We are the music makers - producers?

I need something quick and dirty, the more time I have to mull over things, the more self doubt creeps in... Noise is easy (for me), I'd like to be playing shows in a month... Deep end shit, straight in...

I already have a logo... But of course I do... #firstthingsfirst #designertwat

I'm sure most of you will know Sabres of Paradise classic Smokebelch. I've got this edit/mix of Smokebelch Beatless on the bench just now.

It's early mixdown territory but I'd love your feedback. Ta very much in advance ❤️

Incidentally, anyone have any wisdom or experience on how to get tracks copyrighted material/samples out there in the wild?

https://soundcloud.com/rollright-knights/bokesmelch-beatless-beated/s-hiPbU

Incidentally, anyone have any wisdom or experience on how to get tracks copyrighted material/samples out there in the wild?

Do you mean using other peoples material? If so, nobody cares unless you're selling loads. I've done vinyl and CDs where you're supposed to clear via MCPS, but if you tell them you wrote it yourself there's nothing to declare.

I did some bootlegs (taking mashups that people put on the internet, and sticking them on vinyl/CD) and eventually got a few cease and desists, but got more whinging from the dumb fucks who made the mashups.

Nice! thanks a lot

YouTube will take it down/give all proceeds to sampled artists if you attempt to monetise it on there. Soundcloud can be shitty too but my experiences are from a few years back.

Good to hear... I'm planning a bit of sampling on some backing tracks, totally obscure things that no one will give a shit about but that's cool... But I will be filtering the crap out of them to make them as unrecognisable as possible, even to the 60s freaks that might know them...

PS Just been for a totally unplanned quick drink with my new musical collaborator... He was on his way to his nursing night shift five mins down the road from me... Perfect...

And we're both learning to drive!! #marriagemadeinhell

another edit in a day! This time Boards of Canada's Olson

https://soundcloud.com/rollright-knights/olson-rk-edit/s-CRWUx

Just started messing about with rhythm tracks, cue late 70s/early 80s Moroder/Alan Vega inspired bubbly sequencer madness... I'd forgotten how much fun this is, almost seems a shame to put a guitar on it... ;)

I'm fed up waiting for my mate to finish words to this so bounced off a quick semi-dub version:
https://soundcloud.com/jon_scarlett/bbsb-feat-kwang-rd-dub
All analog except drums & processing!

Not sure if this is the right place for this but I'm flogging my Mac Pro which has been the centre of my studio for the last few years. It's a 2010, built like a beast:

2x2.4GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
14GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT120 512 Graphics
250GB SSD startup
3TB SATA
1TB SATA

Comes with apple aluminum keyboard and an old mighty mouse (but I'll include a wired too) and a screen. Say £550 with the monitor and £500 without?

Epic wtf or win :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C-Ggcv7GiA

Pics?

aah it's gone! put it up on gumtree, gone in 24 hours. people still really want those old cheese grater macs!

So I had a commission off a mate to do some music for a new podcast. I started off with a vague brief on structure but little guidance on style. Classic Trojan dub was mooted as a vibe and I got excited about playing about with filthy spring reverb and echo drenched one-drops with dub bass and echoey melodica parps... This didn't quite happen but I'd still like to have a crack at it.

But what happened instead is that sat down with macbook, headphones and ancient midi keyboard, found a filthy B3 sound and improvised the first thing that came into my head. Just pissing about on the white keys (natch). Added some phasey synth melody and sent the roughest of rough versions of this ditty over as the first of many options. Client LOVED it. Happy days. I do feel guilty for having passed off a piece of inept ham-fistery as the feem toon for his much sweated-over and beautifully designed podcast, but hey ho. I’ll take it.

So now I've tidied it up a bit (it was played live rather than sequenced) and am relatively happy with the basic structure, but the thing is, I know NOTHING about mixing electronic music. All of my mixing experience is with live audio. It’s bad enough trying to make the fecking piano roll do what I want but now I’m a world of trying to automate synth filters and EQs and I feel like a total fraud.

Does anyone fancy helping a brother out? It’s super simple. Only about a minute long with 8 basic tracks. I could use some help EQ-ing, filtering and arranging it.

It’s probably in the realm of ‘ask 10 people and you’ll get 10 different answers’ but I’d be happy to help out.

Same. I use Logic if you used that to record it.

EDIT: 'you' as in @Fatberg obvs

Incidentally I'm playing this at the start of next month if anyone's at a loose end of a Friday.

https://london.carpe-diem.events/calendar/7813374-bastardhammer-crumbling-ghost-leevil-and-benedict-edwards-at-the-unicorn-camden-live/

Thanks dudes. did a bit more fiddling with it last night. getting there I think.

needs moar filter sweep and reverse cymbal cheese

Does anyone have a link to a really user (luddite) friendly tutorial on setting up and getting started on Logic Pro X with an Apogee One interface?

I've bought an Apogee One used from eBay so there's an off chance it's actually faulty but I have been getting sounds out of it albeit with horrendous him and noises.

Any Ableton users here? I've just got started with the Lite edition of Live and it seems, erm, minimalist - there's not a decent synth or sampler or even a spectral analyser.

Think the joy of ableton is how simple and quick it is with external vsts & samples. I've been using it for a couple years and have rarely used their built in synths etc. Just get some decent vst's and you're all gravy

What @On1 said - but to get started, the preloaded instrument and drum samples you can use with the Simpler is enough to get going to see if you like how it works. Think you are limited to 8 tracks with Lite though (which isn't necessarily a problem since the drum rack counts as one).

Sounds like a duff cable.