The Old Music Industry vs the New Music Industry
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When I got my start in the music industry, it was working at big studios with professional engineers, mixers and musicians. I was able to learn from them, apply their techniques and tricks to my own mixes, and create a portfolio that has helped me springboard my career into what it is today.
I got to be in a room with people who really knew what they were doing, and I was constantly asking questions to learn more and more about what they were doing. When it comes to developing your skills, it is that ability to learn from others that is absolutely huge.
Today’s music industry is a bit different than it was back then!
Recording studios like I started out in are few and far between. Getting signed as a rock and roll band to make an album for six weeks with world class producers and engineers just doesn’t happen anymore. You may get into a big studio, but even if you do, chances are you will be spending a few days there, instead of weeks
But, the biggest difference is that almost no one had a HOME studio.
In those days, they had a community of friends and professionals at the larger studios where they worked, or interned at! They could learn from each other, help each other out, and grow together!
This allowed them to drastically improve their skills in a short period of time and make names for themselves in the industry!
For me, the most important thing is to surround yourself with a group of talented, like-minded people who will encourage and support you. With most people working in home studios, and not having access to the big studios and experienced engineers to teach them how to do things, this can be more difficult today than it used to be. The days of interning at a studio and working your way up are gone.
However, it’s still crucial to surround yourself with a group of talented people who encourage and support you! This is why I started the Produce Like A Pro Academy.
Over the last 6 years, we’ve been building a community of like-minded, supportive audio professionals, some of which have gone from hobbyist to full time engineers, mixers, and producers!
The Produce Like a Pro Academy was built on the foundation and experience of the old music industry and was infused with today’s best practices, It’s the closest thing you’ll get to working alongside the some of the greats, and having a community who will support you in your journey and allow everyone involved to grow together!
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A great thing is that you take the time to reply to messages, like tweets, we know you are very busy...but its good to think that our messages and questions are being looked at ;-)....keep up the great work
I love the community here and I utilize Feedback Fridays the most. Warren's the best!
De you make mix consultation by Skype in the Academy ? 250$/year , i can' t afford it, because i'm handicapped and i live with the minimum of money.
Member or not, I truly feel like we all are so welcome to this community. And you sir have a way about you that is not just humble, but your willingness to share your experience, your friends experience and knowledge in the recording world is simply remarkable. Thank you.
Love the access to multitracks, there’s loads! Just wish I had time to consume all the courses. I’ve watched a couple and they’ve been great
Karl here. Life time member. Thank you Warren for putting in such an immense amount of effort to make all of this happen. I joined just about a year ago and have learned and gained so much from being apart of the Produce Like A Pro Academy (PLAP). The support and feed back is truly priceless and amazing. The multi tracks are just one aspect of the academy, yet a beautiful opportunity to be exposed to and mix multiple songs of different genres as though you where in a big studio. There are also videos of mix break downs on several of those songs which is awesome because unlike going to school and having to rely solely on notes days, months or years later, there are the videos that you can review , stop, play when you are available. I consider it a mobile education program with 24 access and support from others no matter where you are in the world. For me, it is one of the best learning places and we have Warren and the Academy to thank!
Karl, you are the best! I appreciate your amazing support! You have helped so many, it’s a blessing to have you in our community! Thanks ever so much!
My favorite thing is the talent! The insane amount of talent that can be found inside the academy. PLAP have allowed me to collaborate with fantastically talented folks, creating original music, remixes, adding tracks to songs, etc. Lovely atmosphere and lovely place!
Thanks ever so much Magnus for your amazing support!
Lifetime academy member here... I started out in the studio system back in the early 90’s as a runner in the UK. I still felt I had to work alot of it out for myself as the support and mentoring didn’t really exist unless you got lucky and managed to find an engineer or producer who would take you under their wing and help you learn. There were tons of opportunities to learn but like anything worth doing, it took dedication and hard work.
What’s so great about the Produce Like a Pro Academy is the support, feedback and positivity of the people. Whether you’re very active or only have time to drop in and out for life reasons, everyone is incredibly welcoming and non-judgemental. I can’t recommend more strongly that you take this opportunity than to say, if this resource was available back in my day I’d still be making music and doing what I love for a living. Thankyou Warren, Eric, Matt and all the PLAPAs of the world! 🤩😍🎛🎤🎸
Wow! Thanks ever so much my Friend! Paul, you are an amazing asset top our community! You help so many people and your humility is unrivalled!! Thank you for eveything you do!
@@Producelikeapro thank you Warren. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for what you guys have built and your mentorship. Sharing the love! 🤩
You’re far too kind my friend!!
Prior to joining the Produce Like A Pro Academy, I'd feel very unsure about my mixes, and would struggle silently while checking mixes on various systems and struggling with my subjectivity vs having objective opinions. Now I'm able to check with others to check my subjectivity, and get clear/concise feedback that gives me greater confidence to know I'm in the right direction, or take a different approach. Within the Academy, there are several pathways for finding out the information needed, whether it be Warren's tutorials, feedback from other, like-minded members, being able to test your mix techniques using the provided multitracks... there's really a WEALTH of information and I feel that my subscription has paid for itself and THEN some. I for one am VERY happy to be a part of the Produce Like A Pro Academy, and am thankful to Warren and my fellow Academy mates (who are really some of the best people in the world) for their help and guidance thus far.
Wow! Thanks ever so much Chris! You Rock! Thanks for your incredible endorsement!
I have been mixing for almost 12 years since 18 years old. I have to say the past two years are my second great progress after I graduated from university. One year here in PLAP RUclips channel, another is PLAP academy and Pro Mix Academy.
To those who are interested in PLAP Academy, all you will get here are tons of multi-tracks, lessons, and all kinds of positive comments, supports.
I really appreciate being A lifetime member of it, as well as A member of the pro mix academy.
Wow! Thanks ever so much Soden for your incredible comment! We really value your amazing input and wonderful support!
Wonderful video, Warren! Beautiful analysis.
Thanks ever so much
I have been watching your videos for a very long time. Recently I have started to take notes. Yes your Pro Academy Pass sale is too good to miss so I have jumped on board ....at last.
@Frank Lee Thanks, a tad daunted though
Thanks ever so much Tim! So amazing to have you join us!
Thanks ever so much Frank!
