Been doing this since 1998. If you buy RME, you buy for life. Simple as that. But Audient are a very solid budget choice. This is a good video that covers all the basics, well done. My one piece of advice to newbies would be: perfect is the enemy of good.
Thank you Philip! And all the people reading this, I recommend all of you to give this video a like for providing a clear and concise guideline for beginner producers, and subscribe to his channel for getting more valuable information in the future in your production journey! 😊
Thanks Alice for all the great tips you’ve provided to the scene for so many years. Your success is well deserved and I keep recommending you online and offline 🙌🏻💯
Your "Finisher Framework" helped me to unstuck. It was a missing piece for the systematic approach to making music that I failed to figure out on my own. Thank you very much.
It blew my mind when i watched this one simply because, believe or not, i only follow your channel along with underdog and mercurial tones as my main source of truth in electronic music production. You just validated my intuition so thanks for being open and honest about it ☺ Truth to be told, i am a big fan of your Prolific Producer course and still following it at the moment, keep up the good work and paving the way for us upcoming electronic music producers out there! 💪 As a small suggestion for upcoming videos, i think it would be super cool if you make a tutorial about a reliable technique to make any synth sound in mind 🙏🙏🙏
You kinda touched on this, taking notes from tracks you like, I would take it a step further and put a reference track right in your daw. You now have a framework for arrangement and mixing levels and has helped me finish more music. This advice may be closer to the “beginner looking to move to intermediate” but is still something to keep in mind early on. Keep up the great work!
Absolutely, you have to have enough knowledge to know how to get there, which true beginners won’t have yet, good distinction. Beginners may find a reference track useful for arrangement purposes more than anything at that stage.
Yes working with a reference can be helpful. The only downside is that very often the arrangement, the sound design, the mix all cross-influence each other and if one component in your track doesn’t fit into that puzzle, it might just not work. That being said, I think it’s super useful to analyze and learn from reference tracks!
Thank you for all the valuable info. Do I need my headphones to go through an audio card if I am producing mostly in my headphones? I have the DT 990 Pro ones.
Thanks for short but clear and concise video about starting out . Maybe its not popular, but nowadays I`ll start with any touchscreen laptop or monitor with two main reason , enjoyable to work or jamming around anywhere you want , and in some cases minimizing the need to invest on bigger DAW or midi controller . Pairing with handy or cheap touch screen pen , it should make your experiences to make music more fun and good for our hand health
Despite it's not a "must-have" I think it's terrible advice to flag music theory as something "you don't need", therefore encouraging newbies not to care about music theory. I think everyone should learn at least basic music theory, not necessarily before they start (would be ideal though) but at least they should learn as they learn how to compose and produce.
@@TonyCooMusic-m5c well nowadays there are these melody and chord progressions generators, I'm more concerned about those... But yes, just as you say not knowing music theory leaves its mark behind
I think having music theory knowledge beforehand is akin to reading a car’s owners manual cover to cover for a new car before even touching the car. If you get hands on experience you learn all the things that are obvious to you. Then if you go and read the manual, you find out all the little features and things that weren’t obvious, and it’s much more stimulating because you have the real world experience and context for it. Music theory is much easier and motivating to learn once you’ve been playing with making music first, because it helps you focus on things that weren’t obvious to you from hands on experience. A lot of theory is so abstract it’s hard to comprehend without context.
@@Shorties252 I agree with most you say but in the end if you are only gonna produce popular music the music theory you need to learn is a tiny fraction of it. So my comment wasn't like "spend years studying music theory before even making a single 8 bar loop", thats what I said it would be nice to know some basic things before getting started but if it's not the case, people should dedicate time to learning music theory as they learn to compose and produce
Just in Case Vs Just un Time information... Man ..that was a game changer information.. I realized it like a month or two ago only..and I wish I had known it earlier. I've procrastinated for months by watching tutorials and not actually following up. Now I try to work on my music and whenever I'm stuck I watch tutorials. Great video bro. I've not only subscribed but also turned on the bell notification, which I rarely do. Keep these videos coming ❤
Great video, I have always been interested in, how producers get all the individual elements of a song to sound present.. For example low end, kick drum, bass and overall separation of indivdual instruments, working together and not a just a wall of sound...
