Questions tagged [music]
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Natural headphone Mean?
What does it mean when people say a headphone is natural sounding ? does it mean the headphones is flat and boring when listening to songs ? does it make your music sound amazing or just normal but ...
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Processing audio
Hey there guys! I started my first lecture on processing sound today, we were asked to do some further research. I really want to get a diverse understanding from experienced sonic designers.
Could ...
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Why do some musicians/groups create a last track with tons of silence in the middle?
I've seen this at least four times. An album with the usual 4/5 minute songs has a last track of about 15 minutes, of which 10 are silence in the middle of the track.
Is there a meme I'm not aware of?...
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How to remove background television audio from a phone audio recording
Hey guys this is what I am trying to do:
I have audio recordings from my blackberry that have conversations on them. The only trouble is that there is music and tv playing in the background that ...
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Recording heavy metal guitars with almost zero budget
Long story short: I've been producing electronic music for a long time now, so I have a very good amount of knowledge on mixing, special effects and mastering, but I have never EVER recorded anything ...
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Any Advice Getting into Mixing & Mastering?
Hi all, Happy February lol! I recently entered the graduate sound design program at the Savannah College of Art & Design after studying radio production in Undergrad. I know it's graduate school, ...
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Amazing music videos for sound recordists
These guys always make epic videos but I thought it would be of interest to most of you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c The pure scale and effort in production for this is mind blowing. If ...
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Removing background location music from documentary dialogue
Has anybody had experience of removing location music from documentary dialogue? A filmmaker has approached me to tackle an issue with broadcast rights on the music coming from a stereo in the ...
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Uni Project Feedback and soundcloud giveaway
Hey everyone!
So I have finished the creative project that I posted earlier. You can view it here - The Arrival on Vimeo.
I am looking for constructive feedback on the project, and to show my ...
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Is there a good solution for hosting a sound design/music portfolio online?
Do any of you know of a good template-based portfolio site which caters for sound and music? I'm thinking of sites like http://carbonmade.com/ for visual media.
Or perhaps the best solution is just a ...
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Out of sync singer on a long take: how to save it?
In the movie I just finished, I had to save a long (continuous) take where a popular singer (here in Italy) singed with playback but was out of sync (in a few spots more than half a second). Obviously ...
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Has anyone here replaced their MBP dvd drive with an SSD? I wanna run NI Komplete sans external HDD
So, I'm going away for a bit and want to take my laptop with me. Including my NI Komplete so that I can make music when/where I want to...
I've been looking at getting an OCZ Vertex 3 250GB and ...
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making it sound like a record player
Hey guys, I am currently working on a project where I need to make music sound as if it is playing from a record player, and then separately I need to make some dialogue sound like its coming from a ...
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How necessary are 'professional quality' music composition skills in the Sound Design field?
I'm just starting out in sound design. I've been interested in the field for a long time but have only just got myself into the position where I can start to purchase some proper kit and get involved ...
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Sound Design Studies?
Hello everyone!
I'm currently looking for studies that have to do with Sound Design and I was wondering if anyone here knows a good university/school where they teach sound design or studies related ...
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Music Makers: Do you find your Sound Design skills influence your compositions?
With regards to myself, I started making music first before discovering sound design and now find that this is in turn working its way back and influencing my compositions: my choice of timbres, how I ...
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Who knows the ins & outs of licensing music?
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I'm working on a 3 X 15s ad campaign at the moment, for which I'm doing the sound design.
The producer has asked me to find out about licensing some uplifting, dreamy orchestral music for a the ...
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References of music using drums, voices and clapping hands
I'm busy designing a directors pitch for a "neo-noir" feature film. One of the elements is obviously sound and music. My soundtrack is going to use a lot of natural sound-scapes (the film is set in a ...
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general ambiences with street music performance
I made some street recordings with music playing in background. In one case, it was a musician, who was improvising on a saxophone in a metro station. In another, i recorded a city park ambience with ...
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Mixing Stereo Music to Surround
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I have been looking at moving me stereo short doco films with background music to a surround experience. At the moment the design is fairly simple, interview vocals center and music as it ...
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Music for T.V. and/or Film
How can I get my music used in T.V. and or film?
Who do I need to contact?
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chillout/loungy background tune
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i'm looking for a sample library or cheap license music to create a background tune for a production i just finished. desired style is electronic lounge/chillout. any recommendations?
thanks
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How much should I charge for my music being used in a film
I was recently approached by a film producer and asked if I'd be happy to have my songs being used for their film (80mins). I agreed as it's a great way to promote your music. But they asked me what's ...
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What are your sources for new/unknown music? - Not exactly sound design but...
I am always looking to add tunes to my 'faves' playlist (a playlist strictly limited to songs that rate 9 or 10/10). I'm not talking about hipster 'no one's ever heard of this before' stuff. Just ...
