i cant really give you a drum kit specifically, i downloaded way too many of them
but i know the dude who does the "shows on screen" drumkits for various producers is pretty good

i just started too

what DAW are you using and how are you finding it so far?

man the underground is so derivative

all these dudes are either duwap kaine, summrs, lonely, or iayze clones

I'm using Ableton because I f*** with their design the most lmao. I really like it so far - there are some YT channels like Sadowick Production, Taetro, You Suck At Producing (has a weird humour btw) and of course Kenny Beats that help me through the learning process rn. Taetro‘s music theory playlist is something that I would most definitely recommend for you. I think we all should have basic knowledge in that regard to create our melodies/chord progressions and understand music better without going tooo much in depth. And You Suck At Producing has the best playlist for noobs/beginners like me. FL is probably the "easier route" since there are millions of videos for it on YT but there is so much s*** on YT you can kinda get lost. When I’m more familiar with Ableton then I'll definitely watch Illangelo‘s twitch streams a lot.

Is there anyone here who is good/knowledgeable at mixing? I know that I can‘t be a master at mixing within 2 months but I want to be somewhat good when I release some s***. Any tutorials/courses etc? I don‘t have a clue some basics would really help me.

@Sir_Swagalot :)

thx

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i was starting with garageband with the hopes to move to Logic once i get better, but i feel like FL Studio might be easier for me to start with

im for sure gonna check out taetro and You Suck At Producing, they sound dope

hey ya'll. Here's my socials/music are. To sum up my sound think 808s + Beethoven (I am guy who went to classical conservatory and also been making beats since I was teenager

soundcloud.com/natepatrikk
youtube.com/channel/UC6bzukL_eD5wFm7rO10PF_w

It's all relative to the track ur working on but some general tips. I'm not a pro by any means but this is what I usually do

Compression on vocals should be relatively light, ratio between 1:7 and 2:1 ideally, just to make them denser, push the volume up so that they're clear and dense but not over compressed

Parallel compression on vocals is ur best friend

Eq out lows on vocals and everything except bass pretty much

For vocals I like to use a high shelf on 7k up and another boost around 3k, sometimes I cut mids around 500 or boost around 200 to add presence

Add reverb sparingly, if u put it on vocals u probably wanna cut the lows on the reverb to around 500, mix level around 30% max, mild width

I almost always add subtle delay to vocals

If ur vocals sound dull either try equing like I said it use an exciter

There r lots of fancy tools like soothe2 and cla vocals, these are nice but u can do the same with knowledge of basic tools

Recommended tools: sonalksis, eventide, waves (all that fabfilter s*** is unnecessary imo)

This cool u think u could make some melodies like this (see below)? We could maybe Collab I need more fire to record over

Absolutely bro. Been lookin' to put my style out there more as producer. Hit me in the DMs

jus followed u on soundcloud, we can talk there or via ktt messages (tbh i dont like ktt messages but if u prefer that its fine)

this should be fun haha

Aight bet sounds good

got u

thank you bro that‘s the kind of answer I needed tbh. Any tips on mixing instrumentals?

if you have stems:
isolate frequencies as much as possible! this means making sure each sound has its own frequency range. It wont be perfect but you should lower loud frequencies on one sound if theres another sound in that range that you'd prefer to have on top. this is done using EQ. there are more advanced techniques like sidechaining or dynamic eq but thats usually not necessary.

leveling is KEY. this is 90% of mixing instrumentals. you must make sure you know what sounds u want up front and which are background, then adjust levels accordingly. one trick is to lower all the sounds so that theyre just a little quiet, then add compression to the sounds you want higher and just raise the volume in the compressor. This will apply compression but wont cause the levels to be as high, which gives more room for vocals/drums.

Once you have everything eq'ed and leveled, you can start panning /widening sounds. Also u can add chorus, delay, reverb etc. thats the fun part lol

for drums: drum buses are f***ing magic. Just add all your drums to one track and add a drum bus vst, it will make your drums hit way harder and sound more authentic. you can also add compression to glue all the sounds together. Individual drums should be compressed/leveled to taste. theres A LOT more to drum mixing such as transient processors, saturation, etc but i wont get into all that for the sake of time. also tbh most drum samples are high quality so u dont rly have to mix them too much besides leveling.

if you dont have stems: here your basically f***ed tbh. theres very little you can do to an instrumental without stems. All you can do is boost lows to get more bass/kick, add reverb to select frequencies, or add compression to make it louder/denser

note: if you want to use guitars i highly recommend using a guitar amp vst. there are tons of them out there, they give you far more control over the sound of your guitar. with a decent guitar vst (ample audio) and a good amp, you can get very realistic sounding guitars

hope this helps

thx I will look into it :)

feel free to ask any questions

damn this beat sound like a sample but its not

look up illka if u wanna make modern sounding trap

how tf do i start

Send it this way as well