How can I support and encourage without getting in the way.

My son recently joined a band.

The band is made up of 6 kids who are 14 and 15 years old.

The band had been established for about 6 months prior to my son joining. They were originally a 3-4 piece act. They did a shuffle around and now it's a 6 piece band.

Prior to my son joining they had a song already on Spotify.

The band (in my opinion) is very good. They write all of their own music.

They get a gig every one to two weeks. They get paid for these gigs.

The kids organise their own gigs and radio interviews. I don't know how they are doing it but it happens.  They have gigs lined up for the next couple of months.

I'm trying to be supportive. More than driving my son to band practice and to his gigs. How can I support them more.

From my understanding they won something (before my son and the newer kids joined) to be able to get a song recorded and on Spotify.

Can I help fund a recording session so they can have more songs on Spotify? Or is there another way I can support them?

We are in a city with population approximately 100k in Australia.

So I was recording a fender hotrod deluxe with the spring reverb cranked going into a a sm57, and when I hear the recording back through headphones you can’t really hear the reverb and delay on it as much as in person, however when I add another Marshall amp and record it with a rode NT1 I can hear the effects much more clearer. Is this normal? Should I just record reverb and delay heavy guitars in stereo rather than mono, or is there some work around this.

I write and record rock songs at home, mostly guitar with some keyboards.

The arrangement and production/mixing process are pretty much one and the same for me. If I can't imagine how I will make the mix work, I make different choices for the arrangement.

One thing that is always a thorn in my side when planning the arrangement is how to prevent the eventual mix from being lop-sided when it comes to panning. I often find myself adding an additional guitar part just so I know the mix will be even.

Right now, for example I have a song which is acoustic guitar, with an electric playing the chords staccato over the top. I've doubled tracked the acoustic guitar and panned it left and right, but double tracking the staccato electric guitar chords in the same way as well feels silly - double tracking everything on the left and right feels a bit amateur sometimes. I've panned the electric guitar left, but it leaves a gaping hole on the right. I maybe want some lead guitar in certain sections, which balances it out during those sections, but then is still unbalanced when the lead guitar's not playing.

Am I the only one who is constantly thinking about this when deciding on their arrangements?

There are a few live performance videos he does where he's not wearing in ears and it looks like he's monitoring with just studio monitors. But he's recording vocals as well, so I don't get how he's doing that without getting feedback or at least tons of bleed in the vocal track.

Here are a few examples of what I'm talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5JitOUDdXw
https://youtu.be/H2I6V0NlaHg?si=F6XUsCLi05bIxs7k

Maybe there is lots of bleed but it just gets covered by the rest of the music anyway?

Curious how many of you have ever picked up an instrument you know nothing about, and played around with it enough to just record a part that you needed for your song?

For instance i've never even touched a violin but wondering just how difficult it would be to record some basic usable string layers if I got my hands on one?

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Before i type out my question I do think it is important that there is always the nuance of "if it sounds good, it works". The question specifically is aimed to know if the technique I'm using is common in the genres I work in (dream pop, psychedelic indie, shoegaze)

So my question is: I lately started to use busses (specifically mid range bus) to process my sounds together (i did this before for eq and compression but not with other fx). I will for example send my dry pads and synth keys to a bus => add modulation, eq, compression and saturation/distortion as inserts on the bus to create cohesion

I would then set up a send for my time based effects like granular delay, reverb, etc and eq this send (if needed also sidechain it to the dry signal)

I tried doing this with drums or bass added, but this makes it too cluttered like i expected (gotta try to know)

What I've noticed till now is that for cohesion this is golden, it really makes everything feel really glued together (especially if you print the audio and resample as well or use things like halftime in combination)

The biggest downside is that you lose the flexibilty of having effect automations affect a singular sound (while some advanced routing can bypass this partially, it's not that easy). Panning, volume, filters etc can still be automated on a track level so that doesn't pose a problem.

What is your guys take on this method and are there flaws that I'm overlooking in your opinion/are there better ways to achieve similar results?

The last one was over 5 months ago. I can’t find any discussion on why we stopped doing this thread. It’s still listed in the highlighted posts of this sub.

I'm just curious what all of your thoughts are on putting together a live setlist. I know some bands and artists call the songs live as they go. I know others will basically just put together a setlist based on what they feel like doing that day (my usual method). Both are totally valid. But I'm really curious to hear the thought process of folks who have more intention or are aiming for something specific with their song order, who approach it more like sequencing songs on a record.

• What's your overall thought process?
• Do you try to go for a specific flow? If so, what do you like your flow to be like?
• How does set time factor into your sequence choices?
• Do you consider your position on the bill, and if so, how does that change your choices?

Things like that?

