Remember artist use to sell mixtapes? Not everyone had pro tools but they still had some fire mixtapes back then. Lil Wayne, Jeezy, Juelz Santana.....ect Not all of these were mixed down to perfection but we still appreciated that era. We gotta get back to appreciation of the art
@ Lol I used Cool Edit Pro back in the day to chop my samples. This was like 2003. I agree with you on the fact that FL definitely needs to stay creative if they want to compete with other daws. I like FL but I keep getting people trying to convince me to switch.
@@TymeIsMoneyLLC bro i still have cool edit 2000 on this pc i'm typing this comment on. If push comes to shove and i really need something cut precisely and perfectly i still use it. It is an amazing program and is a main stay in any set up i run
@@busyworksbeats Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy can be seen with the Original Mbox that ran pro tools 5-7, in their mixtape era; you can see one in the video for "make it work for ya" - Artists back then used to use the pro tools Mbox at home and pro tools HD at the studios. beats were made with MPCs mostly, but FL was taking over. Most people bounced the FL stems into pro tools.
10:25 I get consistent quality out of Fl as a full time audio engineer. If you don’t know how to mix you just don’t know how to mix. Consistent quality will always be based on you not the DAW.
@@briancouture6033 that has to do with your workflow. Not everyone's workflow is the same. People will use DAWs for different things i.e production, recording, editing, mixing & mastering. All of these will have different preferred workflows
For music production, I would choose FL Studio first, then Logic X. For audio post-production, I stopped using Pro Tools in 2018 and am now enjoying Studio One. No headaches!
I started using Fl in 2019 & i must admit going to another daw right now is hard because i've learned so much in Fl that if I go to another Daw its so complicated
There is no industry standard anymore. There is no best application to use for anything. There’s only what works best for the individual who’s using it.
The Pro Tools crowd has been trying to cope REALLY hard ever since this discussion blew up 😂. Trying to sneak diss folks by saying Pro Tools is what the pros use and that everyone else is a bedroom producer. I guess that helps them sleep at night 🤣. Most of the pros on Pro Tools are old timers that don't wanna move to something better because they don't wanna learn a new DAW. Has nothing to do with Pro Tools being what the pros prefer because there are pros using Logic, Studio One, Cubase and Ableton.
I'm a full time sound engineer in a big infrastructure with multiple studios, as a producer i use FL, the 2 other guys working with me are FL and Logic users for their own project. But once we're recording/mixing for the studio with top notch clients, it's pro tools and it's not even our choice, and i'm not only talking about music, radio spots, movies Adr, dubbing, mixing 5.1 or atmos, etc.. When you're working with Netflix, Amazon, Disney, etc when they call you if you don't have pro tools their sound engineers won't even record a simple voice in your studio. And yes pro tools is stupid af, i hate it but i went to multiple big studios in paris, berlin, brussels,.. It's all pro tools.
Why is this a war? Use whatever you like. I'm a protools user bc that's what I know and lost of sessions are still used in protools. If you are getting work in other days then go for it. Just bc I drive a toyota does not mean you have to
@@tyrone05 It's not anything against you guys because you both seem to be more level headed Pro Tools users, but a lot of em have been throwing darts at people who use other DAWs.
@@MaskJambi I bet those engineers working with Netflix, Amazon and Disney are mostly old timers though. They're the only reason Pro Tools is still hanging on. I give it another 10-15 years of AVID not making new innovations until it gets phased out. Not a lot of people know that Bolo's video was actually prompted by a long time Pro Tools user deciding to leave and move over to Cubase because he was upset at what AVID was doing (or not doing) with Pro Tools.
Kanye West was a bedroom producer if you want to be technical. 😂 Shoot many of us started off in the house and as I type this I'm making beats in my own house.
@@phamphiletsoalo6101 I knew Abelton was huge but new to FL, it would be great to have a list of Billboard top ten records of each year with who recorded and mixed them and with what program and which studio.
@@musiconanotherlevel there's a great difference between producing and mixing/ mastering. What you are talking about is engineering and even they can tell you most of their work is sent from those two. 90% of tutorials on production is those Pro Tools can be added as a third for mixing and vocals
@@phamphiletsoalo6101 I know people aren't making beats in Pro Tools. Pro Tools was never the industry standard for production only for mixing and engineering.
The Yamaha QY100 sequencer had a sound that was amazing and could make instrumentals automatically. I loved mine, considering buying again even though it's from the 90s that sound has never been made again..
Pro Tools was what it was back in the day because of the mobility of it. It was pretty much the first plug and play DAW because you had to have a dongle to even use it. This was before thumbdrives and SD cards and all that. Hence why it was considered the industry standard for a long time.
If you go to any top studio in the country. They have a pro tools rig. Period. It doesn’t even have to be a top studio. Any commercial studio is running pro tools. It just is what it is. If you wanna mix at home on FL then cool. But if you take it to a studio to get mixed you’re going to have to bring the track outs because they’re running pro tools. PERIOD.
At the end of the Day . Everyone sees PRO TOOLS no matter what you want to say . When you turn in records 9/10 you have to turn in audio files for mixing engineers to mix in Pro Tools . You can make beats in anything .
Standard - used as accepted as normal or average. Protools is the “Standard” daw around the world because of convenience , quality, & availability . It’s just like a iPhone vs android, yes there are nice androids but if you want the convenience of file transfer & camera quality conversion across all platforms you will choose a iPhone no question. Protools is the same way it’s the best for convenience.
