Honest Advice to ANYBODY Starting Out In Music Production or Mixing & Mastering
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- Honest Advice to ANYBODY Looking For A Career In Music Production or Mixing & Mastering
My name is Paul Third and I am a Scottish youtuber / audio engineer / mixing engineer / audio geek. I mostly cover audio engineering related content ranging from audio plugin shootouts / plugin comparisons (acustica audio plugins, universal audio etc etc) to actual analog vs digital / gear vs plugins plugin tests via access analog and mix analog. I even include ddmf plugindoctor tutorials in my plugin reviews so you can be your very own plugin tester and experiment and understand whats actually going on under the hood.
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You are giving Honest Example about how to be a person which means Trust, Honesty and you share it means you are an Artist and you know how to be an Artist in different situations , it's you. Everything you said is what I am thinking and I emphasize how important it is. Common think sharp like you do and wish for everything to OK . Life is Beautiful, it is a phenomenon with the biggest publicly in secret Taboo and if we are believing in Freedom then...be healthy, decide it because this Movie must have sense, it must be beautiful and when I say it believe me I grew up in Hell and among Millions I saw that it's your decision and you want to be healthy and everything to be OK. Rationality is not the best or objective because...Alister Crawly said my Will is "His Will ". And let's everything be OK ❤
Hope your okay today Paul. Try not to worry too much mate.
you are the best;)
Good luck with your test Paul, hope you get the right result.
Outstanding advice! So today is your MRI.. I hope you feel relieved after hearing the results..
Scan is tomorrow afternoon. Said it could be a week or 2 to get the results which is frustrating as I've waited long enough but it is what it is.
@@PaulThird It's the same here in Holland. Something this serious should not be postponed one day, but instead they let you wait weeks sometimes even months..
I had to phone up to get the results of my ultrasound. Doctors had my results and waited on me phoning. Baffles me as the result of the ultrasound was that I needed to book an MRI, which had I not phoned would have delayed the process further. Backwards, doctors should phone the patient as soon as the results are recieved.. In my opinion
You'll be okay mate... relax the noo at least... your missus and the weanz will be feeling your feelings.... hope things will be good Paul, your right in all you said BTW.
Hope you're all good mate.
One thing I can add as someone with ADHD.. Dopamine stacking is a serious problem for everyone, it's when you get locked in to what you love doing and you get lost in it, often alongside a coffee and no breaks. You can quickly burn through dopamine leaving you feeling like you need to do extravagant and over complicated mix moves (not to mention getting ear fatigue). It's a dangerous thing that leads to a cycle of repeated disappointments in mixed outcomes as well as the feeling that you just need that next piece of audio gear or plugin. When you run out of dopamine it leaves you at a below baseline level that you're just itching to bring back up which often makes us make the wrong decisions.
Also as engineers we often have an outlook which focuses on looking for problems, instead we need to look for and amplify the best parts of a mix (and life). If we make our next mix purely about looking for the good and ignoring the bad you'd be surprised at how much better it sounded.
Sorry for the essay 😂
Hey Paul, sorry I haven’t got back to you regarding the Atmos mixes yet… it’s been crazy busy at PDP towers! Myself and James just wanted to wish you all the best with the scan and results. Thinking of you, and you know where we are if you need to talk about anything, ever! Lots of love ❤❤
Don't worry about it. I'm still trying to get my head round all of this atmos carry on anyway. The binaural translation is a little bit trickier than I first assumed
Serban Ghenea is who I aim to be....not CLA. 😂
He got.those gigs by skills and networking!
Big up to you, Paul! Great advice! Every one should find a mentor and an accountability partner! Or set up a podcast and endlessly chat shit with your mate 😂
Good luck with your test, hope everything's alright!
Never went to Uni for music, I couldn't handle the brainwashing. Practice Practice Practice
Best wishes and prayers for you mate..I've just seen this I hope you are in better situation now
Great advice Paul! It is certainly a difficult business to get into with all the possibilities that people have in their home studios nowadays. You need to offer something people just can't do at home, and ATMOS mixing could be such a thing. I don't know about the importance of live recordings nowadays, which needs a studio too. Fingers crossed.
