Just gotta tell you that you are my favourite production channel on CZcams, specifically because of how you always seem to answer the questions I didn’t know I had. Your videos have been a huge boon to my producing mentality and in helping me address my fears with putting out own music!
Great video and truth spoken. I think one point is missing: as artists we are fascinated by the unknown thus art beyond our crafting. This leaves us bored by creation we would have adored some time ago. So in my opinion we have to get inspired by our art first and finish it regardless how bored we get. Anyone with me here?
Amazing video, thank you. I’m 20 years deep and I believe I just recently got passed “The Dip” and everything said in this video resonated me to my core.
And here i am with over 400 plugins and no problem knowing which one to use and when. But since i started focusing more on learning mixing and mastering and further develop my skills in sounddesign, i started becoming less creative because i have less energy left to be creative so im sort of more of a mix and mastering engineer than a producer at this point since i find it so hard to finish my tracks. And when im designing sounds it always turns into a track between one or two minutes because i begin with a more or less complete track in my head before i start working on it. So im bruteforcing it, always trying to do too much at once inside the DAW. But i do work very fast but not for long enough. It usually ends up with a mixdown to share with some friends though. I knew from the day i became sentient that i wanted to make music so its always been a part of me. But getting it out there and pursuing a potential career, now that is intimidating to the point where i don't even want one. I just feel mentally and physically burnt out by the thought of it.
Yes you definitely need to split into sandbox sessions. I would recommend ear training sessions in particular. Because if you can reference well, and recognize good sounds to select, if you shouldn't have to mix much, if at all. Or Master even. It's far faster and easier to be creative if you can skip most of the engineering steps. That's how I do it any way.
This is very powerful for me and I'm sure everyone else. You've done a great job of breaking this topic down.. I feel instantly motivated to get my laptop out and finish this track I've been "improving" for years.. stuck in the paradox you mention. Needless to say - great content as usual!
When it comes to struggling with finishing tracks, my solution was setting up a goal of uploading at least 1 track in a week and time frames throughout the week to work on my music and solely focusing on that. It's not going to be perfect anyway, but the good side effect of it is that you'll improve over time. Also getting stuff done is more important than trying to make a track perfect and it's quite a healthy approach (at least for me right now) Thanks for another great video :)
Oooooooh sorry I know what that will be. To make the meters more interesting while I talk I put a phantom haas delay on , but I must have forgot to cancel it again after the meters 🤦♂️ sorry.
This is what every beginning producer needs to see! If I would have seen this when I started out within my first year and took this to heart. It'd be A LOT further than I am now. Thank you for this video!
I once had a scriptwriting teacher in college, he flat out told us writers block does not exist. You must merely begin writing, literally anything, even if it’s total gibberish, and it will go away
Closing your laptop during turbulance is actually a really good idea, not because it will interfere with the plane, but more because turbulance can sometime cause a little "drop" (don't know the technical word in English) of the plane that will make everything going up. That's why they ask you to fasten your seat bealt, and that's why closing your laptop (and even better, putting it back in its bag) is safer, for you and your laptop. You don't want that coffee cup from the seat behind you droping on your beautiful keyboard :)
I started producing in 2005 and in 2007 released my first track, in 2014 i remixed for Hemstock and Jennings. Ive done nothing since then, ive finished a couple tracks but just left them on the hardrive, i play around with 16 bar loops and dont seem to enter the arrangment stage becuase i dont feel im good enough. Another great book that touches on this is The chimp paradox- Steven Peters
We're on a journey but we have to keep moving forward to get too where we are going. Make your next tune simple just a beat, bass and a melody. Just 3 minutes long render it , put it out and move on.
Great talk! Now I know what my problem is and I needed to hear that. In fact I released my first track and video yesterday and it was a tough decision. "It wasn't good enough", "it had already been done", "there are others out there that are much better", etc. In my head I had a gazillion reason not doing it. 😳
THE no1 rule of finishing tracks (not exactly mentioned here in that last tip): Stop falling in love with your loop, or that ONE sound. Dont make it precious!!! Stop replaying the loop, and just keep pushing forward.
I think choice paralysis is the biggest enemy of up & coming producers. it also makes it harder to find our own "sound". I can make, super groovy and complete tracks just using a Korg Volca, while I get instantly lost trying to produce in Ableton jungle. I love 90s House Sounds and I realized, what I like about that era is amazing creativity and simplicity due to the lack of tools and resources. and even after watching a plethora of tube videos, mimicking 90s hardware on daw is hard :)
"All we can do as artists is show the world where we're at, right now." -Bthelick Move over (maybe) Da Vinci, we've got a new sage of wisdom spitting facts. What a motto to end on, I'm definitely keeping that one in the big brain. Thank you for all the different ways you make us sit down and look at this process of art.
