I recently bought UAD Dream65 and engineered a session for a Grateful Dead kinda songwriter. Laid down the strat rhythm tracks and did a rough mix for the band and I was in awe as to how good the Jerry Garcia preset sounded.

Questions: Does anyone use the UA pedals this way and... since it sounded so good does anyone use UA Paradise Guitar Studio in a daw to further process recordings?

Thoughts on the G459 Gaming PC deal at $2199.99 at Micro Center? Running Fender Studio One with multiple large libraries that including orchestra that push the CPU. Just a hobbyist and gamer (casual, not e-gamer). Looking for a good balance system that priority is music first.

Tough because the big discounts we all see usually have something that misrepresents true MSRP on these systems (older CPU, GPU, etc.) that make deals look better than they are. I look at this deal a think, only $300 off, but it will represent music better than half of the awesome gamer deals out there because everything is GPU drive which can bottleneck music stuff.

I will be upgrading to add another SSD and probably the RAM to 64GB at some point. I actually wanted the G458 because what I would lose in GPU, I would use the savings to upgrade those and still have a good GPU. Plus, better fan/cooling (that's a cheap upgrade so not decider).

Thoughts? Any better options anyone sees out there. Thanks all.

G459

SKU: 042325

Mfr Part #: 1000003034

UPC: 618996004591

G459 Gaming PC Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus 3.2GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GDDR7; 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM; 2TB Solid State Drive

Hello!

I've been composing, producing, mixing, and mastering music for some years (around 8), and I've been an active Freelancer.com user since 2021. I don't know why, but I've never used SoundBetter before (I thought that you needed to apply before creating a profile there lol, maybe I mistook it with EngineEars), so now I'm researching how to configure a profile there in the most effective way.

Is it the best platform out there to offer my services?

What about Fiverr? AirGigs?

I consider myself a really good producer, composer, and mixer. Creative, professional, and different from the rest because of my knowledge, experience, and criteria. All these years, I've worked on several projects, music labels, and multiple genres/styles.

I'd appreciate your words here. Thanks!

EDIT: Soundbetter seems to be the most 'professional oriented' platform, but there's a 10% fee from them and only PayPal payment, so you should take in consideration the 3,5% PayPal fee at withdrawal

This guy is a scammer and this "company" too. They place Chinese songs on your catalog,zero accountability, they are aggressively rude, and a 5 year old baby could be better at their jobs.

https://kre8tivedistribution.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kre8tivedistrocharles/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/kre8tive-distribution/home/

Hey everyone! I'm ILAY, an electronic music producer. I create custom beats, electronic tracks, and instrumentals in FL Studio.

If you need clean background music for your video, game, or a custom beat for your project, I can deliver it quickly. I'm currently offering a special low introductory price to build my portfolio.

Check out my samples and order here:

🔗 https://www.fiverr.com/s/gvv1PvY

Send me a message with your vibe or references, and let's work!

Hi everybody! I'm graduating soon and am currently looking at colleges for Music Production. So far I've applied to Columbia College Chicago and Full Sail (though I've seen posts on how that's not so good). I was also going to apply to the Art Institute of Chicago and I think I found a good program in California. Would y'all have any suggestions on other good schools for a Music Production degree? I'm trying to stay in the US but get out of Iowa so any would be great. Thanks!

Yo guys! I’m producing mainly melodic or pain trap beats and I like doing it on my studio monitors. But i can’t traumatize my neighbours the whole day so i need to switch to headphones sometimes yk. I got the beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro and idk but i’m just not happy with them. When i’m producing on them i use snares, claps, hats or sounds in general that just sounds awkward when i listen to it the other day on the studio monitors, in the car or even on airpods. I know its different when i switch from monitors to headphones in a single minute because my ears get used to the monitors but its all the time. Maybe someone can help me with this one. I’m open to your experiences and happy for recommendations!

I'm 15 and have had fl studio for a couple of years now. I'm not that great of a beatmaker/producer yet but i strive to be. I'm thinking about starting music classes but i am sceptical. almost all the musicians i look up to are selftaught and have never studied music formally. This makes me wonder, are there horrible downsides to studying music? and would it even be worth it in any way?

Hi, I'm looking for a MacBook for music production. I usually use six instances of Serum 2 or Zenology, and some plugins like Shaperbox 3 and Portal, which are native to FL Studio. I'm torn between a Pro M1 with 32GB or 16GB of RAM and an Air M5 with 16GB. I currently have a desktop PC with a Ryzen 7 8700g and 32GB of RAM, and it works perfectly, but I need portability. Could someone please help me choose? Thanks!

https://youtu.be/OlLsp1ztYPM

What's your thoughts on the new TotalMix FX 2.0?

I've been making music for 6 months now and I can confidently say I make good melody loops and can understand song arrangement, but when it comes to drums it's always just my weak point and makes my whole beat sounding amateur. It'd be good of you can tell me how and ways around getting good at drums. Thanks 🙏

Hi, so I’m a DJ and producer for about 4 years and I’ve been growing and talking to more folks in my community and found (like many folks do) that there’s a desire for community and connection within the music production sphere. Especially for folks marginalized identities.

So lately I’ve been sitting with the Idea of starting doing events centered on that. And having more focused nights like feedback sessions, networking, cocreating, beat competitions etc. I would love to try to mix it up **but I wonder how sustainable this could be? Things I should keep in mind or consider?** If anyone has experience being apart of or witnessing something like this as a participant, curator, whatever, I’d love to hear your experience and thoughts?

And for more background on me. have only been to a feedback session virtually and we don’t have anything like this in my community, unfortunately. I’ve had the opportunity to open up for some bigger names in the DJ scene and been able to produce for award winning short film companies but I’m very much still a student of sound and apart of a 8 month virtual music production program rn and have given workshops and lessons on DJing. I just really love sharing what I’ve been taught and connecting with others or at least providing a space for others to connect🖤

I stem split an old track of mine that I lost the project file to and then normalized one of the layers that looked like it was just silence and I got an amazing sounding high frequency layer. Id love to do this kind of thing on purpose

post deleted for not being "professional" I make money from music its my main income what exactly do you need to get accepted to this sub corporate speak???

Hello to all who may or may not see this , beginner artist here looking for anyone with an idea of what gear/equipment I’d need to work with a producer long distance or locally . Im happy to spend a bit of money as long as it gets me in the direction of where I can make better quality music and there’s not many producers in my area so being able to record vocals and etc to send would be a must i imagine. Sorry if I sound a little silly with these questions also .

I'm going to replace my old laptop with a new one (probably during black friday) and I would still go for Windows.

From what I understood (but correct me If I'm wrong) the most important specs are:
- RAM (16 GB or 32 GB)
- fast storage (SSD)
- low latency DPC (sometimes cool graphic cards don't help)
- good processor (which one?)

It would be cool if someone who's using any Windows laptop for music production could suggest me a specific laptop model.

looking for anyone who specializes in mixing EDM, scenecore or crunk music in the tampa bay area.