FL Studio Tips and Tricks

[LILW]

Sup Yall, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that I use when I begin a new track. If any one else has any nice techniques that you use to get the best performance out of FL Studio, feel free to share them with everyone.

Well, here are some insider notes when using FL Studio to create tracks:

1. Have you ever noticed how professional producers get the "punch" out of their tracks...well if you want that same type of sound, try using kicks that have a "bounce" feel to them and layer them on top of some deep type kicks. Once you have layered all the kicks together add a Multiband compressor with the Mastering 2.4 preset and "poof" you have your very own kick

2. Try to avoid using FL Studio's plug in presets. It limits you to what only may be something that you may not want. However, when using the tip such as tip 1 it can be good. Sometimes it is good to use the presets and sometimes it is not. It's up to you whether or not you want to learn about the "true" power of FL studio or not

I have a few more tips on using FL Studio's "true" power but I can't think of them right now so if anyone else has any tips on FL studio please feel free to post them because I know everyone can use them, at least anyone that uses FL Studio.

 

[open mind]

eq every ***** channel dont move on to the next sound if u dont have the sound u want.

 

[BeatAssassin]

Yes, that true inded but there are other elements also that other producer do. I recommend you do you. In any track drums do play a major role. Especially in the south. THose layered 808, crisp Clap, rolling snare that sound lick a machine gun. These sound are easy to make you just got ot learn how to work you mixers and tweak your sounds. These tip are good to share but it's better if you experimant with your sound. I experiment with mine all the time. FL is a powerful tool and I would never say that it limited with it plug-ins. You just got to learn how to use them and make sure you have the right acoustic treatment in your studio to hear the differences. Peace

 

[Nuff B]

i always eq my main mixer track and put a filter and stereoenhancer till i get that quality never layer drums though just eq till i get that punch

 

[sYgMa]

^^^^I Dont know about that one, dog... actually I think it's better to assign eacch instrument (or a set of instrument... like all the kicks you used) on individual mixer tracks. That way you have better control over what the final result is when you use the EQ, compressor, and all the extras...

 

[AMG]

1. Drum layering...i.e. layer the same kick to make it loud/thump(two separate channels with the same kick drum and pattern).
2. Create a Layer...if you want each individual drum sound on a single channel. this is an alternate to FPC or other VSTs.
3. Render mixer track(s). It's kind of like resampling. You can render a sound with any efx, filter, etc. so you can eq drums and other sounds to your own specs then save them as is.

p.s. sticky this thread

 

[open mind]

Bangin' Drums Trick

if u got trouble making your kick/bassdrum bang or your snare bang or the whole ****** drums as a whole.then besides eqin' n compressing pump up the volume of them n make them loudest elements in your mix n maybe a soft DISTORTION FX! of course not over the 0 dB mark and the problem is gone away like a soft wind.

JPMG

 

[5th Sequence]

Layering drums are good if you can do it right. Don't layer the same drum sound over itself, change one of them somehow. Lower the pitch or something, if you ahve the same drum sound playing twice you can run into some phase cancellation issues.

open mind, EQ every channel? Use EQ if the sound needs it. Mind you, most sounds need it but dont reach for the EQ out of habit. As far as not moving on to the next sound until you have the sound you want, why would you do that? It'd be better to add in your sounds and have a general idea of where everything is EQwise, an then when you have all of the elements in your mix done then you can EQ everything relative to all of the other sounds.

Just sayin, if you EQ somethin so it's "perfect" an then add another instrument, that new instruments frequencies will fuck up all the EQ work you just did. I'd recommend EQing as you go and refining everything as you add and subtract instruments.

And to add to what you said on your last post open mind, you can also lower the volume of all the other instruments besides the drums to make the drums appear louder without maxing out your headroom.

 

[Relic]

Anyone else have any tricks? Say using the slicer?