Oh my. This is just so inspiring! Would love to see this cut down to 60 second short that I can watch to shut down that lizzard brain prior to every session!
Ultimately, no matter what, Don't Give Up on what is in your heart. We, by nature, have eternity in our hearts, so nothing in this world will satisfy, but it is possible to find some fulfillment in getting outside yourself. Creators are in essence always putting themselves "out there". We all have different motives for creating, but when it comes from the soul, it can be the most liberating, life enhancing key to finding purpose within passion, especially when centered around helping others grow and learn.
Fantastic video as always! Would love to see a video or livestream of you breaking down that “plotting” process a bit deeper, seems like a really useful technique!
Always dropping some knowledge. What you said at the end of this video resonated with me like your video about "Why Does Your Music Sound Amateur". Specifically on this video: You can only show people where you're at now.
That was fantastic. Thank you... I'm usually just goin from vid to vid, but for some reason I stepped and listened. It spoke to my specific issues so clearly ..wow .. Thanks again
It's a scary thing, but even though you got into making music because you had ideas you knew could be great, you have to let yourself let them down. When you make a track from an idea and it doesn't turn out, it doesn't mean the idea is used up. The brilliant part of the creative process is that you can do it over and over again and it will always give you something different. If you're waiting until you have the skills to do your ideas justice, you're practicing not doing your ideas.
I did this song for a contest in 2015, worked on it months and the last leg of recording violins, last touches on the structure and mixing was one of the most intense weeks I've ever done, I was sure we had a great track... Then when I was about to submit it, I started to panic. Thinking it wasn't good enough, mixing wasn't up to par all that... I almost didn't submit it... We won the competition by the largest margin in the history of the event. So yeah... that cleared away my fear of releasing... I also recommend taking part in Game Jams (Annual Global Game Jam for example), there you have 48 hours to make and release game, they're always short on musicians and sound designers. Thus you need to work on your ability to make the minimum viable product for the specific game you're making with the others, then use the allowed time to make it better, but you have to release within the time frame. That'll teach you to be faster, teach you better working methods, to not get caught into weeds of knob tweaking and instead focus on the track itself etc. Highly recommended.
I hit that button sometimes like 5 times a day so I can hear what it's really going to sound like on other speakers. I don't know why it would be so hard to click for you.
@@Bthelick High IQ professional speaking from experience: that's you! I make a living from music production, mixing and mastering, and I often send my artist to you to upgrade their work
I am not good at languages But I use translation to watch you every video. It made me understand many things. Because in my country, most of these things no free thx u
Thanks for this. GREAT name for a Track, Amygdala .... on a side note, because of your videos and pro-active talks i have put a track up on all platforms, ( it is not perfect, but it is finished. ) Cam
nice. i add one thing. i didnt release ANYTHING anywhere. in fact i wasnt even doin anything i wanted to do so desperatly, as i was so obsessed by the idea thst everyone will copy my stuff and be successfull with it before i am. this is a tricky mean one :D. i managed to hammer that gordian knot and all the others. now in year ten not givin an eff about success or else, just doin the thing. no writers blocks , no excuses, no copying for fame no more. no fear. i never was more productive and open.
In the 70s Atari had a problem where every time they released a game sometime would clone it. So they made their company the most desirable to work for. Offering lots of vacation, regular parties and good pay to staff. That way only the best programmers came to work for them and could work at a pace faster than the competition. They stopped spending time suing the copyright infringing companies and instead just stayed ahead by making the best games first continuously.
Just playing my guitar was fun. What I hate about electronic music production is the constant search for sounds. You start to get the feeling that if you don't use new sounds you don't give people what they want. As if applying filters is all that matters. There is so much of the same out there. If there is so many ways to filter stuff why is there so much boring stuff? There is no personal touch. Melodies are not strong, rhythm may be generic, chord progressions may be generic. Do I make generic stuff I don't care about or just whatever I feel like? Do I do what I want or the imaginary listener who moves on every time you put out something different? For years I see people who do generic stuff getting praised. Is that the audience I am going to waste my time on?
