What I like about you Seamless, and why I keep watching your videos is... You don't say THIS IS WRONG. THIS is what you have to do, THIS IS THIS etc It's nice to know that there is someone else out there who sees things through the same lens as I do.
Do you think you are weeb enough to handle my music and I? Only then will I release onto thine seed. It wouldn't work though. My pixels are too sharp and edgy.
π The website will be a slideshow that is essentially just 32 different pages with 10 advertisements on every page to maximize revenue. The cancer of the internet.
I've always had the mentality that I'd "don't be afraid to question what people tell you" I watch videos and take in information and I compare it to what I know about the subject through my own experience and I can usually gather what's needed and what's unnecessary, and I encourage anyone with a decent amount of experience to do the same
Another point I think that should be made is don't. Fucking. Listen. To. Production. Forums. Don't post your shit there, don't ask questions, nothing. They will tear you apart. The EDM production subreddit on Reddit is so fucking toxic to producers. They're what caused me to quit for a few months. Because they literally made fun of me and made me feel like my music was a joke just because I wasn't producing the way other people do. Everyone does everything differently.
blood lord I like to think there are actual producers out there who are mad that I do what I do. One guy one time actually got mad at me for recreating a sound from his favorite artist. Likening it to stealing and cheating. My personal favorite clickbaity one is "Top 10 Reasons Why Your Tracks Don't Sound Professional"
SeamlessR It is pretty horrible it targets those who are "feeling down" thinking they suck and want to get better. I remember when i started i checked out those things when feeling "musically sad" and now i don't.
Vescor Of course no one could ever do what he did with the sample, he is such a talented producer, and no one could reproduce Animals so far because the melodic lines are combined in such a tricky way, that only a a true musician could ever get close to finding all the right notes, especially on the drop which is not only arranged in a manner that only a professional would do , but also the sound design is breath taking and not at all a percussion with way too much reverb on it...And the vocals...haaah, the vocals...it's like a quartet of angels came down from heaven and sung ''We're animals" so exquiste that I might even shed a tear in the middle of typing... But with all being said, I now realise how tired I am, and I am yet still leaving an irrelevant comment about a true masterpiece which Animals is and will be forever...
Vescor Well after Animals we all got invaded with this huge wave of Big Room tracks that mainly need better mixing and mastering(including Animals) that it's not that big of a deal even for begginers in musical production. I have nothing against Big Room, but if you make it at least show a little more interest and try to diversify your songs, I mean in the case of Martin Garrix it's the same formula in every song (you should play 2-3 of his songs at the same time and you'll be surprised to see that for example the build up is the same thing in all the songs, but with other elements...) If a song is so easily reproduced does not mean it sucks, maybe the melodies are warm or catchy, but I say that it's important to focus on mixing and mastering.
Great message. Maybe this will keep some of us away from those buzzfeed-esque clickbait producer articles and we could spend more time actually being creative making music and finding what works for ourselves
Seamless thank you so much man. I don't think you really know how much all of us look up to you. You fill us all with inspiration and for that I cannot thank you enough.
you totally had me on this one!!! when i saw the title i was so like that sounds like the adds you have on youtube as ''do you wanna know how to make quality beats in your home studio'' and i was like no! not you!.... and once again you didn't deceive me!! good job as always...
Just food for thought: I think when you're staying out and before you get your 'sound' that you're going for its nice to have tips and tricks on what artists do. I know I blew my mother's speakers to her car because I didn't know what EQing was, granted I was young and I still blame it on the fact that it probably shorted out. However it's good to have somewhat of a bases before you try and create things expecting it to sound as great in your iPhone earbuds as it is on other sound systems.
My favorite occurrences when trying to look up something useful: -Making a video about mixing/mastering and managing to record the voice in the most shitty quality as possible -"I'm not a professional" -"I'm a professional" - Demonstrating the mad sound design/engineering skills on a simple bass, drum and one set of harmonics song -23 minutes out of 28 self promoting -Not teaching the concept just showing how to polish that particular thing he made -Giving dumb and limiting advice on music theory
You're such a matter of fact guy you remind me of myself and you're so nice as opposed to dickish like some of the accomplished guys in my country are. Good job mate. Haven't exactly heard your music yet but I can tell it's good already.