Because of Produce Like a Pro, I have grown in ways I never thought possible. I have found skills I never knew I was missing. I have always loved being able to learn something new. But PLAP has taught me to love it even more. To top it off, Warren is an amazing teacher, a true talent, and (if I might be so bold) he feels like a real friend. Someone you can trust is hard to find just out of the blue in this day and age. Eric is a hoot. His jokes... um... We love him. The community is actually that. People who are truly willing to be helpful without stabbing you in the eye with their ego. And, the talent in said community is enormous.
I am beyond grateful to have found this channel, joined the academy, and become a part of this community. I don't think there is a single person with whom I've corresponded in there that I wouldn't invite into my home.
Wow!! Thanks ever so much Bobby! That really means a lot! Love having inside of the Academy! You help so many people!
@@Producelikeapro I'll be honest. I they they do more to help me. But I'm more than happy to pitch in wherever I can. I'm finally learning enough to be able to do that. And that's pretty much what I've always wanted to do. I thank you so much for creating this, Warren. It means the world to me.
Also, Next FB Wednesday we have, I've got a mix/tune that I specifically attribute to your teachings being able to make it possible. I would love for you to hear what I've done.
@@bobbykanemusictube thanks ever so much my friend! You are a blessing to us all!
Thank you, Warren. I've learned most of what I know about recording and mixing from watching your videos and listening to your guests. Even though much of the work is done digitally nowadays, I hope the analog skills don't get lost to time. I feel like it's important to know where a lot of these techniques originated.
Thanks ever so much for your wonderful comment!!
I feel like I missed the boat with the music industry, I was coming up in the early 2000s, and by that time the opportunities were thinning out and people stopped buying music, but I never did it for money, I used to love gigging in my bands and playing live, that's how I got into engineering, guitarist + geek meant nobody else was interested, I'm happy to have won a years membership to PLAP, that was very generous of you Warren, I need to really dig in more and I really love the feedback fridays.
Hi Ben, thanks ever so much for your amazing endorsement my friend!!
Wonderful Episode, you really keep up the "old" way of sharing your knowledge and inspire thousands of people who will one day also inspire thousands of people and this is simply beautiful.
Thanks ever so much Ady! You Rock!!
Terrific review of history and creation of a new career! Go Warren! You are the one!
Thanks ever so much Joe!
Became a member here in early March 2020.
My interest in recordings came around the year 2000
but can safely say that the first 15 years it did not sound good
In the last 5 years, it has gotten better and better.
But I can say that since I discovered this channel about 1.5-2 years ago, my own projects have improved enormously.
Before I became a member here, I had only practiced mixing my own things, but started mixing with songs from the academy and discovered that it was quite fun. Have always wanted to try mixing for someone else but not really dared. But since March until now, my thoughts have changed completely ..... I can get good results ... this is fun ..... never too late to learn.
What I like best about the academy is how humble and helpful everyone is, but Errrriiiiiccccck needs to work on the jokes a bit.
Hi Patrik! Thanks ever so much, you are an amazing member of our community!
@@Producelikeapro Thank you Warren.
@@soundclosetstudio thank YOU!
Dave Jerden for me during the 90s was the guy to check out along with Brendan O'Brien. When I see the names Jerden and O'Brien I know that album is going to be really rocking. But for as long as I loved the Herbie Hancock track ROCKIT, I never knew Dave Jerden engineered the Future Shock album until you Warren mentioned it..... MINDBLOWING!!! You learn something new everyday.
I totally agree with you. Being mentored by experienced people is a best way to learn. You can avoid the mistakes they made OR make those mistakes work for you - if that is possible.
I hope to learn too one of these days....
Agreed! Dave is a master, a true gentleman and a great friend!
RUclips channels like PLAP have given me access to an enormous amount of wisdom. I've always learnt better by doing, but being able to pause, rewind and repeat has allowed me to try things at my own pace. I've been fortunate enough to be able to acquire a decent amount of gear in the two years or so I've been doing this, which has then allowed me to take the wisdom you put up for free and apply it to learning by doing. Developing that frame of reference has put me on a path where I've managed to make some friends in the music industry and, importantly, ask the right questions when I am lucky enough to get studio time with people who know what they are doing. I held back on the academy offer last year, mainly because I felt too green to make the investment worth it. I think I'm going to take you guys up on it this year. I'm not really sure how it's happened, but the Focusrite 2i4 that I bought "just to have a go" has managed to turn into learning two more instruments and a dedicated home studio. I think it probably is time to start supporting you back with a few bucks.
Wow! Thanks ever so much Koss! I really appreciate your marvellous comment and amazing support!
I have been making music since 2005 but i always dreamt to learn how to create professional sound quality like my fav bands and musicians have. Of course i didn't find anything good in Russia, and honestly don't like russian music at all, how it sounds and the lyrics in russian , cuz when you listen to russian music you don't understand a shnizzle what is all about. And yes it took me many many years to find Produce Like A Pro Academy to start learning all about mixing, mastering and production in general. I discovered PLAP on YT in 2018, and at first just was watching free videos on PLAP YT channel here, then in 2 months later I decided to try the Academy, because really wanted to get some knowledge about mixing and production and when i joined Produce Like A Pro Academy it was the best day in my life. Because here on YT and at PLAP Academy Warren gives so much that i couldn't find even in russian sound production universities. It was quite a long journey to find really good place of knowledge and a very good mentor. But i can't thank enough Warren for everything he does for the community! First of all he proived very good / high quality multitracks and there are 20 Seasons of multitracks at the Academy right now and each season has around 5-6 songs, so there are tons of high quality multitracks you can download and learn how to mix , also you can watch Mix Breakdown by Warren, so besdes downloading the multitracks you can watch how each of the song was originally mixed by Warren and learn much about mixing. Of course PLAP Academy is not only about multitracks, special Academy's video coursers from the best sound engineers, Feedback Friday videos but it's all about its community! There you can find really talented people from all over the globe. Warren created the best community ever! It's really helpful and supportive, so you always feel like you are at home. Thank you so much Warren for everything you do! I super duper appreciate that! Only thanks to you i finally started to understand something in mixing, mastering and production after all these years.
Wow!!! Alexey you are the best my friend! Thanks ever so much for sharing your experiences, it really means a lot my friend! I really appreciate it
You Rock!!
Sir Warren, your courses are AMAZING. Thank you for your discount offer of membership to the incredible Academy! One day I'll find a hundred on the sidewalk and join... TYVM.
Thanks ever so much Brian!
@@Producelikeapro It's the simple truth. AMAZING.