Excellent video. I got really lucky at the beginning of my career when I transitioned from a full-time muso to make friends with a guy who turned out to be one of the best engineers in my country, I didn't even know. I was really good with DAWs and plugins at the time, so we traded knowledge for technical help. He really set me up on my path, and we're still constantly helping each other out with info 25 years later.
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Good advice paul :) My friend just went through the same and has come out of it cancer free and even if you get the worst news like he did if you have a positive attitude this will make a a massive difference. My best wishes to you and your family stay strong and positive and i am sure it will be ok.
Damn man, your channel blew up since I last saw. Nice one!!!!
Don't worry about the MRI, everything will be good. There could be a hundred reasons why your liver is not functioning correctly for now.
Very best wishes to you Paul, I can't imagine how frightening that must be. Thinking of you.
Good luck on the health stuff.
100% on taking extreme care with YooBoob as a learning strategy. There are some solid people BUT without a specific Master to lead you, you will likely fall into a spiral hole. You Master, if well chosen may only work in one style (I was trained in making AM Radio jingles) BUT what you learn - the moment you step past thinking it is knob positions - everything you learn is transferrable to whatever kooky sub-sub-sub-genre you find yourself in. I can fast-track a student and save them so much time money and frustration compared to the typical waste that happens when people crowdsource. It takes a different approach but the results are so much more useful in getting things done.
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Hi Paul some good advice there. Hope your MRI yields good results.
Best of luck with your checkup man! Health comes first!!
It takes years and years to be great, decades, but this is not a bad news. If this thing was easy, everybody would be great. You didn't waste time. This is not a race. If you love what you do it doesn't matter. If you're doing it for the money (only) forget it.
Thanks Paul for this testimony !! This is one of the best seen on Uf*** 😊 and fingers cross for you for sure !!! Thanks again \\ GiL
Wow, Paul, you floored me with that opener. I really hope the news is good. Doesn't seem to make the audio world matter so much, but nevertheless a well said piece looking back, and I do agree with a lot of it, especially the trap of getting too invested in the nest of bragging and superficial twaddle on social media. There are too many people desperate to be noticed with their 'hot takes', and I only watch a few trusted ones, like your good self. Forging a career in audio is very tough and it just does take a long time, because the breaks are few and far between, and every tom, dick and harry think you can buy a computer, download cracked software and be a producer musician. So building a real career, like yours, takes time. But I am and always willl be impressed with your learning and evidence-based reasoning.
So good luck with everything, and be good to see you back swearing and laughing again!
All the best with your MRI result Paul. You’ll be in my prayers 🙏🏼
great vid and all the best healthwise, mate! dont let stuff get y down, no matter what. being a family man is always takes priority. i tip my hat to ya. much love & thanks for the nuggets, mate
Sorry to hear that and good luck on your MRI, you might laugh on this but trust me, just stop consuming sugar and eat less meat.
Love You Paul!! Get that MRI sorted and go from there. All the best.
Best wishes for the MRI, Paul...JIm
Thank you man! Wishing you the best brother!
🤞 re MRI, I really hope it's all good. Good luck with the studio too.
I recently got the same news. Just a quick phone call from the hospital saying " Oh by the way, we think you may have liver cancer ". " Oh ok, i'll just go about my day then ? " . I hit quite a dark space. For 3 weeks i layed there thinking " Oh well that's me, I'm fucked ". In the 4th week , the hospital called. " Sorry, there was a speck of shit on the lens...., my bad " ! " Oh that's ok we all make mistakes "..........Faaarrrkkk ! I know where you're at Paul. Fingers crossed , that spec of shit has relatives in the UK mate.
I must say, your English accent is spot on!!!
i hope you will be good Paul! send you a big hug
MRI is scary... Best wishes!
Hope the MRI goes well! Update us.
