Did you know what you were doing when you came here?

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Just curious. Did you know what you were doing recordingwise when you joined this site or did you join as a beginner and learn as you went?

I knew absolutely nothing when I first came accross this site back in the day (I joined a while later). I wanted to get into recording theme music for some project I was involved in. I think this was the first link that popped up in Yahoo and I started from that point forward. Almost every purchase and techniqe I've aquired has come in one way shape or form from this site. Since then I've become very serious and have improved to a point where friends I haven't seen in years are immensly impressed with my progression (even my enemies). I've always wanted to write/rap, but not before coming across this site did I ever imagine making my own instrumentals and recording myself at home.

Anyway, I'm not here to give you my story, just to give props where they belong.

What's everyone else's story? Did you get here by accident like me or did you already have knowledge of recording and just came here to network?

-Springfield
 
No, and I still do not know what I am doing.





But I am learning a lot.
 
i had no clue about recording when i first came to this site about 5 years ago. and after a few name changes and a WHOLE lot of advice and helpful information from the good folks on this site, i feel a lot wiser about my music now.
 
Nope, but I learn tons all the time now. Probably improved a little in my stuff, also....
 
Basicly I started from total scratch about... hmm somewhere around a year and a few months ago. A friend of mine told me he made beats and I was going to buy some from him. He told me about fruity loops, I purchased a copy and I guess I have been learning ever since. At one point when I had no idea how to record voice I was actually paying someone 15$ to answer mutiple emails of questions for me. :confused: . Since I have came here I have met a LOT of great people that have given me amazing advice. I would have to say that I would probably not still be making beats or notice the drastic improvements I have made without all the help I have revieved. We have a lot of great talent in our community and I have been inspired to make music better and allways push myself to try to get to that next level :cool:
 
I had pretty much established myself years before I came here. I was just doin a Yahoo search for new ways to market music online, and like Nick said this was the first one on the list (I still wonder how they are able to get this site #1 on a search, that's some good marketing) But for the short time I've been here, I've found this site to be a very supportive community, that gives excellent feedback, and has a lot of talent. And like I said in a previous thread, hot music inspires creation of hot music, so it's helped me. I also feel that I've been able to help y'all dudes that are just begining too. Kinda my way of giving back. I ain't got time to hate, I'm gonna share what I know, so we all can change the music that we love for the better.
 
Dam I Thaught This Was A Text Porn Site, Not As Visually Stimulating But Still With The Talk Of Inputs And Putouts I Mean Outputs. My Bad
 
I always did agree with giving back to the community motto.
 
Me and some friends pitched the idea of a recording studio to the director of our neighborhood. He agreed, and gave us around $5,000 to buy all the equipment.
At the time, i knew nothing. I would look online, see something that looked cool,
ask someone what it is, and if it sounded useful, add it to the list.
I spent the money in no-time.
Suddenly I had all this equipment, and had absolutely no idea how to use it. I guess i just assumed it would be easy.
I learned as much as i could on my own, but it wasnt much.
Thus, this site came to my attention.

It hasnt been smooth sailing, but ive learned a lot from this site.
 
Pretty easy to do on 5g's playa. So have you learned to use any of it whether it benefitted you in the long run or not? I don't think you know much about anything unless you go through that trial and error phase of seeing what works for you. I know a lot of people bragging on their tritons and can't do shit with it. Then I know people who got old ass hardware drum machines and midi software (limited to the standard 127 fonts....way before reason) and make some tight shit with it.
 
Fieva said:
Pretty easy to do on 5g's playa. So have you learned to use any of it whether it benefitted you in the long run or not? I don't think you know much about anything unless you go through that trial and error phase of seeing what works for you. I know a lot of people bragging on their tritons and can't do shit with it. Then I know people who got old ass hardware drum machines and midi software (limited to the standard 127 fonts....way before reason) and make some tight shit with it.
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Word up Fiev, I hit up many studios, and these dudes got more racks than a titty bar, but when I hear their joints, and I'm like, all them sounds and that's the best you can do????
 
If anything...

I've lerned that its not what equipment you got but how you use it.

Perfect example:
Where i live almost all the big studio's have a roland workstation of some sort. Its used for on the spot and location recording as well as for major and independant releases when nobody wants to bother with the console. Well i now am wanting to upgrade to a roland workstation because i want the sound quality it puts out and i like the portability. Recently i had a talk with one of said studio owners (these are big studio's too only one is a home studio!) he said to me that if he ever let his cutomers listen to one of the cd's i made he'd be out of business. He said with a smile if i ever learn how to mix a little better i might give him a run for his money :).

Lesson is:
Me and my little E-Machine computer are doing the damn thing and at the end of the day reason and fruity loops is hangin with the tritons and motifs no contest. Oh and i am using a stock sound card just to let you know! My sound is clear as day!

I had an idea about what i was doing, this is my 3rd year recording/producing and im just now grasping all the things i can do to my sound which in a nut shell is anything i want. Thats a good feeling.
 
Murdock Jones said:
Word up Fiev, I hit up many studios, and these dudes got more racks than a titty bar, but when I hear their joints, and I'm like, all them sounds and that's the best you can do????
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And that's the DAMN TRUTH. I see that and I'm like...you got all those sounds and can't even make a decent melody. Bragging on the sounds doesn't help your product. If your product doesn't speak for itself, then maybe you shouldn't speak on its behalf.

People who've seen my studio wonder how I do it with as little equip as I have. I'm like shit, it's not about all the equipment you have, it's do you know what the fuck you're doing with what you've got. Now in all honesty, you put me in front of a lot of expensive hardware, I could probably make something decent, but it'd take me a lot longer. Reason is my bitch, we make beautiful music together and she has infinite racks :D

LMFAO @ more racks than a titty bar.
 
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