Best products from r/AudioProductionDeals
We found 4 comments on r/AudioProductionDeals discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 4 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.
1. Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio (Sound On Sound Presents...)
- Focal Press
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2. ROLI Seaboard Rise 49 49 Key Keyboard Controller
- Every movement is musical | Shape sounds with 5D Touch on the Seaboard RISE’s expressive surface. Strike, glide, slide, press and lift off with your fingers to bring your musical ideas to life
- Explore a universe of sound | Seaboard RISE pairs with desktop software that includes hundreds of sounds, from strings and synths to drums and guitars. They’re custom made for 5D Touch
- Add more control with Touch Faders | The Press, Glide, and Slide Touch Faders let you adjust the touch-responsiveness of the Seaboard RISE interface
- An interface you can grasp | Simple is beautiful. Knobs, wheels, cords and clutter are gone. In its place is a sleek, simplified interface that is totally intuitive. It’s all based on touch
- Beautifully crafted | ROLI Rise 49 has a sleek, intuitive design comprised of premium materials. It features ROLI's signature SEA interface technology, which integrates sensors and a silicone surface
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3. Sennheiser HD 650 Open Back Professional Headphone
- Specially designed acoustic silk ensures precision damping over the entire frequency range and helps to reduce THD to an incredible 0.05 percent
- Improved frequency response is 10 39,500 Hertz ( 10 dB)
- Hand selected matched driver elements; Highly optimized magnet systems for minimum harmonic and inter modulation distortion
- High power neodymium magnets deliver maximum efficiency; 3.5 millimetre jack plug. Frequency response (Headphones):10 41000 Hz
- Lightweight aluminum voice coils for very fast transient response
- Cable length 118 inches
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4. Stylophone Retro Pocket Synth
- Miniature stylus operated synthesizer is a recreation of the 1967 classic
- 5 Octaves. Optional vibrato effect
- Tuning knob on bottom allows you tune the Stylophone or do pitch-bend effects
- Built in speaker with volume control, Optional headphone jack
- Line Out (3.5mm)
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Please tell more about your current situation (budget, experience with music, the digital audio workstation that you use, do you compose music or just mix music etc.) so that anyone can help you better.
Most important advice is don't buy anything yet, because spending any amounts of money on something you know nothing about is a really bad choice in the audio realm.
The reason I say this is because you can get away with a lot for free if this is just a small hobby to you and you have a small budget. There's three things you need to have in order, before you even consider buying third party audio plugins:
I ask these because I don't want to recommend anything before I'm sure how new to this you really are. There are a lot of free software around (especially plugins) that some argue are even better than most paid ones -- plugins that'll get you 80-90% of the quality of paid ones -- but buying plugins is mostly done in consideration of the preference of workflow, genre and "that extra something" that free plugins don't have.
There's a book that I recommend for you and anyone new to mixing and it's called "Mixing Screts for the Small Studio (2nd ed.) by Mike Senior. The long awaited 2nd edition just came out a few months ago and it's probably the best book about mixing right now. It will go more in depth about mixing at home than any reddit comment, so consider buying it before any plugins. His website also has a ton of free multitrack files for mixing practice that even I do weekly just for fun and to learn new plugins. I've studied music technology and film audio for a combined 8 years and it's still a very helpful resource.
TL;DR Don't buy plugins yet, tell what you use to make music with and buy the book linked above to get started on learning how to mix.
It’s never too early to go MPE and add more expression to your music! Good savings on the Seaboard RISE 49 model too, $879 is best price I’ve seen for a new one in awhile, outside of refurbished deals (like Amazon Warehouse currently has a $627 one listed “acceptable” https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01B2PI2Y2/ref=sr_1_4_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1542816164&sr=8-4&keywords=seaboard+rise )
This was interesting to me at first glance, but is it really much of a deal? Senn HD 650s are $320 on Amazon right now and might go lower during black friday sales, and Sonarworks Studio Edition is $250. Add in the $25 flat shipping fee for the bundle and it doesn't seem great?
edit: also, sonarworks itself went on sale for like $80 off a few months ago according to this sub's history
edit 2: also, if you just want headphones and a tool for mixing/mastering on headphones, it might be cheaper to use the headphone edition of sonarworks rather than the studio edition.
or get a stylophone for even cheaper?