I’m praying for you boy o 🙏🏼
Hope your MRI goes well! Way more important. Great advice on the networking. I have grown weary of internet advice. It's just a place where everyone is hawking their wares. Not saying they all do and certainly some do have some good tips but the best advice I wish I gave myself 15 years ago was to use your ears and don't mix to a frequency analyzer. It's taken me so long to break those habits and now my mixes are a bit more organic and cohesive. Plugins are certainly a problem as they can only be as good as the person using them. It wouldn't matter if you have the best compressor on the planet if you don't know how attack, release, ratios, knee settings, etc work for certain instruments/types of music.
Hi Paul. They might just be being extra cautious because of you're age and it'll hopefully turn out to be a common cyst or something. Was it blood enzyme tests that raised the alarm? All being well... I wonder if you've tried Acustica Lava yet. Seems like a pretty useful tool, some impressive reviews. Good luck!
Enzymes are constantly high so had an ultrasound and they found clusters of cysts and a number of tumours
Godspeed on the recovery
Amazing advice and video! Networking truly is everything! I’m in a new town now (portland) and I’ve been focusing on networking and i met some amazing and incredible engineers/producers who have already been saying positive things about me. Trying to be patient and explore the new studio spaces available to me here. Getting artists to work with has always been the challenge. I get some every year, but not enough to pay bills from. I really want to earn enough to survive, which is easier with the lowest amount of expenses I’ve ever had now. Building up a studio space myself in the basement of where I’m staying now and i gotta wait on some stuff before i can set up (specifically a desk coming in July).
Also hope it’s not cancer ❤. Be well!
Oh man! Send Prayers your way.
wishing you all the best.
get well soon paul much love
You are healed sir
Hope all goes well with the mri
Good luck with today!
Praying for you Paul!
Fingers crossed for you dude.
omg Paul - I hope all goes well! 😢✊
You will be fine Paul
I don’t have kids but I do have a lot of nice compressors.
Same thing I suppose. Can be super expensive and some days you wonder why you ever had them in the first place haha
I hope everything will be okay with you. Best wishes!
Yeah, but there’s people who thinks they know how to mix but they don’t know, and doing shitty mixes so it’s hard to find competent tutor for free.
That's why you pay people that put out work that you respect. If you can't strike up a relationship with them then try and study them. Trying to get a good tutor for free is pissing in the wind but if you offer to pay them for their time you may find it opens a door
@@PaulThird Yes sir!
Wise words 👊
Really hope you'll be fine! ! ! Thanks for sharing.
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Good luck at the screening, I hope you don't have cancer! Networking is the key to success. Working is the key to getting good. But networking also affects getting good and working also affects success.
I'm really only a great mixer on the material I produce myself. Give me a limited time (like 1-2 days) and a track with live instruments from a genre I'm not very familiar with and I will still make rookie mistakes in terms of the overall balance. Getting familiar with a limited amount of key tools was an essential part in my development. And whenever I produce in a new genre, it takes me about 20-30 productions to "get it". Of course the first productions are occasionally great too and rarely trash, but it's only after many productions that the results become good or even great on a regular basis.
What Ive learned is make the best of your time and stop wasting it on shit that doesn't matter. I've wasted a lot of time on a lot of shit in the past haha
@@PaulThird Haha, that's true Probably one of the realest and most effective takes for anyone on the planet. I'm still wasting some time occasionally. Hoping you're good!
i hope your goin to be ok i know what your goining through your in my prayers
Tests are just precautionary to rule out worst case scenario. you'll be alreet don't worry about it :) I've had 4 MRI head scans myself, lemme tell ya when your heads right in the belly of that machine its so fucking loud!! 🤣
It's the keeping still that's worrying me. I'm a proper fidget haha
@@PaulThird 100% the scan happens in like 5 minute sections and I’ve had to redo a sections a couple times during scans cause my head flinched when the insane noise started up again 😁 just means it’ll take a bit longer , at least there’s no harm done like with an X-ray/CT scanner . Best thing to do is tell the operator and they have extra cushions to pack the body part in more tightly to reduced risk of movement
My hearth is always with you BROTHER. Get well soon / Emrah Celik
Hope all is good with your tests, Paul! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Do a tim petherick interview!
