadays, as can be read in this part of Wikipedia:
In 2009, Time magazine quoted an unnamed Grammy-winning recording engineer as saying, "Let's just say I've ...
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How to learn about audio recording and production
I have little knowledge in audio recording and production. I wonder how I shall learn about it?
As a beginner, some introductory
material that give general ideas and
big picture will be great.
As ...
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How do you handle performers that want to “fix it in the mix”?
I've experienced this over and over with multiple performers: experienced and novices, instrumentalists and vocalists, groups and individuals, it doesn't seem specific to any group. They all think ...
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Meaning of Feat. | Pres. | Vs. | &
Looking at my music collection, I just wonder... what do these mean:
Author Z feat. Author W (featuring)
Author X pres. Author Y (presents)
Author Y vs. Author Q (versus)
Author A & Author B ...
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Rendering vs. recording in ableton live?
In Ableton Live, it seems like I get better (clearer, louder, better dynamics) results when I route and record my master track to an audio track instead of using the "render-to-disk" function.
Has ...
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247 views
Online Collaboration Sites
Does anyone have any recommendations for online collaboration sites, to cover both the creative and production side of songwriting, using native DAW files?
I'm interested in asynchronous (rather ...
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2answers
223 views
How to avoid a muddy mixdown?
Often times I am faced with a problem where I lack a decent amount of mid-range warmth in my sound. When producing a track with this in mind I am then often faced with a muddy sounding mid-range. How ...
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Creating a classic ska sound
I've been recording reggae/ska in GarageBand, using a combination of:
Voice through a condenser mic
Electric guitar and bass using GarageBand's own amp simulators and effects
Drum patterns ...
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Totally confused with the plethora of different electronic music production hardware; any way to work out what they do?
I play some musical instruments and want to begin electronic music. I have read and understood the concept of MIDI being a format for representing sound and time.
Now when presented with a DAW, and ...
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Techniques on Mastering
I'm interested in creating the most 'dynamically interesting' sound from music that I've produced on a computer, which includes vocal samples, bass, rhythm and instruments.
At first I was happy with ...
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Remixes, Sampling and The Law
I have been working on a great remix of a popular track by a very popular pop artist. However, im worried about getting sued/etc for using the original vocals from the track.
So, what is the law when ...
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Best hardware / performance setup for softsynth storage and usage.
I'm interested in improving my home studio setup with better production performance gear.
Lately I've been looking into Native Instrument's abundant collection of plugins & sound libraries. I've ...
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167 views
Emulating spoken and rap vocals in MIDI
I'm pretty sure that what I'm trying to do is impossible but I figured I'd try anyway. I'm making a MIDI file using tuxguitar I'll later export into Logic for refining, and there's rap/spoken vocals ...
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Fruity Loops: Alternate between the different layers in a pattern?
How can I alternate between the different layers in a pattern?
For example, if you create a set of notes for one instrument, and then clone the layer multiple times, and change the instrument on ...
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How do I achieve a cleaner sound?
All producers want that world standard sound.
Since production has gone digital, this is possible from a home studio with the right knowledge.
I attempted to achieve the fullness of sound created by ...
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2answers
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Is it good practice to have a film's supporters contact film festival program directors?
I admit, I'm not sure this Q&A site is right for this question, as my question does not deal with technical aspects of film production... But the site description says, "Q&A for engineers, ...
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Templates for video production?
I am planning to release short and basic videos on youtube. I would like to have a more polished look and feel so I am wondering if there are templates that you can use with, say, adobe premiere, that ...
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tips for making a more realistic “live drummer” sound with only audio samples
I compose and produce my own electronic music and I generally only have trouble with one aspect of music: the drums. Drums are the only major instrument that I have no formal in so its definitely the ...
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Licence of audio samples
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is there a free-to-use licence for audio samples like drum-kit sounds? And what if I want to use the samples in a commercial application? And what ...
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1answer
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Workflow for making interesting videos
I'd like to start a bit of a travel video blog about my adventures, but I'm wondering how I can:
Make my videos interesting, and
Make them look and sound reasonably professional.
I currently have ...
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What's wrong with the EQ on this guitar
I'm taking a line in from my acoustic guitar. Here it is unaffected:
In my opinion, this sounds terrible. I feel like there's some very ...
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Trying to mix a Symphonic Rock/Metal song
(Just to note, I am NOT just trying to show my song here. I am asking a valid question about mixing this track that others may find helpful for their productions as well.)
I'm sorry if this the wrong ...
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Looking for a free dvd burning program which has basic video editing to make a menu?
I just shot some video in 720 using my kodak playsport zx5. I know HD videos don't fit on DVD and i'll have to compress / edit them. I don't want to buy any advanced programs right now since i'm just ...
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What applications can I film in and integrate photos, and narrating on iMac/iPhone/Maybe iPad
What applications can I film in and integrate photos, and narrating?
I've played with iMovie and don't get it (ADHD), and video apps on my iPhone seem puny for a series of youTube like documentary ...
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How to critique promotional videos?
I want to start producing short promotional videos for products, services, events, etc.
I figure the first thing to do is:
Know how to find examples of 3-5 minute promotional videos,
Learn how to ...