I can't fully agree with your last point, people who've been producing for a long time do have a better hearing in a sense that they know what to look for, things that might not seem as obvious to people who are just starting to produce tracks.
Reminds me of the Computer Music article "What wrong with my mix". The mix reviewer says, ultimately, if your mix sounds good to you, its probably good!"
I would say the only mistakes a producer can make is if they're also doing vocal performance, and they don't take care of their voice. Like, most "mistakes" highlighted in these articles are very subjective. However, you can make a mistake with how you treat your vocal cords (i.e. by not warming up, by not drinking properly), in that it will physically hurt you. So, basically, unless the mistake damages you or your equipment, it's only a "mistake" sometimes.
It's so difficult to name things when your creativity is flowing faster than you can type. You get caught up in just progressing the song. Long as YOU know what's what, dont even worry about it. At least until you reach a point where you're no longer coming up with no ideas. I always wait until I'm finishing up a song before I name shit since it helps with mixing down.
Thank you SeamlessR. Seriously though why should we listen to other people telling us what's right or wrong in production. If it sounds right, by all means DO IT! Haha
I have to agree with the part where it feels like you're not doing well enough if it isn't as difficult. As of the moment, I always manage to make certain synth patches within about 15 minutes and I always find myself feeling conflicted as to whether I should put more into the sound or not due to how much time and difficulty spent in making the sound. I want to put more into it, but I never seem to know what to do and it makes me feel less valuable as a producer when I hear people having to get a particular sound through a huge amount of processes when I manage to make the sound I want through the synth alone. It honestly makes me feel like I'm limiting myself, but don't know how to break the barrier to expand on into deeper depths of creativity as a whole. My rule of thumb though is that music is all about experimentation. I would say that there are certain things you may want to avoid to get a better sound (such as over compression), but when someone tells you not to mess with a certain part of a synth, then I would personally go mess with it and see what happens. There's some mistakes that are to be noted but others can be tossed away.
Electro DGX How to break the barrier to expand on into deeper depths of creativity as a whole: do shit until you eventually figure out how to do the shit you do, but more refined. It'll come, eventually.
Electro DGX hey there i know i'm about a year late but i thought i should tell you... i felt very much the same way you did when you wrote that comment. and i still do sometimes to be honest... there are still sounds i can't even come close to reproduce... but one serious recommendation i can give you, is learn about production as if you were to study it. every other day i read books ond acoustics, how sound works, and how audio processing works... check out "ask video" especially their Audio Basics Courses, i recommend you watch all of them several times, this will give you more and more of a solid understanding on how all of these things work (delay based effects (doubling,phasing,flanging) reverb, distortion, convolution, and most important of Compression, compression is in my opinion such a hard thing to get a grasp on... yet it is so important. these videos will definitely help you alot, i know they cost a lot of money but thats money well spent. worth it waay more than buying a new synth oder preset packs... also i wholeheartedly recommend you to buy the courses found on vespers.ca their sound design courses, like blitz bass, sound design masterclass or mixing and mastering are very very high level... they are quite expensive.. but every so often you can get 90% or 95% off.... and these courses are fantastic, they are very much in depth, and the trainers at vespers have immense knowledge, and can really explain why they are doing the things they do... in sound design masterclass they go over almost all of the available synthesis methods in detail, and they always provide a tutorial on how to achieve specific sounds (yet these are not typical edm sounds like supersaw, minimal pluck) its about how to achieve different timbres with sound design (e.g metallic timbre, fatness, lush, bouncy and stuff like that) sometimes its a pain to watch them, because you really have to pay attention to soak up as much knowledge as you can, and most likely you will have to watch them multiple times... but i promise that with more knowledge you will find yourself in a way more flexible position concerning sound design, mixing and mastering. you will be able to adapt to certain situations and it will enable creativity again, which i was missing because the way to achieve my ideas was just too hard for me.... hope this helps (oh and pls don't judge my opinion based tracks i uploaded on youtube, they are old and not representative of my current state... i could send you tracks of mine from the last 6 months (which is when i started actively learning about production) as i think the improvement is verymuch noticeable kind regards lorin
yeah the empircal techniques people abide by and insist everyone else abide by is really really annoying after years of doing this and realizing there literally are no rules.