Well you have make what you care about , always, but there has to be more of you want to make a living as an artists because as some point you have to communicate what you care about. And getting others to understand what your expressing is a completely different skill than making the art. Part of it is understanding the culture too. You're commenting there on chord progressions being boring in electronic music, but why is that important when people are trying to dance? It depends what it is, who it's for and how it's communicated. You can't judge all music culture in their relation to their preferences of harmony (leave that to Rick Beato 🤣🤣🤣) as that is only tiny aspect of music. You see it becomes impossible to communicate truly original ideas (If humans were capable of those) because the culture cannot relate therefore will not receive it because it's too alien. So there has to be iteration and relation. The challenge is expressing yourself whilst standing out whilst communicating whilst translating. If it was easy everyone would do it, and more more than 15% of artists on Spotify would have more than 50 followers.
@Bthelick Impressionist music was wrong at the time until it was right. I don't see too much uniqueness coming out often in some genres. As much as I like the sounds of trance music I don't want to listen to loooong intro just to find out if there is nice melody there. Some of us have listened to enough music to need an intro at all. It's 2024. The average listening time for a track is less than a minute. I am not exeption as a consumer. I don't know how anyone unless they look like Taylor Swift can grab attention with million songs coming out every week. And she does very aggressive promotion most of us can't. I am too sick now to even have dreams. Anyhow, I am tired as usual and that's another day when I ap probably not going to finish anything.
@@aspirativemusicproduction2135 well it sounds like you didn't understand why there has to be a 60 or 90s intro in the first place. And of course it has to loop have you never done drugs??? This music is not made to me enjoyed whilst relaxing with a glass of wine like discussing a Picasso. That's not dance music. I'm sorry but all this rhetoric is sounding to me very much like you going up to an African tribesmen banging their drum ,and asking them to throw a little 7/4 in there because you're bored now. Just not appropriate at all.
@Bthelick So, is dance music for people on drugs who would dance to a single shamanic drum playing steady at let's say 180 bpm? Is the guitar solo in Beat it too extravagant? With AI becoming more and more prevelant and music becoming less and less personal the future of dance music becomes more and more questionable as human endeavor. I am not traditionalist but I am listening more and more old music because the production may not always be glamorous but it does have it's own appeal. Try listening to Boney M for example. Tell me what today's dance music is missing.
I have a cure for writer's block. Take a few days or a week off and go do something else, put music out of your mind. After a good length of time away from music you will get this sudden urge as your mind fills with ideas. Then you're ready to get back to work. Writer's block is lack of ideas and no directions.
To me, I am getting my feet in the water by working with others, having consistency on what they tell me needs fixing and do it. All I want, is consistency. I'm getting very close, and mixing it or singing on someone else's idea or their deadline of showcase is way easier to get on board with.
Yes definitely. All my first major finished projects were for others. And it was getting paid enough times in a row from those that helps calm down the imposter syndrome too. The amygdala loves a check list! ✅
Love the video man as always great content! One question, when we are done with a track and we hear it over and we know that there's sth that can be improved, like you are not satisfied enough, do you think we should spend more and more time trying to improve it or just export it and move on to the next project? Thanks :)
Depends how complete your vision is for what that something needs to be. If it's "improving" because it's bothering you but you don't know the solution and you're just guessing trying other things, then I recommend setting yourself a deadline. When I'm in that situation I move on to another track, spend a week away from it on other music so I forget, and then give it one more fresh ears session, whatever comes of it that session is it.
Not specifically yet. My stutter house ingredients videos go over the sounds from the session shown in this video. It's not something that's simple to teach in an easy how-to video, as many base elements have to be in place like ear training for both pitch and sound design. I could do one as a more advanced video for those further in showing how I use it for workflow purposes maybe?
@@Bthelick that would be great.It's certainly very good practice. I've learned a lot from trying to recreate some sounds in Left to Right, as you're suggesting.
yup. main reasons r C = Control Room R = Referense we getting nice result in our headphones but it sounds "diferent" in car. sounds crappy to be correct. sounds crappy anywhere besides of our headphones. we getting basic home studio, and it resolve like 60-70% of that effect. but only 60-70. still some wierd sound effects on random soundsystem. still hear "cheap mixing room fingerprint" in mixdown file idk if the ear education helps to dodge the professional studio rent. professional multi monitoring set of 3 types monitors helps to produse better results faster. (close range monitoring, long range monitoring, "closed box" 4-6' monitor for bass control) Can u produce "radio level mixdown" without it? ummmmm yup. if u r damn lucky enough ;) *my pain for now. cant see any correct way to deal with it diferent just yet. yeh, it dont need to be hella expensive, but conrol room must be done well in case of reflections n shit ;)
Well it all comes down to ear education in the end. Referencing on as many things as possible certainly helps with that process. Obviously you will need a minimum quality of listening equipment so your ears can learn easier. I suggest sennheiser hd25s or similar. But referencing habits in general are also a massive part of it. Did you see my video on how to reference?
