I don't know how I did it

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Abyyss

that's life
Today, I have written the last 2 verses of my song and I've done the entire of the lyrics for Sol's competition!

It's not like me to do that much in a day and have something even acceptable at the end.

But what's more: they're decent lyrics!

I must be on a creative spurt.
 
Just milk it kid... Ya neva know when the next creative block might hit....


Diggy...
 
It's a good feeling...

...a very good feeling,
when you wake up happy today,
and have put a whole set of lyrics away...(sung to Mr. Rogers Theme)

YES! 2 days, and 3 songs later i totally understand (i bought a digital effects processor for the bass and guitar and it just unleashed some super creative spirit within me...the only reason i stopped was because my fingers were sore and my voice had gone hoarse). I try not to be interrupted and if i am, go right back to it when i get on those kicks, some of my best stuff, initially took the shortest amount of time to put down. My record setter being 15 minutes, 3:20 song, 8 tracks. 3 vox, 2 MIDI, 2 for the audio beat, and 1 for the bass line. YEAH BABY YEAH!

Take full advantage of those free rides when you get them. I'm thoroughly convinced it is a sign that it was meant to be, or you REALLY connected with that certain piece. Either way, enjoy it while you can.

The only downside to those creative spurts is when you want to be creative and start sliding down the 'no good idea' slope. Usually i just walk away.

Either way. ENJOY and congratulations.
 
i feel you abyss

i started on it last night i did my two verses in 2 hours, i have a few more to do on the last verse right now. i'm from new orleans so the beat is off my natural style so i'm rhyming to it falsetto, i really feel a lot of up north beats, and i also feel this one, so i chose to rock it. i just started out trying to engineer my own stuff so i hope it sounds as descent as everyone else's. lazi did all the hard stuff when he mixed down the beat, i just have to blend into it, if all else fails it'll sound like a song off of one of green lantern's joints. this kind of reminds me of that commercial that has different people talking about how long it took them to put these model robots together that are different levels, and what appears to be very difficult. lol
 
Yeah, it's not quite my style either.

But I think it's going all right.

Now let's just see if I can get the recording/mixing sorted without fucking it up too much.
 
yeah abyyss

i e-mailed my song in, i'm going to go back to the lab though, it needs a lot of work on the dynamics. i don't have a compressor on anything untill it's tracked. the software compressor in soundforge isn't working too well for me, but then again i don't know what the hell i'm doing either. if i can just stop the vocals from jumping out a lot better i might be okay. that beat deserves a lot more than what i gave it. the funny thing is that he mixed the beat, and all i have to do is blend my vocals, easy right? wrong, not for this kid. be easy playa.
 
Newbie question.....

I want to know about compression....what exactly are u tryin to use the compressor for?? to make the sound fuller?? reduce noise and hiss???

what the hell does compression do for you?

holla back
PRETTY
 
PRETTYfromDAWGS said:
Newbie question.....

I want to know about compression....what exactly are u tryin to use the compressor for?? to make the sound fuller?? reduce noise and hiss???

what the hell does compression do for you?

holla back
PRETTY
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It does shit all for me, 'coz I don't do it:D

(that's because I can't do it)

@ jugalo:

Oh, shit, I hadn't thought of that. I betta get it recorded soon: this is gonna take a LOT of work (I haven't done a recording in my life)

I'll probably manage to make a complete mess out of it and making my flows sound like well.......... someone who can't rap.:(
 
yo, abyyss, pretty,

getting a little bit better with this compression thing. well, i went for the limiting route. i've been experimenting with it. i may be squashing too much but who kows. i don't have the ears for that type of detail yet. i stacked a track like 4 times and then listened to it. it sounded like the song i sent in for the contest. it had words jumping out every where. well i read a few articles and tried to really visualize what they were trying to explaine, it's a lot easier for me when someone is talking as well as demonstrating for me, when it comes to something i know nothing about. well, i opened up sound forge and noticed the wave was peaking around -7db. i limited it to around -18db. that was waaay down to the noise floor, but wasn't bad at all because my closet with the blankets was just quiet enough for me to go down that far. so, down there i was at a point where all the vocals were the same volume.

i'm going to use two trees as an example. each tree is a vocal stack. on two seperate tracks. the hight represents the amplitude of the wave. okay, you have two of the exact same type of trees growing side by side, the difference is one was planted 5 years later. to the eye they are noticabley different in size and hieght. one tree is 10ft. and the other is 6ft. if you want the trees to be the same size you have to chop down to 6ft. the same thing you would do when compressing hard or limiting. you have to bring the db down to where the sounds are the same volume, and depending on what you are trying to acheive, without any dynamics that would stick out untastefully. now you have to be careful not to go too far to the noise floor, because after all of the mixing and mastering may turn what you thought was barely noticeble into something very noticeable.

this is just something i came up with to help me understand compressing and limiting a lot better. remember i'm new to this thing just like you, so take everything lightly. maybe someone with some experience will share some with us. lazi, cross studio, somebody.


holla back
 
So that's what it's all about.

It's like maths, then? You just start off by getting them to the same levels, then increase the volumes a bit on what you want to stand out but keeping everything around the same volume. Then put the volumes down of the things that you want to be less dominant then, if the overall mix is a bit quiet because of this, you turn the master volume up.

Something like that?
 
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