With a computer and any Digital Audio Workstation. Watch tutorials on YouTube and make lots of shitty music till it gets good.
>>65335141
OP here
I need lessons/tutorial videos and sites and gear, softer recomendations.
Anything is greatly appreciated
>>65335222
This is easiest and cheapest, also get an interface/mixer (only if you have instruments you wanna record), a cheap midi controller and a decent pair of headphones or monitors.
you look like you're stuck in 1994
just buy a macbook pro, buy logic, buy an interface for that condenser mic you have, and drop them sick ass beats and verses on soundcloud for us to judge.
>>65335234
i'd recommend ableton live (suite: just torrent it)
>get a midi controller
>learn music theory
>produce utter shit for first two years
it's gonna be a bumpy ride OP, but it will pay off since it's so fun. just make sure you don't quit midway, even if it'sunbelievably frustrating sometimes
>>65335364
Its not mine, its just a random pic
>>65335402
what's a decent cheap midi controller?
>>65335141
What about live rocording like bands
>>65335843
midi keyboard? or is controller something else. akai lpk25 is good and cheap
>>65335843
i wouldn't know desu. i made the "mistake" of buying an Ableton Push for my very first midi controller. in retrospect it definitely wasn't the easiest way to get into music production but i love the fucking shit out of my Push, now that I know how to use it properly.
however, if you're choosing a midi controller it also strongly depends on the type of music you want to create. if you're looking to get into hip hop production for example, you definitely gonna need pads instead of keys. there are also midi controllers that feature both, pads and keys.
>>65335402
not op but I'm newish to production and I'm stuck in that utter shit part
>>65335364
>Not producing music like it's 94
>>65335364
why do people hear "music production" and think of shitty electronic music?
Ableton, cry for about a year trying to use it then you're goody
>>65337619
because recording instruments is for losers with no friends who can't make a band so they have to sit in their room and do everything themselves
>>65335843
You really don't need one before you know what the fuck is going on. Learn to produce without hardware then drop the money on it as you see it could help you
>>65337754
wew
>>65335141
you start with about $10-20,000 worth of microphones, an interface, software, and computer.
>>65337754
unlike electronic music
What do when can play guitar, piano, and sing fairly well... and can write good songs and parts for each instrument, understand post-effects (how to sync the tempo on a delay, automated reverb swells, etc.), but still get that swampy, Exile on Mainstreet vibe instead of that really "locked-in" quantized, modern vibe that's more popular now? I love drum machines and stuff, I really admire when a rap song has a little drop and those drums just kick in, but for the life of me I've never been able to combine the natural instrumentation with the synthetic.
Like as hard as I fucking try, I just cannot sequence drums for the life of me, and I know my music suffers as a result, because nobody cares about roots rock. Thing is, my guitar work better suits RnB and I can sing falsetto, I just need to learn how make woozy, trill-sounding trap drums, and add a more modern element to my sound.
I am very comfortable using Logic Pro X, any advice?
you dont. it comes to you
>>65337928
what do you mean "sequence" drums exactly?
>>65337928
if you're not making the sound you want and worrying about if your shit sounds "modern" or not, you've got the wrong idea..call me a hippie but that's just no fun unless you're some corporate shadow producer or some shit.
but if you're really not liking your drums, what's wrong with them? how tf would you incorporate trap drums into "roots rock"?
>>65335364
>buy logic
>buy
looks like you're stuck in 1994
>>65337754
i think this may be the most retarded post of the year
>recording instruments is for losers with no friends who can't make a band
>>65337928
sample drum beats
get a fucking drummer
>>65337960
I just can't get them to line up in a way that doesn't sound corny as fuck. I really just like the woozy trill shit. Anything else sounds awful to me.
Unfortunately I can play just about any instrument under the sun EXCEPT for the drums. It just doesn't work for me. I'm more of a melody guy, an arranger, songwriter, etc.
so even on demos I just can't get the right swing or mood, and often just end up leaving drums out of the equation altogether.
