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Beard Science

By endojo on March 5, 2026 1:07 pm

I went against the rules a little this week, but for decent reason. After all, it's my journey.

I had completed this song late last week. But after talking with some of you on Discord, I learned some VERY basic understanding of limiters, compressors, and EQ - to make my songs sound more "full".

The obvious goal here is a waveform that looks like a sausage. While I don't have quite a "sausage" yet, I'm proud to say the overall volume, control, and clarity improved greatly with this hotdog. All with your help.

I didn't spend an entire week trying to "master this", and will continue posting on schedule from here out. But since I had never touched ReaEQ or ReaLimit before, I felt like taking an extra couple days to get a working understanding of these features was a good idea. Especially with a song I was recently familiar with.

Working on this next week's song, I am already adding these tweaks in a pretty quick fashion. The way I think about it, I'm gathering pieces to an endless puzzle of music.

With where I am in life and with my new found focus, you all are helping me excel back into a world that I had missed for a very long time. Thank you for listening, and thanks for all the support on Discord.

(I'm really proud of the actual beat on this one. I really tried to make the two patterns sound well together, while throwing you in and out of different worlds. I love when two unique songs/ideas end up flowing together)

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March 9, 2026 7:36 pm

djippy

I like the the bass line with the drums. Fun little laugh on the background. smile

And yeah, compressors - limiters are very useful tools but you can kill transients as well with it and it is easy to make it worse...

Good luck experimenting. What works good for me is LOTS of compression, but using a Slow (ish) attack setting to let the transients in (for drums especially). Something I do as well to even everything up is to "stack" compressors one after the other, so you can add a couple db of compression times X. You end up with a crap load of compression, but without too much pumping - weird colors to the initial source.

Have fun!

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March 11, 2026 11:09 am

Dustsucker

Sweet, I like the heavy bass taking center stage for a big part of this track. The scat-singing is a fun addition and adds some lighthearted energy, as well as some cool effects to keep things interesting. Nice one!

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March 12, 2026 7:39 pm

AdB

That’s some very nice thumpy kick! I also enjoyed the fuzziness of the Rhodes kinda bass. As someone who also struggles a lot with EQ and compression I am rooting for you big_smile

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March 12, 2026 7:49 pm

endojo

djippy wrote:

I like the the bass line with the drums. Fun little laugh on the background. smile

And yeah, compressors - limiters are very useful tools but you can kill transients as well with it and it is easy to make it worse...

Good luck experimenting. What works good for me is LOTS of compression, but using a Slow (ish) attack setting to let the transients in (for drums especially). Something I do as well to even everything up is to "stack" compressors one after the other, so you can add a couple db of compression times X. You end up with a crap load of compression, but without too much pumping - weird colors to the initial source.

Have fun!

You know, I got tunnel vision on limiters. I didn't use a single compressor... I've got more work to do. Thank you for this! I've been paying attention at the wrong time in class.



Dustsucker wrote:

Sweet, I like the heavy bass taking center stage for a big part of this track. The scat-singing is a fun addition and adds some lighthearted energy, as well as some cool effects to keep things interesting. Nice one!

I loved the bass sound on this. Thank you! And I tried to do something totally different for the scat singing part. Was one of those things when two different sounding ideas worked well together.

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March 12, 2026 7:58 pm

endojo

AdB wrote:

That’s some very nice thumpy kick! I also enjoyed the fuzziness of the Rhodes kinda bass. As someone who also struggles a lot with EQ and compression I am rooting for you big_smile

❤️ Your support is really what matters! The kick is actually sampled from my from drums. I just put it into a sampler. You are welcome to it!

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March 17, 2026 11:33 pm

tuyieu.beats

Groovy science here. Really there m8, keep up- cheers!!! lvd the swingin'

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March 20, 2026 1:12 pm

endojo

tuyieu.beats wrote:

Groovy science here. Really there m8, keep up- cheers!!! lvd the swingin'

Thank you for the encouragement! Glad you enjoyed it. ❤️

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