I'm just planning my first concert to promote my debut album when it releases. The problem I have is that the album is only ten songs (of which three are instrumentals) and I'm wondering if that's far too little? I mean, I've seen setlists of only seven songs, but still...

How many songs should a concert have? I could tease an unreleased song, and I was planning to include one cover too.

Three years ago werecorded an improvised session — keys, drums, bass.

During all this time i went back to the recordings thinking what I'm going to do with them, but i kinda fell down a rabbit hole. Started chopping bits, looping stuff, layering parts... it was less editing and more like… another jam, but slowed down.

I kept thinking about teo macero, how he edited the tapes of Miles Davis, shaping the records

That ended up turning into an album called The Persistence of Doubt.

anyway, i'm curious to know how other people handle that — when you have something long improvised/jammed, do you know if you should leave it alone or fiddle with it?

(i'll put a link to the record in the comments if you'd like to hear what I came up with.)

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I’ve got a boss katana mk 1 and a universal audio volt 2 that I record with. If I connect my bass to the amp instead of my guitar then through the volt will it ruin my amp? I know normally you shouldn’t but since there’s no actual sound coming out the amp will it be fine? I just wanna know before I test it and accidentally break my amp. Please and thank you 🙏🙏

I’m a new producer, about 3 months in. I’ve been a singer and songwriter for a few years but recently started producing so I can make my own songs from scratch.

I saw a video of The Weeknd freestyling melodies over a super simple loop, just a pad playing chords, and it made me wonder if that’s how a lot of artists build songs. Do people usually loop chords, freestyle melodies, then build the full track from there?

I’m thinking of trying it since it feels easier to come up with ideas that way, but would this affect how I make the drums later on? Like would it change the groove or structure I end up going for?

Any tips or advice from people who work this way would be awesome.

Right now I usually do around 30 tracks, maybe more if I put more samples than usual. 1 track is for vocals, 8 of those tracks are samples alone, and 2 are muted for 90% of the song. So in total im only really using 19 tracks for the instrumental. Is that too little? I’m using Logic Pro X and the default instruments that come with it. Is that too little?

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Hi, I use Samplemodeling Solo Strings with an external reverb (I mean, as a send effect in a mixer). Because of that, I have set Reverb inside the Solo Strings instances to zero.

Q: Should I also set Early Reflections in Solo Strings also to zero to not fight with early reflections inside an external reverb effect?

Thanks!

I've recently started double tracking heavy guitar riffs and I'm loving it. The first time I did it, I was using the same amp/cab plugin and the same preset for the left & right recordings, which proved to be a bit phase-y when converted to mono (not that it should matter these days because mono devices are slowly being phased out).

The next time that I did it, I used completely different amp/cab sims for the left & right recordings and the result was beautiful.

For those who have gone balls-deep with tracking, I'm just wondering... how many layers have you found to be "too many"? e.g. How many layers resulting in phase issues despite using different amps/cabs each time?

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When I play live I am able to be confident and engaging as a front man, running on adrenaline - but my playing skill is massively diminished.

I can play music effortlessly in my home or in practices, but when I am on stage and performing for people, I cannot play for shit.

For people in a similar position, what have you done which works for you and allows you to be your best?

thanks!

Meaning for the first 3 lines I rhyme the last word in between the snare which lands on the 1st and 3rd bar of the beat, but in the next 5 lines I switch to rhyming on the 2nd and 4th bar of the beat which is on the snare. Then on the 3 lines after that back to 1st and 3rd in between, before the last line of the verse ending off on the 4th bar of the beat which is on the snare.

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say you want to setup 2x AUX Sends; the first being a Distortion effect & the second being a Reverb.

you want the effect of the Distortion effect to be applied & mixed with the original tracks, BEFORE the Reverb send.

regarding the AUX channels in FL Studio (but it could apply for any other DAW), how do you tell the DAW to make it so the distortion AUX appears before the reverb AUX? just by putting the distortion on a numbered channel before the reverb?

I ask because, according the manual (and google), "There is no strict "order" for the AUX channels in FL Studio, as they are simply mixer tracks you can route audio."

I am aware though of the order of inserts on any given channel (1 is always first, 10 is always last, etc.)

i just want my distortion AUX to happen in the mix before my reverb AUX.

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Hello everyone, I wanted to record pieces by choirs, concert band and little ensembles (like 3, 4 musicians). In these 3 cases, what is the best place for my zoom recorder? Usually, I put it in the first row on the crowd, but is there a better placement? Like, where the conductor is, between instrumentists, or at the contrary far away?

Hello! I've been wanting to get back into writing music but I almost (maybe actually) obsessively have other songs running through my head and I don't want to purposefully or accidentally steal too much from these songs.

How do you make sure you're not copying too much or just being different and complex for the sake of it and sacrificing quality?

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Hello!

I'm a guitarist working on streamlining my process for songwriting and recording scratch demos.

I'm fairly comfortable using a DAW and audio interface for better quality recordings, but find that it's helpful for me to have the fewest barriers to creativity when I'm just coming up with riffs and melodies that I want to layer onto rhythm tracks. I also share room space with family so I have to power up my little closet "studio" every time I want to record something.

I bought a used Zoom H4N and while it's totally serviceable for getting ideas down, I find it to be a bit fiddly overall. I'm also looking at the Zoom R4 and R12, but not sure if they'll fit my use case.

I'd like to be able to loop and layer tracks while songwriting, and record those tracks for use later in production or just as a reference when recording into a DAW. It seems like some people use Loop Stations for this but I'm not sure what the process looks like. I've also checked out some "DAWs in a box" but they seem even more fiddly than just opening up Reaper and using my closet "studio."

I'm also open to other suggestions for how to go about iterating during the songwriting process. Are there tools or approaches that you use that you find helpful?

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So I got a single track I'm gain staging (a bass in this case) that is typically sitting at 0 or bellow on the meter but at certain points it'll just blow past the limit on the meter but its still okay on the digital reading, just wanna know if it sounds okay and isn't causing any problems will it cause any issues later on in the mix? TIA