The edm prod and PML courses I would recommend because it teaches you all the steps it takes to start and finish a song. Sonic academy is also good for the value.
For me has been the type of style of music to create. I like a lot of style EDM, Techno, Trance, Drum and Bass etc... I don't know the elements needed for each style of music. It would be great if I got an understanding of that first. I may feel more confidence creating music. 😊
As far as mics are concerned, if you're working in a room without acoustic treatment, get a dynamic microphone. The SM57 is inexpensive, doesn't need to be babied, and sounds great on whatever you stick it in front of with very little fuss. There's a reason it's the most widely-used studio dynamic mic for god knows how long.
SM57 is great, especially for very loud instruments. For vocals, an SM7b with something like a cloudlifter to improve the signal to noise ratio is a good option.
Thanks, my dude. I don't care about making this music, but if I did, I would definitely take your advice. This makes sense again. Thank you very informative
What do you suggest that we can do when we don't recognise problems as problematic or we are unable to put into words what the problem is? Since I stumbled upon your channel, it has helped me identify A LOT of problems that I didn't know where problematic until you demonstrated the problem and the way to avoid running into these problems alltogether
I think that’s pretty much the definition of a “blind spot” aka you don’t know what you don’t know. So I think the wise thing to do is a) accept the fact that this is part of the journey and b) watch out for resources and mentors who help you uncover blind spots. I think that’s what you’re doing already. The difficult part is to adopt a mindset of “I’ll trust the process and I’m at peace with it even if it feels like I’m making no progress at times”.
Thanks so much, that means a lot! I've noted your comment in my database for new video ideas, that's an awesome topic that a lot of people struggle with.
Hey! Recently found your channel, and it's awesome. Just an idea for a series for you. I'm a game composer, mostly with expertise on orchestral stuff. I want to expand into electronic music not necessarily to expand into genre but more as a means to expand into idiom and tecunoques. That being said, from a learning perspective, I'd love a 101 series of the most fundamenal edm genres because theres like 1,000 genres, and it just feels overwhelming to even contrmplate becoming versed in these idioms. I may be wrong, but I feel that maybe by learning some of the first genres in the chronology of edm history would probably expose one to the most common or recurring aspects in terms of arrangement, sound design mindset, and mixing techniques concepts.
Can you make a video on staying consistent? Especially, when one sees the result and feels down by looking at the quality of music..and doesn't feel like working on more music... And instead of making more songs just procrastinating by filling more and more information from UA-cam, some of which is hardly relevant
No, the hardest thing is that people are getting into "music production" (I wouldn't call it that) when they are simply not capable or creative or artistic enough to make something. they shouldn't even try. So all that bullshit about get this, get that, get ready, blah blah blah, if you brain is not made for it, people are going to laugh at you. Again dont even try it, do something else, listen to the real artists. It is also too late if you start when you are in your 20s. At 6 I was already learning music.
@gamerturniton3081 bullshit go back to your game. If people want to try and get creative it's good. What you were an expert when u started at 6. No you were banging on a xylophone with a hammer
I feel you! Tbh, great music can be made even with the Ableton Notes App and some earbuds. If the emotion is there, you got it. But that doesn’t mean it’s fair play. Still, let’s all do what we can to make the best out of what we’re having already. I’m rooting for you! 🙌🏻
@@pickyourselfofficialunfortunately Ableton notes is only available for iOS, you could get a MacBook for the price of an iphone here 😂 I actually started out making music on my Android then finally got a laptop to expand into Ableton, it just feels like there are many obstacles but hey step by step I guess. Also your Ableton videos are very helpful!❤️
As soon as you said "this video will teach you how to go from not knowing what the acronym DAW means to being able to release whole entire songs in weeks", with the personal and general common sense perspective that it takes years and years to hone the craft and there are so many things you need to learn before you can actually call yourself anything close to a professional musician, definitely a red flag. I watch it, pretty much just ads for a bunch of plugins that aren't necessary and definitely aren't game changes, won't turn you into a super user of FL studio or whatever other DAW a couple of weeks, but will maybe, get you some Adsense and some referral link money. Bad video bro.