@@Bthelick i guess i did. watched ummm must be every video for last 2 years. and there i have one more thing to notice. referencing raw unmixed track to fully prodused material is ummm.... no, not a useless but it makes us to reproduse sounds wich were mix+master-effected with raw equalised sounds and yeh, i do it , but i feel a bit silly cuz of it ;)
While all valid points, I don't think you can underestimate actual technical knowledge and skills. Back in the old days, composers learnt to compose and arrange at music school. But so many electronic producers have minimal formal training. QUite the opposite. There are hundreds if YT tutorials basically telling you the answer us to "copy and reverse engineer". "Use your ears" they say. As if artists learnt by reverse engineering and "using their eyes"! True they do that, but also, they will have done thousands of hours of training being taught all the skills. The only way someone can learn to use reverbs/compressors/wavetable synths by copying and using their ears is the Law of Big Numbers! There's hundreds of thousands of producers, some will stumble on some nice sounding technique. Most will not. For myself, it took a combination of some mindset work and a lot of technical learning to get to level of getting tracks released. All the healthy amygdala in the world isn't going to help you write a track if you don't know the techniques. (and electronic music has a myriad of little tricks to get those sounds.. you could waste years figuring out how they did it, or they could tell you in seconds).
I swear to god... Until 4:50 mark... i thought topic will be "New project button" xD Then my brain connected the dots, that tha must be sprobably most used button in your DAW.
1 track a day? holy moly... i wish xD even during my most creative and productive phases i couldnt keep that up for more than a week. at the moment its more like 1 track per week. and i hate myself for it. not only do i have problems finishing songs, i also just lack motivation in the first place. sometimes i watch streamers and they just grind like crazy everyday and that just seems impossible to me. i wish i could be more motivated but i also dont think it would help if i would force it! it just sucks that i wont be reaching my personal goals if i keep making 1 track a week, because i do want to improve.
he is not the philosopher we want, but the philosopher we need
I just made this wonderful discovery. Im so stoked to look at the rest of the videos. Im laughing writing this. Thank you sir for the video!
"Done is better than perfect."
Letting perfect get in the way of good enough.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
done exists. perfect doesn't.
Just gotta tell you that you are my favourite production channel on CZcams, specifically because of how you always seem to answer the questions I didn’t know I had. Your videos have been a huge boon to my producing mentality and in helping me address my fears with putting out own music!
Great video and truth spoken. I think one point is missing: as artists we are fascinated by the unknown thus art beyond our crafting. This leaves us bored by creation we would have adored some time ago. So in my opinion we have to get inspired by our art first and finish it regardless how bored we get. Anyone with me here?
"I am not a doctor. But I play one on CZcams".
Amazing video, thank you. I’m 20 years deep and I believe I just recently got passed “The Dip” and everything said in this video resonated me to my core.
And here i am with over 400 plugins and no problem knowing which one to use and when. But since i started focusing more on learning mixing and mastering and further develop my skills in sounddesign, i started becoming less creative because i have less energy left to be creative so im sort of more of a mix and mastering engineer than a producer at this point since i find it so hard to finish my tracks. And when im designing sounds it always turns into a track between one or two minutes because i begin with a more or less complete track in my head before i start working on it. So im bruteforcing it, always trying to do too much at once inside the DAW. But i do work very fast but not for long enough. It usually ends up with a mixdown to share with some friends though. I knew from the day i became sentient that i wanted to make music so its always been a part of me. But getting it out there and pursuing a potential career, now that is intimidating to the point where i don't even want one. I just feel mentally and physically burnt out by the thought of it.
Yes you definitely need to split into sandbox sessions.
I would recommend ear training sessions in particular.
Because if you can reference well, and recognize good sounds to select, if you shouldn't have to mix much, if at all. Or Master even. It's far faster and easier to be creative if you can skip most of the engineering steps.
That's how I do it any way.
This is very powerful for me and I'm sure everyone else. You've done a great job of breaking this topic down.. I feel instantly motivated to get my laptop out and finish this track I've been "improving" for years.. stuck in the paradox you mention. Needless to say - great content as usual!
It's nice to only hear you speak. There's less distraction and more concentration. That pays off in absorbing your great information. 🧡🔥
When it comes to struggling with finishing tracks, my solution was setting up a goal of uploading at least 1 track in a week and time frames throughout the week to work on my music and solely focusing on that. It's not going to be perfect anyway, but the good side effect of it is that you'll improve over time. Also getting stuff done is more important than trying to make a track perfect and it's quite a healthy approach (at least for me right now)
Thanks for another great video :)
I don't know how you manage to do it, but you always seem to give me the advice I need right at the moment I need it. Muchly appreciated.
