music quiz to know everyone better!

[Maya Clars]

Hey everyone! I really like to ask questions as you get to know people and the way they work, I often find some answers fascinating and I think this way we help each other with the creativity. So here is a set of questions:

1. What's your favorite plugin that you use the most, what makes it special?
2. Does technology make music creation easier or less creative?
3. Do you prefer making music alone or with others?
4. What's one thing you wish you knew when you started producing?

Waiting for your answers!!


If any of you are curious about me, here's mine:

= for VST, I'd choose Surge, it has everything and I use it often. As for processing plugins, I'm pretty minimalistic, so my favorite one will be Frequency 2 by Cubase, I only use this equalization plugin, and overall it's my the most used one.

= I only used digital formal, so it's hard to answer for sure, but as I've analyzed, I think that right now we have a different problem... Before, you could write an album spending 5 years on it, right now it's just impossible to imagine. I feel like when you have so much time for writing, you'll be more creative.

= I prefer making music alone, I love to not talk and just do the work, I'm generally not a talkative person and very introverted.

= Instead of listening to every advice, check it yourself, experiment, analyze, and then know for sure if you should really take the advice or not.

 

[Eric V]

Interesting topic Maya!

1) Fab Filter Pro Q4 eq. I don't always use it, but when I do it's easy and quick to perform EQ adjustments.
2) For me, easier and more creative on the whole. If you ever had to rewind a 4-track Fostex cassette recorder and then punch in a part then you know.
3) I prefer recording with my friend Ed. But I also enjoy doing complete songs myself as well.
4) I've mentioned this before, but in the earlier days I over-compressed everything. I will eventually go back and take a lot of it off some tracks so those songs can breathe better. That's a project I keep putting off, I'm usually too excited to work on new material most of the time.

 

[Slouching Raymond]

1. The only plug-in I've ever used is the reverb that came with Cubase. Life is not about plug-ins.
2. I have a super setup, and like the idea of 70s old school. Tape is dead though. You can get too hung up on fancy digital technology
3. I wish I had another 3 of me to play with. Everyone else seems obsessed with emulating some particular band. Don't they know Sweet is the best band ever?
4. There are no rules. Nobody cares if you mess up. Just follow your nose.

 

[Papanate]

Hey everyone! I really like to ask questions as you get to know people and the way they work, I often find some answers fascinating and I think this way we help each other with the creativity. So here is a set of questions:

1. What's your favorite plugin that you use the most, what makes it special?

I don't have a favorite - I have common ones - Logic Compressor - Logic Quatec Room Simulator and maybe Pulsar MU.

2. Does technology make music creation easier or less creative?

For me it certainly makes it easier but the recording medium has nothing to do with creativity - well maybe because the tools like Helix Native mkae getting a guitar sound faster sorta...

3. Do you prefer making music alone or with others?

It happens all sorts of ways - Alone - Collabs - co writing etc....

4. What's one thing you wish you knew when you started producing?

The devices with which you record with aren't as important as what you are recording - and I started recording first not producing - when I got to the point of producing I wasn't worried about things i didn't know - only if I couldn't find the answers to what I needed.

= I prefer making music alone, I love to not talk and just do the work, I'm generally not a talkative person and very introverted.

I find that hard to believe given the amount of posts you have posted.