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I am lucky enough to have an awesome girlfriend who has allowed me the entire upstairs of our small house. On top of that, when we were looking at houses, she settled for this one when she preferred another because this one had the better studio space.

If you're having trouble playing a beat on the keyboard, be sure to use the metronome and also click the box that says "quantize during recording" under the play button. this will line up your hits to be on beat if you accidentally play them a little off. If you still can't make drum patterns...

this is about all you can do if you can't get the individual instrument tracks

thanks guys, keep the feedback rollin

indeed...my favorite mic is my only mic and it's not on the list, MXL 9000 - $200ish.

that piano class will definitely help you play the piano, which is a good instrument to understand, especially if you're making beats, you;ll probably get some basic music theory which will be useful too. That piano class won't help you make better drum patterns though. I use reason 4, i don't...

+1 to everything that's been said. You are ready to get started now, all you need is practice. Start playing around, I think you will soon find out that the next thing you need is treatment, but you can certainly get some decent recordings with what you have. I have a set-up similar to yours and...

i agree, if you got a really sick 8 bar pattern, that's all the song really needs to be, especially if you're doing hip-hop. Of course some drops and instrument changes and stuff are nice too. If you are going to put vocals over them, that changes a beat a lot as well. If you make a beat...

sounds pretty good to me. i might be nitpicking but the snare sounds a little flabby or something, like it could be a little brighter

crash sounded too loud to me and I can't hear the vocals really, particularly during the verses.

i'm gonna guess they gated it, or maybe just chopped holes in it. plus a healthy slathering of autotune of course.

there is nothing wrong with your SM57s, you can get great vocal recordings with those, but I guess it depends what you are recording. MXLs are good for the money, I got an MXL 9000 and it sounds pretty damn good on vocals and guitar, you could probably get one for like $200, if not go for the...

ozone is indeed handy and the effects sound nice, i don't know anything about alloy but it may be a good choice if it's not as much of a cpu hog as ozone. If I have a lot of tracks in a song and some kind of ozone effect on all of them, my computer might start slowing down

i have a metal-ish rap beat i made long ago, the mixing is kinda shitty on it and it's probably not what you're looking for but if you want it pm me. you can have it free, just let me hear what you do with it.

+1 for layering two matching takes. eq and a touch of reverb are good too. and I like to use some multiband compression as well

I use Ozone but I don't 'master' with it, I just use it's effects as needed on my individual tracks. try to stay away from the presets though, they're only good for learning and playing with

I'm listening on headphones but it sounds pretty good. Maybe add some clean vocals over top of the telephone voice to blend it in there better. I like the radio break in the middle, it is a little disjointed but I think it works. Maybe if you actually played that part through your car stereo or...

mix sounds good, the beat gets a little repetitive to me though

No one around here is into rap. The video is pretty funny though nice mixing too

To me the drums might be a tad loud and are a little dry, and the cymbals sound a little too bright or something.