I have so much respect for people who do this. This lifestyle will burn you out with out balance. From 2004-2010 I worked myself into the ground with my music from MySpace to making my music to selling beats. The constant work makes you miss out on a lot of things in life. You have to be obsessed but still know when to pull back or else you will burn out hard. I had a huge MySpace following and over 15,000,000 streams on my music. Back then you did not get paid for your streams and when people left to Facebook then instagram and Twitter. I said fuck that. I am not building up all over again which was a mistake. I stopped releasing music and let my presence die online. I currently do not have any other social media but RU-vid and I do not post. I rebranded my name. I am happier since I stoped depending on music to pay all of my bills. But a part of me still wonders what might have been.
The worst part about the industry these days is how you have to be so prolific on social media. Im just a hobbyist producer but i also gave up djing because nowadays its just a popularity contest and it doesnt have anything to do with skill or deep cut track selection anymore. Its just super gay and defeating
Favorite quote: "In this life I have created for myself, unless you are really good at scheduling, which I am not, it is a constant battle against procrastination and laziness that Is embedded in my DNA."
As soon as he mentioned his Wife... lol... That Common video meme slammed right back into my head again "my wife.... eaah!!" Lmao. Weaver, you need to clip that vid and have it handy for laughs as this seems to be a reoccurring topic of discussion lmao 👊🤣👍
The moment i started making serious money, without having the intent.... everything changed about making music as an producer. i blew up on the internet via a hit, later money came in like ive never seen before. from that point it was all serious and it killed of all my creativity, cuz now in a sense there was this big pressure of: i have to do x in order to get paid. all fun was gone, i was falling for all the creative traps, and i hated making music... this all happened between 2018 and 2021 until today i didn't release a song, or sold a beat. so now i am at a point that music that i make should fulfill my need to create. not to fullfill the need of the market. being a trend hopper or following the pop is not for everyone...
@@kasper-jw2441 Yeah, that's not success. I get x50 that every year and I don't think i'm successful. You're talking shit. You aint making shit from those baby numbers.
"I wake up every day, yeahrr - I'm meant to do this. I'm just going to collect the crumbs. Yer, got a crouton there....." Nice observation, story of my life, and classy, with French.
A "music career" means you pay for your car, house, food, vacations from the music you create. We know what a successful career is, if you're a successful doctor it's easy to see. The only reason we act confused about what a successful music career is cause we want to lower the bar to pander to delusion. Let's end that.
Yo Weaver thank you for doing what you do, you add smiles to my day, I love your honesty and humility......keep collecting those crumbs! XD no one does it better. and get an SM7B cause you know it'll boost your subscriber count!
i started with a $250 laptop, some $40 headphones, and a subscription to splice. ableton live lite came free with the cheapo midi controller i got. really bare bones, but it was enough play around and find that i loved making music.
Love the design of his sound reinforcements. As for VSTs V hardware, there certainly sound differences, but some of us love both, and can only afford software.
IMO IMO IMO HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE OPINION HERE: IF someone had a music career (like, is known in the "underground" at least - like dibiase ie, tho i dont see underground anymore) !!!before youtube - then its musician, more or less. IF music "career" appears AFTER youtube channel - well, you know, it a "youtube producer" (is it a derogatory term at all eh?). also, i guess, "real" musicians usually dont make youtube channels. as with movie directors - the one teaching students in a film school highly likely doesnt have an actual film career/creds. same applies to youtube and music, imo. there are some exceptions, of course, like jonwayne - he is a musician, but according to his words - "music is dead as commodity, thats why we are streamin". yes, there were many educational videos, exempli gratia, with b b king - guitar lesons etc. but hmmmm i dont see pete rock, madlib, funk igniter or samiyam or anyone else sharing wisdoms and teachin on their own youtube channels. who the f is this l dre i dont even know. yeah im ignorant and i listen to ghettotech.
