This Will Be Your Most Important Piece of Gear in 2025

[@HomeStudioCorner]

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[@timberserpent]

This is a fantastic video, just spicy enough to get the point across effectively. I’ve now got some time scheduled for recording and mixing in my calendar for the next four weeks. I use the calendar and reminders in my phone for all kinds of work related things, but this will be the first time I schedule time to work music. Makes sense, thanks for the advice.

[@HarleyPebley]

This is great advice and applicable to any creative endeavor, not just music. I'm reminded of the quote attributed to William Faulkner "I only write when I'm inspired. Fortunately, I'm inspired every morning at 9am." Peace!

[@wilkinsonmd1959]

Great video and advise. One addendum: schedule a goal ( a song, an album completion) and reward yourself for making your goal.

[@garrystubbs4891]

advice*

[@_p1tr1s_]

So I had this "vision" years ago of doing song covers and putting them on YT. I wanted to do a lot of songs, go check when I uploaded my last video 😆. I somehow have never thought of putting these recording seasons into my calendar, that's probably why I have only 2 videos on my channel. Thank you for this, I'll try my best in 2025.

[@yepyepmusic]

4:22 it is so important! I know this advice already but my brain probably feels uncomfortable with it so it tells me to just "go with the flow" which isn't working well.

[@2ql]

Dear Joe, Wishing you a joyous holiday season filled with peace, love, and happiness!🤗 I want to take a moment to thank you from the bottom of my heart for every KZbin tutorial you've shared. Your passion, knowledge, and dedication have made a meaningful impact on my journey, and I'm truly grateful for the inspiration and guidance you've provided.👌 May the New Year bring you endless creativity, success, and countless reasons to celebrate. Thank you for all that you do! Warmest holiday wishes💖

[@officialWWM]

Merry Christmas Joe!

[@yepyepmusic]

3:42 you right about most of us not implementing this advice I don't know why our brains tell us to just "go with the flow" but it probably makes things not better.

[@ReverendRaff]

OMG THIS! I have tried to get some people I've worked with over the years to get this in their head and they just go "nah we'll work on it until it's ready, then plan the release" and things just don't get finished.

[@KenGlasser]

Joe - thank you so much for all of your videos. I don't know how you manage to make them all but the ones I am able to watch are all very well done and very helpful. Looking forward to what you can teach me / us in 2025.

[@jessican.4027]

This is great and what I needed to hear. When you started to talk about scheduling an hour of learning and an hour for making, I was like yes!! I’ve been doing that since March and I’ve improved so much!

[@michaeltablet8577]

Thank you so very much! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@nicko5566]

Great video as always and excellent coaching!

[@我爱阿云嘎]

Thanks joe! Happy new year!

[@LukeIcardMusic]

I would like to add that purchasing a digital kitchen timer will definitely keep you focused

[@denniswitherspoonful]

Thanks 🙏🏾 Joe ! I really appreciate and needed this.

[@MikeFromDownUnder]

Thanks for sharing this! 👍 Love this! ❤️

[@leeforster1610]

Great Penny Drop video. Its like my wife told you to make this video for me. Lol The calender is getting filled out right now. Merry Christmas Lee

[@scottpike9009]

Thanks Joe.

[@eddiecanonge]

Hey first off been making music my entire life....finally released my first song today!!! Super stoked about it. I have 2 on the way. Out of all the producers i have learned the most from you. Thank you for real!! Second....i record things around 12 db's and then i will mix it to taste. Then when I mix down it's clipping. Its not though before that. I also use the limiter thing you taught w the k 14 and 6 db's. I cant get it louder than 14 Lufs before it sounds bad. It's so frustrating. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. It's literally so crazy I uploaded my first song and then you make this video. Thanks for the advice and like you said I just kinda was sick of wanting to make my own music for years and years and I just was sick of it. Much love people!!!

[@deobeatsmusic]

Great advice as always. Thank you 🙏 Making it a goal to release at least 10 of my own songs next year .

[@patrykdrabczyk8586]

Great Advice for those who takes it seriously!

[@Soapdish747]

i adore your Brighter Shores music, thanks!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

What’s Brighter Shores?

[@carmvecchio]

Nailed it...

[@PerryNunley]

Love This !

[@yepyepmusic]

2:25 I didn't release music and i still agree with you

[@yepyepmusic]

By release I mean using distributers to upload music to Spotify because I am uploading my music to SoundCloud

[@Tokolele]

Great video and advices. I finally gave myself a deadline few monthes ago and eventually released the first track of a project started 5 years ago.