You mention how "if something sounds good then it's right". Now, what is criteria in which something could be considered bad or good ? Is it just me that my sounds sound weird compared to other professional producers or that really is like that. I mean, i have listened to totally cheap empty beats and that all in my head sounds more right than something i make. I watched your beethoven challenge video and when you first played that section, i was like: Wow, this is really cool. But your expression was like: Mah, that sucked... So, i would like you to comment on that question, thanks :) Btw, I have very little practice in fl studio.
bubblegoose321 Honestly bruh, it just takes time and shit tons of tutorials on the interwebs. It also helps to listen to really intensively sound engineered EDM, like Koan Sound or Reso and so many others. It's all about training your ear. I was totally in your boat about a year ago, and I couldn't separate objectively shitty music from good stuff. Of course it's subjective to a degree, but Seamless might forget after being someone involved in the making of music for such a long time that when you first start out, your ear is an infant and you really have to train it to be able to hear if a track is grossly two-dimensional for example, or poorly mixed, or whatever. EDIT: Not to come off as if I'm disagreeing with the video, I completely agree. There is nothing a producer can do that's objectively "wrong", as long as their ear is good enough to tell them whether or not what they've done has made the track better. It's tricky though. There could be people out there who just really enjoy shitty EDM, and you're making music for them. Whatever man.
SeamlessR Thank you for that fast reply :). But what i most meant in my question was, is it really possible to have dynamics, sound design that bad that it actually would sound awkward/weird at some point or something like that is only possible because it's something that i created and it differentiates between listening to all other songs that are not made by me, in some kind of sense like: "my own voice sounds worse than anyone else's". I feel dumb for asking the same question but this is something that really creates an issue when i try to make something and i have feeling that it just doesn't sound "professional" enough to be considered as a "normal" track.
bubblegoose321 There are plenty of genres of music that you would think would be universally hated. But even if they were, there would still be one person who liked it. The one who made it.
music is not business. the music industry is; but like all things in business, there is the right practices and wrong practices. but music is not business.
The point as I see it is understanding the rules so well you know when and how often to break them.. You'll never get your own sound by following the rules. But even then,,, I have to concur, where they rules to begin with or just our own confines ;)
"IF YOUR MASTER ISN'T IN THE RED YOU'RE NOT A PRODUCER AND YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE IT WAY SO MORE MUCH LOUDER AND THUMPIER" -DJ Carnage, probably.
I believe you gotta listen to producers advice in certain cases, I may like a track I'm doing so it may seem like it can be right but then no one else likes it and if you want to be a successful then it's technically wrong. If people love hardcore base and I wanted to make a track with hardcore bases, common sense would follow your tutorials than others you get what I mean?
Reminds me of how Deadmau5 talks shit on other techniques of making EDM. I agree, it doesn't matter how it's made, it matters how it sounds. And i don't even like most of Deadmau5's music anyway, lol.
☤INFiNiTE▼C0NSCi0US☤ deadmau5 talks shit about bullshit. Sure, he's pretty biased towards analog music production, and sometimes he even "hates" on MIDI, but he only does that to fuck around. Also, he even endorses FL Studio twitter.com/deadmau5/status/616012370436034560 Some of his old tracks were produced in FL Studio. Oh, and how someone can't like deadmau5' music is beyond me.
Jet Lag So basically he's a troll? Lol. - Or he might think his own way of making music is superior (that's the vibe he gave me). I definitely think he's a good producer and all, but personally, i'm not really into House beats anymore. If i heard his stuff in the late 90's or early 00's, i would of went apeshit loving it, lol. I guess i'm more into beats that are two-step, breaks, or DnB these days.
Animals vs. Left Behinds is a perfect example of this. Left Behinds used dozens and dozens of layers while Animals only used a handful. Left Behinds - Barely 1 million views... Animals - Almost 600 million views.
Yes, but left behinds is probably in the top 20 greatest progressive house songs and animals sounds like epic, mystica and many more. Also you can't compare two different genres saying how good each others sales are.
I'm doing music things for around a year already, some of my friends call me pro, yet I don't think I learned music theory - I just tried random notes and found some that sound nice together. Or maybe this way I learned a scale and some bit of music theory as a whole, without being aware...
Just use it as you do, you will start to memorize where are buttons that you press regurarly, and over time you will result in pressing things faster. That's all, he uses FL Studio as most of noobs do, he just uses it faster.