@ mainly based around the fact that android has thousands of more devices than Apple and they are only wining by 6% world wide . That’s more of quality over quantity ,
Bolo and Brady videos are shaking up the internet in the production world. Avid has no choice but to listen. But will they react effectively? (Probably not)
Pro Tools has been and will continue to be the standard. The truth is, there’s no DAW like Pro Tools in any recording studio. We can say whatever we want, and this is not about disrespecting anyone or taking sides. I’ll hold back here, but I say it because I truly believe it’s the best. Though it’s a bit of a secret, many already know: Pro Tools is the best, and it’s the standard. Period.
I am pretty sure that Studio One Pro can do everything that Pro Tools can and much more and it is super stable!!!!!!!!.......I think all major studios all over the world should also use Studio One Pro!!!!!!!.....
Facts man I really like how you brought up having Roland sounds for example in fl studio they should have partnerships with big companies integrated in FL sounds/FL cloud sounds that would be fire and probably have more people come to FL! Thank you! 🙏
You aren't using the term "Industry Standard," in the context of how it was originally used. FL Studio may arguably be one of the most popular DAW being used at the moment but it's not used in every pro studios everywhere. Back in the 90s the industry standard was 2 inch tape. That was whether you were in the US, UK, Europe, Caribbean, Far East, every pro studio had a 24 track 2 inch tape machine to record on. It was the industry standard around the world. You book your studio time in the country where the artist or band reside and you book your flight ticket and bring your reels with you to record on them. If the studio didn't have a 2 inch 24 track tape machine then it was a home studio not a professional one. By the early 2000s 2 inch 24 track tape was overtaken by Pro Tools and Pro Tools became the industry standard. By 2007 anywhere I went the pro studios all used Pro Tools and the 2 inch tape machine was parked off. A lot of the old pro studios have closed down now as musicians can record at home and get a good quality recording to send to a mix engineer or even get mixed at home and sent to a mastering engineer to master. The days of doing your homework before going into the studio have been over for a long time. We can record at home in our string vest and boxers with a cup of coffee and smoke and get the job done and/or get paid. The software used in the home studio like Cubase, Logic, Studio One, Reason, Ableton, FL Studio have all some advantage over Pro Tools now. Even Sonar 6 had 64 bit before Pro Tools in 2006. The pro industry is a lot smaller now. Those pro studios that still operate have a Pro Tools rig and a 2 inch tape machine in storage, but also all the current top DAW to go to at an instant (if they want to stay relevant in the current climate). Quite a few have been selling their old rigs so you can pick up the old 24 track 2 inch machines for cheap and the old Digi Design Pro Tools rigs are probably cheap too. Home studios of various sizes are now where the recordings are mainly created so the DAW of choice is now the regular standard.
They state that ProTools is the standard but that doesn't mean you have to follow the trend. You should use what works best for you. The hardest part is finding out how to get the best out of your equipment aka if your signal routing is off, the final product will be.
I will say from my experience, Avid Pro Tools is the industry standard for recording studios, at least the recording studios i have been to. Im not gonna name drop, but some super industry based studios ALL use PT. Thats more than 60 around the country that i have visited. Next to analog systems, PT is consistent in all of these different places. My 2 cents. 😊
The advancement of newer audio technology, recording, mixing, DAWs, sampling, workflow, has changed over the years and pro tools is no longer the industry standard. Just get over it!
I have to say Pro Tools is the studio industry standard I was using Cubase as a recording engineer working in a recording studio I had to learn Pro Tools even though Cubase was better and user friendly and could do way more than you could in Pro Tools
I hated FL studio starting out. It was overwhelming and frustrating. Ableton I was able to be more organized however once you learn one DAW you can navigate them all. You can see the flaws, and go for it.
Am just learning FL Studio, I been using Maschine + with Komplete 64 keyboard and Komplete ultimate 14. Definitely going to check out that FL tutorial because am frustrated 😂.
The industry standard doesn’t mean “what guys use at home.” If you make music and drop it on the internet there is no “industry standard.” If you’re signed and the label is funding the project and releasing it, they’ll probably have someone polish it up after the producer goes home. The guy that does that is using pro tools trust me. That’s what industry-standard used to mean .
Ppl be gaslighting crazy trying to constantly promote and campaign for these analog joints acting like u can't make literally mindblowing work on plugins. Desperately trying to grip as tight as they can to just a micro piece of the past
It depends what you use it for I would say for production. It was the industry standard back in 2008. I would say more mixing and mastering engineers pro tools
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Was. In the 2000s there aren't anything else. Still, they have some of the best interface (MTRX studio), able to mix in surround Dolby Atmos. I think they are still industry standard for movie soundtrack for that. For me I'll pick Studio One for tracking.
I recently switched to FL Studio after using Pro Tools for years. I like FL Studio better. The workflow is more efficient and is easier to use than Pro Tools. Pro Tools makes doing very basic tasks difficult for no reason. Also Pro Tools got too greedy charging a monthly subscription model when you used to be able to buy the program outright. Pro Tools is very overrated in the music industry.
One thing you can say with certainty is that the industry standard is a DAW of some kind .it doesn’t matter which one …the greatest FOR ME is Logic X by a million miles….and I hear that about everybody’s choice. Pro tools is the “waves” of plug ins….so common everybody thinks that everything is pro tools. I feel like everybody can use Logic actually.