[@yepyepmusic]

7:05 yeah that's because it's seperated sessions so your brain can process what you learn and make

[@yepyepmusic]

3:08 I'll be honest I'm not really good right now. Over time my music will be improved so I can't tell you an exact time. But when I'm gonna make music? Every day is a new day for music.

[@Oberkobold]

You're allowed to re-record songs! No one is stopping you

[@caglarongan]

yep, tough love

[@herbst1398]

my most important piece of gear - was - Studio one - now it´s my torrent client because you dont sell Studio one anymore - its just possible to rent this software - most ppl stop buying, you need to pay every year to get uptodate version. Thats bad ... No one need to buy this software - no problem brother!

[@jimmyswagot3572]

Thank i needed to eat it, and I'm going to start doing that.

[@jeremythornton433]

Although it was great to spend time with family, our spirits are very heavily dampened by the fact that we learned our 14 year old cat has only a few days left due to cancer. Cleo is a good cat.

[@Kristiansbrainn]

Plus vibe

[@BurntMcgurnt]

I e always wrote music but lately I've been doing things in phases instead of bouncing around like writing phase, pre production, full production and getting tones, recording and editing, and mixing and mastering just like the pro bands do haha

[@iain636]

Since when is a concert creative? Unless you're writing the songs in the moment on stage, a concert is all about practice, schedules, logistics, and rehearsals that go towards producing an expected sound. You can get creative with details (especially if it's a solo gig) but the bulk will be planned out in a professional setting. Am I wrong?

[@ronallen2458]

Not sure if you are a performer, but as a performer, you rely on your skill and creativity in every live show. I don't think it would be fulfilling for me otherwise. Musicians aren't machines; they are artists, and I think creativity, even on the 1000th performance of a song, is still needed. Also - some of the best live acts that I have seen, improvise in the moment on a number of songs when the creative urge hits them. Typically, new songs take shape in live performances as creativity strikes and most of the albums that I love have songs that have peaked creatively through scheduled performances before recording.

[@brajoco219]

Merry Xmas Joe 🎄 best wishes to you and all of your family 🤓

[@iain636]

​@@ronallen2458I'll be honest, I'm not convinced all musicians are artists. Some are artists (songwriters, producers) Some are technicians (session players) There is creativity in live performance but buy and large, that's not the core of what the audience want to hear, they want to hear their favourite songs played appropriately for the live setting and relatively faithful to the studio recording. At that point, the musicians on stage are simply fufilling a role and doing so with their own flair as needed. But, that creativity is not the same as songwriting, which can happen anywhere at anytime, and is a deeper process than just learning the chords, the melody and putting your own flavour on it. You can schedule a concert play a great concert. And you can schedule a songwriting session but there's no guarantee a great song will be written in that time.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Depends on how you define “creative” I guess. Music is being created at a concert. It’s not being INVENTED, but it’s certainly being created. Notes are being played. One minute there is no music, the next minute there IS music. Music was created, hence “creativity.”

[@herbst1398]

Dude - it´s just a commercial channel for old software the dont sell anymore - they rent this crap now - dont buy it and get a "real" DAW

[@grooveniks1872]

now i'm bummed on Christmas 😥

[@deobeatsmusic]

Pls can anyone help me? Studio one 7 keeps transforming my mono tracks to stereo when I transform to rendered audio

[@yepyepmusic]

4:32 But joe I don't have enough audience to make that promise to... What if I break it and now I'll break it everytime and it will be a vicious loop that is hard to end? That's a question i thought of

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Make the promise to yourself. If you can’t keep a promise to yourself, you don’t respect yourself, so you need to work on that.

[@Shloopers]

Fuck yeah dude

[@yepyepmusic]

What's a realistic amout of songs that msuicians release in a year?

[@Oberkobold]

Depends on your goals. First Of October writes and records an album in a single day ever year 😅

[@GapRecordingsNamibia]

So... You have a bit of clout with Presonus.... How about getting them to develop a Linux based version of Studio One, for those of us who do not like or want to support Billy the kid and his windows platform.... Now. I know someone is going to say that they have done so..... No. No they have not.... The newest release is only for developers... I dare you to go install it and mix on it... Once you are done come back and let me know how the experience was... I have no problem paying for an item, and I did buy studio one, twice, for two versions and love the product.... The OS's on which they choose to run it.... Not so much, hence, I am sitting with 2 paid versions which I can not use because the OS' have become..... Equally bad, shall I call it that? Anyway.... Would be nice to see studio come to Linux, because the software is really neat... But will not try it until they develop a version for Linux that does not require a bachelors degree to install. Thanks Joe, happy holidays...

[@HomeStudioCorner]

There is a Linux version.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Oh sorry I misread your post. No thanks. I don’t use Linux and have no plans to. Best of luck.