You’re very kind
I’m pretty sure all who watch you are so appreciative of all your doin 🙌 I know I am .... ✌️💚☯️
Thanks ever so much!
Best thing ive ever signed up for, such a great, wise and creative group, dont hesitate sign up now, and ill see you in there.
Wow! Thanks ever so much my friend!
No thank you Warren, you have done such an amazing thing and you really have helped and inspired thousands of people. Including myself, if it wasnt for you and the produce like a pro community i would of given up on my dream and passion. So like i said its the best thing ive ever signed up for. And was exactly the tonic i needed.
@@marleraudio I am humbled by your amazing comment my friend! Thanks ever so much!
Agreed Marler Audio. Best decision I ever made! Became a lifer this year
@@michaelgarding516 im waiting to get the cash together to become a lifer next year once my anual membership runs out in june.
Sam and I are academy members and am grateful everyday for this community. We joined Produce Like A Pro over a year ago, and have gone from absolute beginner in recording to actually starting our own mobile audio/video recording business that has ongoing work now.
Currently, we are still a part of Produce Like A Pro and have been utilizing the multiple free courses that Warren and this community of professionals release in the academy. The next one I am gonna learn that Warren just gave away is the mastering course with Warren Sokol.
Ongoing learning is the way moving forward, and Produce Like A Pro is one of the finest education experiences that we have experienced. Come join us, you won't be sorry :)
Wow! Thanks ever so much Mary and Sam! You Both ROCK!!
I always wanted that hanging out in the studio experience to become the way of life! Kind of sad it is for the most part gone. Although, being able to take as much time as you want or need to build a song is pretty amazing in todays world.
Thanks ever so much Alex for sharing!
Wonderful words Warren. Indeed the good days seem to have gone, if I'm honest, in the studio world. However, the community you and friends have created allows that way never to be forgotten. I fully respect that although the homage to the past is very much here, embracing the new is great to hear in your words too. I mean, who knows where this is heading. Perhaps one day, like Netflix, You Tube channels like PLAP will end up signing artists too and producing recordings for their community. The sky is the limit. What I would give to have guitar bands back again, even if it was the mid 90s Brit Rock era. I just appreciate having experienced what I did and I am sure you do too. Best wishes from sunny Hertfordshire :-) Marty
Thanks ever so much Martin! You absolutely Rock! I really appreciate your insight! I agree, the Sky is the limit!
Your 100% correct! Be around like minded people who support you and be support to them
Thanks ever so much Mac!
@@Producelikeapro np we love your show over at Izotope 😁👍🏽
@@bboymac84 Thanks ever so much my friend! You Rock!!
@@Producelikeapro happy holidays!!
@@bboymac84 Happy Holidays to you too!
Great stuff Warren!
Thanks ever so much Carl! I hope you’re well!
@@Producelikeapro ...and you my friend!
Thank you for all of the videos you make. Im currently in school for audio engineering and hope to become a great engineer one day.
Good luck! Never give up and keep learning!
Thanks ever so much Arsonloke!
Hi Warren, I discovered this community only about 4 months ago but it has been truly wonderful. Your videos and resources have helped me mix with much more confidence. Keep it up!
P.S. Would you ever make a video about how to correctly use delay on percussion instruments, while still keeping the rhythmic integrity? Especially when the artist is not playing to a click.
Thanks ever so much my friend! I’m so glad to be able to help in any way I can! Interesting video idea!! Thanks ever so much
Hey Warren, just wanted to thank you for all the info. Recently found your channel and holy s**t what a treasure trove! Much appreciation for all you do. Cheers!
Thanks ever so much
I ve learned a lot from your channel Warren, Thank you ever so much :)
Wow! Thanks ever so much
@@Producelikeapro I mixed / mastered our latest album for our label and their sound guy gave me a thumbs up and I'm based in Tehran so I really appreciate what you are doing :)
Wow!! That’s so amazing to hear my friend! So happy for you!!
Wonderful Community - highly recommended!
Thanks ever so much
Been watching your videos for awhile and being a live sound engineer, I’ve been wondering how some of these essential techniques can be used in the live sound environment. I’d love some content that covers how you can use studio techniques that will fit the live sound industry.
Very cool idea! Thanks ever so much
Hi Warren,
I love the work you are doing, can you please send a link to some mix you have made? I'm looking for inspiration, and it's hard for me to find it on the internet. Greetings Marcin.
Please check out half of the last Aerosmith album for instance.
@Frank Lee Maybe i dont want use google?
Really interesting work! Awesome and deep analysis!
Thanks ever so much my friend!
@@Producelikeapro Always my pleasure!
Very interesting insights and excellent information regarding the very helpful Produce Like A Pro Academy community.
Apropos of nothing, I think you should sport a rather fine handlebar moustache Warren!
Thanks ever so much Doug! Handlebar moustache? Haha
Lifetime member here! Picking the most favourite thing about the Academy is tough! There are tons of multitracks to mix. The teaching and guidance is top notch. Then, there is the collaboration side of things within the Academy. I've done collaborations with 11 different people all over the world on the same project with Academy members, and am working on another collaboration currently. So much positive feedback not only from Warren, but from the other academy members who take the time to construct helpful critiques of mixes you are working on to help you improve your mixing and producing skills. It's more than a community, it's a family!! Thank you so much Warren!!! You've built a great community here.
Thanks ever so much Michael! You Rock my friend! We are so blessed to have in the Academy!
You're such a huge part of our community my friend!!
Have you ever gotten feedback from your friends and family? Pretty useless, right!? They know and love you and unless they are in the music business themselves they don't have the vocabulary to give you constructive feedback. Of course their opinion matters, hey, they are as close as you can get to the average music listener. But In the Produce like a Pro Academy you get feedback from your piers, from people like yourself that struggle every day to make the most out of their talent. Here you will get that constructive feedback that will allow you to grow. Here you will connect with people with all sorts of backgrounds and skills. Here you can create a network of people and friends that will propel you towards your vision and play an active part of your growth.
I know this sounds like an advertisment, but I am just a humble and quite new member of the Academy. Within my first two months of membership I got so much feedback and advice that my artistic self esteem grew and I am now on my way to release my first EP with the help from other academy members. Something I wouldn't have dared to dream of when I was just working alone at home. Needless to say I got hold of a lifetime membership in the third month in!
Thanks ever so much Jens! I really appreciate your support!