Wav pcm is wav pcm. Daws or OS’s have no effect on sound. The same sample rate , bit depth and pan laws result in the same way and will null. Dither can vary from DAW to DAW if used. DAWs that have a saturation running in the background like Harrison mixbus will have a sound. A OS definitely doesn’t change the sound. It may run better though. Good lord stop with that ignorance
It seems there must always be a war on gear. "Nahnah, my music is better because I have this big $x00.000 SSL console". Ten years later: "Nahnah, my music is better because I use analog synths" Ten years later: "Nahnah, my music is better because I have all the libraries from Vienna, 8DIO, EastWest and Orchestral Tools". Ten years later: "Nahnah, my music is better because I use ProTools". Point is: In ten years time, when half of the DAW-makes have gone broke, or bought by InMusic, someone is still nahnah'ing about something, while exploiting that fact for business opportunities. And someone is going to be bothered by it. Ten years later, the whole discussion is pointless as the crowd will be be like: "nahnah, I make my own music with AI". Think about that, rather than about who's using which DAW, which synths, which plug-ins and which interfaces... because outside of the studio, no-one cares.
Thank you. You’re absolutely right. I’m an engineer in film and orchestra. Yes, ProTools is used professionally across all categories of audio and has been for years. Avid uses a lot of expensive hardware to perform tasks you ‘can’ do in software but you ‘need’ reliability when you’re going live around the world. That’s what you’re paying for. Also, the studio doesn’t care about cost. Working with Artists is different. You’ll be surprised how many famous artists will be happy to work with you on FL Studio, Logic etc at your home. They don’t care about the odd crash n restart here n there. I don’t know but I’m not sure Bolo understood or more likely explained this difference.
For the most part Pro Tools is about producing the album that people hear on the radio. It's not about songwriting. Especially for electronic music. "Industry standard" means that the Studios in Hollywood where the Boomers never retired use Pro Tools. Logic pro is also pretty industry standard if you are talking about the past 15 years. But sense of producer does everything that band members used to do, Ableton Live and something like the reason rack plug in is the name of the gang for modern songwriting. The keep in mind hip hop is about to become yesterday's news. So if you want to do this you have to at least get good at production or else it's just going to look laughable 10 years from now
Industry standard definitively does not describe how many ppl use it the most friend. It’s the capability of the daw and yes PT is the standard. Can you create music without it or in other DAW,S OF COURSE. Check out their hardware. You get what you pay for.
It’s funny how when these conversations come up through the years, it’s like logic, pro tools, reason, etc., be in a bar fight, but Cubase is always on the side laughing because its weird y’all really just don’t know. 😂😂😂😂😂
imo whenever i hear old rappers they all sound grumpy bc the new generation. thats what this all sounds like 😂 mai & ben jordan made a post abelton vs fl awhile back. good points on both. timberland also had a good interview on the producer grind.
ProTools was feature rich and widely used in the professional big studios in the US in the 90's and early 2000's so was considered the prefered DAW. Today DAWs like Presonus Studio One, Cubase, Reaper, Logic, Ableton Live do a lot more and provide better features for music production mixing and mastering than ProTools.
It wasn’t Bolo it was Barry Johns who started it because he hates Avid with a passion and he’s always making videos bashing avid products. Bolo was just responding to his video.
I avoid Pro Tools to this day. The layout the look the feel is so trash. I have been on Logic Pro since Logic X. It was the "standard" bc of the people who run the industry business partners etc. Logic is the best to me. I did FL studio first in high school before I had a mac. Today 2025 the DAWs all have plugins to enhance the sound etc so at this point its whatever you want to use. As long as the final product checks the boxes for radio ie sound quality then no one cares. IMO
Pros don't care about the layout the look and the feel. They look at the tools that the DAW gives them to do their job. All DAWS are not the same and there is a reason why the vast majority of professional studios (not bedroom studios), when it's time to record and mix, still use protools
@ idk how many “pros” you’ve been around but they do. Most studios today have the Logic Pro Tools and FL Studio installed. The plugins are what matters after look and feel. Workflow is key to good production when dealing with a budget and time. Idk anyone who is using stock DAW plugins when mixing mastering or record outside of the EQ or flipping mono to stereo with the gain. From my experience setting up studios people want specific plugins to work and based on the plugin they will work with the DAW that supports the plugin easily. So with pro tools they have licensing with certain companies that only are compatible with pro tools and no other DAW. Then that plugin pays some Grammy award winner to endorse the product to make $$$. This is 2025. Most songs that are popular today were made on the fly in a home studio or laptop. They go to studio for fine tuning or recording live instruments. Tyler’s last LP was done mostly at his house. Not a studio. It’s not 1999. Plugins have changed the way music is produced and recorded. It’s okay to be a pro tools fan boy :)
YOU GOT IT WRONG HES NOT SAYING FL IS A INDUSTRIES STANDARD WHAT HE IS SAYING THAT PROTOOLS IS NOT A INDUSTRIES STANDARD DAWS WHILE YOU HAVE OTHER LIKE CUBASE THATS WAY BETTER THAN PROTOOLS MY OPINION
Pro tools is the standard but doesn’t have the popularity it once was due to all the available technology. People should do their history and not be emotional about it.
Don’t all of the top STUDIOS have pro tools though ? Not sayings it’s better. Being the standard is the “norm”. I think that’s what people Mean when they call pro tools that.
