The quote is actually “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making OTHER plans” .. this isn”t only about pursuing one’s passion this is about everything, this is about our personal relationships. our menial jobs.. suddenly you break a leg or a parent gets sick and you have to move back in.. these things accrue over time and down the road you may find that the course of your river was different than your intention.. though you’re absolutely correct about most people‘s Plan A being a fantasy.. mine certainly was..
I had a fostex 4 track outta high school. I have recordings that sound like they were done in an upscale studio. Always had the ear. Learning the technical terminology and techniques now has elevated my game. Thank you a hundred trillion times over!
The guru, the myth, the man who gave us his beard and took it away.. I would add that sharing your plans ABC with your partner is vital. Supporting each other can get both of you to the goalpost with less chaos :-)
good analysis, I started studying computer science, still studying it, but developed a synthesizer app that taught me a lot about sound, have my own music style now and selling apps,
Great video man, I've definitely been realising some of this over the last few years but really great insight in there and well delivered! Thanks, big ups
Indeed! Nothing wrong with that. We have a lot of hobbyists and music lovers in general tuning into this channel as well as pros and aspiring pros. Music is an amazing part of life, and making it should be part of anyone's life who enjoys doing it. You don't have to make a living from it for it to be important and meaningful.
For me it was the realization that I don't want to run a business. I have no interest in searching for clients or worrying about marketing. I just want to have fun with music. If I have a lucky hit I'll deal with it then.
Extremely helpful and sobering. I thought you were going to say "it's not what you know, it's who you know" but this was something new and impactful, thank you. Also, are you uh...gonna use those Adams in the background...
I get sent way too many speakers to evaluate these days to use them all. This is probably my favorite 2-way pair under 7" though. Got them way back in 2012 and still use them as a secondary reference. -Justin
This has really opened my eyes. #RhettShull says the same thing but I never understand what it meant until this video. Thank you. I would so much appreciate you making a follow up video on how an aspiring music artist/producer would go about planning and goal setting. Thank you again.
You're the second person to mention Rhett Shull.Hadn't heard that name before doing this episode. Sounds like he's giving some good advice! :-) -Justin
Let's be honest: a lot of the most-quoted successful careers in performance industries will not be planned by the apparently successful person. They are planned elsewhere. Rather than disappearing further and further up the fundamentals of why one is not doing anything, just do something. So that videos become less important than life, it might be a good idea to set goals to be achieved by a certain time, and if they're not achieved, give up. It's most easy to buy equipment, it's quite easy to record something, it's less easy to record something with some musical talent, and it's almost impossible to decide that it's mixed properly until a professional accepts it as technically useable. How do the consumers of advice videos who want to earn a living make the leap of getting personal professional feedback? That is the hump, and it will not be overcome by most. Many may keep watching for succour instead of real purpose. Overly reflective videos that focus on why we are failing may, therefore, not serve the cause they intend to. I would suggest that fame and the famous are irrelevant, as the price paid for that condition is often not worth paying, and the deals return little sense of success or happiness. What is sold there is not worth giving up. The power-play has shifted from a paradigm where it was easy for impresarios to control artistic output and consumption, since the portals of contact were limited and exclusive. Now, there is a potential for individuals to become powerfully autonomous business operators who only need to earn enough to cover their living costs, and this has caused corporations to work with legislators to create a new kind of industry lockout. The adaptation of copyright law has been used to enable centralised repositories to carry huge influence over routes to market. Web function that might otherwise have offered the artist great access to an audience through his own ingenuity and hard work has been formed into a network that constricts his potential according to its interests. This has been sold as a Smart upgrade that is an advantage to the independent market, when, in fact, it serves to remodel the sector into a facsimile of its old form, with the added side-effect of enabling selective censorship under the guise of infringement protection. These are the key issues small-scale and new producers should address, and they would be good topics for discussion.
Don't have a plan B here so might as well be crazy enough to keep going because quitting making music isn't a fucking option so gonna be putting out singles till a Label or an Agency discovers what i've been doing.
