I help electronic music producers finish music they're proud of, release it with confidence, and build a tribe of true fans instead of just "followers".
If that resonates with you, take the first step and download my "Finisher Framework". This FREE guide will help you finish at least one great-sounding song per month: pickyourself.com/framework
Straight techno and house are exactly the types of music that have no problems with mixing kick and bass whatsoever. It’s straight 4 on the floor, do some sidechaining, what’s the big deal? That’s like why they were even invented in the first place.
The edm prod and PML courses I would recommend because it teaches you all the steps it takes to start and finish a song. Sonic academy is also good for the value.
thank you for this channel - I have watched videos like yours in the past but somehow this is the first time I've actually been able to take your tips and transfer them directly into my music 👍
Thank you Philip! And all the people reading this, I recommend all of you to give this video a like for providing a clear and concise guideline for beginner producers, and subscribe to his channel for getting more valuable information in the future in your production journey! 😊
Thanks Alice for all the great tips you’ve provided to the scene for so many years. Your success is well deserved and I keep recommending you online and offline 🙌🏻💯
As far as mics are concerned, if you're working in a room without acoustic treatment, get a dynamic microphone. The SM57 is inexpensive, doesn't need to be babied, and sounds great on whatever you stick it in front of with very little fuss. There's a reason it's the most widely-used studio dynamic mic for god knows how long.
SM57 is great, especially for very loud instruments. For vocals, an SM7b with something like a cloudlifter to improve the signal to noise ratio is a good option.
Can you make a video on staying consistent? Especially, when one sees the result and feels down by looking at the quality of music..and doesn't feel like working on more music... And instead of making more songs just procrastinating by filling more and more information from RU-vid, some of which is hardly relevant
Just in Case Vs Just un Time information... Man ..that was a game changer information.. I realized it like a month or two ago only..and I wish I had known it earlier. I've procrastinated for months by watching tutorials and not actually following up. Now I try to work on my music and whenever I'm stuck I watch tutorials. Great video bro. I've not only subscribed but also turned on the bell notification, which I rarely do. Keep these videos coming ❤
Hey! Recently found your channel, and it's awesome. Just an idea for a series for you. I'm a game composer, mostly with expertise on orchestral stuff. I want to expand into electronic music not necessarily to expand into genre but more as a means to expand into idiom and tecunoques. That being said, from a learning perspective, I'd love a 101 series of the most fundamenal edm genres because theres like 1,000 genres, and it just feels overwhelming to even contrmplate becoming versed in these idioms. I may be wrong, but I feel that maybe by learning some of the first genres in the chronology of edm history would probably expose one to the most common or recurring aspects in terms of arrangement, sound design mindset, and mixing techniques concepts.
You kinda touched on this, taking notes from tracks you like, I would take it a step further and put a reference track right in your daw. You now have a framework for arrangement and mixing levels and has helped me finish more music. This advice may be closer to the “beginner looking to move to intermediate” but is still something to keep in mind early on. Keep up the great work!
Absolutely, you have to have enough knowledge to know how to get there, which true beginners won’t have yet, good distinction. Beginners may find a reference track useful for arrangement purposes more than anything at that stage.
Yes working with a reference can be helpful. The only downside is that very often the arrangement, the sound design, the mix all cross-influence each other and if one component in your track doesn’t fit into that puzzle, it might just not work. That being said, I think it’s super useful to analyze and learn from reference tracks!
I feel you! Tbh, great music can be made even with the Ableton Notes App and some earbuds. If the emotion is there, you got it. But that doesn’t mean it’s fair play. Still, let’s all do what we can to make the best out of what we’re having already. I’m rooting for you! 🙌🏻
@@pickyourselfofficialunfortunately Ableton notes is only available for iOS, you could get a MacBook for the price of an iphone here 😂 I actually started out making music on my Android then finally got a laptop to expand into Ableton, it just feels like there are many obstacles but hey step by step I guess. Also your Ableton videos are very helpful!❤️
Despite it's not a "must-have" I think it's terrible advice to flag music theory as something "you don't need", therefore encouraging newbies not to care about music theory. I think everyone should learn at least basic music theory, not necessarily before they start (would be ideal though) but at least they should learn as they learn how to compose and produce.
@@tonycoo2177 well nowadays there are these melody and chord progressions generators, I'm more concerned about those... But yes, just as you say not knowing music theory leaves its mark behind
I think having music theory knowledge beforehand is akin to reading a car’s owners manual cover to cover for a new car before even touching the car. If you get hands on experience you learn all the things that are obvious to you. Then if you go and read the manual, you find out all the little features and things that weren’t obvious, and it’s much more stimulating because you have the real world experience and context for it. Music theory is much easier and motivating to learn once you’ve been playing with making music first, because it helps you focus on things that weren’t obvious to you from hands on experience. A lot of theory is so abstract it’s hard to comprehend without context.
@@Shorties252 I agree with most you say but in the end if you are only gonna produce popular music the music theory you need to learn is a tiny fraction of it. So my comment wasn't like "spend years studying music theory before even making a single 8 bar loop", thats what I said it would be nice to know some basic things before getting started but if it's not the case, people should dedicate time to learning music theory as they learn to compose and produce
Your "Finisher Framework" helped me to unstuck. It was a missing piece for the systematic approach to making music that I failed to figure out on my own. Thank you very much.
It blew my mind when i watched this one simply because, believe or not, i only follow your channel along with underdog and mercurial tones as my main source of truth in electronic music production. You just validated my intuition so thanks for being open and honest about it ☺ Truth to be told, i am a big fan of your Prolific Producer course and still following it at the moment, keep up the good work and paving the way for us upcoming electronic music producers out there! 💪 As a small suggestion for upcoming videos, i think it would be super cool if you make a tutorial about a reliable technique to make any synth sound in mind 🙏🙏🙏
Been doing this since 1998. If you buy RME, you buy for life. Simple as that. But Audient are a very solid budget choice. This is a good video that covers all the basics, well done. My one piece of advice to newbies would be: perfect is the enemy of good.
Thanks so much, that means a lot! I've noted your comment in my database for new video ideas, that's an awesome topic that a lot of people struggle with.
Got this recommended, watched the intro, got hyped AND THEN ... instead of a widely used pop/rock song... the dumbest possible track to use on a "mixing" video hahaha, terrible, what the fuck is that
Do not trust an analyser to find out the key of your kicks. Use your ear and keep the fundamentals in the right Octave. For instance C is never a good idea for a kick
The “simple way”? You’ve been tweaking a dozen different things for 20 minutes 😂 are there any principles or themes here? It seems you’re just showing us the process you used to make a loop but not really teaching general ideas or principles that can be used to make anything except this particular loop.
Absolutely AMAZING tutorial. Jam packed full of great nuggets of information, presented in a concise and educational way. Easiest subscription of the year for me. I look forward to consuming all of your other content. :) Cheers
I’m really pleased that you cover how gain affects the plug-ins and how to adjust accordingly. The examples and process are really clear. I am looking forward to more content from you.
Great Tips my fellow Almann, I easily get overwhelmed by a loop with a ton of layers and then don't know what to do with it. this seems like a great approach
You say there's no way to independently apply effects to the wet and dry compressor chains, but why not just group the track then have the dry one going through a separate chain in the group? Just tried it and it seemed legit.