I agree with everything you say but the mocap. Mocap always looks uncanny and wrong. If ratatouille was made with mocap it'd feel so weird, since it's cartoony characters moving EXACTLY like humans, without squash and stretch. Most of the time mocap gets animated over and it's only used as a rough guide.
greates misstake for producers, is showing how they work and with what. greates misstake of googler, not showing how they do with what. dam dont matter what you do there as plus and minus. so master of FL, well i got some interessting topic. FL as plugin, how to play pattern (not just the singel instruments), is this just possible by using performance mode? well maybe FL guys got some ideas how to solve this best.. greets
Yeah, subjectivity blindness is a thing. You could give some people a list of opinions and they would try to explain why each one is right or wrong. Funny how the human psyche works sometimes.
one more, using always the same monster template and instrument preset, always sound same. using loops and samples all producers do when you like to be uniqu.
What I like about you Seamless, and why I keep watching your videos is... You don't say THIS IS WRONG. THIS is what you have to do, THIS IS THIS etc
It's nice to know that there is someone else out there who sees things through the same lens as I do.
Rukkus Ton You may birth my children.
Do you think you are weeb enough to handle my music and I?
Only then will I release onto thine seed.
It wouldn't work though. My pixels are too sharp and edgy.
This could be turned into a Buzzfeed clickbait title.
Top 32 Mistakes All Producers Make (#14 will make you want to use Garageband!)
π The website will be a slideshow that is essentially just 32 different pages with 10 advertisements on every page to maximize revenue. The cancer of the internet.
π I hate that so much. If number 6 of a 10-item list is the most interesting or worth mentioning, it should be at the very end of the list.
+Teun Mathijssen *31. but it says it's 32, so when you click to go to 32, it redirects to another batch of ad pages.
+π They made a top 10 about celebrities that look nothing alike. XD
Andrew Corse don't fucking get me started
I've always had the mentality that I'd "don't be afraid to question what people tell you"
I watch videos and take in information and I compare it to what I know about the subject through my own experience and I can usually gather what's needed and what's unnecessary, and I encourage anyone with a decent amount of experience to do the same
Another point I think that should be made is don't. Fucking. Listen. To. Production. Forums. Don't post your shit there, don't ask questions, nothing. They will tear you apart. The EDM production subreddit on Reddit is so fucking toxic to producers. They're what caused me to quit for a few months. Because they literally made fun of me and made me feel like my music was a joke just because I wasn't producing the way other people do. Everyone does everything differently.
Sorry to hear that champ. Hope you're back in the game :-)
DrizzlyEarth Reddit as a whole is toxic. I quit that a while back
I agree. Reddit is just a bunch of sheeps. They either all hate or love your post.
What expert producers don't want you to know!!! I think you missed that one lol.
blood lord I like to think there are actual producers out there who are mad that I do what I do. One guy one time actually got mad at me for recreating a sound from his favorite artist. Likening it to stealing and cheating.
My personal favorite clickbaity one is "Top 10 Reasons Why Your Tracks Don't Sound Professional"
SeamlessR It is pretty horrible it targets those who are "feeling down" thinking they suck and want to get better. I remember when i started i checked out those things when feeling "musically sad" and now i don't.
***** what happens next? lol
blood lord experts hate him!!
blood lord Seamless makes expert producers furious.
reminds me of those kind of ads that usually do with skin medicine and treatment stuff.
Next track from scratch: All kick samples track
***** omg yus
***** Hardstyle wouldn't sound that bad with all kick samples... Reverse bass would be awesome to watch seamless making!
***** www.audiotool.com/track/ew_that_kick_drum/ track completely from one kick
***** Or better, pryda snare www.audiotool.com/track/ew_that_pryda_snare/
Dude if you take a kick, chop it the fuck up, and add some effects, then automate the pitch, it can sound insane. Like bass growl insane.
the opening of Animals is just a vengeance sample
the circularity of mainstream music
...that he pitched down, chopped up and filtered. He did something unique with it, something that took at least some effort.