Knowing Tim he'll never agree to it haha
Hope all goes well for you Paul! If you do get some bad news, lean into it and figure out what’s next. You’ve been pushing forward for what’s next anyway. Just another step forward. I’ll be thinking of ya🤘
All the best luck, Paul. Listen up, folks. Paul is 100% on the button. Relationships are pretty much everything in this business.
Thinking of you and hope the results come back in your favour, Paul. These kinds of tests are always nerve-racking. Best wishes.
I've never commented here, but I lurk on your channel from time to time. I wish you the best and hope everything is well with you.
Paul, I do this for almost 40 years, besides beeing a lawyer. You are right, my best learning curves was working with other producers and engineers in the studio, and theirs. The most important thing is, get to know your own abilities, your own room and proper speakers, then you are already 80% there. And be ready for when that right client comes who will change everything. You will not get a second change if you f.. it up.
Knowledge.
You cannot download.Thank you very much for this Paul ❤
I hope everything goes well with your MRI, thanks for sharing your thoughts and advices
Good luck with your test, and thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Oh man, it’s scary. I hope it goes well! Half Glaswegian neighbour
HOPE ALL GOES WELL PAUL
Been enjoying your channel from near the beginning! Wishing you the very best, mate... With family, health and your awesome new recording/mixing studio! 😎🙏🥂🎸
Hey, you're one of the few guys I stand listening to, as I feel you're about honesty about your opinions and humble enough with no BS talking.
I really hope you're ok on your health an all goes fine. We all need more of your insights and guys with backbone in the music community.
Wish you all the best!
All the best to you Paul and thank you for this great advice. I was starting to realise this myself now so thanks for reminding me what’s important! U rule !
Thanks for sharing Paul! Good luck on your MRI. I'll be praying for you and your family.
Praying for you man. YOU matter and your impact has made so many ppl's days better :)
Wishing you all the best Paul ❤
I'm sure it's benign and treatable. Hang in there for now x
Thanks for your honesty Paul. I hope you will be okay. Please keep us updated. Genuinely concerned man. All the best.
Wishing all the best for you Paul. Appreciate all your work, hope you feel well soon.
Thanks for the video, I wish you all the best
Good luck Paul. I hope the test has the right result.
Wish you all the best.
You and Dan Worral are my heroes.
Praying for you, man. Your channel has taught me a lot and I'm very thankful for what you do.
All the best, Paul. Hope you get good news. Keep up the good work!
Love you and all you do Paul, wishing you the best and hopefully a clear bill of health!!
sending you good vibes fella. You're kicking ass in your career
Prayers, sir. Sincerely. I am a three-time survivor. You’ve got this!! I assume you will keep us posted. Feel free to contact me if you ever need to.
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People like you because you keep it real. Great advice Paul.
All the best to you Paul, great video as always thanks!
Love your story. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing this! 👍 Best of luck bro.
Hope all turns out well Paul. 👍
Great advice. Thank you
I wish you well matey, really hope you don't have the big C.
Most businessmen say it takes around ten years before what you want starts baring fruits, Walmart/Microsoft/Apple/kfc etc. Theirs always lucky ones, but 10 years is right on track for most.
If I was able to not have to jump into retail so quick after graduating I believe I would've halved the time it's taken me but on the flip side, maybe that time was always needed to get me into a decent paid job that gave me the financial stability to focus on working at a career bit by bit.
Its like the old Scottish saying.. It's all ifs and buts, if yir granny had bah's, she'd be yir granda.. That one still baffles Ed to this day 🤣
sending prayers dude!
Sending you a load of Love dude, you'll be good.
Gee man that sucks. Good luck man.
Hope you'll be fine, brother!
The absolute worst mix I got back from my first album was done by Spike. It shows that even the best aren’t always “the best”.
Also I hope your liver situation has a positive outcome.
Interesting. What was it you didn't like about it
Prayers to you Paul. Hope all goes well
Best advise ever Paul 👍🏼
Best wishes dude