Bro you don't know what you are saying. FL Studio can be used in all the sectors that you have mentioned. FL Studio is the best DAW. Just try to learn it's workflow you will discover what am telling you.
I think whatever peoples motives are be it working with "billion dollar brands" or working with their heroes is fine whatsoever. no need to hate on anybody reason to wanna work and nowadays a lot of people don't bother with mixing and are still able to get ahead. not your best video boss :(.
Why are guys that are barely in the business making videos on an industry they aren't in for real? Being slightly more than a local act, only because of the web, doesn't make a person qualified to know anything for real.
The whole premise of this video seems so ridiculous to me it almost comes off as disingenuous. No one cares what DAW you use to produce / make beats. Protools IS 100% the industry standard DAW for tracking and audio editing in professional studios. If you want to become an audio engineer at a big fancy recording studio in NYC, you need to know Protools. Otherwise, don’t worry about it
Pro Tools still offers by far the best console normalization & channel routing, it’ll stay as an industry standard in any studio that has a console. It also offers the most in depth audio editing tools & workflow, so it’ll stay in the film industry as well. It’s only not “industry standard” for bedroom producers.
@@26thletter. I agree with this. I used Pro Tools for years and the best thing about it is mixing and mastering. Composition and writing music though, the workflow is terrible on Pro Tools.
Things and times change ...all DAW can achieve the same end product... Pro tool is not above any...Fl studio as come a far way their updates make sense ...studio one can replace pro tools ANY DAY.If your worried about piano sound you can simple get a good vst kontakt has great sound vintage or mordern. Studio one is my go-to DAW Simplicity at its best
Pro tools IS the industry standard, for recording and mixing. Not bedroom production but sound engenieer stuff. The VAST majority of professional studios around the world use it for recording/mixing/mastering. Stop gaslighting yourselves into thinking its not what the majority of professionals use, just because it's complicated to use
If Pro Tools is complicated to use then the program has already failed to do it's job. The #1 purpose of a DAW should be to allow artists to create the sound they want as easily as possible so they can be creative instead of wasting time trying to figure out program issues.
@@la6136 nope, it's just aimed at another target. It's designed for sound engenieers and not for composers or bedroom producers. It's "complex" to use because it has a lot of features that a lot of other DAWS don't have, but a professional knows how to use it.
@@Riuyilmistico I have been using Pro Tools for years. Don't talk to me like I don't know anything. It is not the best DAW it is over hyped. I also find it funny how you are the one who said Pro Tools is complicated to use in your original comment but now you are back tracking and saying it is only complicated if you are a "bedroom producer" lol. You are a clown.
I don’t like FL… It’s ugly. Looks cheap… I LOVE pro tools… Best for recording for me. Another thing about making beats in FL or Reason, Studio one… But, I have to bounce the tracks into pro tools for great vocal recording
Logic is filthy good yo! ✌🏼
Remember artist use to sell mixtapes? Not everyone had pro tools but they still had some fire mixtapes back then. Lil Wayne, Jeezy, Juelz Santana.....ect Not all of these were mixed down to perfection but we still appreciated that era. We gotta get back to appreciation of the art
I wonder what they used back then! Maybe adobe lol
@ Lol I used Cool Edit Pro back in the day to chop my samples. This was like 2003. I agree with you on the fact that FL definitely needs to stay creative if they want to compete with other daws. I like FL but I keep getting people trying to convince me to switch.
@@busyworksbeats it was called cool edit at the time still got a copy on a hard drive its called audition now
@@TymeIsMoneyLLC bro i still have cool edit 2000 on this pc i'm typing this comment on. If push comes to shove and i really need something cut precisely and perfectly i still use it. It is an amazing program and is a main stay in any set up i run
@@busyworksbeats Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy can be seen with the Original Mbox that ran pro tools 5-7, in their mixtape era; you can see one in the video for "make it work for ya" - Artists back then used to use the pro tools Mbox at home and pro tools HD at the studios. beats were made with MPCs mostly, but FL was taking over. Most people bounced the FL stems into pro tools.
10:25 I get consistent quality out of Fl as a full time audio engineer. If you don’t know how to mix you just don’t know how to mix. Consistent quality will always be based on you not the DAW.
Exactly. These should explain what they mean when they say you can't get consistent quality with FL
With the DAW I use now ... I spend a lot of time on sound selection ... when I used protools every selection was good to go .
@@briancouture6033 that has to do with your workflow. Not everyone's workflow is the same. People will use DAWs for different things i.e production, recording, editing, mixing & mastering. All of these will have different preferred workflows
@jonesnyirenda no it doesn't ... all I did was rewire and used protools engine
I do everything in Cubase, from production to mastering if I master myself. I own Pro Tools too but never use it anymore.
Cubase 💪🏻
Cubase Pro 14 is a BEAST!!!!!!
@@apologiajosecarlos I'm loving it!
Dawg! They really just don’t know. 😂😂😂😂😂
Cubase is King
For music production, I would choose FL Studio first, then Logic X. For audio post-production, I stopped using Pro Tools in 2018 and am now enjoying Studio One. No headaches!
I started using Fl in 2019 & i must admit going to another daw right now is hard because i've learned so much in Fl that if I go to another Daw its so complicated
big love busy been a fan for awhile!
Be careful them pro tools gangster ain't no joke 😂
FL for producing. Pro Tools for recording/mixing. Ableton for live performance/producing. Studio One gets slept on too.
