I found this both utterly uplifting and utterly demoralising. "Woohoo! I have exactly the kit I need to make great music! Yaaay!" And then realise... "I've always had the kit... but my music... isn't great. Oh noooo...." :)
A lot of the music considered as “great”… sucks. And music that is great gets brushed off as music that sucks. There are too many musically illiterate people who are making this judgement call and do it based on “well, what does everyone else like currently” Or you have these so called “musicians” who spend more time cutting down other musicians who are giving it their best, rather than improve themselves. They think because they have a certain make and model of instrument that it automatically entities them as being “better” than those who don’t
@@MyVideos-fm7ug That's true, but 99% of the people making great music with cheap gear stand firmly in the super-creative, fun, anti-elitist group actually making really interesting music. Jacob Collier, Bon Iver, Boston, Sex pistols.... then there's the aspect that all of it is extremely subjective. It's ironic to say "boohoo bad musicians keeping others musicians down", while affirming that a lot if not most of popular music "actually suck" just because *you* and your friends think it sucks. Yes a lot of it does IMHO because it's disingenuine, but then again it was ALWAYS the case since someone figured you could pay a DJ to play your crap 60 years ago.
And the connections. Whether you make them via family, social media, or old-fashioned, hand-shaking, “pressing-the-flesh”-style politickin’, make and maintain them. As many as possible, as often as possible.
I remember doing training when I worked at the Apple Store and our trainer told us that the umbrella track was just a free loop in garageband. He even played it for us and told us the tempo. Vintage Kit 03 at 90BPM.
A few more: 1) Eddie Van Halen bolted his iconic guirar together from cheap factory second parts 2) Aphex Twin’s album Cheetah was made using only a Cheetah MS800 synth that is literally unprogrammable 3) Caroline Polachek’s first album was recorded into her old laptop microphone 4) Alessandro Cortini’s Risveglio album made entirely on a Roland MS-202 and a cheap 4-track cassette recorder.
I lived with this guy in 2004 . He had a 1999 desk top , 3 cheap mics , Sony 70s hifi speakers for monitors , cheap sound card . Recorded some good sounding albums with that
Some years ago, I composed and recorded the entire soundtrack for an independent film using free apps on an iPad 4, using the $60 version of Reaper as a DAW. The director loved everything I did. The money I made from it paid for a lot of my other equipment.
I use Reaper as does my band's bass player who also acts as our recording engineer. It's nice because it makes mixing a lot easier when we are both familiar with the software.
The 1st and 2nd St-Vincent's albums were recorded 100% in GarageBand by Annie Clark alone. Also about Finneas: he's still using, to this day, a $100 Audio-Technica pair of headphones for production and mixing.
Thanks for sharing. As someone who records with inexpensive gear (including my not-so-smartphone sometimes), this was nice to hear. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
Bruce Springsteen recorded his album, "Nebraska", on a Tascam Portastudio that uses cassettes, in his home, and it turned out to be one of his most popular albums. Which goes to show that the greatest music can be made using inexpensive equipment.
GarageBand is the only recording software I ever bothered to learn to use. I tried some others before, but they were all just needlessly complicated. At the end of the day, all you need is something that enables you to layer multiple tracks.
Another artist that I believe recorded in GarageBand for her early releases was Grimes. I could be mistaken but I did hear that before. I myself have produced soundscapes and exhibit scores on my iPad when I needed something fast for my museum gig. Garageband = quick production when deadlines are tight.
1:59 This encapsulates my love/hate relationship with Audition. I have no issue with the amount of RAM at my disposal, but I have lost all faith recording into Audition. I won’t use it to record anything of consequence, and have turned to Logic for that purpose. Now that all being said in total fairness, I still love using Audition for work in post. I can see it with my eyes closed, but I do wish it were more consistently stable. On a different note, I really like how you included Dolly Parton as an example. The daughter of a father who was a tenant farmer at one point. To say nothing of being raised in a single room cabin, with 11 other siblings. You’ve got to imagine that from square one, she learned to make do with very little, and still went onto a legendary career. Honestly for everyone on this list, when you realize what they’ve created using talent, ingenuity and little by way of gear - it is humbling to observe.
