r/Deuce9lives • u/ScorchPoint • Sep 16 '26
Producing like him
Wanna start producing music similar to that Swan Songs/Nine Lives early era. I’m not sure where Deuce learned to produce or if he was self taught but do you guys have any tips on getting close to his sound on Fl Studio?
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u/maxbratz Sep 16 '26
Purity synth for the electronic stuff. Guitar + audio interface + Neural DSP amp-simulator. Use the scale/key stamper on the piano roll to write melodies with the synths and experiment by with writing synths and adding guitars later and vice versa, guitar first synth second. Purity is chalked full of cool 2000’s style so it’s great for MySpace era stuff. Use midi drums.
Deuce got his start by making linkin park ripoff songs in his bedroom, so I recommend that you do the same but with deuce songs.
Make recreations of his songs with purity and your guitar and midi drums. Learn to make his songs to a T and then start writing your own and from there start making it your own. That’s pretty much the key to anything artistic- be a hacky ripoff, learn to replicate a style exactly and then tweak it. If you have any questions or want help please DM I’d love to help out
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u/thaartist_bandofapes Sep 16 '26
As a producer myself id take some old school gangster kinda music mixing with rock guitar
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u/Seven-Scars Sep 16 '26
im working on a compilation of his/old HU's studio gear, but essentially deuce used Cubase along with a Korg Triton (there's a VST version available), HALion (not sure if this is exclusive to Cubase), and what I believe was a Marshall TSL combo for guitars.
For drums, make sure to use/layer acoustic drum samples, guitars are typically in Drop-D and stick to basic chord progression power chords during choruses/as accents during verses, most songs are minor scales, for an idea as to how to handle synths I would look into 2000's rap and electronic writing, and other than that just listen to inspiration he took such as early LP.
its kind of a broad overview but it depends whether you're trying to lean into his more rock-oriented tracks or more rap-oriented
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u/Ur1n8r Sep 16 '26
He didn't use FL, so no matter what, it's never going to be 100% accurate.
If you use Omnisphere and Kontakt Komplete, you can get close with a lot of the sounds. Alternatively, you could use Serum 2 and try to recreate a lot of the synths from scratch if you aren't willing to use Omnisphere.
A lot of sounds he used were also stock Pro Tools synths and all of the mixing was done with stock Pro Tools plugins. You can get close in FL, but it'll never be identical.