Charlie Puth's 5 Tips For Producing #1 HITS | Studio Deep Dive 

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This has to be the most un-fun way to produce music I’ve ever seen. I was having an existential crisis watching this by 6:51

Good practice if someone is bored enough with unlimited free time.

@@ryandodsonmusic ya and honestly like, Charlie Puth is a freak, we all know that but it almost seems like a troll here. The opposite of flow state.

Haters always going hate.😢

i kept thinking to myself "oh good god is he for real?"

I think your initial impression was bang on …

me too!

So, it's not a skit? 😂

Putting the individual notes into audio feels like something i would have done 20 years ago because my pc couldn’t handle having two vsts open.

Yeah fr. The fact that splicing together individual audio clips is easier for him is crazy💀

@@isaacdynys6518 FRRR 💀💀💀 I see no benefit either, you can humanize and adjust transients and decay parameters inside the instrument/synth that’s just basic ADSR 💀 no need for all that

The best way to use MIDI in Pro Tools (at least in my experience) is never work on another DAW so you don’t know what you’re missing. It worked for me, now I don’t see too much of a problem with PT. Ignorance is bliss! 😂

@idkhahaok exactly. It sounds way more realistic, plus you get to make use of high quality vsts that have tediously recorded notes at different velocities. Also what if you want to change the melody later?

@@isaacdynys6518 TRUTH

comment: 8 hr ago video: 7 min ago WTF!!!?????

i'd say the main advantage is that you get very clean notes with reverb and or whatever other fx on them... if it wasn't individually done then you'd have notes bleeding into each other muddying things up, so it absolutely makes sense to do it his way.. but it depends on the sound too

@@henriksalomon1 Isn't there ADSR for that? Or does PT not have ADSR?

@@CrypticSoundFX i can't see how you would achieve the same effect, please explain

@@henriksalomon1 You can use envelopes to stop the notes and reverb bleeding into each other. It's faster than bouncing to audio and then doing things to it, and it's automatic, which is always good in a large production. I get that Charlie is a very analog person when it comes to producing, he loves his waveforms, but in the end this is not a video showcasing his talent, it's meant to be him giving tips for producing. Bouncing each note to audio is a horrible tip to give someone (if they do not share the same interest in raw audio manipulation like he does), especially if they're just starting out. His course is meant to be for the newbie to intermediate skill range too, which makes it worse in my opinion, especially when there are easier ways to do what he's doing. This is just my take on this as a Logic/Ableton media composer, I don't know how Pro Tools works, (nor that whole genre to be honest). Other people in the comments say MIDI is horrible in PT, so maybe that's a reason he learned to do things this way 🤷‍♂

The good thing about bouncing to audio is that he commits to the track and the sounds.

Glad this was helpful!

Imagine what that would sound like, if he put the ideas into a condenser ;-p

Maybe when he made this, that feature wasn't available :/

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It’s all about the textures. That melody would sound ass on a clean mic. Think before you speak

Part of having a great style is when you use techniques you used when you had the bare minimum setup....

He seems to be having fun though! Doesn't he? The process is not painful to him. Maybe he is not in a rush to get to the fruit of the action. He enjoys the journey. He takes his time.

sure. This is honestly such a silly opinion- spend years of your life mastering making music so that it is as good as it possibly can be- but don't put that work into a single song so you have an actual quality piece. I feel like so many just say this because we're lazy- and don't want to go to the levels Charlie puts goes for his music.

@@user-rx2qx9ou8l Perfection doesn't necessarily mean quality. What makes you different from me in a performance is the little nuances you do differently. By quantizing it and cooking it into perfection, it removes all the characteristics that makes that performance you and makes it generic. So I end up sounding like you and you sound like me. Music has always been a performance to some extent....we are now cooking all elements so much so that there is no performance any longer. Its just a series of perfectly cooked sounds put together

A wise lady once said to me: “perfection is a waste of time” … like this whole video, lol.

100%. The grid is for computers, nothing human about it.

My #1 tip for producers: do what works for you. And it ain’t this ADD trip (well, not for me, at any rate).

Glad to know it was helpful!

If anyone wanna know about a cool method, I can recommend searching for "scrum sprints". It is a method of breaking projects down into smaller sub-projects, at the end of which there is always a finished product. This iterative way of working encourages you to concentrate on the essentials. At the end of each sprint, you consider what is needed to complete the project. Rinse and repeat.

