Author Topic: DJ 5P4RK (Read 10559 times)

G.K. · « **Reply #40 on:** July 29, 2010, 05:19:16 AM »

Real music is much more fun to compose.

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 29, 2010, 12:10:44 PM »

It's Noooooooat autoOOOnnnne LiiikkkKKKEEE TttttPPAAWnnnnyyyeee does, it's just voacal tuning.

frezal · « **Reply #42 on:** July 29, 2010, 12:46:33 PM »

Quote from: Sparkey98 on July 29, 2010, 12:10:44 PM

It's Noooooooat autoOOOnnnne LiiikkkKKKEEE TttttPPAAWnnnnyyyeee does, it's just voacal tuning.

Which isn't needed. Minor imperfections give music character and emotion. If you auto-correct everything, it loses all feeling. This is the root of the problem with your mixes. Music is about expression. What exactly are you trying to get across?

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #43 on:** July 29, 2010, 12:47:20 PM »

No, all I autotuned was the voices to make them more robotic.

frezal · « **Reply #44 on:** July 29, 2010, 01:02:28 PM »

Quote from: Sparkey98 on July 29, 2010, 12:47:20 PM

No, all I autotuned was the voices to make them more robotic.

But why? When I listen to your mixes, I don't get the sense that you're trying to express any sort of emotion or thoughts. It seems as though you're just combining things and applying different kinds of distortion.

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #45 on:** July 29, 2010, 01:14:54 PM »

It's called dance music.

frezal · « **Reply #46 on:** July 29, 2010, 01:39:32 PM »

Quote from: Sparkey98 on July 29, 2010, 01:14:54 PM

It's called dance music.

But there is still emotional content in good dance music. While writing the songs, the musicians were expressing some sort of inner thoughts/feelings. Try mixing songs with similar or contrasting themes in order to make some sort of statement. If you mix at random, you're just creating noise that nobody can relate to.

G.K. · « **Reply #47 on:** July 29, 2010, 04:26:05 PM »

You need to set yourself a target. What do you want the music to achieve?

When I was composing for my music exam, I knew I had to make the features of the pieces (e.g. Ostinatos, variations etc in baroque) obvious and possibly exaggerated. But if you know what you're trying to do, you can focus on making good decisions, instead of adding random distortion and effects as a sort of 'I'm able to do this so I did' approach which I've heard from some of your things.

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #48 on:** July 29, 2010, 04:27:49 PM »

More or less techno, I kinds like Kraughtrock, but meh. Piano is my thing (do not watch that vid on youtube it's old and I sucked)

G.K. · « **Reply #49 on:** July 29, 2010, 04:32:17 PM »

You gotta be more specific than techno. Do you want it to be fast paced, or slow, for example?

Just look at FB's music in BBEANS. Much of that is techno, and look at the variation between Pillow Rocket Speed and Tranquillizer or Stompin'.

Once you know what exactly it is that you want, go out and foucs on bringing it to the forelight. Don't include every effect and distortion that you can, but do the ones that bring out the best in the music you try to create.

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #50 on:** July 29, 2010, 04:35:24 PM »

DUDE I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING YOU CAN'T DO CRAP IN MIXX.

G.K. · « **Reply #51 on:** July 29, 2010, 04:37:29 PM »

What gives you that idea?

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #52 on:** July 29, 2010, 04:39:09 PM »

I'm actually fairley talented when it comes to music, but i nthe mixx program, all you can do is distort.

A-lahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgAf0_ugbqY