As a producer having learnt these lessons myself the hard way over the last 12+ years, trust me guys this dude knows his stuff. Really great insights and very important info for new producers/working musicians.
I listened to the entire video and I totally agree that people get lost in looking for plugins and knowledge and forget to make music. I did the same thing over and over again. Some of the most successful people out there have the crappiest music ever but they have build a brand and connections. Certainly they have the ability to sell their brand.
"If you wanna know if you've got it in you or not, look at your daily habits, not your current skill level.". Thanks man, this is exactly what I needed to hear
I'm getting my first MIDI controler in a few days (61 keys, the bigger the better I assumed) have no idea what DAW I will use (never used a DAW before) but thinking about Ableton because it seems to be the norm. What moves me is a tremendous passion for bonechilling melodic/ hypnotic techno dance music (for some reason, I already know that my bpm will be 128-130). I have a long history of not finishing things but I hope this passion will keep me going until I'm able to produce the tracks that I envision now. I know it's hardwork and perseverance and I've been postponing this for a while now but I'm 27 and feel like this is the time. Wish me luck!
Eating lunch at my studio computer, listening to this and frantically and guiltily closing all my 'plugins to buy' tabs that are open in my browser :) 100% great advice!
Priceless information. There's a book that might help everyone who watched this to understand what you said about connections and relationships with people and it's called "How to make friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. Gold value.
About 8 years ago, i ripped that video to mp3 for later and randomly listened to it in my car. I think some of the stuff you talk about is the reason I kept persistent at producing and prevented me from quitting a few times. I now realize this 14mn48sec was behind so many of my accomplishments, getting gigs, big editorial playlist placements and signing to dream labels in the deephouse/melodic/prog scene. Thanks ❤
Bruv, this is the best audio production video on youtube ... im watching it again .. its like you been in my studio ... spot on and the best advice for us bedroom guys ... i will say it again you legend ...thank you....
about number 2: on everything i love.. i get crazy inspiration every time im high, i don't know why, but it's the truth. my goal is to hear the same music while im sober but everything u say here is absolute truth.
this is honestly one of the best videos i've watched in the last 12 months. This helped me out more than yo could ever imagine. Thank you for this video it really helped me out. You earned a subscriber
Brother, you have a bottom line, straight to the point, logical thought process that is very rare. I can dig it. My favorites are the individuals that feel you HAVE to know how to play every instrument for that instrument to be present in your work. The peak state is nuts also, especially being in the military (particual jobs), having a wife, and all of the available tech around me!!! Good listen. Thanks.
Brilliant stuff. There's a severe lack of wisdom out there as far as the mental side of production and I'm glad you're here dropping truth bombs on us. People scramble for conventional production advice but don't always realize that mentality presupposes EVERYTHING, especially in creative endeavors. Will be buying your book once I'm not completely broke.
Great video. I agree with what he said about misery not being necessary for creating good music, but I wanted to comment that for me, my internal struggles, my pain and suffering, or just my internal battles in general, direct me to create things that I think only can come from the depths ive met. Not to say that knowing these dark places makes me a dark person, I am not, I am quite the opposite, but knowing those dark places makes me more dynamic. I've met with people who don't know that side and it made creating with them more difficult. If you can know the darkness and the light, it makes for a much better life and creation.
Just bought your book and i´m reading right know... and while i am reading, i have that strange feeling like you know me very well... hehe. Great Book! Thanks for that!
hey i can't find words to express how happy i found this movie ... and you are 100% right. I will only say that for the last six months I have achieved more progress drinking a glass of wine while making music than for the last 4 years getting to know the joints will help me understand and produce music ... what I heard a moment ago is one of the best advice I have ever received and I can imagine that one day someone really great can be very grateful to you for these words. THANK YOU...:)
@@innerstatejt about 4 months man, since covid, just find myself constantly running into walls and frustration but if i just sit down and grind through them Ill get past that limitation
Number 10... everybody learn from someone too everyone from another.. dont steal??!.. tell’em who u learn from.. or tell’em u learnt by ure self, if people asked u... im sorry.. i just feel like being honest to our self its so important.. for me.. but the rest.. AWESOME... thank you thank you sir... bless u..
