Production Tips, Tricks and Advice

[LostLegend]

Another great one from Bthelick on the importance of getting a second set of ears on your music.

Funny story. When I was working on my remix of Solarstone's 'Shards' (which started life as a bootleg) I sent the finished version over to @Julian Del Agranda for his opinion. (We were trying to get Solarstone's attention for an original track of mine, which Julian had remixed)
In short, he said that the bass was too loud, the breakdown was too long and the vocals were to quiet.

So I took another listen to the track on a few different speakers & headphones and decided that he was right. The bass was too loud and the breakdown was too long, so I made some changes, but left the vocals as they were as they sounded alright to me.

Eventually the track ended up in Solarstone's hands and he really liked it & thought it was well produced and as he sent me the original stems to finish the remix proper, he then asked for the only change that he thought the track needed. "Can you make the vocals a bit louder, please?"

So, yeah, getting a fresh pair of ears to give you some feedback can be really helpful!

 

[Bobby Summa]

Popular Sounds - Trance Classics (VPS Avenger Expansion)

If you always wanted to play your favorite Trance Classics or wanted to use the sounds in your own productions, you have now the chance.With Popular Sounds Trance Classics, 132 presets, 27 shapes, 5 wavetable, 21 Multisamples, 26 Drumkits have been c...

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Classic Trance Sounds Preset pack.

Those who own the vst VPS Avenger 2. Some great sounding classic trance sounds here from the Golden era of Trance. The YouTube demo highlights 25 classic trance tracks remade with sounds from this preset pack. Tracks by BBE, Paul Van dyk, ppe, Nalin & Kane ! it has the drum kits too.

Looks as if it needs Avenger 2 (might not work on original version)
The sounds sound really quite authentic to my ears. 132 presets €39

Previous link includes on its page a video of tracks with these sounds. This link has the individual sounds
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- Juicy!

 

[Bobby Summa]

Popular Sounds - Trance Classics (VPS Avenger Expansion)

If you always wanted to play your favorite Trance Classics or wanted to use the sounds in your own productions, you have now the chance.With Popular Sounds Trance Classics, 132 presets, 27 shapes, 5 wavetable, 21 Multisamples, 26 Drumkits have been c...

payhip.com

Classic Trance Sounds Preset pack.

Those who own the vst VPS Avenger 2. Some great sounding classic trance sounds here from the Golden era of Trance. The YouTube demo highlights 25 classic trance tracks remade with sounds from this preset pack. Tracks by BBE, Paul Van dyk, ppe, Nalin & Kane ! it has the drum kits too.

Looks as if it needs Avenger 2 (might not work on original version)
The sounds sound really quite authentic to my ears. 132 presets €39

Previous link includes on its page a video of tracks with these sounds. This link has the individual sounds
.

- Juicy!

Edited above as this sound pack is likely not compatible with Avenger 1. Details say it requires v2.1.0

 

[erickUO]

Glad I have a copy of Live lite, this was fun

 

[Bobby Summa]

Glad I have a copy of Live lite, this was fun

That looked really neat. I’ve only ever used presonus studio one but will possibly change daw one day. - I have live lite i believe somewhere. Does this definitely work on lite? I reckon it could be a cool tool for live performances based stuff too.