That has opened my mind - I just rummaged through my gear and I have a valve (tube) condenser mic a frined bought in Detroit and brought to London for me and I've never plugged it in, to say I feel sickened with myself is an understatement, thank you for putting this video together! :o)
Garage band is awesome. I use it on my phone all the time. I sometimes move my projects to other DAWs, but it’s so simple to get my ideas down and a song going on it.
I think in this day and age we need to dig really deep to find the gear so bad that it is unusable, or maybe better to say the gear that will hold our creativity back. With that being said, I really like outsider gear, especially when I learn its straights and extract the maximum from it, to me it feels very satisfying. I really understand those people and why they do it.
Yes… good gear is a luxury that makes things easier with extra tools and convenience. But the heart of a good production isn’t how easy it was to make; it’s the actual talent, skill, and knowledge that goes into it. And therefore anyone can make a hit on anything as long as they have the experience and expertise to know what they’re doing. Again, good gear is just a luxury - not a necessity. Skill and knowledge are far more necessary and valuable to a good production.
Another example and perhaps the most legendary: "I remember going (to the Steinway Musikhaus in Hamburg) and there was this bass which was quite cheap. I couldn't afford a Fender. Fenders even then seemed to be about £100. All I could really afford was about £30 ...so for about £30, I found this Hofner violin bass." - Paul McCartney, on his Höfner 500/1. That cheap bass helped craft the look and sound of The Beatles. Paul McCartney's purchase made Höfner a world-famous and valuable brand.
A few more : - The sex pistols recorded their first mixtape on a cheap Tascam 4 tracks cassette. I'm not exactly sure it if was just a demo tho - Jacob Collier used nothing but an SM58 for his first album. Quincy Jones became his agent! - Bon Iver did the same (arguably in a much worst situation tho) - T-pain recorded his first mixtape with a laptop and Audacity I think... he did have a proper interface, an Apogee two tracks, but nothing spectacular to write home about. His whole studio was half a kitchen table! There is a picture somewhere... - Tom Scholz from Boston recorded their first album by himself on a tape machine. He did went in debt 40K at the time tho, but still worth mentioning!
One of the never ending jokes is the “ if I only had this piece of gear, I’d be able to make a hit or elevate my recording . So an so had this guitar or outboard gear and it is gonna make me sound like my idol. The unique artists have their own process and gear, that spoke to them. Find what you can afford and just keep at it.
I am preparing to start recording, and the total value of my gear, which include multiple guitars, mixers, amp, interface, computers, etc. is less than the asking price of Ola Eglunds guitar. My studio room is not sound proofed, the house is old, but it is located somewhat protected from outside noise. I do have an older license for Cubase Elements, though I am pondering to use Ableton instead as I have several friends familiar with Ableton and none that have much experience with Cubase.
first time here. loved your presentation andd way of explaining and i just loved the way you so passionately spoke about the topic plus uplifting. back to my potato system with a fresh mind. Thank you!
I just getting back into recording. What recommendations do you have for me please. Using an ipad pro on GarageBand. Need an interface and microphone. Was thinking volt 2, akg p220. Haven't heard much on m audio 192 on ipad... any comments much appreciated. Thank You...
Great points. Learning the rudimentary concepts on cheap equipment will force you to be creative thinker. Musicians have been testing the limits for decades. How far can u go? Thx.
You are spitting the truth. You gotta use what you got to get what you want. Some people go bankrupt buy a bunch of vsts and gear and still sound crappie.
It's nice to hear that there are big artist using cheap musical instruments . It makes me feel even better because I make cigar box guitars ( AKA poor man's guitars ) .
The Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, recorded their first album, in house, on a Tascam 8 track reel to reel studio recorder !!! I checked a few of the comments and saw that it was completely off of everybody's radar !!!
Well, not that you could get much more in 1980. I would have killed somebody for an 8-track R2R. Sweet Dreams was recorded on two synths and a prototype drum machine. This is the infuriating part :D
Imanbek made his Grammy-awarded remix on SAINt JHN's Roses for 2 or 3 hours on a cheap laptop with FL Studio and 8 one-shot samples from Splice and Vengeance, mostly FL's stock plugins and raise-pitched source track, not even an acapella. In his bedroom without acoustic treatment. On a Sven or equivalent cheap computer sound system. After only 3 years of learning music with TH-cam tutorials.