Probably the most useful "music production" video I've watched all damn year. Thank you so much for this awesome wisdom! Great to have people out there thinking holistically, looking at the BIGGER picture rather than simply telling you which knobs to turn on your soft-synth :/ Please keep the videos coming, this really is the exact kind of advice I need right now. Love the down-to-earth yet no-nonsense tone you approach everything with too
+Samrat Bee exactly, i agree with you.. its like a textbook.. Unless the info is really outdated, U wouldnt put it down just because is old and raggety. You are gonna read it if it had what you need to get to the next level
Just watching the first two tips of this video makes me give it a thumbs up, so true about the creative process! Great advice wish I'd known it younger!
That was greats advices and quite reassuring for me because i struggle alot with getting my projects finished and sometimes it litteraly destroys me.. Im gonna buy your book in few weeks for my birthday, thanks alot
I overwhelmet myself with tutotiarls and plugins to buy and i lost my desire for making music .i made music with very little knowedge on the daw only basics and i felt amazing. Too much knowedge at fast rate can depress you so learn slowly little by little and create more with what you have! I was too ambitious in the beginning and got more real with 10 years of time.
Words of wisdom thank you. Crazy when you're new to producing and have got caught up in a overwhelming downward spiral with all the information that's out there. It can certainly swallow up any creative flow! To find this video was a huge relief! Again thank you x
The 10th point was always my problem. It was so intensiv that I have download no samples at all because I thought I need to make them all myself. I stoped it for now and hope it is getting better for now. The only good thing is that I am good at sound design now but truly I would like to have spend more time on the music itself. I am a producer for 8 years with no success at all. I made nearly zero money. But from now on I hope it changes!
this doesnt apply only to electronic music but just song writing in general whenever i don't feel like writing music i try to go for a mood or a concept. a total random one. but i still do it.
After learning all of this from personal experience, it's a great refresher to have pretty much all of it summed up in a short, concise video. Besides typical motivation, this video truly captures everything a producer may go through and really packs a punch with the advice given. This is a great video.
100% true.. been producing for about 2 years, got serious about it after my first year.. I really needed to hear about a lot of this. If youre new to production, do not take any of what he says here lightly. Everything he says here I can guarantee you is very valuable.
Very very good stuff. Throughout our lives we've been taught a certain way to learn growing up. But it's not very effective. Trust me it's what I tried to do. I focused heavily on learning all I could about producing the music I wanted to make. In fact in the end there were barely any TH-cam tutorials I didn't instantly recognize when reading the title bc I had watched them constantly....I also bought and read books and dedicated music production IOS apps to help me learn. In the end I had a lot of knowledge and could answer questions easily (u know...like u would on a test in school) and I probably seemed to be a good producer based on my knowledge.....but I couldn't finish a track to save my life. In fact I struggled to even get past the brainstorming phase bc I spent 90% of my time on learning ABOUT production instead of simply doing it. In my experience it takes 10x more discipline to open your DAW and work on music everyday than it does to watch tutorials and read books about production. Hardest part is simply getting yourself to sit down and DO IT. You always feel overwhelmed regardless of your book knowledge bc your still inexperienced.
So true... I'm an educated Sounddesigner. But even this didn't help to come out of this "i need to know more stuff"-thing. For any question i get answered, two new questions come up. And this book now helps me a lot now, to figure out, what my problem really is and to face is. It's clearly a psychological thing and i wasn't aware of that before. This book is awesome. 100% true speak.
I'm an Eno fan too. FLOOD is also amazing. I've come to these conclusions too and will probably share this video many times with people who ask me for advice.
The longer I produce, the less I use. At first I threw up to 10 plug-ins on every track and I made up to 50 tracks + in one session. Now I often use one or two plug-ins, usually a daw intern compressor and a simple eq, and sometimes hall or a delay or a saturation or a stereo enhancer. And yes, sometimes a deesser. And I try to stay under 30 tracks. For mastering I use emastered with a reference track, and usually that sounds amazing. I don't even take time for gain staging. Just produce, and than put the volume down.
really good advice! first time i see someone talk about the mental part of creating music. although im not in it for a long time yet, im glad i found myself already doing most things you pointed out! :)
As a producer having learnt these lessons myself the hard way over the last 12+ years, trust me guys this dude knows his stuff.
Really great insights and very important info for new producers/working musicians.
I listened to the entire video and I totally agree that people get lost in looking for plugins and knowledge and forget to make music. I did the same thing over and over again. Some of the most successful people out there have the crappiest music ever but they have build a brand and connections. Certainly they have the ability to sell their brand.
