Hands down the best channel for everything techno and inbetween. Thanks as always for the free valuable content and motivational words. You're one of a very rare kind, being a successfull artist, understanding/connected to the industry, building a community and just simply giving all the information for free 🙌
I don't mean to sound condescending, but this video was so adorable. Hearing someone be so passionate about encouraging authenticity is very motivating, thank you.
Hey Julien, I was wondering if you could make a video on the topic of producing with shitty headphones/speakers and how to deal with the problem, without obviously investing a lot of money into new gear?
Just buy closed back monitor headphones and that's all you'll need for the beginning. If you make music on regular headphones you won't get a clear vision on how your beat actually sounds like. For my first two years while making music all I had was my laptop and closed-backs. Of course you can buy open backs if you don't mind sound leaking out and hearing your environment. Closed back were my call because they don't leak sound. They work just fine. They are really good for sound design. While open back are the best for arrangement and hearing where all the sound sit in the mix. So open backs are good to buy for when you want to advance with mixing however at that point you'll be probably thinking about monitor speakers.
So in the end. Just buy closed back headphones. They cost around 50-60 USD, not sure tho because I use other currency. Use them for making music and when you finish your project listen to it on other devices like car speakers, regular headphones, your soundsystem or even your phone. All that to see how it sounds like on other devices and to tweek the sound so it's sounds good on those too.
The ones I bought were I think Sennheiser 280 however I'm not 100% sure. Also heard that one of the best budget ones now are audiotechica closed backs. Don't know the model so it'd nice to do some research. Would be glad to help you more and do some research on that, as I know a bit about this stuff. However I don't have time for it now as I'm having my university exams soon. So I'll leave it to you. Good luck and have fun creating music. The first steps are always the most creative and fun. If you have any more questions I'll try to answer them but I don't promise.
@@janekserafin7292 thank you for your input, I will most likely go for Sony MDR's since it fits the budget I'm willing to spend on first cans for producing. Unfortunately, I can only test on very bad old Genius desktop speakers and my iPhone since my speakers setup bass died while producing and I don't have AUX/USB for my car. What I've done for now: It helps to use SPAN VST as a visual tool and keep the low-end around -36 dB and only after finishing mixing, drum buss saturate on the master to push gain of the whole track to get low-end as close to -30 dB, while also not clipping the limiter too hard. When I played my last track on another home speaker setup I noticed the low-end was pushed around ~2-4dB too high, so I need to keep that in mind when mixing with this method. (Could be fixed with proper volume adjustment I guess?)
What’s the best approach to starting at a pure beginner level? I’ve been djing for the last couple years but I want to learn how to produce. I haven’t got much music theory, where do I start?
Just get Ableton, start with session mode and play with loops and clips, and then move into the arrangement mode and start thinking about arranging them into tracks. Theres a lot to learn, it will take about 6 months of hard work just to understand it to a basic level
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Bro you're a legend in the electronic producer community. Thanks for all you've constantly done for us
Hands down the best channel for everything techno and inbetween. Thanks as always for the free valuable content and motivational words. You're one of a very rare kind, being a successfull artist, understanding/connected to the industry, building a community and just simply giving all the information for free 🙌
I don't mean to sound condescending, but this video was so adorable. Hearing someone be so passionate about encouraging authenticity is very motivating, thank you.
4:52 such a powerful thought
I really needed this reminder, thanks :)
Hey bro you're a legend thanks
Amazing video as usual man thank you for all the content you provide you’ve helped me a lot
golden words
Hey Julien, I was wondering if you could make a video on the topic of producing with shitty headphones/speakers and how to deal with the problem, without obviously investing a lot of money into new gear?
Would be a super useful information
Just buy closed back monitor headphones and that's all you'll need for the beginning. If you make music on regular headphones you won't get a clear vision on how your beat actually sounds like. For my first two years while making music all I had was my laptop and closed-backs.
Of course you can buy open backs if you don't mind sound leaking out and hearing your environment.
Closed back were my call because they don't leak sound. They work just fine. They are really good for sound design. While open back are the best for arrangement and hearing where all the sound sit in the mix. So open backs are good to buy for when you want to advance with mixing however at that point you'll be probably thinking about monitor speakers.
So in the end. Just buy closed back headphones. They cost around 50-60 USD, not sure tho because I use other currency. Use them for making music and when you finish your project listen to it on other devices like car speakers, regular headphones, your soundsystem or even your phone. All that to see how it sounds like on other devices and to tweek the sound so it's sounds good on those too.
The ones I bought were I think Sennheiser 280 however I'm not 100% sure. Also heard that one of the best budget ones now are audiotechica closed backs. Don't know the model so it'd nice to do some research. Would be glad to help you more and do some research on that, as I know a bit about this stuff. However I don't have time for it now as I'm having my university exams soon. So I'll leave it to you. Good luck and have fun creating music. The first steps are always the most creative and fun. If you have any more questions I'll try to answer them but I don't promise.
@@janekserafin7292 thank you for your input, I will most likely go for Sony MDR's since it fits the budget I'm willing to spend on first cans for producing. Unfortunately, I can only test on very bad old Genius desktop speakers and my iPhone since my speakers setup bass died while producing and I don't have AUX/USB for my car.
What I've done for now:
It helps to use SPAN VST as a visual tool and keep the low-end around -36 dB and only after finishing mixing, drum buss saturate on the master to push gain of the whole track to get low-end as close to -30 dB, while also not clipping the limiter too hard.
When I played my last track on another home speaker setup I noticed the low-end was pushed around ~2-4dB too high, so I need to keep that in mind when mixing with this method. (Could be fixed with proper volume adjustment I guess?)
Great message for all of us
you are big!
What’s the best approach to starting at a pure beginner level? I’ve been djing for the last couple years but I want to learn how to produce. I haven’t got much music theory, where do I start?
Just get Ableton, start with session mode and play with loops and clips, and then move into the arrangement mode and start thinking about arranging them into tracks. Theres a lot to learn, it will take about 6 months of hard work just to understand it to a basic level
hey julien do you have a dischord where we can work together as a community to help each other with our tracks?
I love the advice. Play with Ableton don’t take it so seriously.
but this vlog channel is all about doing music like others do
:)
Great message - king shit