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Hello, I'm Nicholas Di Lorenzo, Studio Owner, Mixing and Mastering engineer at Panorama Studios.
I'm an Italian-Australian born and raised in Melbourne. I've been a creative professional for 10 years managing some pretty awesome projects for artists, labels and producers all around the globe.
What motivates and drives me?
My family,
Good food,
Great coffee.
You can find me on many platforms:
Instagram: / panorama_mastering
Facebook: / panoramamastering
Twitter: / panoramamasters
Kit: kit.co/Panorama_Mastering
I'm About to open my studio! i'm damn scared! Life saving blowed out in a dream that i'm slowly building.
ANYONE HERE THAT WANT SOMETHING SO BADLY, I GUARANTEE YOU'LL MAKE IT.
Thanks for the amazing advice i'm glad there's people like you giving me hopes!
There's a saying, "There's many paths to lead you at the top of the mountain, but remember the view will be the same".
Thank You Nichoas!
Good luck mate!
Good luck!!! You got this!
Good luck with the new studio!
Anything you need reach out; happy to be a sound-board to bounce ideas or talk with!
What’s unspoken here is your generosity, which also reflects your belief in your own abilities. Put another way, you’re not worried that you’ll be putting yourself out of work by sharing your skill. That’s a great way to be, and obviously it’s working. Your energy and positivity come across in your videos. Thanks for sharing that! I come here to pick up tips for my own mixing as a composer for tv and film, and I find some really interesting parallels with working with clients and whatnot. I’m gonna keep your perspective about revisions in mind!
Thanks man! I really appreciate that!
A rising tide lifts all boats!
The transparency is greatly appreciated 🤟
No sweat!
Remember to set aside 20% from your quarterly earnings for taxes. As an independent contractor this is very important. Nobody wants the IRS on their back.
I actually set-aside 31.5% for taxes and 10% for retirement! Every week; it's automated!
MAAAATTTEEEE! This is a must see for any Engineer! Absolute Gold! You've probably simplified £000's of pounds spent on business advice into a 22 minute video. The best video from anyone I've seen in a long time.
Thanks man!
I felt like it had to be shared; no "fluffy" self-help book regurgitated feel good advice.
But literally the WHAT AND HOW of reality.
@@panorama_mastering It's perfect and has given me great inspiration.
Im truly grateful for all this knowledge you impart. This is priceless
You're welcome!
Folks watching your content are mixing/mastering themselves. So ... those are no clients.
However, ... I'm taking note of what your sharing and that you are a resource available for solid deliverables.
Good videos!
Spot on! Thanks for watching!
Wheeliemix here :). I took ages to answer sorry, thanks for highlighting my channel in there, I am chiming in as I wanna share why I would NOT advise people to do what I do on Instagram for career purposes (hehe), it's a bit long but I hope worth the read :
- Some people can think that you do that because you have nothing better to do/show. Actually you semi-implied this in your video : "What if you don't have a release coming out every day, show what you do in the studio (...) and that's something to do to get yourself out there".
My type of content, subtly implied to you that I am not "out there" yet. And that is totally understandable and also my "fault".
Because I don't do name-drop on my page, I also was (and still am) too lazy to do a proper website, and I don't usually post releases I've worked on (or very rarely, most often in my stories though). Although I have some hefty name dropping I could show (more about that later) and I have releases I've worked on coming very often (sometimes I can't keep up with them and struggle to gather credits).
- Industry people don't really like it most of the time. Most of them either don't care at all or don't like it. Because it puts you in the category of "Those who can't, teach". And also puts in the category of "Those who show too much, hide emptiness". Both are not true but understandable. For me, it is a "risk" I am willing to take.