>>65338001
Well, I have no interest in the blues or rawk type stuff. I prefer chimey, Velvet Underground type melancholia, but I still want it to sound like it's being recorded in 2016, ya feel? Think more like The Beatles post-Rubber Soul, where the production is a little different on every song, with lots of layers of effects and instrumentation...
The guitars are probably closer to Meme DeMarco or Real Estate or something, but I don't like the notion of sounding like you're harkening back to a forgotten era. I just use the guitar as a tool create some sort of environment in which these songs can exist. I personally feel the songwriting is pretty timeless but not a throwback by any means.
>>65338312
the only quality unique to recording in 2016 is blasting the fucking signal out the ass then compressing it to stay loud and not do much else...music is going fully fucking wack because of the internet and you can do whatever you want
and btw playing drums would probably not help you shit to produce this "woozy trill shit" you're talking about because you can always hear how obviously it's quantized and made to sound like it was sequenced on a computer
there is a middle-ground to guitar music and this blatantly electronic drum programming just because guitars are so versatile in their sound if you have the right effects you can make it sound like a synth which is what is going to "fit" and sound modern with the drums you're talking about, it just takes the sound design to get to that sweet spot i guess.
>>65337754
>tfw this is me
Jokes on you though, even if I was making electronic music I'd still have no friends to make it with so HA!
>>65338790
this
you can pretty much do whatever now as long as you do it well, just experiment more
>>65335141
don.t
go do something productive
no one wants to hear your shitty trap remixes and you'll never amount to anything nor contribute anything to yourself or society
go learn how to build a table or something out of wood
>>65336109
Yoooo just got a push 2 and its an absolute blast. Had plenty of Ableton experience though, so it was easy to learn. I feel like it's made my music better already.
>>65339011
No. I'm not letting the abstract notion of society dictate what I do. Furthermore, in no way am I inclined to "contribute" to society, others or myself.
>>65339011
kekekek
>>65338186
instrument recorder detected
>>65339080
and?
>>65339069
by becoming a faggy bedroom 'producer' you're literally letting the 'abstract notion of society dictate what you do.'
>>65339165
well what if I have a big bedroom?
>>65339200
don't say i didn't warn you PEACE
>>65335402
Don't fuck yourself up with music theory at first. Just hone your craft by listening to the things you enjoy and pick pieces of it apart to emulate. Then, if you start making decent sounds, you can study music theory to up your game. Just my 2 cents.
>>65335141
i use a tascam 8 track beacause i make nothing but shitty drone/ambient music
>>65339280
What a homosectional
Good riddance
>>65335141
FL Studio Producer Version,
cellphone mic,
bedroom,
20~80 vsts,
Trent Reznor equipment
: acoustic guitar (vst/real guitar)
: reverbs effect/ delay
recorder, preferable an app, for sampling,
ambient records
say no more
>>65339280
nigga what
you can make a studio in a fucking storage unit and still be able to record some decent shit
>>65339483
>homosectional
>>65339534
nice bait m8
>>65339338
learning music theory makes it a LOT easier to know what those bands are doing. even if you just touch on the basics its worth it
>>65335333
>trips unchecked
dear god what has become of this place
You start because you have the will to create.
You want to make X sound so you figure out what tools you need to produce it, and make it happen.
If making beats is what you want, learn some sort of beat sequencing software.
If recording yourself playing guitar is what you want, you will need different equipment, including a microphone, which you don't NEED at all if you just want to sample/sequence.
What are you interested in doing? If you want to actually Become A Producer there's like, school for it.
>>65342977
>school
>>65340727
Well, it depends on the person. For me learning too much concrete data beforehand fucks up my abstract creativity. I realize this is not the case for everyone, but it is for me.
>>65343922
It's pragmatic. It's a job like any other, you get a combination of credentials + experience and shop your resume around and try to do actual work in the field.