Great points. Note: The big thing we started doing with indie bands starting mid-90s, was prepping the tracks for licensing opportunities. Many artists made far more from licensing, than in sales. We always made instrumental mixes and sometimes, TV mixes, which got licensed all the time. And yes, Dave Jerden...... exceptional!
Thanks ever so much for sharing Tim!
Agreed, Dave is amazing!
This channel is pretty amazing. It’s one of the few RUclips channels that really says it as it is. I came up working in recording studios in NYC and one of the things I miss the most is what you learn from one another. Great vid! 👏👏👏👏
Wow, thank you! That really means a lot!
Yep, I remember my Tascam 4 track and learning about this new thing called Pro Tools in the college studio. I was also that annoying guy in the band asking the studio engineers what everything does. It’s great I now get good sounds at my house. It’s not as good as a good studio but wayyyyyyy cheaper (I can now spend that savings on Spotify Pushers 😞).
Thanks ever so much for sharing your insight!
It's more about the coming together, and helping each other through to each day...Real good for helping those, not only in music, but in life itself...You need a good host...So, we know...He knows, and she knows also....We are....and some of US...just fall into...And get out of...Trouble doing and playing with...No harm done.
And we stay safe....Seems oddly showing...and some doing.
Thanks ever so much Leslie!
Hey will you make a video about the frequency on variety type of instruments please⚘💖
Marvellous idea!!
Thank you Sir 😍
Thanks ever so much
Shoutout ADAT! Bittersweet memories of community college right there man.
Haha I hear you!
Some good info.👍
Thanks ever so much!
👍🏾🙏🏾👍🏾
Thanks ever so much!
Great video, 🤗
Thanks ever so much Chris!
I will join as soon as we’ve moved to a new flat where I can have a home studio again and resume my recording work. Warren, I truly admire your work and generosity!
I bought my first blackface ADAT in 1994 along with a Mackie 1604. I ran 8 in and 8 out. I had one cheap reverb unit. Decisions had to be made, put to tape and bounced to make some free tracks! I had to read books to learn anything and met some great people along the way, but Produce Like a Pro has been the most beneficial education I have ever had. Warren's "we are all in this together" attitude is very refreshing in today's competitive climate.
Sounds like a very good idea, I really lament the dumbing down of music mixing since digital.
I have been into HiFi from the late 70 / early 80s and like a wide range of music from Celtic & Andean folk through classical and some rock. For about 30 years, I managed an auditorium PA and really took the whole sound reinforcement this very seriously, trying to get a very natural and uncoloured sound. Anyway, to my mind music tells a story and it is that story and the expression of it that touches my soul. It is the emotional engagement with the story and expression of that story that is important. For that to work, the vocalist has to be the hero of the show and dynamic expression is a big part of that. In my youth I loved Fleetwood Mac because of the story and expression but there is a big difference between the original releases and digital reissues compared with more recent remasterings. IMO the remasters are absolute crap having every source at the same level and all dynamic range squeezed out of them. The vocals and story are drowned out and expressionless. Sorry but that is not art, it is to music as paint by numbers is to art. Hell, they even retime every note and sound removing all hint of swing.
It seems like the only art left in the industry is from independent artists who do their own production and collaborate with like minded top artists both in performance and production. People like Loreena Mckennitt for one example. Now that really is art. Yes, I know there are some artists around still but not in the big labels, there is no art there anymore.
Please stop this insane micro mixing by numbers and mix from the hears to bring back the art of music!
🌟☀️🤗
Thanks ever so much!
I joined my local IATSE stagehand union and that helped me a lot. Met a ton of really great people. I wish I had learned about it sooner. No one ever really talks about it much, and it's not the most glamorous thing in the world. Learning about all of the inner workings of everything from symphony orchestras, setting up shows for national touring artists, all the way to working with Cirque du Soleil. That was real eye opener and put a lot of things into perspective and really helped me find my focus.
Thanks ever so much for sharing your experience Justin!
If you get a chance, you should review the SSL Six. I've found it to be a great tool for my home studio. I thought it might be out of the normal price range of things you review, but after you reviewed the Antelope Zen Tour which is more expensive, I figured I might as well mention it.
Thanks ever so much! Great idea!
wish i could afford the VERY reasonable price but with covid, the holidaze, and everything else in life its just a bit too much to swing on my SSI vast wealth amounts lol
but i hope the academy is around for a long long time and everyone has a safe and happy season!!
Hi Adrian, please email me at warren@producelikeapro.com
In my experience, when many people (if not most)
hear _”Music Industry”_ they think _”Record Business”._ The two were never synonymous. And there may never be anything quite like the Record Business again. From what I can gather, The “Music Industry” is essentially 5 things: (1) Composition; (2) Performance; (3) Promotion; (4) Distribution. (The fifth is the world of gear: music instruments, sound recording and sound reinforcement gear, etc. which won’t concern us here).
The first two began to merge quickly and rather seemlessly after Buddy Holly. But *Promotion* _(everything from recording and discovery to booking gigs, providing live sound and lighting, and even arranging for travel)_ and *Distribution* _(that is, turning content into some form of product that can be sold)_ require altogether different abilities that very often confound and bewilder the Writer/Performer. Imagine a skilled race car driver having to design and build his or her own race car. I suppose they exist in nature, but their number is minuscule. Or better, imagine your favorite band (oh let’s say, for the sake of argument, The Beatles) writing and performing great songs; and additionally, having to design, build, and equip their own recording studio, understand the esoteric art of engineering their own sessions, master and press their own LPs, create all the album units and ship them to the radio stations and record stores. Then book their own gigs. This is obviously an absurd example in the extreme - I use it merely to clarify the point that this is the situation most budding career musicians are finding themselves in. Any thoughts?
Very true Brad! Thanks ever so much
Hi Warren,
I was wondering was there a point in your career where you had to decide your career path between studio engineer/ Producer and Musician. Not that there is much music work at the moment (pandemic time). But I’ve always been doing both. Not sure that’s been very good for mastering either that well?
Great question! For me I'll always be a musician! I rarely (even when we don't have a pandemic!) play live anymore, however I always play on the music I make!
I made the best record and the worst record of my career in 2012. I became so disillusioned (thinking I'd never make a better record than the best and never wanting to go through the hell of making the worst again) that I sold all my equipment and moved my focus to video. My video work now has me producing multi-track audio and thus rebuilding my equipment locker and polishing my skill set. Things are different for sure but what makes it or breaks it is the people you work with. Those you learn from, those who inspire you, and those you're able to teach. The value of sound (pun intended) instruction can never be underestimated. Keep up the fine work, if you ever find yourself in Atlanta, Georgia, beers are on me.