Now both of these "cons" are pretty negative. But I decided to go with them because :
I know what I should do to be a "cool" audio engineer on Insta. Post album artwork of stuff I've worked on. With very minimum info and emotion showed, classic "Prod by xx, Mixed by yours truly, mastered by xx, label : xx" and almost no hastags. Almost no opinion expressed. And sometimes, occasionally posting a picture of a Chai Tea that costed me 11£ because there is "S*ck my Chai" written on it and it was served by a dude or dudette with 10 tatoos per arm.
I know that, I see it everywhere, I am not blind, but that's not me.
I hate social media. To my very core. I would love for them to magically disappear. But they won't, it's a fact. And in the music industry they are either a big help or a burden. So I decided to grab the bull by the horns and dive into them. Although, to one simple condition : If I am not bringing a smidge of value to people watching my content, I'll quit.
Showing my work without explaining what I did, to me shows little to no value to anybody, and would transform my Instagram into an artsy Linkedin account (and I hate LinkendIn too hehe). So I decided to show what I did, show what inspired me, and show new ideas and concepts just to strike a tiny bit of inspiration to maybe 1 person out there. Because let's be honest, there is no reason to have 10000 ways to mix a bass guitar. But it's always fun to experiment and try new things even if they would very likely yield the same result as what we did before.
So all in all, I'd not advise people to do what I do on a career standpoint. Because I am not doing it for my career.
Actually, I am thinking about quitting audio pretty soon (not sure yet) because I've done all that I wanted to do. I've worked with almost all the artists I wanted to work with. It took me 4 years to be a studio manager with an SSL 4048G+ and to live onsite, in a great flat, in London, while dealing (almost) everyday with big labels and majors.
In terms of name dropping, I have been covered right away in my first year of career. And it's not the name dropping like "I've worked with Lil Djeebah and The Tentrics Theorem, what you don't know them??". My first name drop were, among others Mick Jagger, Nicki Minaj and Will.I.Am (and I don't brag, I absolutely don't care, for the simple reason that I am not Mick Jagger I've worked with him, but janitors probably worked with him too, nothing special in there).
So I am really now sorely on Instagram for maybe inspiring people to create and have fun with music before AI will make it overly formulaic.
Not for my career, at least not anymore. Did it helped my career? Yes it did. But I never tried to push my account by doing what's trending or what I should do. I just do it until I won't.
Thanks for the highlights, highly appreciated :D!
Again, GOLDEN information. Really, really few are the people in the industry who are kind enough to share insight on their journey and how that can help aspiring people. Thousands and me thank you for everything, at least I really, really do. This is also a reflect on how transparent you are on your actual job and that is the only way, on the long run, that people truly succeed :)
My pleasure! I hope this helps a lot of people!
After a long time, I have someone I can look up to for music. I just decided to scale up my business and you dropped this video. Thank you so much!
Glad I could help! Anything you need feel free to ask / reach out!
@@panorama_mastering Absolutely! Thank you :)
Great video, love your channel man. Two things that help me are using an invoice system (in my case wave) and an app for sending previews (in my case samply). Invoicing apps can help you keep track of income and taxes, and samply simplifies the approval process like none other, not to mention adds a better experience for the artist and allows for gapless playback. Anyways, keep up the good work!
Great video - AGAIN! Thanks for the shout-out! Big ups Sound Toggle.
Thanks Nicholas, found this video very helpful. I always wondered how one would approach setting rates but I think yours is sensible. Same for your approach to deliverables.
No worries; happy to share this!
Hey Nicholas! This is such a great video. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hats off! Very honest reality, thanks for sharing experience and knowledge
My pleasure
I'm a very small studio in Sydney, and don't have many clients, but I treat every client very similar to your mindset. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I am very happy to hear man! Every client deserves love, respect and our utmost dedication!
Happy to hear another in aus sharing these values!
Fantastic information.. really helpful stuff. Hope you get as much out of this platform/expression as we do your videos!
Thank you!
I certainly do! This is a super rewarding experience !
Thank you! Really great insight into your business workflow
My pleasure!
Thank you for this information. I thinking your really hitting the nail on the head
My pleasure! Glad you ejoyed it!
