this is my 9th consecutively watched video

I think am gonna unsubscribe to this channel. The only thing this is is a an ad for the academy. KZbin is filled with producers who have great free advice and guidance. So yeah it was nice being a part of this channel but I'm out.

thank you sir

Thanks so much. I bought soothe2 a while ago and have just been using it on vocals. Your explanation has made me understand that i can use it on everything i need, mono and side and only where it needs it. Really interesting cheers

Mr Smiles

I'm so chronicly online that "kick and bass" sounds like some kind of word play on "cock and balls" now

buddy made a big ass ad for his shitty course

Late 90s and early 2000s was the sweet spot. I would argue that EDM is definitely falling off. You can’t really use EDC, or Coachella as the measuring stick. Those have actually become pretty mainstream, and have lineups that include genres outside of EDM. The true measurement is in how many local shows are available now. I live in San Francisco, and it used to be a Mecca for EDM. All those little clubs have now closed. The scene today is nothing like it was back then.

I just want to comment: Thank you!

In my opinion this guy is talking nonsense. He says, "if you can't get signed to a good label, just make better music or build a better brand (by purchasing our course)." In every genre there are a few good labels and the rest are garbage. Labels are run by other producers and sometimes all they do is upload track to streaming services and stores. You talk about your data that self-releasing doesn't do the numbers, but you don't understand the data. Nobody is listening to this music not because it was released independently. It is not listened because it is bad and it is not promoted. If you can release music on a decent label, do it. But if you only get poor offers from labels that do not promote their products - self-publish. You'll learn a lot about the industry.

Thanks for pointing out the difference between static and dynamic issues. This was a concept I kind of understood subconsciously, so it's good to have words for that concept. I will check out The Masker!

What a tutorial! Thnx Zack!

Too bad I still use massive lol

oh my god i did not know pro-Q lets you do the mono/side thing but that is a life changer. i have always had to do a bunch of annoying splits and routing to get the same thing. unbelievable how much time that will save lmao

Outstanding

Trackspacer is a good cheap plugin for the use cases detailed in your video; it's a dynamic EQ focused exclusively around sidechaining, and it's capable of mid/side processing. I think it generally sells for about 40 euros (at the very least that's the sale price). I owned it for a few years, and admittedly I neglected it for a while, then a buddy of mine who does professional music studio work talked about how it's one of those perfect 'don't work too hard' tools. I've been using it religiously since and it seldom fails.

But surely... if the vocal is "in the middle" it actually means it's equally coming out of both sides... unless we're mixing in X.1 surround sound now.

Rick is spot-on; been saying pretty much the same thing for decades. This is why I laugh when people refer to every music-maker as "an artist". Art, as classically defined, is pretty much dead. So many refuse to understand it; truth often devastates the ego.

Do i have a bad name?

说的太棒了！我看完之后哭了..... 我是来自中国的电子音乐制作人，中国现在的电子音乐环境真的很差，受制于经济下行和文化发展保守电子音乐在中国一直都是小众的存在，不过近些年随着年轻一代的崛起电子音乐行业开始逐渐有了生机！我会女里加油的！为国语电音崛起而努力！

The motivational epic music 🥹

Young producer here and Im hella confused of how this all works...i just wanna start a type beat channel and post my beats and earn from yt as a side

I can't get the link to the project guys

I dont think mono and stereo are that separated. Both stereo and mono are played back with the same physical speakers. Lets say only your left speaker works, you wouldn't hear any stereo. But it would still play your stereo sounds, just the "left side" of the stereo. So basically your stereo and mono are still competing for space. The whole concept of what stereo is, is not different from mono. Stereo is created through different methods, sometimes delay, sometime detune etc. It's still a sound signal that is being played by the same speaker as the mono signal.

Crazy thing is someone was telling me about dynamic mixing just today

Wouldn't you instead set up Soothe 2 on the synth and sidechain the vocals there so that anytime the vocals play, the synth will duck? I got confused when you said to add Soothe to the vocal main and enable sidechain there. Are you sending the synth to the vocal sidechain?

Can I have the remix used in this video? "Say it Right" Thanks :)

This was great! I also may have gotten lost in your eyes. Blink damn it! 😆

People always say Martin Garrix is an outlier in the way that he went straight to the top. But what people see to forget is that he had been producing almost ten years when he released Animals at 17. He says what inspired him to start was Tiësto performing at the 2004 Olympics. Animals was released in 2014. We all love his music now, it just takes time.

I've been making music for longer than I'd like to admit in this comment and never knew this! Thank you! Subscribed

Amazing and I’d totally use soothe 2 for that if it wasnt’ such a processor hog (rightfully so though) my 2019 MacBook Pro can’t handle more than like 2-3 instances 😂. Wish i could run soothe 2 in side chain on nearly every track though that plugin is freaking magical! Another trick i do is side chaining compressing certain instruments out of the way as a ducker (say lead guitar when the vocal is present). In general though side chaining is freaking amazing and under utilized for solving issues. This is a very detailed version of it that you got going on and it’s smart. I may rework some of my side chains to dynamic EQs in my template. I’ve used it before for certain things but didn’t think to widen the scope to this.

It seems that The Masker link has trojans embedded

the sooth on the end is way overdone, theoretically its a goodplan. but it sound not so nice

Never really knew that works this way. Thank you for the explanation!

Thanks for the tip on the Italian site with the incredible free VSTs wish more people were like them and you! 😊

Getting loud is easy, just properly control and cut the low end, nothing else really needed.

even when I turn down the rand all the way. when I play the sub solo in a scope it shows it moving slightly every beat, how do I fix this

The first one is just a bulshit take 💀 When they say to "put things out there", they mean to get feedback, not to instantly get famous. The idea is that if you get feedback earlier, you can quickly advance as a producer, becoming better as you go on. And then you can look at those previous tracks to see how far you've come, usually in places where you're in self-doubt (such as a beat-block).

Just FYI, soothe is not an eq.

nice 🎉

This channel is inspiring.

Thank you, Vin Diesel very useful

Wow! I never knew this before viewing this video! Thanks for this awesome content!

5:45 Could you please explain how to make it work with the Masker and other plugins? If the paid plugin is out of our budget

Don't sign to labels. It might be right for some people, but if you want to keep all the rights and royalties to your music, you can promote your own stuff far more effectively and personally than if you went to a label. I know a few people who got screwed over by labels. Don't make the same mistake!

@TheCosmicAcademy You're not one of those "Tantr-eq Mix" gurus, I've heard about, are you? 👀😄

im finna go crazy on this rack fr

Great mixes don't need to be "balanced."

wow, this was an incredibly eye-opening tutorial. This is why I love youtube. This video randomly appeared on my feed, I watched it for a few minutes, and boom, it explained something I didn't know existed. Bravo, awesome job!

love your channel bro!! it sounds boring but i would love a video on how to organize plugins in ableton, as right now I have so many and it's just a mess to navigate. i’m sure i’m not the only one who feels this way too!!!