Here is what I think is a good question: Of all the music made, what percentage become "hits"?.....probably not a very high percentage, HOWEVER, I can bet that a lot of those "non-hits" probably used what they considered "great gear". Great gear fails to produce hit songs probably "more often than not!!".....THEREFORE, if it's not the gear then_____________YOU fill in the blank.
All Iv been using is a Yamaha DJx a p.o KO 33 a Roland t8 and a tascam multitrack and iv made some crazy stuff I like the Yamaha DJx as it has a 6 track record in it it also has a step sequencer but it doesn't loop so you need to program every step beginning to end and it's pretty fiddly but it's ok for four on the floor kicks and 303 type basslines and it's got lots of other cool stuff...but iv made stuff just using the t8 record my drums then play the bassline on top then keep adding the 303:synth over it as I can modulate it so it can sound like a normal synth with some delay and stuff so can do alot with nothing it's just finding ways to work around the limitation
Tones & I (Dance Monkey) made her first album almost entirely on a Roland Go:Keys. They're actually kinda great for a cheap and cheerful synth with no meaningful editing and a rubbish overdub style sequencer. Dance Monkey has made shedloads. Her band refuse to use them though so Roland had to help resample it onto a real keyboard.
As long as the playing is good and the mixing is good and the song is catchy you can totally make a good song in Garage Band or any mobile app. If you can't play, the song isn't catchy and the mixing is bad than it doesn't matter how much your equipment is worth.
I love how all Billie Elishes sat on their brother's bed and recorded an album. Their brother Finneas is an excellent producer, They should all be very thankful to have him. Every single one of those Billie Eilishes.
It's almost like working on your skillset, knowing what your tools do, and collaborating with others is what makes you a great artist rather than buying flashy gear you don't know how to use 😆
I started out recording my music on garageband on the Mac its very powerfull and works great in fact it used to be the industry standard in studios for years so it makes sence to use it, these days i still use garageband and I also now use logic which is the new standard in the last number of years as well and back in the day i never even had a usb interface now i have one as well a sa mixer and good mics and things are even better of course but i still have not had to invesrt alot of money into my gear..
I feel called out. 😆 I was just looking at a plugin website for "that sound" and remembered that Steve Lacy used his phone, it's a shame you can't buy creativity, being stuck in the loop of "Yes, I finally got it" to "Hmm, why are my ideas so boring?" and then onto the next one is classic.
"Filbert" is constitutionally a crappy bass player! (phew! that's bad!) BUTTTT, he plays a "Fodera" (made of gold!)........Whereas, Victor Wooten lost his expensive bass and had to quickly purchase one for $47.13................Who would YOU rather hear play bass: "Fumbling Filbert" and the golden Fodera?.....or "Vicious Victor" on the $47 (work of art)?.........Skill wins over gear!
45 years ago, 1 Van Halen debut album. Late Eddie van Halen used his self-made guitar 🎸 2 The Police 🚔 👮♂️ 👮♀️ recorded its 1st album on the cheap, no extraordinary musical gear, taking about 1 month! 🤯🤯🤯 1980. Dolly Parton recorded 9 to 5 with a cheap sound effect: her nails 💅 tapping! 🤯 1977. Queen 👸 recorded on the cheap with We Will Rock You. Wood boards, handicaps 👏 and an electric guitar 🎸. Now, much of OPM (Original Philippine Music) is recorded on the cheap. 🇵🇭.
It's encouraging to see an artist use basic gear (by today's standards), but let's face it . . . she's well-known and the sound quality and the lack of advanced DAW features had nothing to do with record sales.
Plenty of free VST plug-ins are available. Reaper is a free DAW, and some DAW programs come included when purchaisng an interface. Mic placmeent is huge.. cheap guitars can surely work for recording,, juat need them to be intonated and to stay in tune.
