this song's mixing and mastering breakdown

what the heck, buy it right now, if the mic is weird you can throw it at some rich people and then take their wallets and buy another mic while they're dazed

😂 haha, I didn't yet get my payment for the website. mostly by next week I'm might get it. So I will buy fl studio first then decide about the mic

you wrote an invoice, right?

yes, I did. It's a school's website. So it might take a while. Mode of payment is bank transfer.

they always take a while if you don't hound the fucking AP guy and get on the next check release... or whatever it is in this case. big organizations always take their sweet time with solo contractors, I think they wanna see if they can get away with not paying at all.... that's what record labels used to do to the bigger studios I worked at. if the and's management didn't book you directly and pay up front for a lockout with advance the label would just enver write you a check for the balance ebyond the initial deposit if the band already ahd the masters. but if you held the masters hsotage for payment it would get around no one would book you. I have a rpetty dim view of corporations business practices when it comes to dealing with any smaller entity or self employed people.

https://www.ableton.com/en/shop/live/ Ableton Live 9 Intro is cheaper than Fl Studio producer. I have AL 9 Lite. Can you suggest which one to choose?

I like FL but most of my friends like Ableton ebtween the 2. I've been with FL sicne it was just a beatbox in version 1 or 2 in the 90s so i am sued to it and I am totally happy I don't have to slave it to Cubase anymore with rewire like I sued to, just more to glitch out. Its an integrated recording, VST hsoting and MIDI solution as longas you don't need to do serious multitracking of live band stuff. My impression of ableton is absed on a demo copy I got of ver1 way abck in teh day at winter NAMM in anaheim when it wasn't even available to buy yet, so I have no diea, but it turned me off when I took it home and tried it and I enver looked back, man. But people who are discovering it now that its old and established and has all the eblls and whistles love it. ISo if its cheaper then go for it sicne you aren't really tied to either way of doing thigns yet anyway. Whatever you get will be your home base and seem normal to you after a year.

Can you please compare the features of those two, which one will be the best...leave the price though. But I want to buy the best one...which has good feature...Ableton come with some limitations I think.

Can you please compare the features of those two,

not really, I just tried to answer this and was like "wtf, nothign i said makes sense to me now that I read it back. Maybe the request was too broad? DELETE!" Just pick one, learn it and own it. They are both popular because they both do the same basic stuff just in different ways.

but the costing is different, when you come to fl studio producer you get everything like full fledged daw, but ableton live intro gives you limited number of tracks 16 midi and 16 audio and only 8 scenes. Though that would be enough for now. But later that might be less and fl studio doesn't limit tracks. FLP is twice the rate of AL Intro but AL Standard is 21/2 times the rate of FLP. So if I want to upgrade from Ableton it would be more costly but FL studio there's no need for upgrade it's already complete daw. And FL Studio is the first DAW I used and I like it's UI more than Ableton's.

And FL Studio is the first DAW I used and I like it's UI more than Ableton's.

then you answered your own conundrum, Nikhil.... you used FL when you firsts tarted, think producer is ebtter bang for buck and you just liked it when you used it before? then buy it. You have my permission tos top worrying about it and chill the fuck out.

haha, yea...thanks for helping me out 😁 Now I should wait till the payment. Until then my hunt for low budget mic will not stop 😂

Couldn't agree more. Just about every DAW out there can get it done these days. Jim's in FL & I'm Ableton and it makes no difference. It's more about making the DAW you pick your bitch.

wait...

Isn't Bitwig crazy cheap?

Like cheaper than just about everyone? It's Ableton-esk" is you're wondering. At least thats what i gather. Looks interesting-trippy GUI.

Jim-

Who talks smack on AT? The make a bunch of great stuff. That was my bread & butter in the early days but I still use them now.

AudioTechnica was what finally got me off of the 57's & 58's tit.

https://www.bitwig.com/en/bitwig-studio/bitwig-studio-2 << not at all it's $400, btw...xaqary what do you think of ableton live intro edition? It's cheap and I can afford an interface and a mic if I choose that.

Jim seems like he knows you better but I'll take a stab at it.

I was a raised on tape, then ProTools, then Garage Band/Logic, then finally Ableton.

My music was never fundementally changed by what I used to record with soon as I got to digital. It was changed much more by how MUCH time I spent recording. That's where the real pay off is.

I say that because it speaks to the point that's most important-

Your choice, if I was to offer any advice- Do whatever will get you able to record as soon as possible!

If that's Ableton, sweet. Don't waste another minute. Go out & grab yer copy of Ableton, a mic, & an interface. Do it now.

Learn your way around Ableton & your mic so well you know where to put your mic for best results on anything you wanna do in the dark.

You'll want all 3 no question (DAW, mic, interface) & if it helps I absolutely love Ableton.

That said? If Fruity Loops or any other DAW was the fastest way to get you into recording I'd say get that one.

I hope the next post we see from you is you super psyched cuz you just finished your 1st recording with your new gear.

Welcome to the rest of your life. I haven't looked back since i was recording into one portable stereo then playing it back while recording onto another so I could get 2 whole tracks!

I was thinking of fl but the $99 edition doesn't have audioi clips and recording in it. Which is very very sad. But on the other hand ableton's $99 Intro has audio clips and recording. Only the upgrade costs more. I was thinking to buy USB mic. But if I rent a good mic in future then I might need an Audio Interface. I'm still in that dilemma. And I will be thinking until I get some gear. 😁

My List for now is:

Ableton Live Intro, Focusrite Scarlett Solo, Behringer C-1. http://www.amazon.in/Behringer-C-1-Studio-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B000CZ0RLK?tag=googinhydr18418-21&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=94886aa6-3adc-44bc-98a4-53be0f446a68

how's it?

Jim might yell at me again for thinking so much 😁

I understad it's tough to save up cash to get yourself a rig.

I also think that "fear of missing out" can make the choice feel really weighty. What's the best choice? The "well this option offers this, but the other offers that." arguement is a series of diminishing reterns (you get less and less for every effort). Particularly when 1st starting out.

I'm tellin' ya. Music has been epic long before any of this stuff existed. Every genre you can think of. The people killing it today? Check their influences. They're mostly people who worked with faaaar less options.

Hell, I toured the US multipule times on albums I recorded in Garage Band. Not 10 years ago, fairly recently.

With all these killer tools & options out there now it even feels paralyizing to me at times. Ask Jim. We private message all the time about the merits of this vs. that but...well until you've got some experience you've no real way to weigh the merits if this vs. that.

It really just comes down to you wanna make music. Everyday you wait to decide is a day kinda lost. A day you could have been recording.

The options, the bells & whistles? They fall into the background so fuckin' fast once you start creating. Those options can take tons of time to even know how to use effectivly anyway.

I'm tellin' ya. You're over thinkin' it. Standard DAW's these days come with more options than you could hope to learn as a beginner before you've long since saved up for an upgrade. You're focused on the product 1st & music second. There's just not as big of a differece as you think. Or at the very least you're over estimating them.

This a powerful platform man. I've stayed out of a lot if the "what should I do insert blank" threads because I see seasoned pros offering fantastic advice only to have it ignored & watch the origonal poster slip back into dithering & indecision...

Yes, you really are. Read my last post...the last paragraph in particular.

hmm...yea 😅 you are right. I should probably not think much.

Heck, I forgot about pro tools | First. It's a free full fledged daw but limited to only 3 projects in cloud.