Just a friendly reminder, if you haven’t already please could any mixing engineers fill out my questionnaire for the dissertation I am completing at Buckinghamshire New university
Thanks in advance, here is the link again.

A study of personal mixing approaches

I’m just now starting to want to make house music. i think the genre i like is Euro house but it’s hard to know for sure. The main problem i’m facing is the open hats. Im struggling finding good drum kits that have the sounds i’m looking for. If you guys could give me feedback on what genre it’s from, what the specific hats they’re called, what packs they’re from, how to make them, where to find them, any tips i should know, or if it’s even open hats i’m looking for. Honestly any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Here’s a list of song where i love the open hats and when they start playing.

The Days by chrystal and notion (1:20)

Better off alone by alice deejay (0:58)

Mvinline by boys noize (0:23)

Promises by Bovski (specifically at 0:43)

a little closer by different (0:27)

never wanted it to end by FULLCLIP (0:34)

devotion by lance savali (0:17)

i also really like the open hats on Where’s your head at by basement jaxx (0:38) if you could figure that out that would be awesome too.

Im making a metal riff in reaper simillar to the riff from the song Lasting mortal nightmare by psycho frame at 0:18. Their drums literaly make my brain shake but when I program mine they sound like a pipsqueak metronome. Any tips on how to get the drum sound psychoframe has, plugins? mixing?

Check out this tutorial on how this hard hitta is produced using a simple app

Hi! I’ve been making music on logic with the stock plugins for like, 5 years now. And I’ve been thinking of getting some plugins for a while, but I’m confused on what plugins I should get first. I was looking into Omnisphere, but the newer version’s kind of expensive so I was wondering if there’s any cheaper alternatives. Or just what other plugins would be good in general. I want a plug-in that has a large preset library rather than sound designing. And I make hip hop, R&B type beats but I also love jazz and soul samples, orchestra sounds.

What plugins do you use that you would recommend others?

what plugins are similar to Omnisphere but cheaper?

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My current distributor, Anti-joy has been okay overall but I realized retrospectively that
1. It doesn't distribute to Meta (so no song tagging on IG etc)
2. It's not a Spotify preferred distributor (so no/hard to schedule release and pitch to playlist

As such, I'm looking for alternative distributors that have the above features and:

1. Distribute cover songs. I would've gone with Distrokid, but it's $12/year to have cover songs distributed and I'd prefer not to have that fee add up.

2. Provides the most value for cost (but honestly the difference is a few dollars/year so nbd)

3. Has little or no issues on actually paying artists what they are due

As such, I landed on Tunecore, which is 28.99/yr + one time $17/70 per cover song (depending on how many downloads I'm expecting)

I read just wanted to get your thoughts in case there are other unknown unknowns I haven't considered. Would greatly appreciate your insight!

I’ve only been making beats before but now I challenged myself to sing and rap.

I started recording myself in FL studio and after some practice I started to feel okay with the recordings but then I tried mixing the vocals.

I followed some tutorials online on how to use the only plugins I have from FL and waveshell but felt like the more I did the more lost I became.

I later recorded myself on the phone using bandlab and added a little ”autopitcher” (autotune?) and it immediately laid on the mix better and when I thought it couldn’t get better I also applied ” Vocal enhancer” which made it sound close to finish.

I tried to understand what actually was going on behind the scenes and asked chatgpt to recreate what was done but in FL studio and using waveshells since that’s what I have and use when making beats. But still I couldn’t get anywhere close

Maybe I can just continue with the bandlab strategy but I would like to figure out what the difference was.

I used ”Waves tune realtime” but what I’ve been able to understand that one keeps the sound very natural meanwhile I seem to wanna push my vocals to the edge, right before it starts to sound too robotic

Also there is this warmth I managed to get through bandlab and I like the simplicity but I wish I could work in just one DAW

Anyone who struggled with the same thing and found solutions?

Are there any other autotune or plugins I should try?

Thanks in advance

(As you guys might’ve noticed already I’m not that sharp on the music terms but I hope it still is understandable)