We forgetting to mention that they send the files to a professional engineer after it’s picked to be used on the album the label make sure they send the files us producers export to a professional million dollar audio engineer who’s been trained to make it sound amazing
The average pop song is a very low bar. The mainstream music industry can promote just about anything into a platinum selling record. I hear garbage all the time and I wonder how that stuff is so well backed, when there are better artist here on TH-cam. That aside, he's 100% correct, learning how to use the gear you have to it's fullest potential is WAY more effective then buying higher end gear. A $99 interface today is better then the $1 million facility Sony used in their studios in the early 90s. The same goes for other creative endeavors, like photography. Only doctors, dentists, and lawyers buy "the best" gear money can buy, I've witnessed it first hand. That $6k Gibson at Guitar Center isn't for working players, it's for disposable income hedge fund bros. I once had a custom built PC made so I could set up a really good DAW, and it cost a small fortune. Now, I'm running Logic X on a 2008 stock iMac I bought used in 2016 for $150, and it works incredibly well.
Why would a big star using an AT2020 ($99 mic) be surprising when the Shure SM57 and 58 (both also $99) have been common staples by many big musical stars for decades, on the stage and in the studio?
a great synopsis. Explore the gear you already have and i can guarantee you will find many pleasant surprises and will have many Homer Simpson "doh"moments!
I found this both utterly uplifting and utterly demoralising. "Woohoo! I have exactly the kit I need to make great music! Yaaay!" And then realise... "I've always had the kit... but my music... isn't great. Oh noooo...." :)
We all grow by doing.
Keep rocking...and you will develop!
A lot of the music considered as “great”… sucks. And music that is great gets brushed off as music that sucks. There are too many musically illiterate people who are making this judgement call and do it based on “well, what does everyone else like currently”
Or you have these so called “musicians” who spend more time cutting down other musicians who are giving it their best, rather than improve themselves. They think because they have a certain make and model of instrument that it automatically entities them as being “better” than those who don’t
It's about having the kit or not having the kit tho.
It's about your belief that YOU can make great music and YOU putting the work into it... or not.
@@MyVideos-fm7ug That's true, but 99% of the people making great music with cheap gear stand firmly in the super-creative, fun, anti-elitist group actually making really interesting music. Jacob Collier, Bon Iver, Boston, Sex pistols.... then there's the aspect that all of it is extremely subjective. It's ironic to say "boohoo bad musicians keeping others musicians down", while affirming that a lot if not most of popular music "actually suck" just because *you* and your friends think it sucks. Yes a lot of it does IMHO because it's disingenuine, but then again it was ALWAYS the case since someone figured you could pay a DJ to play your crap 60 years ago.
Lol I feel ya
It's not the gears, it's talent.
I said the same in a lot more words… but yes that is correct.
And the connections. Whether you make them via family, social media, or old-fashioned, hand-shaking, “pressing-the-flesh”-style politickin’, make and maintain them. As many as possible, as often as possible.
its dedication and practice, talent is just another excuse why someone is better at the craft of choice
"...the gear you have now it's not what's holding you back", one of the most accurate sentences I've heard in music so far. Excellent video!:)
I remember doing training when I worked at the Apple Store and our trainer told us that the umbrella track was just a free loop in garageband. He even played it for us and told us the tempo. Vintage Kit 03 at 90BPM.
“The gear you have is not holding you back”
me with literally no gear: yes I see, I shall record with magic
I think he had musicians in mind lol. Unless you whistle and stomp your foot, if you are a musician you have gear
What's even more amazing is spending thousands of dollars to produce tracks that end up as compressed mp3's
A few more:
1) Eddie Van Halen bolted his iconic guirar together from cheap factory second parts
2) Aphex Twin’s album Cheetah was made using only a Cheetah MS800 synth that is literally unprogrammable
3) Caroline Polachek’s first album was recorded into her old laptop microphone
4) Alessandro Cortini’s Risveglio album made entirely on a Roland MS-202 and a cheap 4-track cassette recorder.
