aigh DAN show us your MOOSICS

I've mixed, mastered, recorded guitar, composed and produced a bunch of stuff for a bunch of projects (games, albums, videos, porn[citation needed])

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO MY (not so) VAST COLLECTION OF MUSIC!!!

DAW's I mainly use

FL Studio and Reaper.

It grabs the OS by the balls and won't let it go until it finishes crashing.
Not even task manager can save you. Good luck.

oh yeah it has some cool features that you may discover by accident doing weird stuff

Plugins I probably use

Samplers

Kontakt, Roland XV-5080, JD-800, Omnisphere, Trilian, StylusRMX, PPG Waveterm, v-Tron B117

Synths

Absynth, Delay Lama, Vital, Sylenth1, Dexed

Drums

Addictive Drums, Superior Drummer, The hundreds of one-shots I shamelessly stole from random songs

Bass

My guitar pitched down using a voice changer (black magic i know), Shreddage Darkwall

Piano

Addictive Keys

Sample Packs

Way too fucking many to list but a good bunch of the samples I use were found, edited and collected from very old and random songs, OSTs, and what not

Amps

Guitar Rig, MERCURIALL Metal Area, Ignite - NadIR, Diezel VH4

Compressors

Pro-C 2, Pro-MB, OTT, CLA-76, 117 COMPRESSOR

Delay & Reverb

Fruity Reeverb 2, Pro-R 2, Timeless 3

EQ

Pro-Q 4

Mastering

Pro-L 2, Tonal Balance Control 2 (barely), sonible smart:limit

Saturation

Fabfilter Saturn 2

Random Stuff

Airwindows, VocalSynth, Shaperbox 3, NITROGEN

MY GEAR!!!

I'm not a rich boi so I have to use cheap stuff and shit

My audio interface is a Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD. It's a neat lil interface that I use to record vocals, guitars and that's about it :D
It doesn't distort, it has nice headroom, doesn't hiss, overall a pretty good interface.

My OTHER audio interface is a Behringer U-Phoria UM2. It's kinda cool if you want to step up from using your (possibly low quality) motherboard's inputs and shit,
but it adds some kind of hiss that I don't like and the headroom is kind of meh.

My microphone is a NEEWER NW-800. Good for beginners and shit but the frequency response kinda sucks (It's very dull sounding).
It also needs phantom power (not necessarily a bad thing) so you're gonna have to search for a soundcard or an external source that can power microphones that require it.

My OTHER microphone is a Behringer ECM8000. It's basically a very neutral/flat sounding microphone that you can use to measure how your room reacts to sound.

My keyboard is a swissonic EasyKey 49. It's a neat little keyboard, it's got a pitch wheel, a mod wheel, a slider and a knob.
The keys are not weighted (oOoO classical pianists SUFFER), the slider stopped working some time ago and one of the keys is starting to harden for some fucking reason???
The quality of this keyboard is so-so but hey, I've been using it for years and it has never let me down. bleh.

The speakers are from my mother's old Technics EH750 Home Stereo.
I don't actually use them for mixing nor mastering, I only use them as reference as to how my shit would translate to the real world.
It's got a lot of EQ options so I can mess with those to make the speakers sound kinda flat. If I wanted to properly mix and shit I would use...

My HEADPHONES, AKG K702. Probably the best piece of gear I have rn. Openback headphones, almost neutral frequency response, wide soundstage and shit.
The only bad thing is that it lacks a ton of sub and the plastic sucks ass (notice the weird rubber band holding the thing together), but overall they're pretty amazing.

My other headphones, Superlux HD 662, my first "proper" set of headphones.
I say "proper" because all the past headphones I had were either a fucking muddy sub mess or straight up all mids and the Superlux at least attempt to be flat.
I mean, the Superlux still have a fuck ton of sub, but it's kinda useful on some occasions.
I aint even gonna bother taking them out to take a pic. sory.

GUITARS!!!!

