u/Achassum

I would love to work with artists and mix and produce records! However, I am struggling to find and connect with them!

What have you found is the best way to connect with artists and work on music together?

I was reviewing my studio and said damn I have of gear! As in alot, and i stopped and said as great as these afe they werent worth it.

I have a pair of PSI Audio A21m! They sound great but my room is not optimized for them and thus they typically stay turned off! My audeze LCD-5 get way more useage!

What about y'all

I want to find some interesting albums to listen to! Not noise albums but music albums with great sounds and textures!

For example - Travis scott Albums have always had great sound design to me! The weeknds latest album, The potatoehead people etc!

Looking forward to your suggestions

Update
Thank you for all the suggestions! Some are wonderful, others are noise fests, but once again Thank you for sharing! It has opened my Tidal to new music

When Kendra G started years ago, she was a 'sista'! Encouraging the obesity and delusion, and after hundreds of hours of delusion 😂😂.... You can tell she is fed up for these chicks!

At this point you better draw a 6'5 500k a year earning man! Because hes not out there for you sis!

I have a few platforms

- Synthorial - Synth focused
- Soundgym - Mix/Synth focused
- Ear Master 7 - Music focused
- Mixmastery - Mixing focused
- Meldusia - Music focused
- trainyourears 2 - Mixing focused

And few others (Mostly video courses). However does anyone have recommendations for 'gameified platforms' that tell if you are right or wrong?

Thank you

However I

One thing that is becoming clear from a lot of posts on this reddit to me, is a lot of people cannot percieve (and by percieve I mean hear) what they are actually doing!

Why cant I hear a 1.5dB cut/boost? Why cant i hear how hard this is compressed? Why cant I tell the difference between a shelf/LPF/LPF/bell Filter? Etc etc ... And because of this lack of ability someone will do an 8dB boost on a kick at 65hz and say yeah i can finally hear what it is doing lol. This is an illstruration before ppl say to me ive done this and it worked for that mix

I think 99.9% of issues that people experience are actually because they cannot hear and do not practise how to hear! In the same way playing a instrument mindlessly does not improve playing, mixing more does not improve your mixes! You must dedicate time to improving your ability to discern the key sub skills that make a great Mix engineer!

Anyways, how many people use platforms to improve your ability to hear and schedule time in your day to do so?

Here is my honest opinon

As a producer/mixer and keyboardists/Synth player, I have changed numerous things on records - Kicks, snares, Hi hats, replayed in bass and keys, re-designed synth parts so they sound better etc and guess what The artists/Producer couldnt even tell!

As I have said numerous times, if someone sends you 🗑️, they clearly have no clue!!

Change it! And guess what if they dont like it change it back! 99% of artists have no clue what a mixers job really is anyway! So if you can make their record sound great you make a long standing client

Is this consumerisms or honest. Even with multiple synths i question whether I need more? I dont even understand all my synths but still believe I need more.

I have an issue

As a producer who mixes and composes, I see a lot of songs have issues that mixing cant fix!

A good example is a terrible kick! recently someone sent me a Clipped kick - I almost collapsed haha! Mixing cant mix that (Not without changing the kick which I did)

Another example - Poorly tuned or out of tune vocals! Again, I personally fix these but this is a production issue not mixing!

However, a lot of people say ill fix this in the mix! But these arent mixing issues! And if you dont fix them and insist mixers work with that material - its now a production!

Do y'all agree with this thesis? Interested to hear everyone takes on most clients have production issues not mixing issues

I get it, humans love Cheek clapping, however it is so boring when it is the brand!

Some clear examples to me
Chole B
SZA
Doja cat
Tyla

I do not need to see you naked in every video/photoshoot/performance. Sometimes just sing and stay clothed

As a long time poster in this community I decided to take time away from all synth related content to really focus on sound design and music creation.

My biggest realisation is despite owning over 9 synths - many of which people dream of, I actually knew very little about synthesis. Understaning filters and wave shapes is only just the begining!

But i had a huge realisation, People keep buying synths and consuming content which deluded you into thinking you really understanding synthesis and that you are one synth/purchase away from getting it! Its all lies!

Stop buying and start creating! I promise you, creating will make you realise you probz even own too much

Any time you saturate or overdrive a signal, you’re generating extra harmonics above the original frequency. In analog gear, those harmonics just ring out into the air, no big deal. But in the digital domain there’s a hard ceiling called the Nyquist frequency (half your sample rate) — if a harmonic goes above that, it can’t be represented properly and “folds back” down into the audible range as ugly, inharmonic noise. That’s aliasing, and it’s why a lot of cheap plugin saturation turns to harsh digital mush the harder you drive it, unless the plugin is doing internal oversampling to compensate.

On top of that, good analog gear (tubes, transformers, tape) clips softly — it rounds off the waveform gradually instead of hitting a hard digital ceiling, so pushing it adds thickness and warmth before it falls apart. Cheaper circuits and naive digital models tend to generate messier, more chaotic distortion (more odd-order harmonics, more intermodulation) which just sounds harsh instead of musical.

Same logic applies to resonance on filters — a well-built analog filter (think Moog/SSL style) can be pushed into high resonance or even self-oscillation w/o collpasing back in toself because the components and feedback loop are tightly matched. Cheap or poorly modeled filters get unstable and brittle at the same settings.

So TL;DR — cheap gear works, but expensive analog buys you more headroom and cleaner harmonic behavior at the extremes, which is exactly the “pushes harder” thing people are talking about.

I want to buy a course to help me develop my chops on ableton.

I am not looking for a course on Sound design, mixing and mastering! I want clear demostrations on what things do, and how to use them. Yes ableton has a version but their explanations are very poor to me.

Thank you

In short I want a technical driven course for my development in using ableton, not a mixing or sound design course.

An example is 'How to use chains in an Audio/instrument Rack' not showing me how to mix using it. I can decide how I want to use chains creatively.

Do you have recommendations?

Thank you.

Maybe its me, but by the time you can finally afford all the gear you want - the gear doesnt look the same!

As a regular contributor here I have been grilled for my Synths but more broadly With 9 synths under belt including Minimoog (Midimini V30), OBX8, Matriarch, Two voice pro and more there comes a point where more gear doesnt make any meaningful difference.

In my opinon unless you are doing crazy experimental things most of the features dont even matter! And with enough practise, you can make most synths sound close enough to another. Yes not exactly the same for a variety of reasons but close enough for the purpose of use.

My point in this post is practise is better than being a synth collector!

Lmk your thoughts! Am I wrong? (Maybe this is me justifying not buying myself a UDO super 6 😂)

I do know about y'all but when I watched the hours of content avaiable I kept saying - Nothing really solves an major issues to me! It is simply varations of things that already exists in some form or another!

Maybe I am wrong - I accept I might that be! On balance I am very happy that I want for nothing!