Photek atari st and an akai sampler
Its an MC 202...not MS
I lived with this guy in 2004 . He had a 1999 desk top , 3 cheap mics , Sony 70s hifi speakers for monitors , cheap sound card . Recorded some good sounding albums with that
Some years ago, I composed and recorded the entire soundtrack for an independent film using free apps on an iPad 4, using the $60 version of Reaper as a DAW. The director loved everything I did. The money I made from it paid for a lot of my other equipment.
I use Reaper as does my band's bass player who also acts as our recording engineer. It's nice because it makes mixing a lot easier when we are both familiar with the software.
thats actually sick your limitation probably lead to more creative results
What I've learned from using simple cheap stuff is it makes you more creative and allows you to find new ways to work a problem
The 1st and 2nd St-Vincent's albums were recorded 100% in GarageBand by Annie Clark alone. Also about Finneas: he's still using, to this day, a $100 Audio-Technica pair of headphones for production and mixing.
The moral of the story is USE WHAT WE HAVE TO GET WHAT WE WANT
Thanks for sharing. As someone who records with inexpensive gear (including my not-so-smartphone sometimes), this was nice to hear. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
Bruce Springsteen recorded his album, "Nebraska", on a Tascam Portastudio that uses cassettes, in his home, and it turned out to be one of his most popular albums. Which goes to show that the greatest music can be made using inexpensive equipment.
D@mn, the whole album?! lol
@@clutch236 Definitely, the whole album with some mastering.
GarageBand is the only recording software I ever bothered to learn to use. I tried some others before, but they were all just needlessly complicated. At the end of the day, all you need is something that enables you to layer multiple tracks.
Totally. A lot of amazing music made in garageband.
Another artist that I believe recorded in GarageBand for her early releases was Grimes. I could be mistaken but I did hear that before. I myself have produced soundscapes and exhibit scores on my iPad when I needed something fast for my museum gig. Garageband = quick production when deadlines are tight.
And Logic Pro opens Garageband files natively, so the step to a professional production is straightforward.
You.... you... shill! The gall. Pushing what we already own as "good enough". Thanks for the words of wisdom, Aiden.
This video is exactly what I needed to hear. It finally affirmed for me what I already knew deep down.
1:59 This encapsulates my love/hate relationship with Audition. I have no issue with the amount of RAM at my disposal, but I have lost all faith recording into Audition. I won’t use it to record anything of consequence, and have turned to Logic for that purpose. Now that all being said in total fairness, I still love using Audition for work in post. I can see it with my eyes closed, but I do wish it were more consistently stable.
On a different note, I really like how you included Dolly Parton as an example. The daughter of a father who was a tenant farmer at one point. To say nothing of being raised in a single room cabin, with 11 other siblings. You’ve got to imagine that from square one, she learned to make do with very little, and still went onto a legendary career. Honestly for everyone on this list, when you realize what they’ve created using talent, ingenuity and little by way of gear - it is humbling to observe.
That has opened my mind - I just rummaged through my gear and I have a valve (tube) condenser mic a frined bought in Detroit and brought to London for me and I've never plugged it in, to say I feel sickened with myself is an understatement, thank you for putting this video together! :o)
dude u almost brought up a tear in my eyes when u said what you already have is enough , i really needed that
I love it! Most of the original songs I create on TH-cam are from GarageBand, but I use a lot of external Plugins.
I believe Usher's "Love In The Club" was also made 100% in GarageBand.
This is what I've been preaching about in computer and other depicting art. It's not the tools, it's the artist.
Garage band is awesome. I use it on my phone all the time. I sometimes move my projects to other DAWs, but it’s so simple to get my ideas down and a song going on it.
Love this! Honorable mention is ASAP Rocky x Skepta’s banger - was a stock flute loop on Logic
You have to make a follow-up video on how much terrible music was produced with top-of-line studio gear with god-awful producers
Lol
Lol ftw. Everything ever by Starship 🤮
I think in this day and age we need to dig really deep to find the gear so bad that it is unusable, or maybe better to say the gear that will hold our creativity back.
With that being said, I really like outsider gear, especially when I learn its straights and extract the maximum from it, to me it feels very satisfying. I really understand those people and why they do it.
It ain’t the pots and pans, it’s the chef!