Great post Justin, some little add: Is so pushy and hard the energy/cultural law to be just the number one, that make me ask: what is about being the number 4 or the number 18? Im lucky to live thought my profession and as a total practitioner of the multi layer person, and in my case my Music Career turns to the Performing Arts without planning, just happens!!! and was 20 years ago!!! So also is matter of listen to yourself and trust also in your instinct but on top, in your curiosity. So now days were both of my passions goes together, in one hand being a Composer and Mix engineer, and in the other one as a Director and Choregrapher, both planets feed each other and make me be alive and in motion
One biggest problem I have to realize my "Plan A" is money, and living in a country side, it's much harder to make living while doing music. And the fact that there's less chance that I meet bigger people in the industry to at least help me to become one is always my problem in life that is why I am ended up always in Plan B... YES I need to risk it but the catch is my mental stability and health... So without living in the big city in the first place will be always the biggest problem of every musician in the world, even how much you give us a tip of doing it... Internet is still useless in many cases as you still need to bring your foot in the gigs make money out of it is almost impossible some times from what I experience... just a reality check for most of us lol... My Plan A is being a EDM big musician and I am now at my Plan B which is working on movie VFXs using Blender/Maya/Houdini.... soooooooooooooo....... heh
I love music and always will but my plan A was the became that professional electrician what I've been doing since I'm kid. Besides I've producing music and mixing since I'm kid. The plan A needed to quickly easily get hired to support myself BUT I would like to live my rest of my life in the studio mixing and create music which is the plan B. Do I need to have a diploma as an audio engineer to continue my carrier as an engineer? How can I be an audio engineer while I have a fulltime job? I'm a very positive person nothing impossible for me. I don't have knowledge of how to get a success engineer at age 40. I love your video!!
What if working in the music industry is my plan b? I'm actually working in a factory and I'm getting bored every day so my plan is to go back to school to learn sonorisation technics. I know I may not have my own studio but just to work in music would be enough for me
I do HVAC pretty happy with it but I really want to create music and have it recorded I want my music to sound like a new classic rock sound all original be able to record a good rough draft and get a pro to put it together I play guitar good and have a drumset and keyboard I can make it sound decent Im about to start buying all the recording stuff I'll need, life long dream iv always wanted to buy my own house and I did that so I believe I can do it! don't even need to be famous just love the music 28 yrs old from va
Plan A: Make money hand-over-fist by being an in-demand mastering engineer. Plan B: Be a mastering engineer, but make most of my income from corporate tie-ins in UA-cam videos in which I pretend I’m really living Plan A.
🤣 That's a good one! Somebody get me some ointment for these burns!! The true story is that audio engineering and music production in general was the plan B. ...And mastering itself was the plan B of that plan B! I was doing UA-cam videos and writing hundreds of articles on audio engineering long *before* I started mastering. If anything, talking writing and teaching for a living would have been a better plan A for me because they came so naturally. And at times, it was the plan A. But I did become my plan B, like everyone else. That plan B included being a music producer, audio engineer, now gold-certified mastering engineer, writer and online educator. All of that was plan B. Plan A was being a musician, author, or maybe even a public commentator. I guess little bits of plan A did end up occurring a weird way though... Thanks for the writing prompt! Was fun to think through out loud. -Justin
@@SonicScoop Appreciate what you do here. It was the opposite for me - subscribed because it wasn't clickbaity. Anyway, as you know, it's not necessarily about learning new ideas but reaching towards ideas that confirm and re-confirm what we already know. When we visualise, we focus on what we want and are drawn to similar themes and areas of thinking. Basically, we're looking for motivation for that final push, to get to where we feel we know we're going. Thanks and take care!
One of the most underrated podcasts when it comes to audio!
Thanks for the reality check brother.
The quote is actually “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making OTHER plans” .. this isn”t only about pursuing one’s passion this is about everything, this is about our personal relationships. our menial jobs.. suddenly you break a leg or a parent gets sick and you have to move back in.. these things accrue over time and down the road you may find that the course of your river was different than your intention.. though you’re absolutely correct about most people‘s Plan A being a fantasy.. mine certainly was..
I had a fostex 4 track outta high school. I have recordings that sound like they were done in an upscale studio. Always had the ear. Learning the technical terminology and techniques now has elevated my game. Thank you a hundred trillion times over!
From the moment I thought 'Fuck plan B' to when this was uploaded took about 8 minutes. I'm amazed. Universe wants me to plug my album here later.
Farsea I wanna hear it :)
The guru, the myth, the man who gave us his beard and took it away..
I would add that sharing your plans ABC with your partner is vital. Supporting each other can get both of you to the goalpost with less chaos :-)
Truth! Gotta get aligned with your partner if you have one.
Thank you for the amazing advice !!
Thanks Justin!
good analysis, I started studying computer science, still studying it, but developed a synthesizer app that taught me a lot about sound, have my own music style now and selling apps,
Lennon was lost, enjoying your creative wisdom.. thank you
I could talk to you about this for ages, nice video mate !