Vescor Of course no one could ever do what he did with the sample, he is such a talented producer, and no one could reproduce Animals so far because the melodic lines are combined in such a tricky way, that only a a true musician could ever get close to finding all the right notes, especially on the drop which is not only arranged in a manner that only a professional would do , but also the sound design is breath taking and not at all a percussion with way too much reverb on it...And the vocals...haaah, the vocals...it's like a quartet of angels came down from heaven and sung ''We're animals" so exquiste that I might even shed a tear in the middle of typing...
But with all being said, I now realise how tired I am, and I am yet still leaving an irrelevant comment about a true masterpiece which Animals is and will be forever...
Terror404Official While your post was definitely entertaining to read, your point is moot. Of course it's easy to make a song once it's already made.
Vescor Well after Animals we all got invaded with this huge wave of Big Room tracks that mainly need better mixing and mastering(including Animals) that it's not that big of a deal even for begginers in musical production. I have nothing against Big Room, but if you make it at least show a little more interest and try to diversify your songs, I mean in the case of Martin Garrix it's the same formula in every song (you should play 2-3 of his songs at the same time and you'll be surprised to see that for example the build up is the same thing in all the songs, but with other elements...)
If a song is so easily reproduced does not mean it sucks, maybe the melodies are warm or catchy, but I say that it's important to focus on mixing and mastering.
Great message. Maybe this will keep some of us away from those buzzfeed-esque clickbait producer articles and we could spend more time actually being creative making music and finding what works for ourselves
I like it when he does these videos, it helps to connect with him and hear his opinions on the music industry, etc.
Seamless thank you so much man. I don't think you really know how much all of us look up to you. You fill us all with inspiration and for that I cannot thank you enough.
Really glad I found this video, broke down the same mentality I currently have. Guess I'll start making things easier on my self.
such good points man. love you
you totally had me on this one!!! when i saw the title i was so like that sounds like the adds you have on youtube as ''do you wanna know how to make quality beats in your home studio'' and i was like no! not you!.... and once again you didn't deceive me!! good job as always...
Jean-Claude Landry "Producers HATE him! Find out this one weird trick to sound professional!"
^ The worst type of ads
I love these speeches seamless throws on UA-cam. Such an inspiration!
Seamless is a fucking encyclopedia of Musical Knowledge and Experience!
you're a blessing SeamlessR, we love you
Just food for thought: I think when you're staying out and before you get your 'sound' that you're going for its nice to have tips and tricks on what artists do. I know I blew my mother's speakers to her car because I didn't know what EQing was, granted I was young and I still blame it on the fact that it probably shorted out. However it's good to have somewhat of a bases before you try and create things expecting it to sound as great in your iPhone earbuds as it is on other sound systems.
My favorite occurrences when trying to look up something useful:
-Making a video about mixing/mastering and managing to record the voice in the most shitty quality as possible
-"I'm not a professional"
-"I'm a professional"
- Demonstrating the mad sound design/engineering skills on a simple bass, drum and one set of harmonics song
-23 minutes out of 28 self promoting
-Not teaching the concept just showing how to polish that particular thing he made
-Giving dumb and limiting advice on music theory
Please do more of these rants I could listen to them all day - make them longer too man!
Great vid brotha! keep em rollin!
You're such a matter of fact guy you remind me of myself and you're so nice as opposed to dickish like some of the accomplished guys in my country are.
Good job mate. Haven't exactly heard your music yet but I can tell it's good already.
I love you man, glad you do what you do, helps alot with my confidence. everything you say i need to hear lol
I can't fully agree with your last point, people who've been producing for a long time do have a better hearing in a sense that they know what to look for, things that might not seem as obvious to people who are just starting to produce tracks.
Very informative, as always. Thanks for the video!
The only advice every music producer should take- If it sounds good, Its good.... That's all
Reminds me of the Computer Music article "What wrong with my mix". The mix reviewer says, ultimately, if your mix sounds good to you, its probably good!"
these always tend to be like the "top ten" lists that just try to be viral
Cheers Seamless. That's exactly what I needed to hear today. 😄
all the way in South Africa and your words resonate.....
"if its hard to make doesn't make it sound any better"-Seamless.
Wow, huge huge YES to this video. Subscribed.
The preroll ad for this video is so perfect holy shit
I would say the only mistakes a producer can make is if they're also doing vocal performance, and they don't take care of their voice. Like, most "mistakes" highlighted in these articles are very subjective. However, you can make a mistake with how you treat your vocal cords (i.e. by not warming up, by not drinking properly), in that it will physically hurt you.