Yes… good gear is a luxury that makes things easier with extra tools and convenience. But the heart of a good production isn’t how easy it was to make; it’s the actual talent, skill, and knowledge that goes into it. And therefore anyone can make a hit on anything as long as they have the experience and expertise to know what they’re doing. Again, good gear is just a luxury - not a necessity.
Skill and knowledge are far more necessary and valuable to a good production.
I needed to hear this man, honestly!
Zeropunk's album Timbre Wolf was made using only a cheap Akai synth that is literally for pennies.
its all about the arrangement and the songwriting, gear never matters
Thank you for the information! I'm just starting on this side of music after playing for a few years. It's different for sure but fun as heck!
Do I need the new keyboard? No. Will it make me any better at music? Probably not. But do I want it? Absolutely, 100% yes.
I can't believe there is a video on this topic not featuring Burial. Dude made a whole genre of music using Sound Forge.
Another example and perhaps the most legendary: "I remember going (to the Steinway Musikhaus in Hamburg) and there was this bass which was quite cheap. I couldn't afford a Fender. Fenders even then seemed to be about £100. All I could really afford was about £30 ...so for about £30, I found this Hofner violin bass." - Paul McCartney, on his Höfner 500/1. That cheap bass helped craft the look and sound of The Beatles. Paul McCartney's purchase made Höfner a world-famous and valuable brand.
A few more :
- The sex pistols recorded their first mixtape on a cheap Tascam 4 tracks cassette. I'm not exactly sure it if was just a demo tho
- Jacob Collier used nothing but an SM58 for his first album. Quincy Jones became his agent!
- Bon Iver did the same (arguably in a much worst situation tho)
- T-pain recorded his first mixtape with a laptop and Audacity I think... he did have a proper interface, an Apogee two tracks, but nothing spectacular to write home about. His whole studio was half a kitchen table! There is a picture somewhere...
- Tom Scholz from Boston recorded their first album by himself on a tape machine. He did went in debt 40K at the time tho, but still worth mentioning!
Bono also uses an SM58 in the studio.
I love her so much. She’s always the life of every video. 😁
One of the never ending jokes is the “ if I only had this piece of gear, I’d be able to make a hit or elevate my recording . So an so had this guitar or outboard gear and it is gonna make me sound like my idol.
The unique artists have their own process and gear, that spoke to them. Find what you can afford and just keep at it.
It's the same old story; the vastly greater part of any recording in the performer.
I am preparing to start recording, and the total value of my gear, which include multiple guitars, mixers, amp, interface, computers, etc. is less than the asking price of Ola Eglunds guitar. My studio room is not sound proofed, the house is old, but it is located somewhat protected from outside noise. I do have an older license for Cubase Elements, though I am pondering to use Ableton instead as I have several friends familiar with Ableton and none that have much experience with Cubase.
Paul Hardcastle used Logic which costs $199. I used it too alongside David Benoit and Konstantin Klashtorni. My friend Haelon uses it too.
first time here. loved your presentation andd way of explaining and i just loved the way you so passionately spoke about the topic plus uplifting. back to my potato system with a fresh mind. Thank you!
I just getting back into recording.
What recommendations do you have for me please.
Using an ipad pro on GarageBand.
Need an interface and microphone.
Was thinking volt 2, akg p220.
Haven't heard much on m audio 192 on ipad... any comments much appreciated. Thank You...
I watched this video at the right time and was greatly encouraged by it. Thank you!
man this vid gave me some clarity and saved me some money, appreciate you man
Great points. Learning the rudimentary concepts on cheap equipment will force you to be creative thinker. Musicians have been testing the limits for decades. How far can u go? Thx.
You are spitting the truth. You gotta use what you got to get what you want. Some people go bankrupt buy a bunch of vsts and gear and still sound crappie.
It's nice to hear that there are big artist using cheap musical instruments . It makes me feel even better because I make cigar box guitars ( AKA poor man's guitars ) .
Loved the content! It made more confident. Thanks so much! Greetings from Brazil!
Mitchell makes amazing guitars, I love them.
Polo da don made Ushers Biggest Hit “make Love in the Club with GarageBand and stock loops and drums.