You have created a fantastically useful channel. The best at demystifying what appears to be massively confusing. A goto channel.
Thanks for making this. Even though I've heard all of this before I needed to hear it once more.
keep having to take off my headphones. im watching this at half past 2 AM and your new stereo effect sounds like its blasting around my room!!
Oh really? Stereo effect on the music or voice?
I can hear something with ur voice, it feels really wide or something @@Bthelick
Oooooooh sorry I know what that will be.
To make the meters more interesting while I talk I put a phantom haas delay on , but I must have forgot to cancel it again after the meters 🤦♂️ sorry.
No worries! We ended up with a little trick of the trade on top bc of it haha @@Bthelick
@@Bthelick Voice. music sounds fine
that “5 stages” graph is brilliant. true for all producers. likely applies to everything in life
since being diagnosed with ADHD and medicated, my prodeuction and drive to make and finished music has nearly tripled
I always knew I had a superpower, always watching for threats, but unfortunately it was just my amygdala keeping me finishing the track.
This is what every beginning producer needs to see! If I would have seen this when I started out within my first year and took this to heart. It'd be A LOT further than I am now. Thank you for this video!
the victimization of ourselves continues...
You’re my compass I always resort to when I find myself lost. Your “rants” are always golden. Thank you 🙏🏼
I once had a scriptwriting teacher in college, he flat out told us writers block does not exist. You must merely begin writing, literally anything, even if it’s total gibberish, and it will go away
teacher, doctor, legend. Absolute legend B!
Closing your laptop during turbulance is actually a really good idea, not because it will interfere with the plane, but more because turbulance can sometime cause a little "drop" (don't know the technical word in English) of the plane that will make everything going up. That's why they ask you to fasten your seat bealt, and that's why closing your laptop (and even better, putting it back in its bag) is safer, for you and your laptop. You don't want that coffee cup from the seat behind you droping on your beautiful keyboard :)
Turbulence is the word you're looking for. Great name for a track.
@@Andrew-rz7qt And the name of a classic DnB track by Moving Fusion.
@@sburton84 can you tell me who made the song Hold On?
I started producing in 2005 and in 2007 released my first track, in 2014 i remixed for Hemstock and Jennings. Ive done nothing since then, ive finished a couple tracks but just left them on the hardrive, i play around with 16 bar loops and dont seem to enter the arrangment stage becuase i dont feel im good enough. Another great book that touches on this is The chimp paradox- Steven Peters
We're on a journey but we have to keep moving forward to get too where we are going. Make your next tune simple just a beat, bass and a melody. Just 3 minutes long render it , put it out and move on.
Great talk! Now I know what my problem is and I needed to hear that. In fact I released my first track and video yesterday and it was a tough decision. "It wasn't good enough", "it had already been done", "there are others out there that are much better", etc. In my head I had a gazillion reason not doing it. 😳
THE no1 rule of finishing tracks (not exactly mentioned here in that last tip):
Stop falling in love with your loop, or that ONE sound. Dont make it precious!!! Stop replaying the loop, and just keep pushing forward.
It seems like many of the creative people are also into psychology and philosophy , I like that.
So big book recommendation: The Status Game!
I think choice paralysis is the biggest enemy of up & coming producers. it also makes it harder to find our own "sound". I can make, super groovy and complete tracks just using a Korg Volca, while I get instantly lost trying to produce in Ableton jungle. I love 90s House Sounds and I realized, what I like about that era is amazing creativity and simplicity due to the lack of tools and resources. and even after watching a plethora of tube videos, mimicking 90s hardware on daw is hard :)
"All we can do as artists is show the world where we're at, right now." -Bthelick
Move over (maybe) Da Vinci, we've got a new sage of wisdom spitting facts. What a motto to end on, I'm definitely keeping that one in the big brain. Thank you for all the different ways you make us sit down and look at this process of art.
Oh my. This is just so inspiring! Would love to see this cut down to 60 second short that I can watch to shut down that lizzard brain prior to every session!
Ultimately, no matter what, Don't Give Up on what is in your heart. We, by nature, have eternity in our hearts, so nothing in this world will satisfy, but it is possible to find some fulfillment in getting outside yourself. Creators are in essence always putting themselves "out there". We all have different motives for creating, but when it comes from the soul, it can be the most liberating, life enhancing key to finding purpose within passion, especially when centered around helping others grow and learn.
Fantastic video as always! Would love to see a video or livestream of you breaking down that “plotting” process a bit deeper, seems like a really useful technique!