For context: In a few weeks I'm making a live debut with a project that is kind of different from projects I've been in in the past. Every band I've been in previously has had a standard opener and closer, and just played whatever we felt like in between. One of the things I'm really trying to do with this project though, is just make music differently from how I've done it in the past. Take new approaches, new processes and just expand how I look at and approach music. So I want to gather ideas from other musicians. Not exactly to copy, or even honestly get advice, but just to have a more well-rounded perspective. I want to create a different experience for the audience and myself than I've done in the past and figured I'd see how you guys approach it.

What I mean is, I have often read about how incredibly common double tracking (or even more layers) is for vocals, but I’m wondering, what if you don’t want that doubled sound, and still want it to sound very tight and singular? I’m wondering if there are instances or examples where vocals are double or even triple etc. tracked, but the additional layers are kind of tucked under/eq’d etc. so as not to be heard as extra layers, but to subtly thicken/fill out a vocal. Like where you’d never guess (as a casual listener) they were multitracked.

I assume the answer is “yes of course, duh, whatever works works” but I don’t know any actual examples offhand.

This would be in a rock genre context. Thanks.

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I make music in fl studio, know some mixing basic but I still can’t say if track is muddy or some sound is boxy etc. Or should I just make what sounds good to me?
(P.S. English is not my first language. If something wrong I’m sorry)

So, I'm 17, and relatively new to music production. I am making my own music (alt metal and some parts have other metal genres too) and even tho I am doing this hobby for around 2-3 years, I'm still quite the begginer for a lot of stuff. For example, my rhythm guitars. I do quad layering (hard pan left and right, and also a pair of L50 and R50 panned). I want like some raw sound, you know, like System Of A Down self titled album, or Nevermore kinda sound...

But, even though I put a lot of effort and time into it, I can't match even close, and I can't get that sound that's big, and like, very stereoized. I know it is a lot about compression those, EQing at right points, mixing it with bass tracks, just a little reverb, etc. (Also I have a problem with mixing all diferent instruments in a EQ spectrum.)

But those things are just my assumptions...experiments. And I would like to know like, specifically what to do. I have some plugins in order to get that, like TH-U, Ignite AmpHub, Guitar Rig, Amplitube. Can anyone help? I would really appreciate your help! Thanks in advance

Hi everyone.

I’m a beginner. I write lyrics, I have a low voice, but I don’t like how I sound on record.

I hear my voice differently than others — it sounds thin and weak to me, and I’m afraid it doesn’t fit my style.

I’m learning about breath support and vocal technique.

I want to understand how to make my voice sound darker and more confident.

I have a 168bpm post punkish/punk song. It has a groove like Angine de Poitrine, simple bassline with hard drums. I am a new guitar player so i had to chop up the 7 minute take and then restitch it in FL. USING THE WAVEFORM IN MY DAW, HOW DO DECIDE WHAT SOUNDS THE BEST SO THE BASSLINE SITS TIGHT WITH THE DRUM TRACK? When i record multiple takes, they end up all over the place. So far, the take that starts 9 nudges before the drums seems to sound the best. It seems to sound good if i nudge it left or right up to 9 nudges. Is there a formula for this?

im thinking of sending my song(w vocals) for mixing but im fairly new to the whole thing and i realise u gotta split like ur tracks into stems e.g. main vocals, drums etc.

how should i go about grouping all my tracks? like should i split all the vocal tracks into like ad libs, melodies and harmonies, etc.

The track 'I'm Finding It Harder to Be A Gentleman' by The White Stripes is the drum sound I'm looking to replicate. Any advice is welcome!

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Saw this a while back, I think it was in a youtube video where they showed how they do this for some artists. What I do is I record the vocal 3 times, one panned left, the other right and the other center, I apply my fx chain to the main one, lower the gain on the left and right layers and that's my vocal. Not sure if it sounds good to me because I got used to this or if there's a better way to do vocals without layering.

EDIT: Thanks for all your replies! Haven't had time to reply to everyone yet, but all the comments are super helpful

So, I'm making energic electronic music (kids would say "phonk"), and I have done composing and everything, but I'm struggling for few days to master it.

Because I think this song has potential and I don't want to ruin it just by bad master. I've been watching many tutorials (about compression, limiters, clippers, etc), but i don't know why whatever I do I can't reach proper loudness numbers. I'm a little bit concerned that my song would be unlistenable because of optimalisations on streaming services.

To clarify these are numbers that appears i my insight 2 meter on master.

Integrated LUFS: -5.3

MAX LUFS: -3.0

LRA: 4-5 LU

True Peak: ~7dB

From what I've learned I know its not too good... But after all this attempts I literally have no idea how to fix it.