If you can't do this, you should quit producing. 

Now if only we could get all the musicians to act professional too...

I've fired employees for trying to hookup with clients. That's a hard nope.

I don't care about the business or who it thinks is an artist. I'm just gonna try to find people who are on a similar path as I am, and ignore everything else. The music industry has made it perfectly clear it has a very different view of what creativity looks like than I do. But, it's just responding to what generates profits. So, I can't really put all the blame with them.

What I love about this video is it all goes down to the basic decency of respect. Respecting artists, and collaborating with them with ones incredible talent to come together and create an incredible experience. Being able to communicate effectively but honestly without manipulation is so important. This is life gold, not just production centered. Next, I say this online all the time, it’s about the journey not the destination. Not everyone has money to put on plug-ins, they have just as value as anyone else. It’s about how you get there and *that’s* valid. I never recommend plugins, I recommend how to execute a technique with the plugins they have IF THEY ASK. I’m so frustrated with the toxic environment, and it is so so good to watch videos like this, thank you for this video! The last thing I’ll add, especially online, not everything is okay to critique. It’s something I notice as a person who mainly does stuff online. If someone shares a song on a production chat, it’s not an open forum unless it’s a space dedicated to that. Being able to listen is so important, and appreciate what others’ do. It may not be what you think is the best, but going online and seeing others’ bash people to the point where they suggest quitting production is a massive no, and it breaks my heart to see, and it’s more common in places like SoundCloud. We are going to be critiqued as artists, it’s the name of the game, but that cirque should be respectful of the time, effort, and intrinsic value that creator has both as a human and an artist. Thank you!

Ok, I know this is off topic, but great lighting and styling on this vid.

Kind of sucks that some of this still has to be pointed out to people, but i guess a lot of us need someone experienced to give us the heads up on the "unspoken rules" and such. Great video!

This needed to be said.

Not sure how I got here but I watched anyway. But now I am confused - in the pop/charts kinda genre (sorry I have no clue, I never listen(ed) to any pop/hiphop/rock kinda music) isn't the producer mostly "the actual artist" and the "artist" is just a puppet giving a face and voice (if even) to the songs and make a kind of branding from it? I have no clue here 😂🤷

I work with my friend and his on and off girl friend who sings and writes. We share a google drive and I ask for her email so she could be shared in the drive and my dude freaked out on me…I’m not even into her. It made me feel shitty at the time but damn I just wanted to make a cool song with my friends and dude made it weird. Or maybe I made it weird idk

1st thing people need to do is learn the differences between the roles within studio culture. A lot of people say there producers but there not, a producer is someone that gets records made, there not usually an artist making the music. They more often than not mix, this job is left to mixing engineers. You get geniuses who can do it all like Dr Dre artist/producer/mixing engineer, but most people do not have the skillset to cross all 3. On youtube theres a lot of producers, but there not very good music artists and there average mixing engineers. If you cant tick all 3 you will struggle to compete at the high end. Its better to be a great artist, who get to know a great producer who then utilises a great mix engineer, this is how Ed Sheeran became the global success he is, also Adelle, Drake etc........... Dont try to be everything, be 1 specific and find a team to help. If your a mixing engineer dont waste time producing, if your into artist creation of music dont waste time producing or mixing. Jack of all trades master of none or great specialist, choose 1 aspect and be great at that aspect, avoid wasting time trying to do it all. Mixing Engineers are in greater demand than producers, there are 1000s of studios where producers will help make your records come to reality, theres not that many mixing engineers who can get your mixes sounding as good as a billboard chart record.

My experience with producers is they were nearly ALL 'Cokeheads' or egomaniacs so not so good, but today I do it all except make videos. It is very hard not to give up with NO support at all from family or my longtime friends lol. I refuse to use Auto-tune it sucks, Good comment!

"never take advice, that was great advice" - drake

this needs more views👍

Solid, good advice.

Sometimes, I take my sh*ts while sitting backwards on the toilet. I don't know why, I just _do_ it.

Great video

don't try to fuck your clients, guys.

A+

Solid.

This guys oppinions stink because i hate Marshall amps

you should be more carefully what you saying and how you saying, cos in the matter of fact you can just DEMORALIZED somebody, truly. You could be a beginner, but work really, really hard, have knowledge about music production and had a great ideas for the record, and you never, never know what happened afterwards. If I will have 20 years old waching your video truly I would stop making music. Lastly I believe in my artistic vision as hell ;) Have a nice day ;)

welp that's it for me. i'm going back to accounting.