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@@The_paradox_of_Youth i’n so glad to hear it - hope to see you there!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼 let me know if you have any questions or if you have anything in particular you want me to cover

🤣 this video is for music producers because one of the hardest parts of the process is getting everything to sound good together in the context of a song in a process called “mixing”! So this was hopefully a helpful tip…but if you’re not a music producer I can see how this would be confusing 🤣 if you ever wanted to start producing though let me know I’ll give you some places to start!!

@@skrat1001 this video (and my channel in general) isn’t necessarily for beginners, so if that’s you, there’s a lot of info here and you might feel lost, but at no point did I say what you’re saying. Each step has tangible things: step 1: high quality chords? “Space your notes out more” step 2: high quality sample pack? You just buy these. No skill required. And the rest are suggestions for which instruments to layer with the piano to make it sound good and why. There are a ton of really good “how to music production” channels on here, if you’re actually considering music production I’d recommend hitting those up first vs. leaving comments like this - next time just be like “I didn’t understand this one” and I would have just explained more 🤷

That’s ok, I care though 🤓 a lot actually. I’ll just carry the load of caring for the both of us

That exactly what I was thinking. Doesn't make any sense

I’ve tried it a bunch of times now after watching the original video from AU5 and it’s definitely come up with some awesome results! I want to try it with melodic stuff next like vocals could be like vocal chopping but even more random to create some cool melodies from samples in your song’s key…tons of fun ideas to be had here 😊

@@benjaminwlang writing is very much like therapy! :) it’s not a replacement for someone who knows what they’re doing, but it’s the practice of asking questions and expanding on concepts, which if you apply that to yourself and your own situations, can be really healthy and helpful. Journaling is also a great way to do this 🙂

@@StarOasis26 that’s a great question! If you’re lowering the volume of the references, it becomes a bit of a guessing game how much you actually lower the volume…Also, now you’re essentially changing the reference volume based on your demo, versus using the reference to make changes to your demo! So what I personally do, and what I would recommend, is turn your own mix up to match your reference 🙂 put a limiter so you’re not clipping. This will help you compare apples to apples in terms of loudness and then you can adjust as needed! 🤘🏽 hope this helps! - nick

@@sounds-sights ok good to know, a limiter. Thanks !

Why not? 🙂

Yes, for the most part! The only thing you’d be missing is the attack and release settings, and it’s easier to “solo” the bands with the multiband version, but you can totally do most of it with pro-q 🤘🏽

@@sounds-sights keep doing what you're doing. You're dropping some good gems. Maybe we can collaborate on some music one day too

@@DeltaZones10 RUclips shorts only lets me post 60 seconds 😭😭 the original video is 3 minutes where I show both, I’ll add a follow up and tag you :)

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Any update on the sound? I was also thinking of trying it out on my UAD Apollo

hey there! which part did you mean? so the multiband compressor does most of the work, the only things that you would need to adjust are the threshold mostly (when does the compressor kick in) and the attack / release settings (how quickly it starts reducing volume once it hears something that goes above the threshold, and how quickly it returns the volume to baseline after the volume is below the threshold) I just set to quickest attack, and quickest release for this - other than those knobs, no automation needed! let me know if this helps!

Agreed. He also stated that these are starting points.

there are definitely problems that dynamic resonance plugins like deres or soothe are really good at solving, like when there's a specific resonant frequency or two that are making the vocal sound harsh or otherwise unbalanced. but in my experience if the vocal is generally well recorded, but the problem is there's just too much difference between the bright parts and the rest of the vocal (too much dynamic range), solving that with deres is a bit indirect vs. broad treatment with a mulitband compressor, or even just a normal compressor. it'll probably work, but it might sound less "natural" since all of those other frequencies are what makes a persons' voice sound like their voice, and it's way easier to screw that up with a tool that's designed to mess with those relationships at a really fine grained level. hope this helps!

now wait just one goddamn minute! are you... telling me... if I copy a melody for the purpose of practicing writing lyrics... it won't result in a unique melody?!?!? are you sure???? wow crazy. this is clearly meant for brainstorming and writing lyrics, not coming up with melodies.

If the goal of the exercise was to create unique melodies, then you’d be right! But the goal is to create unique lyrics from nothing, something that a lot of songwriters struggle with. After that’s taken care of, you can play around with the melody a bit more and see what suits the lyrics of the new song and the mood best 🤓

Thank you very much I appreciate your kind words! Lots of practice 🤓

Hahaha, I do aim to be a calming presence when it comes to music because it can be stressful sometimes when you really care about your art and things are new and unfamiliar or don’t go the way you expect! Just here to help :)

I think mix engineers are also artists, and as such each have a "style”. So that’s where it’s a bit on the artist to do their research. Check out the mix engineer person’s previously mixed songs. And I’m not saying a mix engineer that usually specializes in tearout dubstep can’t mix a jazz track…but…..🤣

But def in that case some constructive feedback would be required 🔨