Congrats to your continued success Warren 👍🎸☝️
Thanks ever so much
Just got off the phone with a similar company promoting a similar service that was priced at $4,800!! Amazing to see yourself advertising such a good program at an affordable rate to newer engineers. Rock on!
Wow!! $4,800? That’s crazy! Glad to be able to help! Thanks ever so much for your wonderful comment
The Academy helped me so much! It's just a whole world of priceless knowledge and wonderful people.
Wow! Thanks ever so much Alexey!
I've learned so much and I haven't put all that much effort into it. I've seen others who have really dedicated themselves really master the art of recording. Can't say enough, I'm hoping to do the mastering course next that is included.
Still love my 4 track Fostex :)
Fun times!! Thanks ever so much!
I was at Berklee from 2002-2006 in Music Business Management (what a strange experience). Every single business class was struggling with the "where is the industry going?" question. We could see that file sharing, online stores (iTunes didn't launch until 2003 as a music store, there was no Spotify although we all thought of the concept), touring, streaming, etc... was all going to change stuff. But how did that interact with recording contracts, advances, etc? 360 deals were brand new. The answers never arrived by the time I finished, and really just now are becoming clear and the "normal". Sadly, so much of what I learned is no longer the case, but all sorts of new things have come about.
Will you make a video on Bands like Scorpions, steely dan, etc too ? 😊
Absolutely! Great ideas!
@@Producelikeapro yeah please please please do steely dan
@@Producelikeapro Steely Dan: One of the very finest recording artists of the 20th Century.
@@Producelikeapro absolutely agree! also Sting , Nick Kershaw , Howard Jones , Kate Bush.
@@Producelikeapro Thomas Dolby
One side effect of the new music industry: there are so many people who buy gear and call themselves producers. But when you ask them about budgets and record labels they go num. I prefer too see myself as a 21st century musician and call in friends to know what it sounds like.....The first "punk" wave in the late 70's was a reaction against the domination of the "big" producers of the music landscape. Now we're having a huge second one. Let's not miss out on that one ! Creativity rules ! All my love and respect to Warren. He's helping us !
You rock! Thanks ever so much for your wonderful support!!
thanks as always ,your a great help.
Thanks ever so much
I´d started with a 8 Track Tape Maschine ( Tascam ), forward to a 16 Track Alesis Adat with RME Hammerfall Card. And now i have RME Fireface 802 and ADI 8. I can say , that i`m happy with the Sound and result ! But I´ve never been recording at big Recording Studios.
Fantastic! Thanks ever so much for sharing
Sheesh I don't get the downvoters - Warren is a great guy and his videos are always interesting.
Ah I remember recording a few of my very personal songs at Dex Studios, South Melbourne back in '92. Rob Dillon engineered and mixed it, but he also shared some of his knowledge and encouragement during the process so I was always grateful for that.
So to those in the industry now, know that besides the technical role you may have, just being nice and supportive to the artist/client can be of more value than you might think.
Thanks ever so much my friend!
I’m just someone who fiddles around on GarageBand but I always make the argument that the record business was great for music in general although it totally chewed up and spit out a lot of bands.
They gave you an advance to buy good instruments, they hooked you up with a producer who suited your music, they booked bands into famous studios with great gear and engineers. They got it mixed by a pro. They marketed the resulting record.
These days, the talent is out there, both bands and producers, engineers etc. But the business is intimidatingly splintered. There’s so many routes to take. And the money for most bands is now in touring rather than the albums. It’s unrecognisable from 20 years ago.
Warren Huart. That's our favorite thing about Produce Like a Pro Academy. (Eric G too!)
Thanks ever so much!!
When I have the extra budget, I will definitely join. I regret not being able to push through with audio engineering in college way back in the early 90s.
Look forward to seeing you in the Academy Don!
I am sure once you find Warren and friends you can never leave. Even if you are at the point of using one mic you will be hooked with a love of this industry. (I'm using two so there!)
Haha thanks ever so much Robert!!
Do you offer any kind of service for people who record stuff at home, but want a pro to mix and master for them? Or maybe a website or something where academy members can show off their work, and if one of them stands out and sounds really good to you, you can hire them to work on stuff you recorded at home.
Excellent question and proposal!
Awesome video! Do you think there will ever be a resurgence in "guitar music"/bands in the mainstream like it was in the late 70's-90's?
Hi Matthew, I believe it IS big! It's just not mainstream anymore, but still very successful!
I wish someone would make a video of what it looks like to record to a console or to tape and then dump it into ProTools. That would be cool.
I liked when you could make .99 a song that was fun I would take that bet all day long! But now when you release anything on Tunecore you are in competition with yourself because Spotify & RUclips is free & your trying sell your song still what is the point. Now just self amusement unless you have a label & a kick ass music lawyer to get as much as U can up front NO MONEY selling songs & and I mean the folding kind ! Not parts of a penny! Also about 2 months ago I got an email from Tunecore telling me that they were going to take 20% for cutting me a check ! When they had me pay up front for the distribution deal ! Total BS! Just doing because I like to play & produce now!
Is the PLAP good for hobbyist learners?
Yes! You’ll love the community!!
I have a Roland Boss BR8 with zip disk. Do you know how to convert to wav file on a new pc. It did work many years ago on XP pc. And I dont have that any more. Thank you.
Hear what you're saying but personally I would be more inclined to subscribe if I were to see a worked example of how Academy skills can be used to transform a home recorded track into something that shines. Offer a challenge for your RUclips subscribers to send a completed song for consideration, much like the days when bands would knock on Label doors clutching a cassette demo. Choose one you feel has real potential then invite performer/creator to submit 'clean' untreated tracks/stems and demonstrate how pro studio skills are applied. You would have a free hand to drop/add tracks - maybe replacing an over complicated drum part with something that works better. Just imagine the number of options you could demonstrate for vocal parts alone which many home studio musicians/producers might never have considered. The old saying 'proof is in the pudding' would be thoroughly put to the test.
First day on the channel, bub? You might spend more time watching this guy's videos than writing hilariously uninformed comments.
Lot's of that going on inside the Academy! There are tons of my mutual tracks and also loads of users Multitracks to choose from! No shortage of what you're asking about!
