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Music Production

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This is Music Production. A place to share anything and everything you want about your music making journey! Learning is the goal, so discussion is encouraged!

We have a mirror community at !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works !

It's a general instance, and it will provide us with better redundancy in case of outages and hiatuses! Everything I post will pop up on both, and you can cross-post your submissions to the other instance if you like!

Rules are as follows:

  1. Don't share other people's music without commentary, analysis or questions. This is not a music discovery community.
  2. No elitism or bigotry towards other people's music tastes. Be polite in disagreement.

I will update rules as necessary, but I promise we'll stay light on them and only add new ones after discussion!

Here are some useful examples of what a great post would be about:

(in no particular order)

  1. Stuff you made/are making. Get valuable feedback and criticism!
  2. Learning resources - videos, articles, posts on any topic concerning a production process, be it composition, sound design, sampling, mixing, mastering, DAW workflow or any other.
  3. Free plugins, presets and samplepacks. Giveaways and self-made stuff included!
  4. News about production software, releases and personalities.
  5. Questions and general advice about music production.
  6. Essays on your favorite productions. Inspirations and insights!
  7. Your physical analog gear! Let us know how it performs!

Good to know: As a general word of caution, avoid posting complete compositions, mixes and tracks on the internet before backing them up on a remote and reputable server. Even small snippets or watermarked tracks should be posted AFTER backing it up to cloud. Timestamps from cloud services will help you in case of theft. And, as a public resource, lemmy is not a safe place to post your unpublished work, so please make sure your work is protected.

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Just wanted to write out this post to the waveform community and say my thanks to everyone who's been participating and lurking in this community so far. It's amazing to see your posts and projects here every day and it genuinely makes my day a little brighter to know that something I posted helped someone on the other side of the screen!

Anyways, I'd like to ask you all to help me bring you better content. I can't really post Kush, In The Mix, or random youtubers everyday, I find a lot of channels don't go nearly in-depth enough on a lot of topics and just scratch the surface, and well established youtubers just post the same content and advice over and over again. We should all benefit from different perspectives here!

I got a new job (yay!) earlier this week, so I'm gonna be a bit short on free time, which means if I don't do something about the way I search for content it'll be hard to make it consistently.

Finding noteworthy youtube channels can be quite time consuming. Writing a quality post also takes time: watching, researching, writing, reviewing, all that sha-bang! Takes me on average about 2-3 hours to do all of that. I might have ADHD or some form of inattention so that might explain if those hours seem like a bit too much.

So I thought we'd pool some interesting channels and websites in this thread, that way it'll be easy to reference for newcomers and I'll be able to curate the best content in here. It will also be interesting to know what your guys knowledge levels are and what areas of production you find most difficult: mixing, mastering, sound design, songwriting, etc. It will help me curate the content better as right now I really have very little idea about all that. And also, your likes in terms of genres and artists would be cool to share in the community. Let's see what kind of music we like to make!

Here are the discussion questions in a nice order. You don't have to answer every single question and it's completely okay to answer just one! All of these have full potential to be a really interesting standalone comment!

  1. Tell us about yourself! How long have you been making music and how much time do you spend producing a week (roughly)? What made you start your journey?
  2. What are your favorite genres to make and/or listen to? What unites them or makes them different to you?
  3. What are your most favorite artists? What makes them great to you?
  4. What resources (websites and youtube channels) do you use for learning? How do they help you?

I'll start with myself in the comments to this post!

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[–] Shadowbait@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago

I know what you mean about that intense youtuber vibe. I think it's something that developed gradually over time and you might enjoy his older videos more. I've actually mostly stopped watching his new stuff.