Apr 25 in Ask any Questions
Songwriters who producer and are totally lost with plugins
🤔What does that button do?
🫣What even is threshold??
🤯Learning this is slowing me down from making music, but I feel shit because the music I make doesn’t sound anywhere near as good as I want.
💯 These are all completely normal questions and steps of 99.9% if not 100% producing musicians journeys multiple times
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3️⃣ tips to help you out
✅️1. Use presets
They're there for a reason and a great starting point.
Yes you will get people who brag they don't need them to feel more significant but no one learnt to ride a bike without stabilisers.
You're still as awesome a person and musician because you use them
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✅️2. Fuck around with extremes.
Don't be trapped in the fear based need for certainty of having to know what things do.
Have a session where you take one effect like eq and do one extreme thing (boost the highs loads on the keys for eg) and then do the opposite.
Do this for all the individual buttons and see what they SOUND and FEEL like. That's the whole point.
Add that knowledge to the list of things you know about it.
It helps to play like a child with playdough though. Let your inner child out. It's OK to sound bad, thats how we get to sound good a lot of the time.
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✅️3. Stick to the basics.
When you do learn techniques, stick to the basics and don't compare yourself to experts who have been on this for 30 years.
Their approaches will be different from yours.
Plus, if they're any good, they'll be heavily focused or based in fundamentals whether they know it or not.
Hope that helps! 👊
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