@@martywhite2988 absolutely! Thanks ever so much
Warren, don't you think there are too many music productions, too many new released songs, a kind of overdose the last 20 years? I mean, if you regard music as art, imagine in the same year Leornado da Vinci made his famous Mona Lisa, a lot of painters would have made a similar painting! Doesn't quantity reduce the value!? Today's music sounds quite often pretty similar, too. What do you think? It will be hard for you to admit, I suppose, because your job here is to enthuse us with producing music and improving our skills and please never stop doing that! Everyone can see your enthusiasm and admiration in your videos about Van Halen, Sting/The Police and Miles Davis for these old productions. On the other side 40 years ago music productions were limited to a small group of talented people. Either you got a contract with a label or not, well you could still earn some little money with live gigs, but analog gear was too expensive to make one release successfully an album without a label or record company and to make the world know about you and your music. But the quality of eg songwriting and creativity was on a higher level, you had to convince a record company make them produce an album
Sup Bro 😀
Haha 'sup!
Yea, I fielded at point.
Nice! So you must have been a great player!
@@Producelikeapro I was vice just because I like to shout encouragement. It's how i went overseas for the first time. I wasn't very good at all, just loved teamwork and diving.
@@Producelikeapro Now I'm an A&R for Record Union
Hi Warren, it's the Swedish Idiot here. This is a unrelated topic, but just as important regarding your artist series. You really should make a video about Bruce Swedien. He meant a lot for me, or anybody that knows quality pop for when they hear it. He had an enormous impact on my mixing decisions regarding the compression on vocals forexample, or mic choice for vocals. He went against what most producers would use, and did what his guts told him too! I pretty much uninstalled a lot of software, and dumped my condensors for my vocaltakes, never looked back since! Without his mixing efforts and patience with Michael Jackson, there would have been no good Thriller or Bad recordings, without a doubt. I hope you make a wise decision and do a video about him and his craft! He deserves it.
@Andreas So what do you use for your vocal take ? Preamp / Compressor ? ( you say if i understand you dont use condensors , what it means for example ? )
@@relaxmax6808 I've used both shure sm57 (in the joke black metal video, with the Shure - A2WS) and the expensive alternative sm7b "the podcast mic", it's been intentionally distorted here and there tho, so not a good representation of the overall sound, i'd say. I don't have anything with sm7b on my channel as of yet. I'm not a singer so probably will not happen in the near future. ha ha. And btw before you say anything. I know spoil me the lecture it's not the same mic as the one Quincy used on the records, but it's in the same ballpark. Ofc it depends what you are going to do. I'm not recording Acoustic instruments like Warren. Condensors have their place. But if you are in a average room, recording vocals, and you don't have all the time in the world . Why use a condensor mic? Ofc i can't speak for Quincy. He might have used the Shure out of completely different reasons then i do. But in my mind it's an nobrainer. 1. You get great sound 2. The room acoustics ain't such a big of a deal as it is with condensors that at least i have used! It pick ups so much it shouldn't pickup, and if you are unlucky (like i've been) then you are left with a good performance and bad sound (at certain spots in the song where over dubs were done), not always but i've been there. It's very easy to screw that up with a condensor in a none optimal room situation. The vocalist accidently moves a little too far back, or to the sides while singing, can make it sound aweful on the recording and it's unsolvable but to re-record it. Same thing happened with a dynamic? Just use volume automation in your daw, perhaps an automated eq. It's not as big of a deal. Simply cause it does not pickup the room aswell as a condensor mic does. For good for bad..........I'm an in the box guy, Ofc my vocals would NEVER be compared to a professional studio vocal, EVER. But the honest truth is that some great recordings are done with even cheaper gear then i have. If we are talking gear as of the era say 2010 up until now, which i suppose everybody on this channel probably has gear from?. I think it's safe to say you don't need hardware compressors, expensive mic preamps, etc. Even Warren touched upon these basic facts. All i have is an Countryman 85 di box for guitars, a really old d-mp3 preamp, into my even older interface m-audio delta 66. Then i take the time to automate the vocals volume by hand. Or if being lazy use Waves Vocalrider, or Melodyne. Not the same as using a compressor. What do you say. Different strokes for different folks i believe is the saying? Most interfaces these days have dedicated DI's, and good enough mic preamps. I don't need the latest audio interface. The difference was/is minimal, i've tried different newer interfaces. If you don't believe me? Go over to my page and listen to my stuff and you'll see for yourself. It's not in the gear, these days. My guitar tone is killer in the Red Alert mix, i did. Best i've ever done in the box.
Hi Andreas, Thanks ever so much! Yes, a video on Bruce would be incredible!!
Next video: how to grow in the new music industry
Absolutely!! Thanks ever so much
Come check out the Produce like a pro Academy, i have learned things i would not of even thought about, great advice about music equipment, production, recording, mixing, the list just goes on, a fantastic community, what more can i say, come see for yourselves, it's Amazing!
Thanks ever so much Darren! You are amazing my friend! Wonderful to have you in the Academy!
Hello Warren I would like to hear your opinion on a band called Nightwish especially their live concert Live at Wacken 2013, to me and I am 57 it is the best live show I have ever seen and as a huge music fan who has seen many live concert either live or on u-tube etc that's saying something if you ever get the time check it out on u-tube you wont be disappointed honestly mate it is something special.
So this whole video was an AD ?
Why do I feel like Ralphie with his Little Orphan Annie decoder pin about 7 minutes 30 seconds into this video? C'mon Warren, based on the title I thought there would be more insight into the differences between the industry today than in yesteryear. I appreciate the knowledge you drop in a lot of videos, but this one, let's just say, "Don't forget to drink your ovaltine."
Old= great....New=shit....that simple...
People these days have it SO EASY... Like really stupid easy...... nothing like it was back in the days.
Where if you wanted to work for a studio from medium to large, you had to come from an audio engineering college and you had to intern a lot.
interns back then spent 12 to 16 hour days and many times had to sleep at the studio if it was "Blocked Time" with known label & artists. And all of that time was no pay.
You payment was a few hours of use of the studio for your music. Because back then there was no home studios. Very Very few people had home studios & it was stupidly expensive.
and every studio DEPENDED on SMPTE, and disasters would happen if the studio went off sync from the clock - JLCooper's first units & Emagic was known for doing this..
Specially when having large clients on Blocked Time, studio managers would freak out on all the staff. computers back then was bulky and stupidly slow as hell. This was back in the early 80's.
