Music in a ton of genres. I may or may not be a bit stuck in the 90's...
(On second thought, I probably am)
Made music under this alias since 2013, although I've been at it since 1999.
A lot of my music here is experimental in it's nature,
hard to categorize it under existing genres.
There is always a hint of my "sound" or my "thing" in all music I make,
no matter the alias or genre.
There's a lot of artists I look up to for inspiration, and,
just as the music I make, I also listen to all kinds of music.
Literally everything from Mozart to the heaviest of heavy metal.
Feel free to use any of my music for your own purposes.
As long as you attribute, you're in the clear.
Keep in mind that you do need your own license for the remixes / covers.
In terms of YouTube content ID it's a bit of a legal grayzone,
since YouTube takes care of it.
Oh, and I am registered at a P.R.O, as are all my songs.
For those wondering, I do have a daytime job, working in IT.
Music I've made and listen to
Sections:
Songs
Albums
The Early Works
Progress
Playlists
(YouTube)
I currently listen to
(Tidal playlists)
Click this stuff
> Go to the top > Music > Songs > Albums > Playlists
> I listen to > Find me! > How? > Gear / Hardware
> Software > Songwriting / Production > Site
Find me on all the places!
How the whatta what?
If you want the nerdy, geeky explanations on how I do stuff,
this is where you'll find it.
Sections:
Gear / Hardware
Main studio computer setup:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X,
Motherboard: ASRock B450M Pro4,
RAM: 128GB DDR4,
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB)
OS(s): Windows 10 Pro, Debian 11 Bullseye (KDE DE)
3 crappy monitors (3rd on top) and mechanical kb, high-dpi mouse
2nd studio computer setup:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700,
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H-CF,
RAM: 64GB DDR4,
GPU: Nvidia GTX 960 (4GB)
OS(s): Ubuntu 20.04 (Unity DE), Debian 11 Bullseye (LXDE DE)
2 crappy monitors (2nd vertical) and mechanical kb, high-dpi mouse
Studio hardware:
Ferrofish Pulse 16 AD/DA Converter,
MOTU 112D AVB interface,
Roland MX-1 mixer,
Lexicon Alpha interface,
2 DBX 286 preamps
Surrounding gear:
Røde NT-1, Shure SM57 mics & Nikabe M-2 mics,
Nektar Impact 61 master keyboard,
Samson Graphite 25 midi keyboard / controller,
KRK Rokit 5 (some old gen) monitors,
Sony MDR 7506 studio headphones,
2 sets of crappy Creative speakers for referencing,
Palmer Pocket Amp MK2 Guitar Preamp,
Fender Rumble 150 bass amp,
Roland RP102 digital piano,
Some random Ibanez P bass (sounds amazing),
Epiphone G-400 WC SG electric guitar,
Cort acoustic guitar,
An 80 year-old Ballalajka for some reason
Software
Ardour,
Bitwig,
Ableton Live,
Sony ACID,
Izotope RX7,
Reason,
Audacity (of course),
Last but not least:
FL Studio that I've been using since 1999 (My main DAW)
Songwriting / Production
So it usually starts by finding a cool sample (I have like 8 terabytes haha)
or coming up with a cool melody on whatever instrument.
Then I just go, like for hours until it's basically done.
Outside world doesn't exist during that lol.
Whether I find a cool sample or come up with a melody,
it goes straight in to FL (most of the time) as quickly as possible.
Mixing and arrangement is usually done in parallel as the projects grows.
Final touchups and tweaks I do later or the next day.
When that's done it's time for mastering;
I first gain-stage to make sure nothing clips,
usually some form of tape simluation / saturation comes in here.
Oh, and EQ-ing of course.
Final steps I do differently for each song,
Sometimes I just slap on a soft limiter in Audacity and normalize.
Other times I bring it over to Ardour and use the awesome Calf compressors for limiting.
I always take off below 20 Hz and above 20 kHz before final limiting.
And I always normalize to -1dB true peak (the standard that all the platforms want).
Site
This site is made completely made with HTML & CSS (Apache with SSI backend),
no bloody scripts needed for 100% functionality.
I do use Google Analytics, but that's purely to measure traffic,
to find out if any infrastructure changes need to be made,
not needed to use the site.
I've also strived to make the site as small and efficient as possible,
all images for example, are either svg or webp, only taking up a few K each.
The site is not advanced by any definition,
took a while to make because of.. um.. life.
Some parts are indeed lazily made, still unsure about the blue text for example,
suggestions for improvements / ideas are welcome: > contact@sugar95.com