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How to get my own uniqe sound?
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FaceHead
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Posted : May 28, 2010 02:18
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every single one of us are totally unique. disconnect from what others are doing and focus on strengthening your connection with yourself because yourself is unlike anyone out there ergo any music written from a place of deep personal connection cannot be mimiced. styles, sub-genres, methods, tutorials, books, and tech advice are distracting from the individuality of your music. yes basic knowledge is important but that will all come over time what is important is practicing how you construct your music... that is where your individuality shines through most. carpenters all use wood but its how they put it together that makes it interesting. So write more music. fail at and throw away more projects. dont worry if you only were able to finish 3 minutes of an idea... bouce the good sounds use them in a live set or future project just no matter what keep going you hit a wall move around it dont spend weeks trying to figure out the chemical makeup or the stones used in the wall and the proper proven method for disassembling the wall...keep moving forward.. your individuality will manifest itself when your tools become an extension of you. most other stuff is people trying to find that "signature sound" however all that means is that people can recognize your music everytime. a truly unique artist will never have two tracks that sound alike. A truly unique artist is obsessive about continuously rebelling against his or her own standards. There is nothing you can do to become unique except to be more yourself, beware of what influence you allow in, and try things that dont seem to make sense to others that know what they are doing. i dont know i could ramble forever about this there is no one way just get weirder and practice more and dont try what works for others. its based off of feeling and intuition not standards and guidelines.
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FaceHead
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Posted : May 28, 2010 02:28
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On 2010-04-26 22:41, Medea wrote:
unique isn't always good 
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not everything of anything is good. However, bad unique is at least a failed experiment, bad typical is artless.
i think most producers can fit into these two categories.
artist or a psychedelic trance dance music construction engineer/critic?
personally i have no more patience for any music that is just perpetuating the inertia that sabotages the coming of age of new undefineable audios. some of what sounds bad now is tomorrows breakthrough. what sounds good now will never be tomorrows breakthrough its already been a breakthrough in the past.. you have to ride the wave before it developes to surf it otherwise you are jsut floating around in the ocean with all the others.
also there are jellyfishes everywhere
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : May 28, 2010 02:47
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : May 28, 2010 02:48
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Oh yeah, and THIS:
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On 2010-05-28 02:18, FaceHead wrote:
every single one of us are totally unique. disconnect from what others are doing and focus on strengthening your connection with yourself because yourself is unlike anyone out there ergo any music written from a place of deep personal connection cannot be mimiced. styles, sub-genres, methods, tutorials, books, and tech advice are distracting from the individuality of your music. yes basic knowledge is important but that will all come over time what is important is practicing how you construct your music... that is where your individuality shines through most. carpenters all use wood but its how they put it together that makes it interesting. So write more music. fail at and throw away more projects. dont worry if you only were able to finish 3 minutes of an idea... bouce the good sounds use them in a live set or future project just no matter what keep going you hit a wall move around it dont spend weeks trying to figure out the chemical makeup or the stones used in the wall and the proper proven method for disassembling the wall...keep moving forward.. your individuality will manifest itself when your tools become an extension of you. most other stuff is people trying to find that "signature sound" however all that means is that people can recognize your music everytime. a truly unique artist will never have two tracks that sound alike. A truly unique artist is obsessive about continuously rebelling against his or her own standards. There is nothing you can do to become unique except to be more yourself, beware of what influence you allow in, and try things that dont seem to make sense to others that know what they are doing. i dont know i could ramble forever about this there is no one way just get weirder and practice more and dont try what works for others. its based off of feeling and intuition not standards and guidelines.
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ZenMind
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Posted : May 28, 2010 06:22
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Great thread with awesome advice, reading this gives me hope that there is still a lot of free thinkers out there, the most hard to find these days.