These days people can almost just press 1 button and their entire song is done......LMAO
And dont get me started on the loudness wars of the new music industry. Back in the 80's we never had any problems with loudness wars and mastering was done
by real mastering engineers with several decades experience and they were the gatekeepers of music master levels.
Where music actually had dynamics and they breathed....... -- but now a days everyone is running to the 0-line & saturation & all music lost its dynamics.
Because now a days every joe, dick and harry is now claiming to be mastering engineers right out of kinder garden. Because everyone wants to be jack of all trades.
I was beginning to agree with some of what you were saying, I went though to your channel and you follow guys like In The Mix who are epitome of what you're saying you hate!
@@iwantappledumplings6187
Just because I follow someone on social media doesnt mean I agree with everything they say or do.
Sometimes some channels like the one youve mentioned & others show VST's & other devices or hardware equipment that I might otherwise miss or music ideas in style or sound.
But thats ok, you can pass judgement to a person like me who's been in the music industry since the 70's and an 94' IAR Alum & experienced the evolution of studios through time.
@@TwstedTV no judgment, just pointing out that maybe that Sabre should be rattled in the direction of someone who epitomises what you dislike, rather than this channel which encourages young people to learn the real craft of engineering!
@@iwantappledumplings6187
No no no no..... You dont get away that easy to make yourself look & feel righteous in front of others.... btw you did pass judgement towards me directly.
Remember that YOU are the one that took the time to go through my followers history, then proceeded to point out & pass judgement towards me because of who I follow via
on a comment because of who I follow on a social media. Passing judgment towards me and my experience as an engineer without actually knowing me from a hole in the wall.
Then proceed to continue to insult me by informing me that I should rattle my so called Sabre elsewhere. Then proceed to say I have no real craft of engineering.
When all I was doing was posting my professional experience from decades in the industry. - YOU started this argument to make yourself look & feel righteous.
In 1999 Pro Tools was well established. We had gone from piddly 442 interfaces on Nubus Macs to 24 bit 888 interfaces on PCIX. So PrTools 5 wasn't exactly all that new.
With the advent of the Adat system and Mackie 8 bus consoles, there were a lot of small, budget studios popping up around the country where local musicians could put out a fairly decent album. Though if you ever waited for 3 Adats to lock up and weren't making backups of your tapes.... something would eventually break. I was lucky enough to learn from 3 other full time engineers in my entry level job. And yeah, someone had to get sick or quit for an opportunity to come up. But I did get to work with a handful of big names in music early on before switching over to post. audio full time.
Indeed, however almost every producer I knew was still making albums on Tape and we were maybe transferring to Pro Tools for editing. All of the Rock Albums that I know Michael Beinhorn, Dave Jerden etc made around that period used Tape. Even with Dave Sardy in the mid 2000's we were still tracking on Tape then transferring to Digital for editing and overdubs. Then we would comp the vocal and bounce it back to tape!
Yes, I had a love hate with ADATS! Ultimately I made amazing recordings on them and I am very happy to have owned them!
@@Producelikeapro Yup. Bouncing from a single ADAT to a two track DAT and back. This was what at least one 'poor' person was doing in the middle 1990s. I cut an album that way. It was... not that great.
@@jurata909 I hear you! I only had one for the first year or two!
Prince forsaw in 1990ies that internet would ruin major labels and they laughed about him. And he was a trendsetter, he was the first famous artist to sell his music on the internet even before iTunes. He fought for the right of artists to own their masters. He one of the first musicians understood that live performances are the way to make money in the 21st century and his Musicology tour was a huge success, without a major label he earned way more than in Purple Rain times. I am wondering how he learned to track and mix on analog gear eg in sunset sound studios. Amazing
@Frank Lee Well, yes, cd came out in 1983, internet started about 1993, ten years later and Bowie knew in 1983 that there would be internet 10 years later? And that internet would be the main reason for the fall of major labels?
Hi@@najinelson6742 thanks for your comment! David Bowie said that now we had music stored in a digital medium, without quality loss when shared/copied it was the death of the music industry. He was definitely of course right and the internet was another way to share that digital medium!
@@najinelson6742 Prince of course was a very smart and extremely guy!
@@Producelikeapro thanks, now I see, but I think you could also copy and share music before by copying a record to tape cassette and that was done a lot. People even recorded songs on casette from radio quite a lot, you could not do that with cds. Internet gives you access to the whole world, to every country simply by uploading something. In the 90ies people thought Prince would get mad or something, he changed his name, wrote slave on his face, made strange predictions, but he was always right, he was so bold and clever and I admire that. Imagine Warner Bros thought he would never do it without them. The most beautiful girl was a success without Warner. Then imagine he released an album without Warner and sold sbout 480.000 copies without lots of marketing and promotion, BUT earned more than if he had sold 5 mio copies with Warner!!! Warner Bros wanted every album to sell min 5 mio! AND NOW imagine Prince made his musicology tour in 2004 and earned 87 mio US without having to share it with Warner Bros. and that was more than he earned with Purple Rain tour ! He did not even own a lot of his masters. So it was right to write slave on the face to attract attention. In the 90ies the music world changed drastically and Prince fought all alone for justice and to find new ways, it is pretty sad he got no support from other artists, most of them thought he had become crazy. He was a fighter, idol, trendsetter and pioneer! Prince gets too little recognition for this, still you can read that 1990ies were his weird period where he started to loose his control, I don't think so at all. I had way more copies on casette tape than on cd by the way. I like Bowie, too.
@@najinelson6742 you could definitely copy music before, however making it digital meant no loss in quality! Suddenly CDs could be copied without any degradation, the internet was another way that gave us a different way to do it. However, going Digital was the end of being able to control the old music industry.
Old is better, let’s bring back work ethic and not doing it the easy way, real drums and no autotune please, thanks....
That's never going to happen. Average listener is already in deep love with sampled drums and tuned vocals. And people really LOVE it when mastering levels are around -5 LUFS. I'm an engineer finally building a non-home studio for myself and my band, step by step, and I lost a lot of money and time just because of “your mixes are quiet, I thought you're a professional”. Of course they are quiet at around -11 LUFS, which I already consider very loud since it's the point where music starts to lose the real dynamics, where the drums still remain loud and “punchy”, but not that punchy anymore. My sweet spot for any modern genre is at -14 LUFS, and I think lots of real pros would agree with me on that.