Justin, you are my hero. Thanks for the great content!
"You will become your plan B" that is an excellent line and if you don't mind, I'm going to use it in a song?
Please do!
I stole it to my Tinder account..
Justin Colletti thanks, I'm in the middle of writing a song and that line works perfectly :)
I gonna name one of my tracks “plan B” if nobody mind.
That’s why I’m a woman now.
So basically you end up doing what you spend the most time actually doing. Makes sense.
you're the best. thanks for saying out loud things that were submerged into my mind.
Great video man, I've definitely been realising some of this over the last few years but really great insight in there and well delivered! Thanks, big ups
This channel is wildly underrated
AGREED :D
Very interesting video, thank you! :)
I think dropping really big expectations is important but keeping a schedule and trying to achieve a small goal once a day helps.
Indeed. Realizing big visions comes from realizing small daily goals. I find it really helps keep me going to have both.
That is a great video👍.. so insightful and inspiring at the same time 👍
I nearly was a Lawyer, finished my degree but stumbled into a music career
And we are glad for that--You make absolutely beautiful music Hally!!
Rhett Shull is building a pretty enviable career on "No Plan B'...you guys should hook up for a podcast...
That’s a good name! We’ll look Rhett up, thanks.
Many professionals like engineers lawyers and finance people also get involved in music as an outlet
Indeed! Nothing wrong with that. We have a lot of hobbyists and music lovers in general tuning into this channel as well as pros and aspiring pros.
Music is an amazing part of life, and making it should be part of anyone's life who enjoys doing it. You don't have to make a living from it for it to be important and meaningful.
For me it was the realization that I don't want to run a business. I have no interest in searching for clients or worrying about marketing. I just want to have fun with music. If I have a lucky hit I'll deal with it then.
Extremely helpful and sobering. I thought you were going to say "it's not what you know, it's who you know" but this was something new and impactful, thank you. Also, are you uh...gonna use those Adams in the background...
I get sent way too many speakers to evaluate these days to use them all. This is probably my favorite 2-way pair under 7" though. Got them way back in 2012 and still use them as a secondary reference.
-Justin
I think it is interesting you bring up plan b’s and life insurance!
My plan A = Rockstar
My plan B = Porn film musician
I should've thought of a plan C :/
phenominal stuff
This has really opened my eyes. #RhettShull says the same thing but I never understand what it meant until this video. Thank you. I would so much appreciate you making a follow up video on how an aspiring music artist/producer would go about planning and goal setting. Thank you again.
You're the second person to mention Rhett Shull.Hadn't heard that name before doing this episode. Sounds like he's giving some good advice! :-)
-Justin
Im doin this with reverse psychology, music production is my plan b
Let's be honest: a lot of the most-quoted successful careers in performance industries will not be planned by the apparently successful person. They are planned elsewhere.
Rather than disappearing further and further up the fundamentals of why one is not doing anything, just do something. So that videos become less important than life, it might be a good idea to set goals to be achieved by a certain time, and if they're not achieved, give up. It's most easy to buy equipment, it's quite easy to record something, it's less easy to record something with some musical talent, and it's almost impossible to decide that it's mixed properly until a professional accepts it as technically useable. How do the consumers of advice videos who want to earn a living make the leap of getting personal professional feedback? That is the hump, and it will not be overcome by most. Many may keep watching for succour instead of real purpose. Overly reflective videos that focus on why we are failing may, therefore, not serve the cause they intend to.
I would suggest that fame and the famous are irrelevant, as the price paid for that condition is often not worth paying, and the deals return little sense of success or happiness. What is sold there is not worth giving up. The power-play has shifted from a paradigm where it was easy for impresarios to control artistic output and consumption, since the portals of contact were limited and exclusive. Now, there is a potential for individuals to become powerfully autonomous business operators who only need to earn enough to cover their living costs, and this has caused corporations to work with legislators to create a new kind of industry lockout.
The adaptation of copyright law has been used to enable centralised repositories to carry huge influence over routes to market. Web function that might otherwise have offered the artist great access to an audience through his own ingenuity and hard work has been formed into a network that constricts his potential according to its interests. This has been sold as a Smart upgrade that is an advantage to the independent market, when, in fact, it serves to remodel the sector into a facsimile of its old form, with the added side-effect of enabling selective censorship under the guise of infringement protection.
These are the key issues small-scale and new producers should address, and they would be good topics for discussion.
Don't have a plan B here so might as well be crazy enough to keep going because quitting making music isn't a fucking option so gonna be putting out singles till a Label or an Agency discovers what i've been doing.