To be unique is not that hard as said before its all about feeling, putting into notes (and noises heeh) what's going on inside your self. The greatest difference between a tremendous artist and a copy cat is the establishment of communication between listener and composer, that special energy that pours out of a track made with feeling. A copy cat will faill again and again to establish this connection, he lives of the distracted and casual listener, empty shells...
In practical terms to achieve the originality you seek is more of a team work between you and the music than knowing how to get this sound or that sound.
To be creative and unique just let the ideas flow, no pre conceived thoughts, no formulas, no fears, all is allowed!!!
Working with your music is being both a composer and an observer/ listener, most of the time is sound itself that is telling you were to go to better express your feelings, so IMO originality is knowing how to mediate between who you are and what music is, uniqueness is the result of putting together these two pieces.
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dija
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Posted : Jun 2, 2010 21:48
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When I first started music I wrote much better music although my technical ability was poor. I have a good ear for music. I hit a wall when I decided I wanted to make money at music by creating music of a certain genre. Music wasn't fun anymore, I learned a lot of technical things because I knew I had to know them to sell an album. I don't care about any of that anymore and I just make whatever. I know music theory and I can say over applying it is one of the worst mistakes one can make. I flip through my old music and I have wonderful counterpoint melody solos in it when I didn't even know it was a counterpoint melody back then. My newer music lacks my individuality because I was aiming to create a certain genre.
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FaceHead
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Posted : Jun 5, 2010 00:48
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i did this too for years... i would feel bad about playing it because "it didnt sound like professional quality fullon psytrance yet" however that was because id compare my production to astrix or something... it took a really long time of struggling to learn technical know how for me to realize that the reason i couldnt get it to sound like a pro is because it was constructed to not sound like what the pros are doing... the only way i ould get it to sound "professional" is to make it sound the same. I recently collaborated with a total noob i mean didnt even know what bass was, and i found myself saying things like "you probably cant do that... in my experince it jsut doesnt work".. then the noob teaches me something... meaning many times i say that wont work or you have to do this turns out thats just because im a stubborn in my ways and am unintentionally avoiding unique possibilities by sticking to my own formula. I would sit there and bite my tongue while watching her do things that made me technically cringe only to find out that she finds her own way to sounds that i would bnever make but are really good, and also really unique turns out i had something more to learn about keeping myself fresh too.
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djlukan
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Posted : Jun 5, 2010 01:20
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Hi,
I guess the only answer to this question is Experiment. Hit and try till you are satisfied . |
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sideFXed
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Posted : Jun 5, 2010 11:39
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ha, dija, the same happened to me... I was focused to get elements into my music that I hear in "mainstream" psy, as these things grabbed my attention. lifters, gnarly effects, glitched breaks, clear distinction of elements so one can hear every sound stand out.
focused on technical aspects I somehow lost track how much one can achieve with composition, placement of notes. something that was present when I had my 32 channel tracker. 
I think unique stuff comes out if I really think what makes me tick, what is important for myself. It can still be a copy, as I feel that I'm influenced by many artists. With time, I tried already to copy stuff and know how I get results that I liked. Throwing out the idea to have the exact same result I just apply stuff I've learned in the past. It simply is one piece in a big puzzle. Important is only if it suits my stuff, that it made a good feeling in the past, that I liked it to do and the results had impact on myself.
I think to be unique is a mixture of technical skills aquired and the mindset to throw that overboard and just do what you like. If something really hits my buttons, I try to get that over and over. something like a signature.
for me that is complex hi-hat stuff that doesn't fall on the off beat every hit (I hate it), a certain groove in my bassline (even tho I love the simple 16th bassline ), a bit of trashy melodic leads (I tried atonal soundwork, it just isn't my thing even if I like it), I love rhodes types of sounds (my parents listended jazz when they concieved me) hehehe.
it's really a reflection of the road I took in my musical exploration, fill a backpack of skills and experiment with them until they're par coeur. shake that backpack and pick out random bits. I once thought I need to collect them in my backpack, so it's worth to have it on my way.
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