Slept on
I can't manage that many workflows consistently... just my opinion 🤷🏾♂️
@@renosance8941yea better to master 1 fr
Studio One's only problem is it's challenging avoiding clipping with it. Other than that, Studio One is the STUFF!
@@renosance8941 way too much
There is no industry standard anymore. There is no best application to use for anything. There’s only what works best for the individual who’s using it.
Logic has everything you need!
The Pro Tools crowd has been trying to cope REALLY hard ever since this discussion blew up 😂. Trying to sneak diss folks by saying Pro Tools is what the pros use and that everyone else is a bedroom producer. I guess that helps them sleep at night 🤣.
Most of the pros on Pro Tools are old timers that don't wanna move to something better because they don't wanna learn a new DAW. Has nothing to do with Pro Tools being what the pros prefer because there are pros using Logic, Studio One, Cubase and Ableton.
I'm a full time sound engineer in a big infrastructure with multiple studios, as a producer i use FL, the 2 other guys working with me are FL and Logic users for their own project.
But once we're recording/mixing for the studio with top notch clients, it's pro tools and it's not even our choice, and i'm not only talking about music, radio spots, movies Adr, dubbing, mixing 5.1 or atmos, etc..
When you're working with Netflix, Amazon, Disney, etc when they call you if you don't have pro tools their sound engineers won't even record a simple voice in your studio.
And yes pro tools is stupid af, i hate it but i went to multiple big studios in paris, berlin, brussels,.. It's all pro tools.
Why is this a war? Use whatever you like. I'm a protools user bc that's what I know and lost of sessions are still used in protools. If you are getting work in other days then go for it. Just bc I drive a toyota does not mean you have to
@@tyrone05 It's not anything against you guys because you both seem to be more level headed Pro Tools users, but a lot of em have been throwing darts at people who use other DAWs.
@@MaskJambi I bet those engineers working with Netflix, Amazon and Disney are mostly old timers though. They're the only reason Pro Tools is still hanging on. I give it another 10-15 years of AVID not making new innovations until it gets phased out. Not a lot of people know that Bolo's video was actually prompted by a long time Pro Tools user deciding to leave and move over to Cubase because he was upset at what AVID was doing (or not doing) with Pro Tools.
Kanye West was a bedroom producer if you want to be technical. 😂 Shoot many of us started off in the house and as I type this I'm making beats in my own house.
ProTools was the standard because of the key commands and being able to produce, record and mix without touching your mouse!
studio one is now the new industry standard bro protools is yesterday
I second this. Studio one and Logic are the best out.
Huh. Not even close on some presonus monitors. Yea that will be ready for radio. Lmdo
Studio One can do everything
Old casio’s were crazy
exactly, what is the “industry” that’s the question. What program are the top records being made with, recorded, edited, mixed.
For a good chunk of the 2010s it's been Ableton and FL
@@phamphiletsoalo6101 I knew Abelton was huge but new to FL, it would be great to have a list of Billboard top ten records of each year with who recorded and mixed them and with what program and which studio.
@@phamphiletsoalo6101 WRONG! Pro Tools. The people who mix these songs have You Tube videos. It's always Pro Tools.
@@musiconanotherlevel there's a great difference between producing and mixing/ mastering. What you are talking about is engineering and even they can tell you most of their work is sent from those two. 90% of tutorials on production is those Pro Tools can be added as a third for mixing and vocals
@@phamphiletsoalo6101 I know people aren't making beats in Pro Tools. Pro Tools was never the industry standard for production only for mixing and engineering.
At the end of the day, the standard is whatever helps you complete a project. Whatever what’s for you.
Fantastic articulation here!
The Yamaha QY100 sequencer had a sound that was amazing and could make instrumentals automatically. I loved mine, considering buying again even though it's from the 90s that sound has never been made again..
Man, I had the QY20 and loved that thing
Pro Tools was what it was back in the day because of the mobility of it. It was pretty much the first plug and play DAW because you had to have a dongle to even use it. This was before thumbdrives and SD cards and all that. Hence why it was considered the industry standard for a long time.
If you go to any top studio in the country. They have a pro tools rig. Period. It doesn’t even have to be a top studio. Any commercial studio is running pro tools. It just is what it is. If you wanna mix at home on FL then cool. But if you take it to a studio to get mixed you’re going to have to bring the track outs because they’re running pro tools. PERIOD.
Not every studio, I’ve been to a few that have logic
@ they might HAVE logic but I guarantee they’re running pro tools.
REASON ! we all been there and still !!!
At the end of the Day . Everyone sees PRO TOOLS no matter what you want to say . When you turn in records 9/10 you have to turn in audio files for mixing engineers to mix in Pro Tools . You can make beats in anything .
You forgot to give BITWIG a plug. The innovation in the DAW is incredible from what I've seen. I'm an FL USER.
Your Background is giving
It's about what fits you period ✊
I don't care what you use. Nothing bigger then, the MUSIC .
Standard - used as accepted as normal or average.
Protools is the “Standard” daw around the world because of convenience , quality, & availability . It’s just like a iPhone vs android, yes there are nice androids but if you want the convenience of file transfer & camera quality conversion across all platforms you will choose a iPhone no question. Protools is the same way it’s the best for convenience.
Yet we have more android users than iphone users.....