"If you wanna know if you've got it in you or not, look at your daily habits, not your current skill level.". Thanks man, this is exactly what I needed to hear
This video is so relevant. Found myself doing many of these. I got lost in the sauce.
lost in the sauce
Lost..
In the sauce...
let that sink in for a seccond...
Lost in the sauce
if that is not a song title idk what is
7/6/2017 The day I realized I had become lost in the sauce.
same lol
I don't know how I found this... but I needed this.
Ran D King same lol
sameee
I'm getting my first MIDI controler in a few days (61 keys, the bigger the better I assumed) have no idea what DAW I will use (never used a DAW before) but thinking about Ableton because it seems to be the norm. What moves me is a tremendous passion for bonechilling melodic/ hypnotic techno dance music (for some reason, I already know that my bpm will be 128-130). I have a long history of not finishing things but I hope this passion will keep me going until I'm able to produce the tracks that I envision now. I know it's hardwork and perseverance and I've been postponing this for a while now but I'm 27 and feel like this is the time. Wish me luck!
Eating lunch at my studio computer, listening to this and frantically and guiltily closing all my 'plugins to buy' tabs that are open in my browser :) 100% great advice!
Priceless information. There's a book that might help everyone who watched this to understand what you said about connections and relationships with people and it's called "How to make friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. Gold value.
"They are arrows pointing in the direction of your own potential" great stuff man
Obscure Machines I had to write that down, too deep
About 8 years ago, i ripped that video to mp3 for later and randomly listened to it in my car. I think some of the stuff you talk about is the reason I kept persistent at producing and prevented me from quitting a few times. I now realize this 14mn48sec was behind so many of my accomplishments, getting gigs, big editorial playlist placements and signing to dream labels in the deephouse/melodic/prog scene. Thanks ❤
5 years later I stubbles upon this audio book. Good advice never expires
The struggle is real. Great points here! I can see myself coming back to this again and again. Thanks!
Thanks for this great video! Borrowing from others and marketing yourself were the big ones for me.
Bruv, this is the best audio production video on youtube ... im watching it again .. its like you been in my studio ... spot on and the best advice for us bedroom guys ... i will say it again you legend ...thank you....
i love how its a podcast. less distracting
I needed to hear this I gotta master what I have first and not look for another gear thinking I need ah better this and that
about number 2: on everything i love.. i get crazy inspiration every time im high, i don't know why, but it's the truth. my goal is to hear the same music while im sober but everything u say here is absolute truth.
this is honestly one of the best videos i've watched in the last 12 months. This helped me out more than yo could ever imagine. Thank you for this video it really helped me out. You earned a subscriber
still some relevance till now, thank you
Excellent. Getting out of your own way.
Brother, you have a bottom line, straight to the point, logical thought process that is very rare. I can dig it. My favorites are the individuals that feel you HAVE to know how to play every instrument for that instrument to be present in your work. The peak state is nuts also, especially being in the military (particual jobs), having a wife, and all of the available tech around me!!! Good listen. Thanks.
Great advice! Just make music..the only way to get better. Just do it!!
Brilliant stuff. There's a severe lack of wisdom out there as far as the mental side of production and I'm glad you're here dropping truth bombs on us. People scramble for conventional production advice but don't always realize that mentality presupposes EVERYTHING, especially in creative endeavors. Will be buying your book once I'm not completely broke.
Best Music Production Video on TH-cam - by Far !!! - Well done Mate !!
A lot of hard truths and wisdom in this video. I only wish I had seen this much earlier, but thank you for this.
Great video. I agree with what he said about misery not being necessary for creating good music, but I wanted to comment that for me, my internal struggles, my pain and suffering, or just my internal battles in general, direct me to create things that I think only can come from the depths ive met. Not to say that knowing these dark places makes me a dark person, I am not, I am quite the opposite, but knowing those dark places makes me more dynamic. I've met with people who don't know that side and it made creating with them more difficult. If you can know the darkness and the light, it makes for a much better life and creation.
Amazing content in this video. Just bought your book and am excited to read it
Just bought your book and i´m reading right know... and while i am reading, i have that strange feeling like you know me very well... hehe. Great Book! Thanks for that!
Thanks so much for sharing Marc! Take care
this was an instant game changer for me. I really needed to hear this. Thank you
Very good points. It's like you were talking directly to me.
