Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:41 pm Sorry, no idea. If I knew what the pop music industry wanted I'd probably be a richer man than I am now.

That's exactly what I'm trying to figure out

yeroc wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:14 am If a label really likes your music and wants to put it out, they'll come up with a marketing scheme within a genre that works for them to sell it! It's in their best interest to market and make money off of it if they represent your music.

Thank you Yeroc, good points. I'll do as suggested.

Hello every body :wave: I managed to learn how to clean my dodgy and noisy faders on my Mackie MCU pro and 2 expansion units. But in some cases it didn't work and apparently some faders need to be changed. My current faders are ALPS 328C(or 326 or 303) 10KB with 100mm travel which are not exactly ...

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:39 pm Orchestral pop? Chamber pop?
Have a listen to similar stuff on Spotify and see what they're categorised as (this is the only reason I know that Chamber pop is a thing).

Thank you for your response. Do you think pop labels would be interested in such a song?

Hello everybody, Apparently I don't produce under a well defined genre, and my singer/songwriter doesn't either :headbang: And despite liking it, labels keep asking us about our song's genre or sadly say it doesn't go under their style. Can you please help me define what style is my song in? https ...

I would suggest writing down exactly which modules you were using and in which positions when you get a problem. After a while of actually writing things down, you may start to spot a pattern which will help diagnose the problem. I don't think a UPS would help. If it is a power problem then it is ...

Wonks wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:59 pm As long as its an always-on line type of UPS, with a pure sine-wave output (not a cheaper type that has a stepped voltage output) then it certainly can't do any harm. They aren't cheap, but then neither is your gear.

Very true!

Great info and examples!
It happens in any combination actually. Speaking of power supply, power in my area is really messy and I only have an AVR(automatic voltage regulator) before all my gear. Do you think adding a decent UPS might help?

It certainly could be a bad connection. If you have thoroughly cleaned all the contacts then I would be looking at the soldering on the backplane connectors. I would also try to work out if you are using a particular signal routing when the problem happens. I know it's my language problem but I ...

Hello everybody :wave: I've been happily using my X-Rack for almost 10 years now. It includes 3 XR621 preamps, 2 XR618 compressors and 2 EQs. But sometimes(rarely) I have a distortion with a S&H like pattern that leads to silence! I've isolatedly tested all my gear and am 100% sure that X-rack is ...

... the weird thing is the sound cards don't make that noise when they're connected to my iMac while nothing is connected to their inputs. So it looks like they behave differently in almost the same circumstances! Not weird at all. With nothing connected to the inputs, the connectors act as aerials ...

Inputs can pick up significant noise if they aren’t connected. You don’t record with nothing connected to an input. Your lowest noise on a mic input will be measured with a 300 ohm resistor connected between pins 2 and 3 of an XLR cable. But shorting those pins to ground (pin 1) will give a very sim ...

...Although the noise is very quiet(-95dB) it is increased with preamp gain boost. What do you think I'm missing here? Maybe that -95db below FS is more than good enough for many situations. Preamps make noise. Noise doesn't have to be totally eliminated. It has to be seen in context and managed ...

Wonks wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 3:50 pm What exactly is the testing arrangement?

Are these mic inputs or line inputs?

Is anything connected to the inputs?

What's the noise like with a cable connected and the signal connections shorted to ground?

Nothing is connected to inputs. Can you please explain your last question more?

resistorman wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:18 pm If the sound only occurs in one location, it's possible that there is some external source of interference. It can be motors, lighting, etc.

Thanks, but unfortunately he brought his laptop to my studio and we re-tested everything, but the noise is still there!

Hello every body, My friend has this high pitched noise on inputs of 3 different interfaces with 3 different mac/win-laptop/iMac computers(all cross-tested with even different cables). Some sound cards are bus powered and some work with their respective power adapter... https://drive.google.com/file ...

Hi there! :wave: So the two expansions of my MCU pro are making noises, can't initialize properly and don't follow software fader position. I once had the same problem and somebody changed a fader for me but it was really expensive and far from me... I'm thinking if there's anything I can do with my ...

soundesigner wrote:...The company called Rehegoo Music approached me a few years ago offering a deal...

Can I have a question here? How did they reach you? I mean where did they find your showcase?

Very nice tips. Thank you all very much. Do you guys want to give me a kick-off point if I want to go with the no label option? I know you can say google but I'm thinking maybe you could give me some initial speed!

Hi there, I came across this tip: 51. Don’t waste your time with labels, you’ll only be disappointed in this article: https://www.edmprod.com/100-essential-tips/ It's an awesome article so far, but I can't figure out what this 51 guy tries to imply. I thought artists have to attract labels to coo ...

Hi again!
Although I've got my answer but I found something sweet here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=189uIUzGdwQnmbVdiOVdmsM-uBHeYfYIB

This simple Side-chain Mix knob can lead us to what we discussed earlier in Ableton!

Why not just mix the two signals together and feed that into the sidechain? The compressor will then respond to the combined signal levels. If that won't work - what's the use case that you're trying to achieve? I Think you gave me the proper answer. I planned to reduce my vocals on kicks, but only ...

I'm thinking of a compressor that has a side chain input but responds to main signal at the same time. In other words it has 2 conditions in it's code like this: IF the signal passes the threshold THEN IF the side chain signal passes it's own threshold THEN apply gain reduction. Do you know any ...

I had a quick look on Adobe Audition's spectral view and they look very much like missing samples to me. This could either be down to the analogue to digital convertor and computer word clocks not being synchronised properly or it could be down to the computer not quite keeping up with the data ...