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Music Production

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Mine was like the meme; sound recorder and a beige stick microphone put up to an old used Fender practice amp, and a no-name brand guitar from the pawn shop. We've come a long way.

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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Haha! Go cool music toys! This isn't mine, just a picture I found online. The little hole on the left held a mic.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

We could rock the fuck out!

Oh 100% the same thing as yours. I still don't have a real mic like 20+ years later...

[–] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Impulse Tracker on a 486 PC. As raw as music production gets.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ardour with vitalium
Build in aux port
Seaboard midi Controller
Teufel boomster and/or marshal monitor II as monitor

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

LMMS and a cheap MIDI keyboard

Now it's FL Studio, the same MIDI keyboard, a guitar I already had but got out of storage and only sorta know how to play, and a Rocksmith Real Tone Cable

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

LMMS gang! I also graduated to FL, but LMMS will always have a place in my heart as my first proper DAW.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Same with the top picture, but with a clip-on mic. Then I had a pair of those old classic bookshelf speakers that picked up signal interference like your phone when a text is arriving. I also recorded vocal layers by playing a recorded track on those speakers and singing over it by placing the mic close by.

[–] sunth1ef@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Jeskola Buzz Tracker. Making tracks in a vertical midi step sequencer with no mixer was wild AF.

IIRC it came with an awesome drum kit called PSI Drums and a set of proprietary plugins (non VST) which included several cool synths abd Whitenoise Stereodist - the most brutal distortion I've ever heard, surpassing Ohmicide, Coldfire and Rift in its ability to turn things into aggressive digital terrain.

Migrated to Fruity Loops pretty soon thereafter