Exactly !! you're 100% right, if someone can make awesome music on cheap equipment
Bon Iver on his debut album “For Emma, Forever Ago” recorded the album with a cheap Sears catalog guitar from the 60’s.
The Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, recorded their first album, in house, on a Tascam 8 track reel to reel studio recorder !!! I checked a few of the comments and saw that it was completely off of everybody's radar !!!
Boston self-recorded their first album in a basement
@@MadDjames Unbelievable! That's amazing. I didn't know that one !!!
Well, not that you could get much more in 1980. I would have killed somebody for an 8-track R2R.
Sweet Dreams was recorded on two synths and a prototype drum machine. This is the infuriating part :D
@@IlBiggo LOL !!!
Imanbek made his Grammy-awarded remix on SAINt JHN's Roses for 2 or 3 hours on a cheap laptop with FL Studio and 8 one-shot samples from Splice and Vengeance, mostly FL's stock plugins and raise-pitched source track, not even an acapella. In his bedroom without acoustic treatment. On a Sven or equivalent cheap computer sound system. After only 3 years of learning music with TH-cam tutorials.
That was a sermon we all needed to hear . Thank you Sir
Here is what I think is a good question: Of all the music made, what percentage become "hits"?.....probably not a very high percentage, HOWEVER, I can bet that a lot of those "non-hits" probably used what they considered "great gear". Great gear fails to produce hit songs probably "more often than not!!".....THEREFORE, if it's not the gear then_____________YOU fill in the blank.
If I'm not mistaken Three dog's night hit One was recorded with a cheap organ from Sears, correct me if is not true
All Iv been using is a Yamaha DJx a p.o KO 33 a Roland t8 and a tascam multitrack and iv made some crazy stuff I like the Yamaha DJx as it has a 6 track record in it it also has a step sequencer but it doesn't loop so you need to program every step beginning to end and it's pretty fiddly but it's ok for four on the floor kicks and 303 type basslines and it's got lots of other cool stuff...but iv made stuff just using the t8 record my drums then play the bassline on top then keep adding the 303:synth over it as I can modulate it so it can sound like a normal synth with some delay and stuff so can do alot with nothing it's just finding ways to work around the limitation
Tones & I (Dance Monkey) made her first album almost entirely on a Roland Go:Keys. They're actually kinda great for a cheap and cheerful synth with no meaningful editing and a rubbish overdub style sequencer. Dance Monkey has made shedloads. Her band refuse to use them though so Roland had to help resample it onto a real keyboard.
As long as the playing is good and the mixing is good and the song is catchy you can totally make a good song in Garage Band or any mobile app. If you can't play, the song isn't catchy and the mixing is bad than it doesn't matter how much your equipment is worth.
Great anti GAS video mate 😊
A very thoughtful video. Thanks! 👍
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska.
What fun is that? I would have one less thing to put on my shelf (after the shine has warn off, if that long).
It's a challenge...lol
Aiden, such a great video and important point!
hey, this is my first video I watch from your channel and just to sum it up in one sentence: know your gear and your skills.
I love how all Billie Elishes sat on their brother's bed and recorded an album. Their brother Finneas is an excellent producer, They should all be very thankful to have him. Every single one of those Billie Eilishes.
It's almost like working on your skillset, knowing what your tools do, and collaborating with others is what makes you a great artist rather than buying flashy gear you don't know how to use 😆
What your saying is gear isn’t important, talent is 😊
I started out recording my music on garageband on the Mac its very powerfull and works great in fact it used to be the industry standard in studios for years so it makes sence to use it, these days i still use garageband and I also now use logic which is the new standard in the last number of years as well and back in the day i never even had a usb interface now i have one as well a sa mixer and good mics and things are even better of course but i still have not had to invesrt alot of money into my gear..
I produce on an iPad Pro. Needless to say, I love this video! Decent equipment, talent, and practice …. What else do you need?
I feel called out. 😆
I was just looking at a plugin website for "that sound" and remembered that Steve Lacy used his phone, it's a shame you can't buy creativity, being stuck in the loop of "Yes, I finally got it" to "Hmm, why are my ideas so boring?" and then onto the next one is classic.
Don't forget Willie Nelson's guitar
You are a gem...I just subscribed!