Listening to this while playing Warzone; quit mid-matched and fired up ableton. Thanks for this! Ordered the book.
10/05/2020 today I realised I got lost. Thank you!!!!!! Good luck brothers!
hey i can't find words to express how happy i found this movie ... and you are 100% right. I will only say that for the last six months I have achieved more progress drinking a glass of wine while making music than for the last 4 years getting to know the joints will help me understand and produce music ... what I heard a moment ago is one of the best advice I have ever received and I can imagine that one day someone really great can be very grateful to you for these words. THANK YOU...:)
Thanks for the kind words:) if you liked this, I think you’ll LOVE the whole book!
Damn number 9 hit hard
Thanks for watching & commenting. How long have you been producing?
@@innerstatejt about 4 months man, since covid, just find myself constantly running into walls and frustration but if i just sit down and grind through them Ill get past that limitation
Number 10... everybody learn from someone too everyone from another.. dont steal??!.. tell’em who u learn from.. or tell’em u learnt by ure self, if people asked u... im sorry.. i just feel like being honest to our self its so important.. for me.. but the rest.. AWESOME... thank you thank you sir... bless u..
Thanks very much for your comment!
"steal" is the easy way to make a good music. I call it reference
Probably the most useful "music production" video I've watched all damn year. Thank you so much for this awesome wisdom! Great to have people out there thinking holistically, looking at the BIGGER picture rather than simply telling you which knobs to turn on your soft-synth :/ Please keep the videos coming, this really is the exact kind of advice I need right now. Love the down-to-earth yet no-nonsense tone you approach everything with too
I watch this video religiously. Thank you.
EVERYBODY: Please make sure to watch in HD, youtube's compression makes the audio crappy at lower quality.
***** Yeah, you're probably right. I think it was caused by noise reduction. I hope the message still came through ;-)
Ny phone only goes to 420p, sorry mang
+bass buster - is about the words and their value. Not some sound quality. Ever hear Burial ? Sound quality ?!
+Samrat Bee exactly, i agree with you.. its like a textbook.. Unless the info is really outdated, U wouldnt put it down just because is old and raggety. You are gonna read it if it had what you need to get to the next level
Mike Ez Next level it is. Searching. Trying. Synthesis !!
I didn't know I needed to hear this info.
Gonna go buy the book now.
Thanks for sharing this.
Just watching the first two tips of this video makes me give it a thumbs up, so true about the creative process! Great advice wish I'd known it younger!
wow... this gave me the answers I was searching for a very long time
Glad you found it helpful, Adrian. How are things coming along with your music currently?
@@innerstatejt hey, its kind of difficult to get progress. I think its a long road..
This is the best production video I've watched so far.
I will buy your book, I know will be great reading.
Thanks for share it with us !
great talk mate. I shall take a look at your book
"people are more important than knowledge" .. dayamn. Great video man!
That was greats advices and quite reassuring for me because i struggle alot with getting my projects finished and sometimes it litteraly destroys me.. Im gonna buy your book in few weeks for my birthday, thanks alot
One of the best vids ever! No bullshit! I needed that..
Man this may be the most important video I've seen so far. thanks
I overwhelmet myself with tutotiarls and plugins to buy and i lost my desire for making music .i made music with very little knowedge on the daw only basics and i felt amazing. Too much knowedge at fast rate can depress you so learn slowly little by little and create more with what you have! I was too ambitious in the beginning and got more real with 10 years of time.
Thank you breda this video is one of the best videos on youtube no fluff,
Words of wisdom thank you. Crazy when you're new to producing and have got caught up in a overwhelming downward spiral with all the information that's out there. It can certainly swallow up any creative flow! To find this video was a huge relief! Again thank you x
Thank you for making this video. Very insightful.
Mind... Blown! Thank you so much!
Brilliant Video - take heed - this is great advice !!
Super relevant and helpful. Thank you. With that said, back to these beats.
thanks for sharing these tips man.. lots of truth in there
Dude its Like you Are Talking to me.... Am Soon Starting My Audio Production Course in Feb and This is Good to Get me Started ...
I'm so glad I came across this. This is inspiring. Thanks a million.
Felt like I was listening to a real brother. Thank you
The 10th point was always my problem. It was so intensiv that I have download no samples at all because I thought I need to make them all myself. I stoped it for now and hope it is getting better for now. The only good thing is that I am good at sound design now but truly I would like to have spend more time on the music itself. I am a producer for 8 years with no success at all. I made nearly zero money. But from now on I hope it changes!
