Sorry Guys,
the thread was quite inactive for some time and then I didn’t check it afterwards, but feel free to ask anymore questions I will answer them later
- I won’t quote previous questions but i’ll try to answer one by one
about the beautiful lies - I prefer not to say where does the sample come from, not really because of copyright but I think it’s nice if people try to find out themselves
and see what the guesses are , I’ll just say, that it doesn’t really sound much like the original - I cut bits i liked and used them my way, a bit like using drum hits from a break
- about the drums, there is no simple answer to this, I usually combine breakbeats and main single hits, what I often do is to take a breakbeat and play with it for some time,
sometimes it doesn’t need much treatment, sometimes I apply all kinds of effects on it , resample and cut again etc, so I’ll just give some general advice here because there is no real “how to”
it differs from case to case -
take your time, don’t expect to have your magic drums after 5 minutes, listen listen listen - you need to know when it sounds ‘right’ or be able to hear what is wrong with the drums, this needs
experience and practiced hearing - and naturally you need to have a monitoring system on which you can rely on - I was using headphones for some time thinking it is good enough, just to find out later
with decent speakers ( tapco s8 ) how much i missed, and now using adams a7 i can actually process midrange knowing what’s happening - so hearing, experience and good monitoring is very important
processing wise, i like to smash the drums with some guitar emulating effects, or heavy compressing, what I really like is marquiss compressor, which has dry/wet ratio, i usually send all my layers
of drums into this equaliser on send, and adjust dry/wet so that i have processed sound but still having transients from the original finally - EQ is your best friend, but sometimes if the original
is lacking certain frequencies, you will need to use layers … for layering very important hint - tune the drums,just find the pitch when it actually blends
about the labels, I suggest too, to wait until your music is on a level when it is worth releasing, when is it ? hard to say, but if your buddies will tell you it’s good , it doesn’t necessarily mean it is,
i personally had my periods when i felt like the king of music , just to find out later how foolish i was 
, the thing is, if you get the attention of your favourite dj or label, and your music is not really
on the level, unless there is some major potential hidden in the track you will most likely end up labeled as a bad producer and it might be difficult to get the attention for your music again
if start the contact, just be civil, dont be too pushy, dont be too impatient, if someone didn’t check your track in 10 minutes it most likely means he is busy, if you keep asking if he did , you will just annoy him
if you actually want to have some working contact, don’t just send the track but add a message to it, introduce yourself etc, even if you spoke to the guy before, he might not remember you and it’s nothing personal,
imagine how many people must be sending music to the labels nowadays
about soundcloud - i think it’s a great thing, but i dont really have much experience with how effective it is , personally i prefer facebook for being in touch with people and its easily connectable with soundcloud
btw http://facebook.com/bcomplex
I usually use vstis my favourite is definitely z3ta that’s where most synthy sounds come from including the bass
I stopped using #trax when it pretty much died on ircnet, i was weirdly connected to the module scene when i was a kid, because we couldn’t really afford internet back then, but we had a computer games mag, that included
some scene music on it, and we developed a small slovak scene around this mag, because we could send our music there as well , it was called Riki and there was a guy Ivo Ninja who was giving feedback to the music sent,
guys i remember and admired back then were people like Thunderbass, Jay, Kom’ah, Kaotix, Armadon, Madmax, Dynamix, Sonic etc, groups - RBi, Explizit, Destiny, Dementia, I was shortly part of the Rewind Music crew, mostly dutch folk, and my handle back then was Lenin
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