@ mainly based around the fact that android has thousands of more devices than Apple and they are only wining by 6% world wide . That’s more of quality over quantity ,
Your spot on with everything, Bolo did great too...
Bolo and Brady videos are shaking up the internet in the production world. Avid has no choice but to listen. But will they react effectively? (Probably not)
Pro Tools has been and will continue to be the standard. The truth is, there’s no DAW like Pro Tools in any recording studio. We can say whatever we want, and this is not about disrespecting anyone or taking sides. I’ll hold back here, but I say it because I truly believe it’s the best. Though it’s a bit of a secret, many already know: Pro Tools is the best, and it’s the standard. Period.
I am pretty sure that Studio One Pro can do everything that Pro Tools can and much more and it is super stable!!!!!!!!.......I think all major studios all over the world should also use Studio One Pro!!!!!!!.....
lets not even talk about logics aUTOMATIC DRUMMER
Great perspectives, thanks, Busy!
Facts man I really like how you brought up having Roland sounds for example in fl studio they should have partnerships with big companies integrated in FL sounds/FL cloud sounds that would be fire and probably have more people come to FL! Thank you! 🙏
Great Teachings 🙏🏻💝
You aren't using the term "Industry Standard," in the context of how it was originally used.
FL Studio may arguably be one of the most popular DAW being used at the moment but it's not used in every pro studios everywhere. Back in the 90s the industry standard was 2 inch tape. That was whether you were in the US, UK, Europe, Caribbean, Far East, every pro studio had a 24 track 2 inch tape machine to record on. It was the industry standard around the world. You book your studio time in the country where the artist or band reside and you book your flight ticket and bring your reels with you to record on them. If the studio didn't have a 2 inch 24 track tape machine then it was a home studio not a professional one.
By the early 2000s 2 inch 24 track tape was overtaken by Pro Tools and Pro Tools became the industry standard. By 2007 anywhere I went the pro studios all used Pro Tools and the 2 inch tape machine was parked off.
A lot of the old pro studios have closed down now as musicians can record at home and get a good quality recording to send to a mix engineer or even get mixed at home and sent to a mastering engineer to master. The days of doing your homework before going into the studio have been over for a long time. We can record at home in our string vest and boxers with a cup of coffee and smoke and get the job done and/or get paid. The software used in the home studio like Cubase, Logic, Studio One, Reason, Ableton, FL Studio have all some advantage over Pro Tools now. Even Sonar 6 had 64 bit before Pro Tools in 2006.
The pro industry is a lot smaller now. Those pro studios that still operate have a Pro Tools rig and a 2 inch tape machine in storage, but also all the current top DAW to go to at an instant (if they want to stay relevant in the current climate). Quite a few have been selling their old rigs so you can pick up the old 24 track 2 inch machines for cheap and the old Digi Design Pro Tools rigs are probably cheap too. Home studios of various sizes are now where the recordings are mainly created so the DAW of choice is now the regular standard.
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@@shan5445 For those who don't know and don't know the history, and yes you're welcome
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@ Appreciate someone's perspective that has really been around "The industry".
They state that ProTools is the standard but that doesn't mean you have to follow the trend. You should use what works best for you. The hardest part is finding out how to get the best out of your equipment aka if your signal routing is off, the final product will be.
many people who use protools say it crashes a lot
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Reaper for recording/ FL beats for mixing and mastering.... That's my workflow ❤❤
I will say from my experience, Avid Pro Tools is the industry standard for recording studios, at least the recording studios i have been to. Im not gonna name drop, but some super industry based studios ALL use PT. Thats more than 60 around the country that i have visited. Next to analog systems, PT is consistent in all of these different places. My 2 cents. 😊
The advancement of newer audio technology, recording, mixing, DAWs, sampling, workflow, has changed over the years and pro tools is no longer the industry standard. Just get over it!
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I have to say Pro Tools is the studio industry standard I was using Cubase as a recording engineer working in a recording studio I had to learn Pro Tools even though Cubase was better and user friendly and could do way more than you could in Pro Tools
I hated FL studio starting out. It was overwhelming and frustrating. Ableton I was able to be more organized however once you learn one DAW you can navigate them all. You can see the flaws, and go for it.
Am just learning FL Studio, I been using Maschine + with Komplete 64 keyboard and Komplete ultimate 14. Definitely going to check out that FL tutorial because am frustrated 😂.
PT is the industry standard for recording and mixing, not beat making.
The industry standard doesn’t mean “what guys use at home.”
If you make music and drop it on the internet there is no “industry standard.”
If you’re signed and the label is funding the project and releasing it, they’ll probably have someone polish it up after the producer goes home.
The guy that does that is using pro tools trust me.
That’s what industry-standard used to mean .
FL is my standard for mastering what i record on a Tascam dp24sd with my MPC.
Ppl be gaslighting crazy trying to constantly promote and campaign for these analog joints acting like u can't make literally mindblowing work on plugins. Desperately trying to grip as tight as they can to just a micro piece of the past
It depends what you use it for I would say for production. It was the industry standard back in 2008. I would say more mixing and mastering engineers pro tools
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I agreed with everything you said until you said you can't get consistent quality with FL. I mean, unless you don't know what you're doing.
Was. In the 2000s there aren't anything else. Still, they have some of the best interface (MTRX studio), able to mix in surround Dolby Atmos. I think they are still industry standard for movie soundtrack for that.
For me I'll pick Studio One for tracking.