FREE GUIDE - The Finisher Framework: pickyourself.com/framework/
Been doing this since 1998. If you buy RME, you buy for life. Simple as that. But Audient are a very solid budget choice. This is a good video that covers all the basics, well done.
My one piece of advice to newbies would be: perfect is the enemy of good.
Well said! You're SO RIGHT about perfectionism.
Motu is also a brand that is in it for the long run
What basic set up do you recommend?
Also budget friendly
Thank you Philip!
And all the people reading this, I recommend all of you to give this video a like for providing a clear and concise guideline for beginner producers, and subscribe to his channel for getting more valuable information in the future in your production journey! 😊
Thanks Alice for all the great tips you’ve provided to the scene for so many years. Your success is well deserved and I keep recommending you online and offline 🙌🏻💯
Appreciate the shoutout 😁🙌
Well deserved, Oscar :) Virtual high-five 💯🙌🏻
I loved the shout out, you absolutely deserve it as you were the reason why I bought Ableton Live, and switched over from learning on Logic.
Your "Finisher Framework" helped me to unstuck. It was a missing piece for the systematic approach to making music that I failed to figure out on my own. Thank you very much.
That means a lot, thank you for sharing this!
It blew my mind when i watched this one simply because, believe or not, i only follow your channel along with underdog and mercurial tones as my main source of truth in electronic music production. You just validated my intuition so thanks for being open and honest about it ☺
Truth to be told, i am a big fan of your Prolific Producer course and still following it at the moment, keep up the good work and paving the way for us upcoming electronic music producers out there! 💪
As a small suggestion for upcoming videos, i think it would be super cool if you make a tutorial about a reliable technique to make any synth sound in mind 🙏🙏🙏
Haha nice one! 💯🙌🏻🚀 So good to see you inside the course. I’m watching your progress and I’m really curious to see where it will take you!
You kinda touched on this, taking notes from tracks you like, I would take it a step further and put a reference track right in your daw. You now have a framework for arrangement and mixing levels and has helped me finish more music. This advice may be closer to the “beginner looking to move to intermediate” but is still something to keep in mind early on. Keep up the great work!
Except when the mastered reference track sounds sooooooo good to your ears that nothing you can do sounds close. Then it all becomes frustrating
Absolutely, you have to have enough knowledge to know how to get there, which true beginners won’t have yet, good distinction. Beginners may find a reference track useful for arrangement purposes more than anything at that stage.
Yes working with a reference can be helpful. The only downside is that very often the arrangement, the sound design, the mix all cross-influence each other and if one component in your track doesn’t fit into that puzzle, it might just not work. That being said, I think it’s super useful to analyze and learn from reference tracks!
Thanks for the video. Do you have a link to your production credits?
Thank you for all the valuable info. Do I need my headphones to go through an audio card if I am producing mostly in my headphones? I have the DT 990 Pro ones.
Thanks for short but clear and concise video about starting out . Maybe its not popular, but nowadays I`ll start with any touchscreen laptop or monitor with two main reason , enjoyable to work or jamming around anywhere you want , and in some cases minimizing the need to invest on bigger DAW or midi controller . Pairing with handy or cheap touch screen pen , it should make your experiences to make music more fun and good for our hand health
Despite it's not a "must-have" I think it's terrible advice to flag music theory as something "you don't need", therefore encouraging newbies not to care about music theory. I think everyone should learn at least basic music theory, not necessarily before they start (would be ideal though) but at least they should learn as they learn how to compose and produce.
