In your opinion, what separates a good sound designer from a great one in today’s industry?
I think there is definitely an art in simplicity with this. I’m sure we’ve all scrolled through countless presets looking for the right Supersaw, Reese, pluck, etc and often find ourselves going back to the ones we always use. That’s totally okay. There’s a reason that we use the same presets in some of our songs, because they sound great.
On another note, we love to see artists and producers innovate and push the envelope with insane processing and massive effect buses and are totally here for that as well.
Artists like The Caracal Project, for example, have super interesting sound design and I think push the boundaries of traditional bass music. We love seeing artists like this continuously push the envelope.
Pro tip from Flight School: Use mix templates. Templates are essential when creating new tracks. We have a few different ones we use based on what we are creating. Each one of them has custom groups (bass, FX, Synths, etc) with custom processing on each so we can get things rolling quickly. These templates also have basic cue markers and custom drum programming in each section.