This is REALLY great advice. Thanks for the video!
this doesnt apply only to electronic music but just song writing in general whenever i don't feel like writing music i try to go for a mood or a concept. a total random one. but i still do it.
After learning all of this from personal experience, it's a great refresher to have pretty much all of it summed up in a short, concise video. Besides typical motivation, this video truly captures everything a producer may go through and really packs a punch with the advice given. This is a great video.
Good shit man!! Every single point was spot on!
Thank you so very Good Sir!!! I just wish I would have come across this info 15 yrs ago. Very well articulated.
After finding out all of these on my own, I can only agree! You got my sub. Great content.
100% true.. been producing for about 2 years, got serious about it after my first year..
I really needed to hear about a lot of this.
If youre new to production, do not take any of what he says here lightly.
Everything he says here I can guarantee you is very valuable.
Very very good stuff.
Throughout our lives we've been taught a certain way to learn growing up. But it's not very effective. Trust me it's what I tried to do. I focused heavily on learning all I could about producing the music I wanted to make. In fact in the end there were barely any TH-cam tutorials I didn't instantly recognize when reading the title bc I had watched them constantly....I also bought and read books and dedicated music production IOS apps to help me learn.
In the end I had a lot of knowledge and could answer questions easily (u know...like u would on a test in school) and I probably seemed to be a good producer based on my knowledge.....but I couldn't finish a track to save my life. In fact I struggled to even get past the brainstorming phase bc I spent 90% of my time on learning ABOUT production instead of simply doing it.
In my experience it takes 10x more discipline to open your DAW and work on music everyday than it does to watch tutorials and read books about production. Hardest part is simply getting yourself to sit down and DO IT. You always feel overwhelmed regardless of your book knowledge bc your still inexperienced.
Great advice, this is so true, not just with music but any creative process!
So true... I'm an educated Sounddesigner. But even this didn't help to come out of this "i need to know more stuff"-thing. For any question i get answered, two new questions come up. And this book now helps me a lot now, to figure out, what my problem really is and to face is. It's clearly a psychological thing and i wasn't aware of that before. This book is awesome. 100% true speak.
I have listened to this many Times. Some key things to remenber that are easy to forget in production. Damn good video!
I really needed this!
Man!! This dude is living ahead of his time😦
Thank you for this video!
This is gold! Thank you!
DrizzyJeR thanks for the nice comment! Glad to help!
thank you for sharing!
Good points.
Thank you!
great tips thank you... will definitely look forward to it.. thank you soo much!
Wow, straight honest stuff. Helpful for sure.
I'm an Eno fan too. FLOOD is also amazing. I've come to these conclusions too and will probably share this video many times with people who ask me for advice.
I just started churning out music over a year ago and can easily relate with this. Still trying to find my groove but I'm only a few songs in 😆
Much appreciated Sir!
awesome!! u nailed it bro!
Just what I needed.
video was very helpful. thank you
you're the true producer~
Best advice ever thank you 🙏🏽
The longer I produce, the less I use. At first I threw up to 10 plug-ins on every track and I made up to 50 tracks + in one session. Now I often use one or two plug-ins, usually a daw intern compressor and a simple eq, and sometimes hall or a delay or a saturation or a stereo enhancer. And yes, sometimes a deesser. And I try to stay under 30 tracks. For mastering I use emastered with a reference track, and usually that sounds amazing. I don't even take time for gain staging. Just produce, and than put the volume down.
Amazing!! Absolutely amazing!!
Thank for watching!
This is exactly what i'm going through right now! Thanks for the tips man!!
Really great tips! I absolutely get lost in research far more than I actually open my daw and work.
EXCELLENT video, zero bullshit and fuckin effective tips. Immediately I felt like producing music and getting lost at it. Great.
thank you. great tonic..
This really helped me a lot. This made me more confident as a producer.
You absolute Legend ...
wow really inspiring thanks!
really good advice! first time i see someone talk about the mental part of creating music. although im not in it for a long time yet, im glad i found myself already doing most things you pointed out! :)
Great! upload thanks.
Best advice I've heard so far.. THANKS for this
Finally the truth!!!!!🙌🙏🙌
Thanks for video!
What a freaking great video! Thanks man.