Great video! I used to run a small company myself and I wish I had seen this first..I’m also interested in how you manage your time. Doing four high value content vids a week on top of all this seems insanely stressful.
My pleasure!
Time management; Bed at 9:30pm
Wakeup and emails at 4:30am
Finish work at 5pm
AND every year I time audit with this workshop;
ua-cam.com/users/liveGxdk27u9UwM?si=xOHDBzMdGnkAtKkO
Get a pen, some sticky notes and a coffee.
This was soo good I'm watching it twice!
Awesome! Let me know if you have any Q's!
01:42 - I love Ed's mix of this song! Made me want to buy PSI monitors. Mine sounds tame in comparison. Did you do a mix of it for the contest? If so, would love to hear it! Helps me learn from pr0s.
Thanks so much for the video. Really enlightening. I need to make major changes, stat!
Ha ! I started mixing the drums, But I haven't had the time to do the rest!
Could you please do a video on how you manage your time? I'm amazed at what you do and still have a family. A while back I saw a screenshot in one of your videos of your schedule and was very intrigued by it.
This is a video I've watched EACH YEAR when I plan my schedule;
ua-cam.com/users/liveGxdk27u9UwM?si=OT6d99NFBM4OCCht
Watch this video with a pen, paper, and sticky notes.
But in short;
I go to sleep at 9:30
Wake up at 4:30; start work at 4:30am and finish at 5:00pm
_mastering dude thanks so much.
It ain’t easy. It takes time…..a lot of time. Most will give it up
The some who keep grinding over 10 years will make it.
Even if you think/know you do better work then the busy guy doesn’t mean that dude is making(enough) money or not using multiple sources of income to pay the bills.
Do not always believe what you see
The only thing you can’t do is wait around for people to find you. They won’t!
Last word of advice is if you are putting in way to many hours and destroying yourself just to keep yourself able to pay the bills,,well you just created your own hell. I was there
And it sucked bad. Nobody cared that I worked so hard to make the money. They only asked why I’m not making more because I work so much.
It’s a destructive business so be careful to your personal life and family .
Just because someone charges less doesn’t mean you have to, People buy the same stuff for all different prices. You are the one that matters and your quality of work
Very solid advice; thanks for sharing!
Thank you soo much!!
No problem 😊
Super helpful!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Can you show how you manage projects? Do you use Notion or another apps to help you manage all the projects you're working on?
Calendar, email and the reminders app on the iPhone!
No joke... here's an old video of when I first set up my system; I still use this today;
ua-cam.com/video/1P962Nkq_os/v-deo.htmlsi=vlfqU8-cqUtuA3cG
Good info
Thanks mate!
Gold mate
Cheers!
All gold
Thanks mate
Dude, have you tried Acustica's new brickwall limiter "Lace" yet :O
💎💎💎
I'd pay for those email templates
Refund is the cost of getting rid of headache . So refund anyone that wants to be a headache
Maybe so, but if you have a strong focus on customer service, no one will want to be a headache.
You must always be prepared to fire clients.
whats that? cocaine?
500ml Red Bull Zero.
So it is like 3 masters per day , 3 mixes per week and 3/4 you tube videos per week ? Seems unlikely
I have 6 slots a day for mastering, 1 for mixing, 1 for content.
Very normal and doable!
you did not
click bait lies
@19:56 - This is where the lie gets caught out
Based on the time scale given by your own stats, you cannot do 700+ masters or 90+ mixes
Please do not mislead people
You've misinterpreted that data, just because each mix takes X-amount of weeks to complete. Does not mean that i'm not mixing other songs at the same time; at any given point in time I have multiple mixes I'm working on.
@@panorama_masteringWorking on multiple mixes simultaneously is a great idea. You are less likely to hit the point of diminishing returns on any mix session, and ideas from another mix may prove useful in the current mix. Just gotta make sure to hit the deadlines...