So, basically, unless the mistake damages you or your equipment, it's only a "mistake" sometimes.
I really like these Vlog type videos you got going :D
professionalism comes with hard work
I was so worried when I read the title but when you started talking I was very relieved XD
It's so difficult to name things when your creativity is flowing faster than you can type. You get caught up in just progressing the song. Long as YOU know what's what, dont even worry about it. At least until you reach a point where you're no longer coming up with no ideas. I always wait until I'm finishing up a song before I name shit since it helps with mixing down.
I fully 100% agree with this, and it’s not what I was expecting with the name of the video but this is way better advice haha
'If its sounds good, then it is good'
That's it in a nut shell.
Is just me wanting to slow down the video to understand everything ?
How can I get better at arrangement?
Thanks for this motivational vid :). Screw working by fixed patterns and rules, just make it sound right to your own likings 👌🏼
Thank you SeamlessR. Seriously though why should we listen to other people telling us what's right or wrong in production. If it sounds right, by all means DO IT! Haha
I have to agree with the part where it feels like you're not doing well enough if it isn't as difficult. As of the moment, I always manage to make certain synth patches within about 15 minutes and I always find myself feeling conflicted as to whether I should put more into the sound or not due to how much time and difficulty spent in making the sound. I want to put more into it, but I never seem to know what to do and it makes me feel less valuable as a producer when I hear people having to get a particular sound through a huge amount of processes when I manage to make the sound I want through the synth alone.
It honestly makes me feel like I'm limiting myself, but don't know how to break the barrier to expand on into deeper depths of creativity as a whole. My rule of thumb though is that music is all about experimentation. I would say that there are certain things you may want to avoid to get a better sound (such as over compression), but when someone tells you not to mess with a certain part of a synth, then I would personally go mess with it and see what happens. There's some mistakes that are to be noted but others can be tossed away.
Electro DGX How to break the barrier to expand on into deeper depths of creativity as a whole: do shit until you eventually figure out how to do the shit you do, but more refined.
It'll come, eventually.
Jet Lag I can attest to this so much.
Electro DGX hey there i know i'm about a year late but i thought i should tell you... i felt very much the same way you did when you wrote that comment. and i still do sometimes to be honest... there are still sounds i can't even come close to reproduce...
but one serious recommendation i can give you, is learn about production as if you were to study it. every other day i read books ond acoustics, how sound works, and how audio processing works...
check out "ask video" especially their Audio Basics Courses, i recommend you watch all of them several times, this will give you more and more of a solid understanding on how all of these things work (delay based effects (doubling,phasing,flanging) reverb, distortion, convolution, and most important of Compression, compression is in my opinion such a hard thing to get a grasp on... yet it is so important.
these videos will definitely help you alot, i know they cost a lot of money but thats money well spent. worth it waay more than buying a new synth oder preset packs...
also i wholeheartedly recommend you to buy the courses found on vespers.ca
their sound design courses, like blitz bass, sound design masterclass or mixing and mastering are very very high level... they are quite expensive.. but every so often you can get 90% or 95% off.... and these courses are fantastic, they are very much in depth, and the trainers at vespers have immense knowledge, and can really explain why they are doing the things they do...
in sound design masterclass they go over almost all of the available synthesis methods in detail, and they always provide a tutorial on how to achieve specific sounds (yet these are not typical edm sounds like supersaw, minimal pluck) its about how to achieve different timbres with sound design (e.g metallic timbre, fatness, lush, bouncy and stuff like that)
sometimes its a pain to watch them, because you really have to pay attention to soak up as much knowledge as you can, and most likely you will have to watch them multiple times...
but i promise that with more knowledge you will find yourself in a way more flexible position concerning sound design, mixing and mastering. you will be able to adapt to certain situations and it will enable creativity again, which i was missing because the way to achieve my ideas was just too hard for me....
hope this helps
(oh and pls don't judge my opinion based tracks i uploaded on youtube, they are old and not representative of my current state... i could send you tracks of mine from the last 6 months (which is when i started actively learning about production) as i think the improvement is verymuch noticeable
kind regards
lorin
best advice ever, if it sounds good, your not doing it wrong. A1 dude :D
yeah the empircal techniques people abide by and insist everyone else abide by is really really annoying after years of doing this and realizing there literally are no rules.