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Music & The Moving Image Conference - NYU, May 20-22, 2011
Despite the name of the symposium, there are many conferences about sound design as well.
So... Are you going? Anyone has attended past conferences?
I would like to meet some of you this summer in ...
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music libraries
What music libraries your are using? Can you advise some not very pricy ones with rock, ska, raggae, so modern music in good quality?
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Scanner/Radio/Transmission Fans out there?
I recently found this amazing site that mixes a live feed of carefully selected ambient music tracks from soundcloud with police scanner chatter from several cities (only one city at a time) that ...
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Big fish effects feedback needed
I wrote music for one program called Big fish and add some fx but I'm not sure whether they help it or not.
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What do you think about? Any feedback is welcome.
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Music clearance forms
Hello,
Production is finished and now the US producer asks me to send the music clearance forms....?
I know these in Holland, but not in the US
Does anybody has an idea of where to get these forms, ...
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Telefon Tel Aviv - SSD Thread Tribute
Personally, the respect I for the group is just not normal.
Talk about such all encompassing, engulfing, trancing, absorptive music.
However, I wanted to start a thread about the techniques and ...
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Unmusical Items as Instruments in Music/Design
I wanted to ask everyone what their experience is with using household items, or really any other non-instrument to either layer in, or as itself, into music and sound design.
For instance, I shall ...
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Virtual Instruments in film music composition [closed]
Are the use of virtual instruments in film music composition having a positive negative or both on the overall quality of film music?
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Music in a Demo Reel
It looks like Demo Reels are the big question right now, so I'll throw another one out there...
How do you feel about music in a demo reel?
I'm a composer/sound designer, and I plan to have a music-...
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looking for 8-bit sounds collection.
Hi there, I'm actually trying to make some old-style music using the portable tracker on the psp: little piggy tracker.
I've made some old 8-bit SFX using Triforce VSTi, but I was wondering if there'...
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ADR Recording Software Question
I have a simple question/idea which some of you may have already cleverly worked out:
I record ADR and music overdubs and while tracking, I use playlists to keep track of takes.
I keep take 1 on ...
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Any music industry sound designers here?
I have read mostly about sound designers in film or video games. Has anyone here professionally had a career designing for producers, artists, software companys, hardware companys?
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Sound Design and Composition
For those among you who do both sound design AND composition, when you're doing both for one project, which do you start with? Obviously they will affect each other in the end product, but I'm finding ...
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Inspiration from the world of music production
Hello sound friends.
This is is another 'list your top' question. Today:
Which music producers do you feel created unique and inspiring sound design and in so doing made the albums they produced a ...
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nuendo4 as a music production program?
I know it's been a while, I'm proud to note though. that I'm sorted with nuendo4 as far as sound design is concerned.
It is a steinberg product and the company is known for it's cubase roots. I'm ...
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Suggestions for controlling one aspect of a mastered music track?
So here's the setup: I am working with a piece of cello music that layers bowed cello with plucked cello (filling the role of percussion). The director is asking whether I can independently control ...
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Do any of you compose, as well?
I got into sound design when an open-source game I was on was flooded with composers, and we needed a sound designer. None of the composers on the game had anything beyond Finale but me, so I stepped ...
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Sequence in Mixing?
I've recorded voices for a good time now and I am currently learning how to mix.
First question about mixing I have is:
What is your sequence?
Do you level the voices and balance the effects and ...
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Anyone done work for a music video before?
I'm curious, because I've never done any work for music videos. Specifically, I'm wondering if they use similar dialnorms to standard television programming. Is there anything that's majorly different ...
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Background Music: When to make it disaapear?
When laying the dialogue over background music, let's say it's a party scene. Are you concern with portraying the reality, by keeping the music throughout the dialogue, Or you faded it out as the ...
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Making dialogue more intelligible through M&E
Dear All,
I have a question about trailer mixing that hopefully some of you have an answer to:
When mixing a trailer, or any mixing for that matter, what's your preferred method for popping out ...
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converting Images into music masterpieces
I wrote a article on this subject at my blog and was wondering people thoughts on it.
As in do you think that these forms of experimental music will they ever be able to build a real following like ...
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Best uses of contrapuntal music in film?
First off, if you don't know what contrapuntal music in film is (correct me if I'm not explaining correctly): Music opposite to the emotion expected from the narrative. So for example, to put it ...
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Composition versus sound design, what's the difference?
A documentary maker called me a sound designer. At first I thought he forgot to mention my composer role. I told my girlfriend about it and she was like sound design is what you do, a composer feels ...
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Types of Computer Generated Music Software
As an Artist and also a Software developer I have always Loved the idea of computer generated music. I was just wondering about all of the types that there are. I have written several myself in ruby..
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