"Filbert" is constitutionally a crappy bass player! (phew! that's bad!) BUTTTT, he plays a "Fodera" (made of gold!)........Whereas, Victor Wooten lost his expensive bass and had to quickly purchase one for $47.13................Who would YOU rather hear play bass: "Fumbling Filbert" and the golden Fodera?.....or "Vicious Victor" on the $47 (work of art)?.........Skill wins over gear!
45 years ago, 1 Van Halen debut album. Late Eddie van Halen used his self-made guitar 🎸 2 The Police 🚔 👮♂️ 👮♀️ recorded its 1st album on the cheap, no extraordinary musical gear, taking about 1 month! 🤯🤯🤯
1980. Dolly Parton recorded 9 to 5 with a cheap sound effect: her nails 💅 tapping! 🤯
1977. Queen 👸 recorded on the cheap with We Will Rock You. Wood boards, handicaps 👏 and an electric guitar 🎸.
Now, much of OPM (Original Philippine Music) is recorded on the cheap. 🇵🇭.
Very interesting. Goes to show that a well-written song doesn’t care about gear.
Hi. I only use a few things to compose music. A laptop, head phones, a midi keyboard. I also have a 5 dollar mic that I use sometimes. Thats all.
Great video. Thanks for the reminder.
EXCELLENT and very true.
I make music on an Asus intel i3 with Ableton. The laptop constantly freezes but I’ve managed to get several tracks signed 😅
It's encouraging to see an artist use basic gear (by today's standards), but let's face it . . . she's well-known and the sound quality and the lack of advanced DAW features had nothing to do with record sales.
Fantastic 🏆
I think Steve lacy still uses Bandlab and a guitar rig. He prefers it and it’s all he needs because of his style
I think these people’s music are not being nominated because of the gears were used but by the way they have constructed their names
Plenty of free VST plug-ins are available. Reaper is a free DAW, and some DAW programs come included when purchaisng an interface. Mic placmeent is huge.. cheap guitars can surely work for recording,, juat need them to be intonated and to stay in tune.
it's about the garage,, it's about the band.
Talent always trumps equipment.
Well done, man- ty.
We forgetting to mention that they send the files to a professional engineer after it’s picked to be used on the album the label make sure they send the files us producers export to a professional million dollar audio engineer who’s been trained to make it sound amazing
The average pop song is a very low bar. The mainstream music industry can promote just about anything into a platinum selling record. I hear garbage all the time and I wonder how that stuff is so well backed, when there are better artist here on TH-cam.
That aside, he's 100% correct, learning how to use the gear you have to it's fullest potential is WAY more effective then buying higher end gear.
A $99 interface today is better then the $1 million facility Sony used in their studios in the early 90s.
The same goes for other creative endeavors, like photography. Only doctors, dentists, and lawyers buy "the best" gear money can buy, I've witnessed it first hand. That $6k Gibson at Guitar Center isn't for working players, it's for disposable income hedge fund bros.
I once had a custom built PC made so I could set up a really good DAW, and it cost a small fortune. Now, I'm running Logic X on a 2008 stock iMac I bought used in 2016 for $150, and it works incredibly well.
Absolutly agree with all that you said... Creativity is the first, gear is for pleasure
D@mmit, again that's what I superbly stated two weeks ago to no fanfare! lol
This also translates directly into sports equipment.
Why would a big star using an AT2020 ($99 mic) be surprising when the Shure SM57 and 58 (both also $99) have been common staples by many big musical stars for decades, on the stage and in the studio?
Shhhhh....lol...you're ruining the mystique
Garrage band basically is nothing else than logic with a different user interface, the logic software is what is beneath the surface.
a great synopsis. Explore the gear you already have and i can guarantee you will find many pleasant surprises and will have many Homer Simpson "doh"moments!
Burial also produced his album untrue in an audio editing software
good stuff
You're really hitting it out of the park today. Bravo!
I try...these storytelling videos don't do well on this channel though.
Hence that second channel
@@DarkCornerStudios I hope the second channel does well for you.
@@seanwebb605 it should.
I have taken all I have learned and started developing the content around it.