Comments on: Top 10 signs your electronic music is amateur http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/ Tips that will help you become a better producer Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: DJ Hero http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-1820 DJ Hero Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:40:27 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-1820 All of the above are great things to keep in mind when working through your entire track. @Woop, The loudness war is a concept that has no winners. That said, your final project, if your intention is to market it with other successful songs in the same genre, needs to audibly fit that genre, or it will be quickly over looked by consumers. Proper utilization of EQ'ing, Compressions, and Stereo placement of the individuals sounds in your song will help preserve the dynamics of the final productas well as preserve overhead in your final mixdown. From there you final project will, from the start, be louder as throughout the production process, you've cleanly engineered each sound. Any limiting or maximizing treatments you add after the fact will yield a much more rich sound, or inversely, will need to applied in smaller doses to match your production to that of similar songs in the same genre. None of us (producers) can speak on each other's individual artistic vision, but when it comes to the technical aspects of producing the question needs to be asked, "do we intend to make music for the sake of making music, or for the sake of marketing our music to consumers. If you have no intention of trying to sell your music, do whatever you want or, whatever it's going to take to satisfy your own person desire for satisfaction. If you intend on trying to sell your music, you're going to have to compete with whatever genre your music is going to be sold in. Blue Grass won't be treated the same as Contemporary top 40 music, or electronic music, etc. All of the above are great things to keep in mind when working through your entire track.

@Woop, The loudness war is a concept that has no winners. That said, your final project, if your intention is to market it with other successful songs in the same genre, needs to audibly fit that genre, or it will be quickly over looked by consumers. Proper utilization of EQ’ing, Compressions, and Stereo placement of the individuals sounds in your song will help preserve the dynamics of the final productas well as preserve overhead in your final mixdown. From there you final project will, from the start, be louder as throughout the production process, you’ve cleanly engineered each sound. Any limiting or maximizing treatments you add after the fact will yield a much more rich sound, or inversely, will need to applied in smaller doses to match your production to that of similar songs in the same genre.

None of us (producers) can speak on each other’s individual artistic vision, but when it comes to the technical aspects of producing the question needs to be asked, “do we intend to make music for the sake of making music, or for the sake of marketing our music to consumers. If you have no intention of trying to sell your music, do whatever you want or, whatever it’s going to take to satisfy your own person desire for satisfaction. If you intend on trying to sell your music, you’re going to have to compete with whatever genre your music is going to be sold in. Blue Grass won’t be treated the same as Contemporary top 40 music, or electronic music, etc.

]]> By: Cones http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-1631 Cones Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:14:16 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-1631 re: auto-pitch-correction I would agree wholeheartedley you can spot it a mile off and it's everywhere now bad news for those who like a more organic sound in their music re: auto-pitch-correction I would agree wholeheartedley

you can spot it a mile off and it’s everywhere now

bad news for those who like a more organic sound in their music

]]> By: Hardstyle Is my Style http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-826 Hardstyle Is my Style Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:14:45 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-826 cool post =) cool post =)

]]> By: Welfare http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-825 Welfare Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:53:41 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-825 Excellent article The compression question is a divisive one too,some people compress so much,others very little (Im in the very little camp) Good reading though,the muddyness held me back for ages,just gettin to grips with it now Is it better though to boost an EQ range you want to pronounce or strip other freq bands back (like what happens in the natural world...) ? Another divisive 1 =) Excellent article
The compression question is a divisive one too,some people compress so much,others very little (Im in the very little camp)
Good reading though,the muddyness held me back for ages,just gettin to grips with it now
Is it better though to boost an EQ range you want to pronounce or strip other freq bands back (like what happens in the natural world…) ?
Another divisive 1 =)

]]> By: Pest Control Seattle http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Pest Control Seattle Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:42:27 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-824 Terrific post. Keep submitting posts. I am going to be back for a lot more. Terrific post. Keep submitting posts. I am going to be back for a lot more.

]]> By: The Takeover Project http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-543 The Takeover Project Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:02:49 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-543 Rock solid advice, man! I personally, need to work on that preset issue. I lean on them too much, and need to learn to crank out my own sounds. As for everything else, I'm pretty good, but need to get better overall. :) Rock solid advice, man! I personally, need to work on that preset issue. I lean on them too much, and need to learn to crank out my own sounds. As for everything else, I’m pretty good, but need to get better overall. :)

]]> By: Vince http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Vince Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:28:10 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-379 Wow, I feel bad about my music, at least I know it sucks now. This is an awesome top ten list, you can post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and then link back to your site. We are looking for content and in return our users will track back to your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list. -Vince Wow, I feel bad about my music, at least I know it sucks now. This is an awesome top ten list, you can post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and then link back to your site. We are looking for content and in return our users will track back to your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.
-Vince

]]> By: Keats' Handwriting http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-367 Keats' Handwriting Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:49:22 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-367 Great post... Darn, I feel a bit guilty of a number of those problems, but I guess I am an amateur, so that makes sense. I use Melodyne and Auto-tune a lot- would anyone mind giving me their honest opinion if my use of auto-tune on Be Enough is poor? www.myspace.com/KeatsHandwriting (its the first song that plays automatically) I love this site, BTW... Cheers, Joel Great post…

Darn, I feel a bit guilty of a number of those problems, but I guess I am an amateur, so that makes sense.

I use Melodyne and Auto-tune a lot- would anyone mind giving me their honest opinion if my use of auto-tune on Be Enough is poor?
http://www.myspace.com/KeatsHandwriting
(its the first song that plays automatically)

I love this site, BTW…

Cheers,
Joel

]]> By: pixelbox http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-366 pixelbox Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:41:26 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-366 @ FRED - Both of those track examples are from the CD of the book "Dance Music Manual" by Rick Snowman. @ FRED -
Both of those track examples are from the CD of the book “Dance Music Manual” by Rick Snowman.

]]> By: Fred http://emusictips.com/2008/08/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Fred Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:04:22 +0000 http://emusictips.com/top-10-signs-your-electronic-music-is-amateur/#comment-342 I like it! Now how can i get THE song you give us a sample of? I like it! Now how can i get THE song you give us a sample of?

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