Home Studio Tracks for TV?

[Russell Landwehr]

Great advice from our peers in the above replies.

Just do it. Spend time participating in the TAXI Forums, specially Peer to Peer.
Join TAXI and submit stuff to listings. THAT'S part of "just doing it"

One quick note about those "swooshes" and stuff you hear in TV shows. Very seldom are those part of the musical composition. Those are usually put in there by the show's editor. About the only time you want to put those in is if it fits the composition musically. There are some genres that use "risers" and "impacts" (Google those), so those genres would be a time to use those fx musically. There are plenty of "loop" libraries where you can find those pretty cheap.
That being said, the most useful sfx in Cue composition are reverse cymbals and/or cymbal swells... But once again, they must be used musically and sparingly.

Russell Landwehr

[eeoo]

I would add that adding swooshes and sfx and such to your cues would more likely be a deal breaker because the timing would have to be spot on for it to work so unless your actually scoring to picture you'd just be shooting in the dark.

[leejohnson]

HI everyone,

wow what a great bunch of replies! As mentioned I was here in the forum for a few years around '07, '08, '09 ish...and its great to be back! I appreciate all your comments, advice and help! I will get busy working on these items.

Does anyone have good suggestions specifically for sample packs to add "risers", "lifters" and or "reverse cymbal splashes"? I have been investigating and those are the sounds I believe i hear in many of the recordings on tv. Of course I can google or youtube to get more info, but if anyone has recommendations about specific sample packs they have found useful, that would be great too.

Also drum sounds...I upgraded to EZ drummer 2, and considered upgrading to Superior recently, but wondered about what options any "track guys" might have for me?

Once again, thanks all, I will process all this info and use your suggestions!

PS Anyone interested in collaborations / co writing, especially to target an upcoming listing, feel free to get in touch. Im good at lyrics, and music, putting a song together, even tracking engineer. I can make decent home demos, to illustrate the song, but Im not the best vocalist, or mix engineer/producer for final mixes. I'd like to co write with people who have those skills.

Best,
Lee

Lee Johnson
303 442 2379
lee@leejohnsonsongs.com
www.leejohnsonsongs.com

[lesmac]

Also drum sounds...I upgraded to EZ drummer 2, and considered upgrading to Superior recently, but wondered about what options any "track guys" might have for me?

I'd stick with Superior Drummer to match EZDrummer's midi mapping.

[andygabrys]

Lee,

what is your preferred recording medium? Computer? which DAW do you use? There is often a lot of stuff built in that makes getting third party stuff not so necessary.

for risers / lifters check some youtube videos. Some of that stuff can be made organically with stuff you have. Or you can look at some stuff like http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... /rise-hit/ which is more cinematic and less Pop - but the same kinds of things are only a Google search away.

Also - anything "reversed" can be done in any DAW, as long as you commit the sound to audio if its a virtual instrument. Then you reverse it (a command in most audio editing parts of your DAW) and bob's your uncle.

HI everyone,

wow what a great bunch of replies! As mentioned I was here in the forum for a few years around '07, '08, '09 ish...and its great to be back! I appreciate all your comments, advice and help! I will get busy working on these items.

Does anyone have good suggestions specifically for sample packs to add "risers", "lifters" and or "reverse cymbal splashes"? I have been investigating and those are the sounds I believe i hear in many of the recordings on tv. Of course I can google or youtube to get more info, but if anyone has recommendations about specific sample packs they have found useful, that would be great too.

Also drum sounds...I upgraded to EZ drummer 2, and considered upgrading to Superior recently, but wondered about what options any "track guys" might have for me?

Once again, thanks all, I will process all this info and use your suggestions!

PS Anyone interested in collaborations / co writing, especially to target an upcoming listing, feel free to get in touch. Im good at lyrics, and music, putting a song together, even tracking engineer. I can make decent home demos, to illustrate the song, but Im not the best vocalist, or mix engineer/producer for final mixes. I'd like to co write with people who have those skills.

Best,
Lee

Lee Johnson
303 442 2379
lee@leejohnsonsongs.com
http://www.leejohnsonsongs.com

[TheElement]

for risers I like The Riser vst. it sits well in mixes.
http://www.airmusictech.com/product/the ... yP0IIQrLIU

you can find decent risers in some sample packs but you got to search a lot. I use http://www.producerloops.com

also the Rise & Hit vst from N.I. is suppose to be awesome. I want to get that next.

[mojobone]

I don't have tons of placements, but would like to suggest that the criteria for production music is that the music can be considered useful, so everything you do should be done with the end user in mind. Tracks that are too busy or virtuoso, lacks genre identity and have too many elements in it that are distracting for the use, the end user have in mind, will not fly well. So, it can be helpful to understand your role as a service provider, where good = useful. What various end users consider useful, varies, though, so that's where knowledge of genres, genre elements, "a la's" and expectations comes in handy.

This is an outstanding post. I shoulda noticed, sooner, but I've grown to expect such from Magne.