@@alexeypolevoybass I think the old stuff is far more popular than the industry realizes, it's what is being listened to in private as the type of recording is no longer available... but oh well I guess an entire generation of middle aged people with lots of disposable income will just stay on the sidelines... I'm not a music professional, I'm just that guy that knows a lot of consumers that agree, maybe there aren't any professionals left... the technology is available that equals professional equity now that people can have at home, so if it's tools that differentiate pros from non pros what space is left?
@@robertw1871 it's really not that popular. Remixes and remasters of old songs get more attention than they deserve, and if a “remastered” version is available, the majority will prefer it over the original. All the old stuff is on streaming platforms, even some really obscure shit, so we can see the numbers if we ask, say, Spotify to enlighten us on the topic. And these numbers show that people listen to overcompressed and overproduced trap, not to Pink Floyd who played everything by their hands. Regarding how many pros are out there, I can say nothing than their quantity still grows, but much slower than count of amateurs attempting on sound engineering and refusing to use professional services due to lack of money or self-pride that doesn't allow to give anything away for mixing. Another reason musicians try to mix their shit themselves is that they don't want to be laughed at. LOOOTS of today's players can't even make a sound on their instrument without fucking it up utterly and completely, like Slash, Sid Vicious, or anybody alike, so they rely on time alignment and pitch correction because if they even had a studio pre-paid for ages further (which is what a home studio essentially is), they could never nail a single part they wrote. But they can't release a shitty played part either, they'd get laughed at for that, because now everybody's in the audience trained on records that were explicitly corrected to perfection, even if the takes were good enough to keep as is. That's the same reason of the most popular question on mixing forums being “HOU DOO I MAEK MA MIX LOUD??????????”: people are trained on shit that sounds on radio, TV, in degenerate RUclips ads and shows, in dumbfucky TikTok vertical videos, and everywhere else crap consumes gather at. And these sources dictate the worst that happened to mixing. RUclips, though, has new rules that set reference loudness levels at -14 LUFS, if I recall that correctly, but almost nobody follows that recommendation, and we still have piles of videos we turn waaay down just to not blow up our speakers. It's not about how many pros are out there, it's all about pros agreeing to produce and sell crap or not.
Also, I don't know who the fuck told you that nonsense that pros and amateurs differ by instruments, but that is complete bullshit. What matters is the knowledge and experience. You can't be a pro if you just bought a Harrison console and installed it where you want it to be, you need years of learning and training, and you MUST know music theory really well to be called a pro mixer/producer. Lots of pro mixers, ranging from unknown to celebrities like Warren, mix in the box, often exclusively, and they don't suddenly become amateurs just because they choose “wrong” instrument to accomplish a task.
@@alexeypolevoybass Not instruments, tools, that's not mine, the saying has been around for generations. I think we are on the same page... perhaps musicians aren't able to play because no one expects them too... And I'm sure about the popularity, literally everyone I know listens to pink floyd and the like. these people haven't spent a dime on music in more than a decade because no one is serving them, it's the corporate meltdown of talent, simply because what ever is cheaper wins...
@@robertw1871 instruments, tools… Whatever. In music, it's synonymous.
> literally everyone I know listens to pink floyd and the like
Well, you know maybe a thousand people, more likely 150-200, but anyway that's just nothing compared to your city/town population. Also, people you know are from approximately the same cultural reference frame that you are, and if you didn't know, I can tell you that people aren't all the same as you are. Some people like bands and singers that you don't, some people adore music you've never heard of. Get used to it, it's how life is.
> it's the corporate meltdown of talent
What a load of bullshit. First of all, there is no such thing as talent. It's all hard work, always have been. You call it so only because you don't see how much the person wanted to have that skill and how much they struggled to reach it. Never ever say the word “talent” or “talented” in the face of anybody. Now to the “corporate” part. Well, it seems so that people honestly and sincerely love dumb repetitive shit, and the secret lies within children's music which is intentionally made simplistic and idiotic. We grow up listening to dumb music, and we like that dumb music till the end of our lives. Lots of us like it the dumb way, so “The Industry” just sells more “dumb shit” than “sophisticated masterpieces”. Back in the days, Mozart's music was considered dumb shit, but still was extremely popular all over the Europe. Now it's considered classics, despite I can't honestly bear most of it. It always worked like this. People love shit. Always loved. Always will love it.
First dislike I from me on this wonderful channel.
I clicked the video expecting a great reflection on the way the music business evolved. Instead I get an add for the academy. And what's worse, the main part of the video made me think it was going in a great direction so I watched most of it. Until "so we made this great community" Bla Bla....
@Frank Lee I agree! I was just turned down because all the videos on this channel are great, I clicked the video with high expectations! But well beyond the half of the video I realised I had been watching a disguised add! Not cool...
Sorry Antonio that you were offended by my video, one would hope that 1,200 videos of free content you give me some kind of latitude! Haha C'est la vie!
@@Producelikeapro You're right! Sorry.
I'm just fed up with the amount of ads on RUclips right now. And this video just tasted like one more add in disguise. But in hindsight you're absolutely right. If anyone would have some latitude is you.
@@AntonioRockGP thanks ever so much for that comment! I really appreciate it!
The important thing to understand is that there no longer is any money in music industry. It is no longer a valid career path to be a musician and by extension an engineer/mixer/ etc.. Money is in branding, merch, sponsorships and commissions, but not in records. So although being good at recording production is still a valid skill set that you need, it is no longer a paid job or a career you can have. Kind of like lift operator, telephone switchboard operator, ice man or phone booth technician - sure, valid transferable skill set, but no longer a paing job that exists.
Lifetime academy member here... I started out in the studio system back in the early 90’s as a runner in the UK. I still felt I had to work alot of it out for myself as the support and mentoring didn’t really exist unless you got lucky and managed to find an engineer or producer who would take you under their wing and help you learn. There were tons of opportunities to learn but like anything worth doing, it took dedication and hard work.
What’s so great about the Produce Like a Pro Academy is the support, feedback and positivity of the people. Whether you’re very active or only have time to drop in and out for life reasons, everyone is incredibly welcoming and non-judgemental. I can’t recommend more strongly that you take this opportunity than to say, if this resource was available back in my day I’d still be making music and doing what I love for a living. Thankyou Warren, Eric, Matt and all the PLAPAs of the world! 🤩😍🎛🎤🎸
Wow! Thanks ever so much my friend! You are an amazing member of our Academy!!