Noted! 👊
Always dropping some knowledge. What you said at the end of this video resonated with me like your video about "Why Does Your Music Sound Amateur". Specifically on this video: You can only show people where you're at now.
Thanks.
Yes that part came from someone on that very video saying they were still improving 🙏👊
Amazing inspiration to keep it all moving, we can only show the world where we are now! Thank you!
Another classic video B - another call to creative action!!
That was fantastic. Thank you... I'm usually just goin from vid to vid, but for some reason I stepped and listened. It spoke to my specific issues so clearly ..wow .. Thanks again
ha ha, I thought this was an advert for the 1st 5 mins and then I thought this is a bit long. Great video. Wise words. Focus focus hocus pocus.
It's a scary thing, but even though you got into making music because you had ideas you knew could be great, you have to let yourself let them down.
When you make a track from an idea and it doesn't turn out, it doesn't mean the idea is used up. The brilliant part of the creative process is that you can do it over and over again and it will always give you something different.
If you're waiting until you have the skills to do your ideas justice, you're practicing not doing your ideas.
Amidala was the main reason why anakin skywalker became Darth Vader. Could you show us how to do a "plot" session?
damn. what a great video!
almost every example applies to me. thanks for the tips on how to deal with it!! : )
regards from switzerland
bookmarked this video, im gonna come back to at whenever I'm stuck, thanks much needed!!
I did this song for a contest in 2015, worked on it months and the last leg of recording violins, last touches on the structure and mixing was one of the most intense weeks I've ever done, I was sure we had a great track...
Then when I was about to submit it, I started to panic. Thinking it wasn't good enough, mixing wasn't up to par all that...
I almost didn't submit it...
We won the competition by the largest margin in the history of the event.
So yeah... that cleared away my fear of releasing...
I also recommend taking part in Game Jams (Annual Global Game Jam for example), there you have 48 hours to make and release game, they're always short on musicians and sound designers. Thus you need to work on your ability to make the minimum viable product for the specific game you're making with the others, then use the allowed time to make it better, but you have to release within the time frame.
That'll teach you to be faster, teach you better working methods, to not get caught into weeds of knob tweaking and instead focus on the track itself etc.
Highly recommended.
Love this video, love the happy go lucky tone, love the useful information; thank you!
Amazing to hear to solidify what im trying to implement ! Thank you so much.
I hit that button sometimes like 5 times a day so I can hear what it's really going to sound like on other speakers.
I don't know why it would be so hard to click for you.
You are amazing. Thank you fro sharing your thoughts and these concepts with the world.
Thank you so much, aways on point!!
The biggest compliment I can give you: you are the dan worrel of dance music production
That is the biggest complement thankyou!
@@Bthelick High IQ professional speaking from experience: that's you! I make a living from music production, mixing and mastering, and I often send my artist to you to upgrade their work
@GingerDrums Aw thanks 🙏 good to hear my experience lines up with other professionals too.
I like you. A very invigorating, factful, and honest gentleman! SUBSCRIBED
I am not good at languages
But I use translation to watch you every video.
It made me understand many things.
Because in my country, most of these things no free
thx u
Thanks for this.
GREAT name for a Track, Amygdala ....
on a side note, because of your videos and pro-active talks i have put a track up on all platforms, ( it is not perfect, but it is finished. )
Cam
Incredible news well done Cam. Keep it up 👊
7:26 ROCK AND STONE!
Rock n Stone brotha!
nice. i add one thing. i didnt release ANYTHING anywhere. in fact i wasnt even doin anything i wanted to do so desperatly, as i was so obsessed by the idea thst everyone will copy my stuff and be successfull with it before i am. this is a tricky mean one :D. i managed to hammer that gordian knot and all the others. now in year ten not givin an eff about success or else, just doin the thing. no writers blocks , no excuses, no copying for fame no more. no fear. i never was more productive and open.
In the 70s Atari had a problem where every time they released a game sometime would clone it.
So they made their company the most desirable to work for. Offering lots of vacation, regular parties and good pay to staff.
That way only the best programmers came to work for them and could work at a pace faster than the competition.
They stopped spending time suing the copyright infringing companies and instead just stayed ahead by making the best games first continuously.
Well explained, thanks 🙌
Just playing my guitar was fun. What I hate about electronic music production is the constant search for sounds. You start to get the feeling that if you don't use new sounds you don't give people what they want. As if applying filters is all that matters. There is so much of the same out there. If there is so many ways to filter stuff why is there so much boring stuff? There is no personal touch. Melodies are not strong, rhythm may be generic, chord progressions may be generic. Do I make generic stuff I don't care about or just whatever I feel like? Do I do what I want or the imaginary listener who moves on every time you put out something different? For years I see people who do generic stuff getting praised. Is that the audience I am going to waste my time on?