SeamlessR, I really need to know how you made the Doodads on "Sometime"
is the Fm matrix in toxic biohazard basically the same as Sytrus ? I was a DJ now I enjoy learning how make it .Sorry for the lame question
Yes it is :)
track from skratch ???
With the black shirt and the dark background you looked like a floating head XD regardless you made good points and love your vids!
what RME interface is that?
After this awesome Festival Trap, you should try making some Hardstyle *kappa
BloodMaster of course man, of course
This is awesome advice imo
If It sounds good, then you are doing it right. BEST TIP EVER :D
This is pretty excellent
I really like this video and I agree with you
The things you have said aren't relevant to just music making but to life itself
i REALLY RESPECT THIS CAT!
well said sir!
Great stuff
Very true.. Absolutely true..
"Thats just, like...your opinion, man. " The Dude, The Big Lebowski
omg i just modulated! and btw: you are right :-)
lol I really want to hear this track made entirely of kick samples now
this made me laugh way more than it should have
You mention how "if something sounds good then it's right". Now, what is criteria in which something could be considered bad or good ? Is it just me that my sounds sound weird compared to other professional producers or that really is like that. I mean, i have listened to totally cheap empty beats and that all in my head sounds more right than something i make. I watched your beethoven challenge video and when you first played that section, i was like: Wow, this is really cool. But your expression was like: Mah, that sucked... So, i would like you to comment on that question, thanks :)
Btw, I have very little practice in fl studio.
bubblegoose321 It's different for everyone. If you think it sounds good then you think it sounds good.
bubblegoose321 Honestly bruh, it just takes time and shit tons of tutorials on the interwebs. It also helps to listen to really intensively sound engineered EDM, like Koan Sound or Reso and so many others. It's all about training your ear. I was totally in your boat about a year ago, and I couldn't separate objectively shitty music from good stuff. Of course it's subjective to a degree, but Seamless might forget after being someone involved in the making of music for such a long time that when you first start out, your ear is an infant and you really have to train it to be able to hear if a track is grossly two-dimensional for example, or poorly mixed, or whatever.
EDIT: Not to come off as if I'm disagreeing with the video, I completely agree. There is nothing a producer can do that's objectively "wrong", as long as their ear is good enough to tell them whether or not what they've done has made the track better. It's tricky though. There could be people out there who just really enjoy shitty EDM, and you're making music for them. Whatever man.
SeamlessR Thank you for that fast reply :). But what i most meant in my question was, is it really possible to have dynamics, sound design that bad that it actually would sound awkward/weird at some point or something like that is only possible because it's something that i created and it differentiates between listening to all other songs that are not made by me, in some kind of sense like: "my own voice sounds worse than anyone else's". I feel dumb for asking the same question but this is something that really creates an issue when i try to make something and i have feeling that it just doesn't sound "professional" enough to be considered as a "normal" track.
Nostradingus Good answer, thank you for writing that :)
bubblegoose321 There are plenty of genres of music that you would think would be universally hated. But even if they were, there would still be one person who liked it. The one who made it.
music is not business. the music industry is; but like all things in business, there is the right practices and wrong practices. but music is not business.
The point as I see it is understanding the rules so well you know when and how often to break them..
You'll never get your own sound by following the rules. But even then,,, I have to concur, where they rules to begin with or just our own confines ;)
Dude, you are a gift from god x)
I bet the people who disliked this are/were trying to make a song with just kick samples
GOOD WORDS!!!
I try to make sure all my peaks are around 0db before I start leveling things, tell me im doing it wrong.
You're doing it wrong
*If it sounds right, then you're doing it right* _~Seamless_
"IF YOUR MASTER ISN'T IN THE RED YOU'RE NOT A PRODUCER AND YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE IT WAY SO MORE MUCH LOUDER AND THUMPIER" -DJ Carnage, probably.
I believe you gotta listen to producers advice in certain cases, I may like a track I'm doing so it may seem like it can be right but then no one else likes it and if you want to be a successful then it's technically wrong. If people love hardcore base and I wanted to make a track with hardcore bases, common sense would follow your tutorials than others you get what I mean?
well said
1:58 This is all you need to hear.