Another tricks to think of projects as assignments. Venus theory made a great video about this concept recently.

@@Solanaarwhat is the name of the video?

@@Solanaarwhat is the name of the video?

@@thebellbrothers3279 Idk if I can link Videos in comments, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BXJ0-h-DHsc.htmlsi=xSYyp2MQ33biNcSq would be the vid. It's called "The Homework Theory: Making Music Effortless"

I'm no fan of Puth's music, but he has 4 Grammy nominations. Do you?

@@robbiep742 not yet! I don’t listed to him either but fascinated by his process and it just seems to go against everything else I’ve seen from him and Benny Blanco… where they use whatever’s on hand, lyrics with voice memos, from start to finish in a half hour, etc… just seems like he’s trolling in an over engineering tone. That said maybe he’s just bored with yesterday’s process which is fine!

@@robbiep742it’s because he is super talented so it doesn’t matter if he does it but the first tip is actually terrible advice lol.

It did seem like a joke at first 😂

Is there any app or ia available that i can sing a melody and then return the notes?

@@juangarcia-rp5ov good question. I’m sure there is. Ableton let’s you drag an audio file to a midi track and it interprets it into midi information, but the results can be kind of mixed.

Glad it was helpful!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yyt8tl-mj9w.html

Why it's crazy?

@@stampusbeatscuz pro tools sucks for production. It’s a good DAW for mixing and tracking tho

@@andreslozano6035 As someone who uses PT, Ableton and Logic I have to disagree... but I guess we're talking about opinions/personal preferences and not facts

@@andreslozano6035 No mainstream DAW "sucks" they just have different pros and cons. Pro tools might be less intuitive for production sure, but I'm sure since Charlie is familiar with it, it's not even a big deal or something that even crosses his mind.

@@stampusbeats Pro Tools is widely known to be used by rock, country, live bands, etc. Not often used for Pop because of the lack of midi tweaking.

He loves stress😂😂😂😂

Im picking up a little "Look at me, Louie!" in this guy 😂

foo just edited all the clips instead of turning the attack up lol

You get variable attacks and releases when chopping audio like this, so no, not the same thing as a static ADSR setting

@@pianoatthirtyThis. Everyone bandwagoning hate but clearly didn’t see the small differences that are made that can’t be done by just a blanket knob setting.

@@jmd489And the funny thing is, this is what top level guys do - they play with audio in very nuanced, delicate ways. It's hilarious to see people in the comments think they know it all and then offer up their I-know-it-all "solutions".

Music production is just perfection...

With modern computers is ram and cpu still an issue 🤷🏾‍♂️

I bought an m1 pro Macbook Pro so I dont have to print anything lol.

@@Waynyceit was until a few years ago. Kontakt instruments are really intense. Apple did some magic with their new chips because I tried crashing the thing with 1000 kontakt instruments and it kept going. Computers in the same price range before these chips would struggle with 15

maybe he likes the way it sounds dynamic, although even w/o the transient master, it would pretty much sound the same because of the lfo tool...

also, i think the lfo tool that he added was only within half beat, so with the transient master added, it adds this groove + the that strong plucky sound...

He didn't use those plugins on the same audio channel, the lfo tool was on the Juno channel

I'd also be interested to find

I think on mix with the masters

wouldn't it just be easier for him to record a note and put in a sampler and play and record it in along with the beat instead of just adjusting things left to right to be in the so called "pocket" he's talking about, these are dumb tips for your so called REAL PRODUCTION

You're the final boss of gatekeeping here, chief. Never a good look

not always. i convert midi to audio in order to free up CPU usage. you can have all the plugins and audio effects on the track, committed into an audio file. then you can remove those plugins to free up CPU usage. also you won't need the VSTi anymore, which can consume a lot of CPU depending on the VSTi

not at all. it is one of pro tools' downsides.

I remember too

Glad you enjoyed it!

big nah

Agee with your comment. Something to consider though - "Practiced Songwriter". No one on this earth is born with arbitrary gifts.

@@user-xedwsg great comment. I love the attitude of, "there is no talent, only ass-hours you committed to develop the skills". Maybe this attitude does not always work, but... you do your best, you do your part :)

Of course, Benny fucking Blanco told him that BS