Great post Justin, some little add: Is so pushy and hard the energy/cultural law to be just the number one, that make me ask: what is about being the number 4 or the number 18?
Im lucky to live thought my profession and as a total practitioner of the multi layer person, and in my case my Music Career turns to the Performing Arts without planning, just happens!!! and was 20 years ago!!! So also is matter of listen to yourself and trust also in your instinct but on top, in your curiosity.
So now days were both of my passions goes together, in one hand being a Composer and Mix engineer, and in the other one as a Director and Choregrapher, both planets feed each other and make me be alive and in motion
Great to hear!
One biggest problem I have to realize my "Plan A" is money, and living in a country side, it's much harder to make living while doing music. And the fact that there's less chance that I meet bigger people in the industry to at least help me to become one is always my problem in life that is why I am ended up always in Plan B... YES I need to risk it but the catch is my mental stability and health... So without living in the big city in the first place will be always the biggest problem of every musician in the world, even how much you give us a tip of doing it... Internet is still useless in many cases as you still need to bring your foot in the gigs make money out of it is almost impossible some times from what I experience... just a reality check for most of us lol...
My Plan A is being a EDM big musician and I am now at my Plan B which is working on movie VFXs using Blender/Maya/Houdini.... soooooooooooooo....... heh
I love music and always will but my plan A was the became that professional electrician what I've been doing since I'm kid. Besides I've producing music and mixing since I'm kid.
The plan A needed to quickly easily get hired to support myself BUT I would like to live my rest of my life in the studio mixing and create music which is the plan B.
Do I need to have a diploma as an audio engineer to continue my carrier as an engineer?
How can I be an audio engineer while I have a fulltime job? I'm a very positive person nothing impossible for me. I don't have knowledge of how to get a success engineer at age 40.
I love your video!!
What if working in the music industry is my plan b? I'm actually working in a factory and I'm getting bored every day so my plan is to go back to school to learn sonorisation technics. I know I may not have my own studio but just to work in music would be enough for me
I do HVAC pretty happy with it but I really want to create music and have it recorded I want my music to sound like a new classic rock sound all original be able to record a good rough draft and get a pro to put it together I play guitar good and have a drumset and keyboard I can make it sound decent Im about to start buying all the recording stuff I'll need, life long dream iv always wanted to buy my own house and I did that so I believe I can do it! don't even need to be famous just love the music 28 yrs old from va
Sounds good to me! Keep on rocking, living a good life, and doing what inspires you.
-Justin
Cool vid, true words. btw you look like smoothie in locke and key :D
Great 👍🏻
Plan A: Make money hand-over-fist by being an in-demand mastering engineer.
Plan B: Be a mastering engineer, but make most of my income from corporate tie-ins in UA-cam videos in which I pretend I’m really living Plan A.
🤣 That's a good one! Somebody get me some ointment for these burns!!
The true story is that audio engineering and music production in general was the plan B.
...And mastering itself was the plan B of that plan B!
I was doing UA-cam videos and writing hundreds of articles on audio engineering long *before* I started mastering.
If anything, talking writing and teaching for a living would have been a better plan A for me because they came so naturally. And at times, it was the plan A.
But I did become my plan B, like everyone else. That plan B included being a music producer, audio engineer, now gold-certified mastering engineer, writer and online educator. All of that was plan B.
Plan A was being a musician, author, or maybe even a public commentator.
I guess little bits of plan A did end up occurring a weird way though...
Thanks for the writing prompt! Was fun to think through out loud.
-Justin
Can't watch to end..sad now :(
Life doesn't always go as planned. The older you get, the plans morph into c,d and e
There is No Plan B
it happened to me...
making game audio sound design instead of plan A
There are certainly worse fates than that! :-)
-Justin
I think I've become my plan F
Realist shit you ever wrote
hey man, this video truly helped. would u critic my song “Left”. some advice would be useful. thanks.
This video title (along with the rest of the clickbaity, "you gotta do THIS!" videos) made me unsubscribe from SonicScoop.
Ooooooh noooooo !
Too bad you didn't make it to the actual content :) It's pretty damn good!
@@SonicScoop Appreciate what you do here. It was the opposite for me - subscribed because it wasn't clickbaity. Anyway, as you know, it's not necessarily about learning new ideas but reaching towards ideas that confirm and re-confirm what we already know. When we visualise, we focus on what we want and are drawn to similar themes and areas of thinking. Basically, we're looking for motivation for that final push, to get to where we feel we know we're going. Thanks and take care!