Reminds me of how Deadmau5 talks shit on other techniques of making EDM. I agree, it doesn't matter how it's made, it matters how it sounds. And i don't even like most of Deadmau5's music anyway, lol.
☤INFiNiTE▼C0NSCi0US☤ deadmau5 talks shit about bullshit.
Sure, he's pretty biased towards analog music production, and sometimes he even "hates" on MIDI, but he only does that to fuck around.
Also, he even endorses FL Studio
twitter.com/deadmau5/status/616012370436034560
Some of his old tracks were produced in FL Studio.
Oh, and how someone can't like deadmau5' music is beyond me.
Jet Lag So basically he's a troll? Lol. - Or he might think his own way of making music is superior (that's the vibe he gave me).
I definitely think he's a good producer and all, but personally, i'm not really into House beats anymore. If i heard his stuff in the late 90's or early 00's, i would of went apeshit loving it, lol.
I guess i'm more into beats that are two-step, breaks, or DnB these days.
☤INFiNiTE▼C0NSCi0US☤ yes he's a big-time troll. just look at the latest track on his soundcloud soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/where-im-at
☤INFiNiTE▼C0NSCi0US☤ Yep, Joel is a huge troll.
Also, his music isn't really "house beats"...
I did it for the cat girls Joel just doesn't give a fuck at all. lmao
Animals vs. Left Behinds is a perfect example of this. Left Behinds used dozens and dozens of layers while Animals only used a handful. Left Behinds - Barely 1 million views... Animals - Almost 600 million views.
Yes, but left behinds is probably in the top 20 greatest progressive house songs and animals sounds like epic, mystica and many more. Also you can't compare two different genres saying how good each others sales are.
I know it sounds gay, but... I missed you Seamless!
*Greetings from Brazil*
4:00 wow, mind blown
auctually like 3:47
my attention span is short af, his talking speed works well for me LOl
Sound is out of sync with video.
Honestly, the biggest mistake I made, in my first year, was not learning music theory, lol.
I'm doing music things for around a year already, some of my friends call me pro, yet I don't think I learned music theory - I just tried random notes and found some that sound nice together. Or maybe this way I learned a scale and some bit of music theory as a whole, without being aware...
Please SeamlessR Help me & teach me how to use Fl Studio proffessionally
Just use it as you do, you will start to memorize where are buttons that you press regurarly, and over time you will result in pressing things faster. That's all, he uses FL Studio as most of noobs do, he just uses it faster.
Do you now how to use Fl?
Yes. In short, open piano roll, press ALT+E *BOOOOM* you're pro. :v
Open FL > Alt + F4
:/
4:52 burdabactur?
I agree with everything you say but the mocap. Mocap always looks uncanny and wrong. If ratatouille was made with mocap it'd feel so weird, since it's cartoony characters moving EXACTLY like humans, without squash and stretch. Most of the time mocap gets animated over and it's only used as a rough guide.
Alice Smith Good point, Aphex Twin.
First I thought to my self "Aww geez, now seamless has started to use those annoying phrases" And after ten seconds I was like aa...good ;]
I'm not native english speaker.... and DAMN he talks goddamn fastttttt
greates misstake for producers, is showing how they work and with what.
greates misstake of googler, not showing how they do with what.
dam dont matter what you do there as plus and minus.
so master of FL, well i got some interessting topic. FL as plugin, how to play pattern (not just the singel instruments), is this just possible by using performance mode?
well maybe FL guys got some ideas how to solve this best..
greets
best video ever :)
u got me!
im wrong so many times its just right
"there are no rules in art"
-some guy on youtube
Black is cool...
Yeah, subjectivity blindness is a thing. You could give some people a list of opinions and they would try to explain why each one is right or wrong. Funny how the human psyche works sometimes.
HAS SCIENCE HAS GONE TOO FAR???
James Bond is the only professional!
You should post this to /r/edmproduction
click b808 m8
one more, using always the same monster template and instrument preset, always sound same.
using loops and samples all producers do when you like to be uniqu.
There are no bad ideas only bad producers and not many people make their own sounds it's always about copying other main stream producers -_-
jaime rios Like your music? cdn.yourepeat.com/media/gif/000/844/971/7912df05863f9f9e31032eec0c8d907b.gif
Seamless do you wear any other color?
Work smarter.
clean your room young man!