I recently switched to FL Studio after using Pro Tools for years. I like FL Studio better. The workflow is more efficient and is easier to use than Pro Tools. Pro Tools makes doing very basic tasks difficult for no reason. Also Pro Tools got too greedy charging a monthly subscription model when you used to be able to buy the program outright. Pro Tools is very overrated in the music industry.
Logic sounds better? Analog. Mate 😂 reaper logic protools luna cubase this ish all sounds the same man.
his taking about the plugins in logic not the DAW it self
@ that’s literally not what he said. 😂😂
One thing you can say with certainty is that the industry standard is a DAW of some kind .it doesn’t matter which one …the greatest FOR ME is Logic X by a million miles….and I hear that about everybody’s choice. Pro tools is the “waves” of plug ins….so common everybody thinks that everything is pro tools. I feel like everybody can use Logic actually.
Anytime I heard a nga say industry standard it’s by ngas dat ain’t make a dollar of music🤣😭
Wav pcm is wav pcm. Daws or OS’s have no effect on sound. The same sample rate , bit depth and pan laws result in the same way and will null. Dither can vary from DAW to DAW if used. DAWs that have a saturation running in the background like Harrison mixbus will have a sound. A OS definitely doesn’t change the sound. It may run better though. Good lord stop with that ignorance
It seems there must always be a war on gear. "Nahnah, my music is better because I have this big $x00.000 SSL console". Ten years later: "Nahnah, my music is better because I use analog synths" Ten years later: "Nahnah, my music is better because I have all the libraries from Vienna, 8DIO, EastWest and Orchestral Tools". Ten years later: "Nahnah, my music is better because I use ProTools". Point is: In ten years time, when half of the DAW-makes have gone broke, or bought by InMusic, someone is still nahnah'ing about something, while exploiting that fact for business opportunities. And someone is going to be bothered by it. Ten years later, the whole discussion is pointless as the crowd will be be like: "nahnah, I make my own music with AI". Think about that, rather than about who's using which DAW, which synths, which plug-ins and which interfaces... because outside of the studio, no-one cares.
Is it me or is there a sound to every daw dry recordings
Thank you. You’re absolutely right. I’m an engineer in film and orchestra. Yes, ProTools is used professionally across all categories of audio and has been for years. Avid uses a lot of expensive hardware to perform tasks you ‘can’ do in software but you ‘need’ reliability when you’re going live around the world. That’s what you’re paying for. Also, the studio doesn’t care about cost.
Working with Artists is different. You’ll be surprised how many famous artists will be happy to work with you on FL Studio, Logic etc at your home. They don’t care about the odd crash n restart here n there.
I don’t know but I’m not sure Bolo understood or more likely explained this difference.
For the most part Pro Tools is about producing the album that people hear on the radio. It's not about songwriting. Especially for electronic music. "Industry standard" means that the Studios in Hollywood where the Boomers never retired use Pro Tools. Logic pro is also pretty industry standard if you are talking about the past 15 years. But sense of producer does everything that band members used to do, Ableton Live and something like the reason rack plug in is the name of the gang for modern songwriting. The keep in mind hip hop is about to become yesterday's news. So if you want to do this you have to at least get good at production or else it's just going to look laughable 10 years from now
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Industry standard definitively does not describe how many ppl use it the most friend. It’s the capability of the daw and yes PT is the standard. Can you create music without it or in other DAW,S OF COURSE. Check out their hardware. You get what you pay for.
It’s funny how when these conversations come up through the years, it’s like logic, pro tools, reason, etc., be in a bar fight, but Cubase is always on the side laughing because its weird y’all really just don’t know. 😂😂😂😂😂
For real. I use Cubase too
Bro, I have been following you for years, and there was a time I thought these sponsors were buying your opinions, but today, you leveled it.
Listen to seff nitty using reason. 🔥
Tried SLoW tools free .... It was so slow even opening it was terrible... ...ended up purchasing FL STUDIO. Best decision I made.
which system? Were you on mac/pc?
@busyworksbeats PC man... It was the first free pro tools in 2016 ...
I like bitwig + fl tbh lol :D But I dont produce trap, I am more into EDM and psytrance.
Better then studio one busy...really?
Pro tools devs are lazy to update the UI on windows. That alone is one of the reasons I don’t use pro tools
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imo whenever i hear old rappers they all sound grumpy bc the new generation. thats what this all sounds like 😂 mai & ben jordan made a post abelton vs fl awhile back. good points on both. timberland also had a good interview on the producer grind.
I know Producers who left pro tools n went right back to FL...
Pro Tools is not beat making friendly, it’s made for live recording or studio production/mixing.
Went back to Fl for recording and mixing also???
ProTools was feature rich and widely used in the professional big studios in the US in the 90's and early 2000's so was considered the prefered DAW. Today DAWs like Presonus Studio One, Cubase, Reaper, Logic, Ableton Live do a lot more and provide better features for music production mixing and mastering than ProTools.
It wasn’t Bolo it was Barry Johns who started it because he hates Avid with a passion and he’s always making videos bashing avid products. Bolo was just responding to his video.
I think that people generally don't know much about Pro Tools, but everyone hates Avid.