We are on the same train bro. Anyone that's REALLY doing it...doesn't have a youtube channel. I know a ton of super successful producers/DJs in the underground techno/house/rave scene...not one of them makes youtube videos (outside just posting new music) because it's a giant waste of time for them and absolutely not relevant to what they are trying to do.
Just because one of the people you look up to does it, doesnt mean it translates to everybody. I cant lie i was hesitant to make beats when i bought my MPC and for months i kept it locked in my closet. Now im using my phone for everything
I laugh, but not kidding, I write a lot on my phone (mostly using caustic) because I have ideas when I'm away from my studio. I use Koala sampler a fair bit, but I use caustic to write because it can export midi files.
i know tons of musicians on youtube who are well off, most of them are doing music for film, commercial work and video games and also run websites where courses are offered, i hope i can get there some day. expand the genres. branching out, it works. Someone i know just made a song for a background music for a streamer. Marc Giovanni made a song for a mr beast video recently lol. That one synthfluencer you laughed at how he does that thing with his hands all the time. Dr. Mix, he is a professional pianist in a few live gig bands, he in Netherlands I think. Different world over there. Music is a big thing.
Don’t worry about keyboard warriors at NAMM. Keep the content coming. Honestly you keep us honest. If he can’t see that it will show. That’s why LDre and Weaver are respected and that other guy is seen as a clown, especially after that beef with a real legit producer.
I hate when people say “gear doesn’t matter”. Every piece of gear you use has some sort of affect on either the workflow or the end production. If you wanna make music bad enough then you will find a way to do it.
But evey bit of gear has a vst or pluggin software and in some cases free that does the exact same thing, sure there's something that you might need down the line just when you start every bit of 'sound design' or beat making you can do every thing in your DAW with 0 equipment
@@rosslansberg6323 you can do it in your daw, but the sound of digital will never be the sound of analog. I personally only use vst for mixing and play all my instruments straight out of my Juno DS going through a Yamaha mixer and into my Volt276. The 76 compressor on there adds some analog color and distortion. I’ve made better music and better mixes with this setup than I ever have with VST and it’s all because of the gear. While you can have digital vst that emulate analog distortion, nothing beats a true analog signal and having the ability to control your signal going into the daw.
A man with a laptop and a drive, will beat out a guy using daddy’s money to build a studio, all the best gear. You cant buy your way to sounding good or knowing how to produce ect. Kit doesnt matter means that a basic midi keyboard and laptop is enough. Though i know what you mean. But do you notice all the RU-vidr with walls of 10000$ of synths yet never really use it. A lot of kit hoarders end up going back to the laptop because it’s easier to learn than all that kit. A lot of kit aswell can be seen as fashion, hipster bait. Where “this xxxx sound soo much richer and smoother”
@@HankHillspimphand I hear you but I disagree. The laptop works, but I blame the laptop for why modern music is so lifeless and dull. People take other people’s loops and just throw some trap drums on it. Just watch the dude who recorded Michael Jackson Thriller with Quincy Jones. The art of recording is still in existence. There’s nothing in the world that can make me go back to predominantly using a laptop only for production. As for Those RU-vidrs who have those synths but don’t use them it’s because most RU-vid producers are trash musicians because they put RU-vid first. Not developing musically. And even look at Andrew Huang. His whole sound is based on his analog gear. What he does with modular synths can’t be done with vst. Put any youtuber’s best beat up against my last 3 beats and they would have to bow down. I can play, straight from my own hands, Those same jazz samples that dudes are scouring the record stores for. And a smooth drum beat is nothing to make.
Influencer? Who is this dude "influencing"? I DJ clubs in New Orleans and literally no one has been like "bru do you have that new L Dre?" To me he's totally irrelevant, couldn't be less relevant. Anyone that uses that word in any seriousness is putting out mondo douchebag vibes 😂
When L Dre talked about working at a deli it sounded so much better than the weight of the world on his shoulders as an "influencer". Takeaway: just stick to cold cuts. Punch in /punch out.