Strat Looking Thing. Fun fact, this guitar was a gift from the brother of the husband of my step-sister. Weirdass family trees ik.
Anyways this was the first proper guitar I've ever played. I've practiced a fuck ton of stuff with it. Kickass guitar, except the highs suck and if you play loudly the pickups distort...
Another fun fact, I once broke the volume knob by hitting it too hard while recording Lost Freedom's Rythm guitar. I couldn't use the thing for months, but it's already been repaired.
Yet another fun fact, I replaced the old pickup selector with switches for each pickup which enable me to use the bridge AND neck pickup at the same time. Quite unusual (not really).
Also another fun fact, my soldering job is so good that if you bump the guitar in a very specific place the main pickup output cable gets desoldered from its place. Beautiful.
Last fun fact I swear, I once accidentally hit it with my chair and the guitar fell onto the floor. The neck looks all fucked up now, you could say that it's Relic lmao.

Les Paul Looking Thing. First guitar I bought with my own money, mainly out of impulse because when I saw it I thought "OWOAH IT'S YUI'S GUITAR FROM K-ON!!!"
which I consider funny because it resembles Bocchi's Les Paul way closer lmao.
Anyways it sounds dark as fuck, which can be good if you're recording some heavy shit with it. Talking about heavy, this guitar weighs a fuck ton.
I also accidentally bought waaay too thicc strings for it, so I keep it at a drop Ab tuning. The guitar wants to die and I'm not letting it.
The wiring is all fucked up too (not because of my fault this time i swear). If I select the bridge pickup and roll down the neck volume knob, the bridge pickup stops making noise.
I've been thinking about replacing the hardware with actually good components and gold plated stuff, I want to make it look like Bocchi's Les Paul.
You've probably seen this guitar a couple times in my youtube channel. Recorded a ton of shit with it, not disappointed despite all the funny flaws it has.

OQAN 16 GB??? No fucking idea why they decided to name it that way but I find it funny. This acoustic guitar was a gift from my grandma btw.
ANYWAYS it sounds (again) dark as fuck, which combined with my NEEWER microphone means that I have to boost the treble by like fucking 30dB.
I love having to clean up and filter out hissing and noisy signals from my guitar takes, really gives it that true genuine original analog vibe fr.
(for legal and moral reasons I have to admit that was a joke)
The guitar's body is caving in where the sound hole is and the neck is bending in a weird fucking way so yay no high notes for me lmao.
Apart from all of that, it's a neat acoustic guitar and I've recorded a fuck ton of shit with it.

TIPS AND TRICKS!!!

The "Random Ideas" Folder

this one has saved my ass so many times istg.
basically, every time i get inspired (like come up with a melody or something dumb but catchy), i just record it real quick using my guitar or piano and toss it into a folder called "Random Ideas".
so later, if i'm workin on a track and suddenly don't know what the hell to do next, i just pop open that folder, pick something random, and slap it into the song.
give it a few months (or years tbh) and you'll have a massive ass arsenal of ideas to pull from.

EXAMPLES!!!

Sorry if the volume is super inconsistent ;w;

some random guitar improv i did at 4am that eventually became Lost Freedom.

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cool clavinet riff that I later ended up turning into an Impact Soundworks Altera Keys demo.

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cool tune i made for someone in my highschool. they were making a game. it never got finished.

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some random 'Robo-Battle-Fight' inspired song that later ended up as an Impact Soundworks GameVerb demo

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The "Save It & Forget" Technique

ok imagine you're messing around, maybe doing a cover or just jamming on your instrument, and you stumble on something that sounds good
like it's genuinely cool, but you've got no clue what to do with it.
so you save it. and forget about it.
then one day, you HAVE to make a song (maybe it's for someone important or for some deadline) but nothing is working. you're stuck as hell.
THAT'S when that one random forgotten project comes in clutch. it's already half-produced, all you gotta do is open it, tweak half the shit, and boom: new song.
this one's saved my ass too, more than i wanna admit.

EXAMPLES!!!

cool wah-wah bass lil tune i made that later got turned into a Impact Soundworks Shreddage Darkwall demo

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cover that I made of Doom 2's Into Sandy's City that later ended up re-making into an Impact Soundworks Shreddage Argent demo

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some random Danganronpa-ish inspired song that later ended up as an Impact Soundworks Shreddage E-Upright Demo demo

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another Danganronpa-ish inspired song that later ended up as an Impact Soundworks Shreddage E-Upright Demo demo

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