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Skub's DAW learning curve. Roll up,Roll up!

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Binladeda

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« Reply #30 on: December 24, 2016, 07:53:15 PM »

 Hey Skub

 For what it's worth.....

 I went digital about two years ago.  Logic ProX.
 I love it......I treat it as learning another instrument.
 Practice, practice, practice. 

 Be careful though....it's very 'obsessive'.  I sometimes
 wonder who's playing who.  It's so easy to go off on
 musical journeys.......before you know it four hours
 have gone by, and you were supposed to pick the kids
 up two hours ago........got to be disciplined  ;D ;D

 Welcome to the modern age ;D

 MERRY CHRISTMAS

Nowt as queer as folk...........my gran

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« Reply #31 on: December 29, 2016, 01:03:27 PM »

 Hey Skub

 For what it's worth.....

 I went digital about two years ago.  Logic ProX.
 I love it......I treat it as learning another instrument.
 Practice, practice, practice. 

 Be careful though....it's very 'obsessive'.  I sometimes
 wonder who's playing who.  It's so easy to go off on
 musical journeys.......before you know it four hours
 have gone by, and you were supposed to pick the kids
 up two hours ago........got to be disciplined  ;D ;D

 Welcome to the modern age ;D

 MERRY CHRISTMAS



You are so right Bin,in my case it isn't merely hours,on occasion I've went down a rabbit hole for a day and forgot to eat... :o I've recently started to separate the drum parts,what a time eater that is... :(

I'm overly impatient to get past the stage of learning the tool and get to a place of reasonable competence where I can use the tool for the prime reason of getting what's in my head into recorded song form. I'm currently spending way too much time tinkering,but I suppose that's part of the learning process and hopefully I'll regain some perspective when I'm better versed in all things DAW.

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« Reply #32 on: January 19, 2017, 10:14:20 PM »
Given that recent announcements dictate that this is now a song producer's forum,I thought I'd get ahead of the game and git me sum Logic Pro X.

Oooh ma heid... :(

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« Reply #33 on: January 19, 2017, 10:15:16 PM »
Did I send for this bus?  ???

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« Reply #34 on: January 20, 2017, 07:35:46 AM »
Awesome!

Welcome to the future  ;D

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« Reply #35 on: January 20, 2017, 04:31:36 PM »
A lot of the posted advice on this thread has become a lot clearer and more relevant to me since moving over. I've managed to get all my garageband songs into logic,so further tweaks can be made.  :)

One of the most recent lightbulb moments has been on levels. Back in the day of tape recording you always tried to get the signal as hot as possible,otherwise you suffered tape hiss when playing back.

Digital doesn't need that hot signal for recording and I found myself in the situation where everything was too loud and I had nothing to play with for the mix.It also sounded horrible and boxy,not the clean,dynamic sound I was after. I had to go over songs and bring everything way down. I'd got frisky with automation on lots of the tracks,so you can imagine the fun and time wasted tweaking all that... ::)

Such a simple thing,yet makes such a difference.Lesson learned. A bit of care at the start saves a lot of work later on.

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« Reply #36 on: January 21, 2017, 08:05:17 AM »
Skub,
Great to hear progress. When are going to hear the outputs of your labour?
Have you got yourself a workflow yet, from tracking a new dong with a template through to mixing and mastering? What I love about digital is when you've got a song tracked and you want to alert the arrangement, cutting and pasting is so easy.
 :)
Neil
songwriter of no repute..

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« Reply #37 on: January 21, 2017, 12:54:22 PM »
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from tracking a new dong

 :D  ;D  :D  ;D
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« Reply #38 on: January 21, 2017, 01:25:28 PM »
Well really Neil.  :o

This is a family show, yanno.  :D

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« Reply #39 on: January 21, 2017, 03:10:21 PM »
Skub,
Great to hear progress. When are going to hear the outputs of your labour?
Have you got yourself a workflow yet, from tracking a new dong with a template through to mixing and mastering? What I love about digital is when you've got a song tracked and you want to alert the arrangement, cutting and pasting is so easy.
 :)
Neil


Whut's a workflow mister?  ???

I've posted a couple of songs in 'finished' recently Neil,ya probably missed them. I've made some changes to these versions and there are some still to be implemented. Both were done in Garageband..I think. I'm losing track,since everything has now been imported into Logic.

http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=12399.0

http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=12201.0

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« Reply #40 on: March 14, 2017, 04:08:58 PM »
Good post Boydie,

And dont forget the order in which the insert fx are placed makes a massive difference.

The old EQ before Compression debate. I always EQ first then compress, (Shape then Tame)

But have heard of lots that dont do it this way, Transient material I would Compress then EQ, for more flatter constant sounds then EQ first.

Vocals, I always try to level out first using a La 2a (leveling amp plugin) then do as Boydie has said makes cuts or boosts to sweeten up.

Good monitoring and room acoustics helps......oh lets not start on that world of pain.