Well you have make what you care about , always, but there has to be more of you want to make a living as an artists because as some point you have to communicate what you care about. And getting others to understand what your expressing is a completely different skill than making the art. Part of it is understanding the culture too. You're commenting there on chord progressions being boring in electronic music, but why is that important when people are trying to dance?
It depends what it is, who it's for and how it's communicated. You can't judge all music culture in their relation to their preferences of harmony (leave that to Rick Beato 🤣🤣🤣) as that is only tiny aspect of music.
You see it becomes impossible to communicate truly original ideas (If humans were capable of those) because the culture cannot relate therefore will not receive it because it's too alien. So there has to be iteration and relation.
The challenge is expressing yourself whilst standing out whilst communicating whilst translating.
If it was easy everyone would do it, and more more than 15% of artists on Spotify would have more than 50 followers.
@Bthelick Impressionist music was wrong at the time until it was right. I don't see too much uniqueness coming out often in some genres. As much as I like the sounds of trance music I don't want to listen to loooong intro just to find out if there is nice melody there. Some of us have listened to enough music to need an intro at all. It's 2024. The average listening time for a track is less than a minute. I am not exeption as a consumer. I don't know how anyone unless they look like Taylor Swift can grab attention with million songs coming out every week. And she does very aggressive promotion most of us can't. I am too sick now to even have dreams. Anyhow, I am tired as usual and that's another day when I ap probably not going to finish anything.
@@aspirativemusicproduction2135 well it sounds like you didn't understand why there has to be a 60 or 90s intro in the first place. And of course it has to loop have you never done drugs???
This music is not made to me enjoyed whilst relaxing with a glass of wine like discussing a Picasso. That's not dance music.
I'm sorry but all this rhetoric is sounding to me very much like you going up to an African tribesmen banging their drum ,and asking them to throw a little 7/4 in there because you're bored now.
Just not appropriate at all.
@Bthelick So, is dance music for people on drugs who would dance to a single shamanic drum playing steady at let's say 180 bpm? Is the guitar solo in Beat it too extravagant? With AI becoming more and more prevelant and music becoming less and less personal the future of dance music becomes more and more questionable as human endeavor. I am not traditionalist but I am listening more and more old music because the production may not always be glamorous but it does have it's own appeal. Try listening to Boney M for example. Tell me what today's dance music is missing.
no again you are still ignoring the cultural attachment.
Boney M is your go-to musical example for legit dance music? a manufactured pop group??? 🤣🤣
I have a cure for writer's block.
Take a few days or a week off and go do something else, put music out of your mind. After a good length of time away from music you will get this sudden urge as your mind fills with ideas. Then you're ready to get back to work.
Writer's block is lack of ideas and no directions.
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@Bthelick I would suggest to check the book “Thinking, fast and slow” by Daniel Kahneman.
Great video! Thanks!
Thank you for this vid! 🙌
that was super helpful and encouraging. thank you.
To me, I am getting my feet in the water by working with others, having consistency on what they tell me needs fixing and do it. All I want, is consistency. I'm getting very close, and mixing it or singing on someone else's idea or their deadline of showcase is way easier to get on board with.
Yes definitely. All my first major finished projects were for others. And it was getting paid enough times in a row from those that helps calm down the imposter syndrome too.
The amygdala loves a check list! ✅
Thanks as always Mr.
Great advice! Thank You 😊
More Monday Motivation. Thanks. ❤
Thanks for the lovely video
thank you for this ❤️ such a nice video!
Love the video man as always great content! One question, when we are done with a track and we hear it over and we know that there's sth that can be improved, like you are not satisfied enough, do you think we should spend more and more time trying to improve it or just export it and move on to the next project? Thanks :)
Depends how complete your vision is for what that something needs to be.
If it's "improving" because it's bothering you but you don't know the solution and you're just guessing trying other things, then I recommend setting yourself a deadline. When I'm in that situation I move on to another track, spend a week away from it on other music so I forget, and then give it one more fresh ears session, whatever comes of it that session is it.
Do you have any videos on the process of making plots like you mentioned in the video?
Not specifically yet. My stutter house ingredients videos go over the sounds from the session shown in this video.
It's not something that's simple to teach in an easy how-to video, as many base elements have to be in place like ear training for both pitch and sound design.
I could do one as a more advanced video for those further in showing how I use it for workflow purposes maybe?