To avoid any confusion: what I was trying to say was that it’s not a prerequisite for getting started. Hope that’s now clarified :)
You can always tell when listening to a track that was wrote by somebody without theory knowledge
@@TonyCooMusic-m5c well nowadays there are these melody and chord progressions generators, I'm more concerned about those... But yes, just as you say not knowing music theory leaves its mark behind
I think having music theory knowledge beforehand is akin to reading a car’s owners manual cover to cover for a new car before even touching the car. If you get hands on experience you learn all the things that are obvious to you. Then if you go and read the manual, you find out all the little features and things that weren’t obvious, and it’s much more stimulating because you have the real world experience and context for it. Music theory is much easier and motivating to learn once you’ve been playing with making music first, because it helps you focus on things that weren’t obvious to you from hands on experience. A lot of theory is so abstract it’s hard to comprehend without context.
@@Shorties252 I agree with most you say but in the end if you are only gonna produce popular music the music theory you need to learn is a tiny fraction of it. So my comment wasn't like "spend years studying music theory before even making a single 8 bar loop", thats what I said it would be nice to know some basic things before getting started but if it's not the case, people should dedicate time to learning music theory as they learn to compose and produce
Just in Case Vs Just un Time information... Man ..that was a game changer information.. I realized it like a month or two ago only..and I wish I had known it earlier. I've procrastinated for months by watching tutorials and not actually following up.
Now I try to work on my music and whenever I'm stuck I watch tutorials.
Great video bro. I've not only subscribed but also turned on the bell notification, which I rarely do.
Keep these videos coming ❤
That means a lot, thanks so much for your thoughtful comment!
Can u sometime talk about establishing a music label? Do you have some knowledge on this, or from talking to ppl who has one, etc? Thx
Might bring on someone who does. Great idea, noted!
Huge fan of you alice and oscar so it was nice to see them getting shouted out. Found you the most recently, and it makes sense! You’re awesome
@@marcocaipo8913 that means the world to me, thank you!
Great video, I have always been interested in, how producers get all the individual elements of a song to sound present..
For example low end, kick drum, bass and overall separation of indivdual instruments, working together and not a just a wall of sound...
The edm prod and PML courses I would recommend because it teaches you all the steps it takes to start and finish a song. Sonic academy is also good for the value.
These loops when starting out, how long? 1 bar, 4, 8?
For me has been the type of style of music to create. I like a lot of style EDM, Techno, Trance, Drum and Bass etc... I don't know the elements needed for each style of music. It would be great if I got an understanding of that first. I may feel more confidence creating music. 😊
As far as mics are concerned, if you're working in a room without acoustic treatment, get a dynamic microphone. The SM57 is inexpensive, doesn't need to be babied, and sounds great on whatever you stick it in front of with very little fuss. There's a reason it's the most widely-used studio dynamic mic for god knows how long.
SM57 is great, especially for very loud instruments. For vocals, an SM7b with something like a cloudlifter to improve the signal to noise ratio is a good option.
Thanks, my dude. I don't care about making this music, but if I did, I would definitely take your advice. This makes sense again. Thank you very informative
What do you suggest that we can do when we don't recognise problems as problematic or we are unable to put into words what the problem is? Since I stumbled upon your channel, it has helped me identify A LOT of problems that I didn't know where problematic until you demonstrated the problem and the way to avoid running into these problems alltogether
I think that’s pretty much the definition of a “blind spot” aka you don’t know what you don’t know. So I think the wise thing to do is a) accept the fact that this is part of the journey and b) watch out for resources and mentors who help you uncover blind spots. I think that’s what you’re doing already. The difficult part is to adopt a mindset of “I’ll trust the process and I’m at peace with it even if it feels like I’m making no progress at times”.
I would like to get ever closer to producing the (somehow exact) sounds that are in my head 😁 awesome video either ways, thanks for posting !