Mac apple Logic apple of course they work well together lol they both Apple
I avoid Pro Tools to this day. The layout the look the feel is so trash. I have been on Logic Pro since Logic X. It was the "standard" bc of the people who run the industry business partners etc. Logic is the best to me. I did FL studio first in high school before I had a mac. Today 2025 the DAWs all have plugins to enhance the sound etc so at this point its whatever you want to use. As long as the final product checks the boxes for radio ie sound quality then no one cares. IMO
Pros don't care about the layout the look and the feel. They look at the tools that the DAW gives them to do their job.
All DAWS are not the same and there is a reason why the vast majority of professional studios (not bedroom studios), when it's time to record and mix, still use protools
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@ idk how many “pros” you’ve been around but they do. Most studios today have the Logic Pro Tools and FL Studio installed. The plugins are what matters after look and feel. Workflow is key to good production when dealing with a budget and time. Idk anyone who is using stock DAW plugins when mixing mastering or record outside of the EQ or flipping mono to stereo with the gain. From my experience setting up studios people want specific plugins to work and based on the plugin they will work with the DAW that supports the plugin easily. So with pro tools they have licensing with certain companies that only are compatible with pro tools and no other DAW. Then that plugin pays some Grammy award winner to endorse the product to make $$$. This is 2025. Most songs that are popular today were made on the fly in a home studio or laptop. They go to studio for fine tuning or recording live instruments. Tyler’s last LP was done mostly at his house. Not a studio. It’s not 1999. Plugins have changed the way music is produced and recorded. It’s okay to be a pro tools fan boy :)
logic looks like a toy for kids
@ turn on Advanced for the layout. Or maybe your confusing with Garage Band
YOU GOT IT WRONG HES NOT SAYING FL IS A INDUSTRIES STANDARD WHAT HE IS SAYING THAT PROTOOLS IS NOT A INDUSTRIES STANDARD DAWS WHILE YOU HAVE OTHER LIKE CUBASE THATS WAY BETTER THAN PROTOOLS MY OPINION
I only use pro tools
I agree!!!
Pro tools is the standard but doesn’t have the popularity it once was due to all the available technology. People should do their history and not be emotional about it.
Don’t all of the top STUDIOS have pro tools though ? Not sayings it’s better. Being the standard is the “norm”. I think that’s what people
Mean when they call pro tools that.
Bro you don't know what you are saying.
FL Studio can be used in all the sectors that you have mentioned.
FL Studio is the best DAW.
Just try to learn it's workflow you will discover what am telling you.
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Its Ableton and Logic. Thats it. They are the standard.
Incorrect. 😅
Nope
I think whatever peoples motives are be it working with "billion dollar brands" or working with their heroes is fine whatsoever. no need to hate on anybody reason to wanna work and nowadays a lot of people don't bother with mixing and are still able to get ahead. not your best video boss :(.
Cubase is the best
Why are guys that are barely in the business making videos on an industry they aren't in for real? Being slightly more than a local act, only because of the web, doesn't make a person qualified to know anything for real.
What's about Cubase? Where are you placing it?
The whole premise of this video seems so ridiculous to me it almost comes off as disingenuous. No one cares what DAW you use to produce / make beats. Protools IS 100% the industry standard DAW for tracking and audio editing in professional studios. If you want to become an audio engineer at a big fancy recording studio in NYC, you need to know Protools. Otherwise, don’t worry about it
It's all hype lol
You think?!
@@busyworksbeats I am not guessing, it's all facts mannnnn
Pro Tools still offers by far the best console normalization & channel routing, it’ll stay as an industry standard in any studio that has a console.
It also offers the most in depth audio editing tools & workflow, so it’ll stay in the film industry as well. It’s only not “industry standard” for bedroom producers.
Pro tools is not good to make music but it’s really well streamlined for mixing and mastering imo.
@@26thletter. I agree with this. I used Pro Tools for years and the best thing about it is mixing and mastering. Composition and writing music though, the workflow is terrible on Pro Tools.
Things and times change ...all DAW can achieve the same end product... Pro tool is not above any...Fl studio as come a far way their updates make sense ...studio one can replace pro tools ANY DAY.If your worried about piano sound you can simple get a good vst kontakt has great sound vintage or mordern. Studio one is my go-to DAW Simplicity at its best
Pro tools IS the industry standard, for recording and mixing. Not bedroom production but sound engenieer stuff. The VAST majority of professional studios around the world use it for recording/mixing/mastering.
Stop gaslighting yourselves into thinking its not what the majority of professionals use, just because it's complicated to use
DUDE STOP CRYING HAVE AN OPEN MIND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TOPIC IS ABOUT
@charlesalison5854 you're the one crying here 😂
If Pro Tools is complicated to use then the program has already failed to do it's job. The #1 purpose of a DAW should be to allow artists to create the sound they want as easily as possible so they can be creative instead of wasting time trying to figure out program issues.
@@la6136 nope, it's just aimed at another target. It's designed for sound engenieers and not for composers or bedroom producers. It's "complex" to use because it has a lot of features that a lot of other DAWS don't have, but a professional knows how to use it.
@@Riuyilmistico I have been using Pro Tools for years. Don't talk to me like I don't know anything. It is not the best DAW it is over hyped. I also find it funny how you are the one who said Pro Tools is complicated to use in your original comment but now you are back tracking and saying it is only complicated if you are a "bedroom producer" lol. You are a clown.
I don’t like FL… It’s ugly. Looks cheap…
I LOVE pro tools… Best for recording for me.
Another thing about making beats in FL or Reason, Studio one… But, I have to bounce the tracks into pro tools for great vocal recording