We all had to start somewhere. And I’m willing to bet a lot of you have some terrible first productions somewhere on your HD that your embarrassed of. So let’s hear 'em! This isn’t meant to talk to trash. It’s supposed to be funny. If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?
My first “real” production was a remix of a remix of the song “Calbria” (or however it’s spelled). Notice the use of default FL drum samples and incorrect hits of claps/snares. LOL.
(Note that I used the artist name “Lammy” because that’s what my friends used to call me in high school… and still do actually).
Well I am about to finish an EP in the studio with a friend, but for my own hand made stuff I have had Ableton about 5 weeks, and oddly enough been playing around with a tune in my head, which i am making, will stick that up on soundcloud so you can have a giggle at it lol!
I am going to dig out the old hard drives from the early 90s.
The first production I did was with wav editor and recorder on a PC. Didn’t know crap about gear(still don’t know much).
I used to get CDs load tracks up in the wav editor.
Cut out the loops I wanted, and samples.
Record a new wav, and hand fire the loops and samples.
Because of memory and hd limitations, you had to keep deleting excess piece that you weren’t using at the time to keep the system from crashing, even if you might plan to use them again.
Do this like 40-50 times to make one 5-6 minute track, that sucked.
omg you guys started out great lol. “Kard5 On Fire” as we used to be called, started with magix music maker 12 ! Thankfully we moved onto Reason and the 100 gigs of refills. Now im Mx Almond and He’s SeanDubs. lol
Word to the wise, it might be a bit offensive. Its called fat bitch. Enjoy !
ps: DennisJ i was rockin out to “untitaled.” its now on my ipod
This is my first ever track, made in November 2007 while I was visiting my parents on furlough (lol I just looked that word up) from my military service in the middle of the dark and cold north swedish woods. Bored as hell, I downloaded FL Studio and fiddled for two days…
my first track I released in 1993 I only have the vinyl version of that lol, once I move house on the 27th I will have my decks set up again and rip it to MP3 so you can giggle at that and the stuff I am working on now lol
Check the myspace link at the bottom for some later tracks from that year. Its still Garageband only stuff but also infinitely better and the buildups are totally dance worthy.
I’m going to invest in Abelton Suite and a MIDI controller soon I think and just go nuts since Garageband has pretty much maxed out its usefulness to me, but still funny to see where i started out.
Listened to everything posted, glad to hear them too. Could tell a similar feeling when I was new. Dunno about you, but just finishing was a great achievement…rough spots be damned.
…crud, had to delete the tracks based on getting some audience traffic soon. Don’t need them clicking those by mistake
To be fair you should use that chord progression, chop the song up and craft it into a funky house song. That’s what was in my head when I listened to your track.
Definitely going to have to look out my trainwrecks lol
haha I wish I had mine too! I fooled around in FL Studio years ago but the files are all gone now and the audio CDs as well. I made myself 80-min LPs… there was a lot of material. all of it terrible!
Man digging this stuff out is a flashback. Here is the first track I did that was an actual song. Done with the original FL. Man it sounds like its in the mud.
I agree with 6string, just getting something finished was a painfully long process at first.
this is one hours work and i had no plan of nothing.. hold your speakers!