Thanks so much, that means a lot! I've noted your comment in my database for new video ideas, that's an awesome topic that a lot of people struggle with.
@@pickyourselfofficial Thanks for turning this (potential) issue into a video, means a lot 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hey! Recently found your channel, and it's awesome. Just an idea for a series for you.
I'm a game composer, mostly with expertise on orchestral stuff. I want to expand into electronic music not necessarily to expand into genre but more as a means to expand into idiom and tecunoques. That being said, from a learning perspective, I'd love a 101 series of the most fundamenal edm genres because theres like 1,000 genres, and it just feels overwhelming to even contrmplate becoming versed in these idioms. I may be wrong, but I feel that maybe by learning some of the first genres in the chronology of edm history would probably expose one to the most common or recurring aspects in terms of arrangement, sound design mindset, and mixing techniques concepts.
Great idea, I might do that for Techno and House, those are the genres I’m most familiar with. Maybe I’ll bring on a friend for something like dnb
I struggle with arrangement decision making and just finishing tracks relatively quickly
Great tips brother. Your vids have been so helpful so far
Thanks so much, that’s great to hear!
Great tutorial... Hmm, using a vocoder is something I struggle with, lots of fiddling around and not knowing why it still sounds bad.
Thanks for sharing this video!
Glad it was helpful :)
Can you make a video on staying consistent?
Especially, when one sees the result and feels down by looking at the quality of music..and doesn't feel like working on more music... And instead of making more songs just procrastinating by filling more and more information from UA-cam, some of which is hardly relevant
Yes, that’s an awesome suggestion. Noted!
Audio interface focusrite
DAW
Condenser microphone
Xlf cable
Pop filter
High quality head phones
The hardest bit is getting anyone to listen
I might put out a few videos on that as well :)
No, the hardest thing is that people are getting into "music production" (I wouldn't call it that) when they are simply not capable or creative or artistic enough to make something. they shouldn't even try. So all that bullshit about get this, get that, get ready, blah blah blah, if you brain is not made for it, people are going to laugh at you. Again dont even try it, do something else, listen to the real artists. It is also too late if you start when you are in your 20s. At 6 I was already learning music.
@gamerturniton3081 bullshit go back to your game. If people want to try and get creative it's good. What you were an expert when u started at 6. No you were banging on a xylophone with a hammer
THANK YOUI THANK YOU THANK YOU
melodies for techno music
Great shoutout for the Oscar The Great.
These are just tips that are regurgitated each year in each video on UA-cam.
great tip! but instead of just telling, how about showing it too
Simply go through the catalog of tutorials on the channel ;) this one is kind of an overview/ introduction
😭 Third world producers skipping the gear part >>>>
I feel you! Tbh, great music can be made even with the Ableton Notes App and some earbuds. If the emotion is there, you got it. But that doesn’t mean it’s fair play. Still, let’s all do what we can to make the best out of what we’re having already. I’m rooting for you! 🙌🏻
@@pickyourselfofficialunfortunately Ableton notes is only available for iOS, you could get a MacBook for the price of an iphone here 😂 I actually started out making music on my Android then finally got a laptop to expand into Ableton, it just feels like there are many obstacles but hey step by step I guess. Also your Ableton videos are very helpful!❤️
This is purely just a bunch of ads.
This is for people who literally have nothing and are starting at square one. You can't just make music in your mind for free.
LOL
As soon as you said "this video will teach you how to go from not knowing what the acronym DAW means to being able to release whole entire songs in weeks", with the personal and general common sense perspective that it takes years and years to hone the craft and there are so many things you need to learn before you can actually call yourself anything close to a professional musician, definitely a red flag. I watch it, pretty much just ads for a bunch of plugins that aren't necessary and definitely aren't game changes, won't turn you into a super user of FL studio or whatever other DAW a couple of weeks, but will maybe, get you some Adsense and some referral link money. Bad video bro.