@@Bthelick that would be great.It's certainly very good practice. I've learned a lot from trying to recreate some sounds in Left to Right, as you're suggesting.
Great topic to cover, nice one 👊
As always great video!
My bus hits a speed bump and that's my turbulence for shutting my mix down.
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plase keep this things up! love the content
Not me with an Octatrack and an Electribe 2 Sampler banging out tune after tune. Limited sound design. Limited tracks. No export button 😂
That'll certainly help!
love all of your content mate
great advise per usual ! Thank you
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Thank you as always 😮
yup. main reasons r
C = Control Room
R = Referense
we getting nice result in our headphones but it sounds "diferent" in car. sounds crappy to be correct.
sounds crappy anywhere besides of our headphones.
we getting basic home studio, and it resolve like 60-70% of that effect. but only 60-70. still some wierd sound effects on random soundsystem. still hear "cheap mixing room fingerprint" in mixdown file
idk if the ear education helps to dodge the professional studio rent. professional multi monitoring set of 3 types monitors helps to produse better results faster. (close range monitoring, long range monitoring, "closed box" 4-6' monitor for bass control)
Can u produce "radio level mixdown" without it?
ummmmm yup.
if u r damn lucky enough ;)
*my pain for now. cant see any correct way to deal with it diferent just yet.
yeh, it dont need to be hella expensive, but conrol room must be done well in case of reflections n shit ;)
Well it all comes down to ear education in the end. Referencing on as many things as possible certainly helps with that process.
Obviously you will need a minimum quality of listening equipment so your ears can learn easier. I suggest sennheiser hd25s or similar.
But referencing habits in general are also a massive part of it.
Did you see my video on how to reference?
@@Bthelick i guess i did. watched ummm must be every video for last 2 years. and there i have one more thing to notice. referencing raw unmixed track to fully prodused material is ummm.... no, not a useless but it makes us to reproduse sounds wich were mix+master-effected with raw equalised sounds and yeh, i do it , but i feel a bit silly cuz of it ;)
damn this summed up my live in 15 minutes 🤣
Bthelick voice has better stereo correlation and higher LUFS than last skrillex album 👀
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Good one B, I’ll get back on it tomorrow 😂
While all valid points, I don't think you can underestimate actual technical knowledge and skills. Back in the old days, composers learnt to compose and arrange at music school. But so many electronic producers have minimal formal training. QUite the opposite. There are hundreds if YT tutorials basically telling you the answer us to "copy and reverse engineer". "Use your ears" they say. As if artists learnt by reverse engineering and "using their eyes"! True they do that, but also, they will have done thousands of hours of training being taught all the skills. The only way someone can learn to use reverbs/compressors/wavetable synths by copying and using their ears is the Law of Big Numbers! There's hundreds of thousands of producers, some will stumble on some nice sounding technique. Most will not.
For myself, it took a combination of some mindset work and a lot of technical learning to get to level of getting tracks released. All the healthy amygdala in the world isn't going to help you write a track if you don't know the techniques. (and electronic music has a myriad of little tricks to get those sounds.. you could waste years figuring out how they did it, or they could tell you in seconds).
Absolutely, that's why I started the previous video talking about the 10,000 hours rule!
I swear to god... Until 4:50 mark... i thought topic will be "New project button" xD
Then my brain connected the dots, that tha must be sprobably most used button in your DAW.
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another great video
1st class advice as always!
Love this lad ❤
That was very helpful and I’m 25 years in.
I really liked your streams! Will you stream ever again?
Yes I stream every month, on the last Sunday of the month at 6pm gmt.
All the streams are uploaded in the live section.
B is our voice of reason.
Amen!!!
I'm more scared of music production videos! ;D
Yessss B uploaded 😀
Nice one!
I feel you, Warframe is such a good game :D
thank you, great video. if i make a song, i'll come back and comment.
1 track a day? holy moly... i wish xD even during my most creative and productive phases i couldnt keep that up for more than a week. at the moment its more like 1 track per week. and i hate myself for it. not only do i have problems finishing songs, i also just lack motivation in the first place. sometimes i watch streamers and they just grind like crazy everyday and that just seems impossible to me. i wish i could be more motivated but i also dont think it would help if i would force it! it just sucks that i wont be reaching my personal goals if i keep making 1 track a week, because i do want to improve.
Well you gotta love it.
When it changes from hobby to work you have to put things in place like I mention.
I want to make a track a day so bad
I have one very important question...what rank are you in Rocket League?
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Perma stuck in Champ1 - 2
@@Bthelick Same here! Still love it though