ZEDD: MUSIC PRODUCTION FEEDBACK & TIPS (& Why You Shouldn't be Avicii) [Twitch]

[@SolStateMusic]

Huge Thanks To ZEDD: www.twitch.tv/zedd TIMESTAMPS Intro - 0:00 Vocal Tricks & "Close Eyes" Test - 00:35 Make The Best Music Possible (Smash The Like Button) - 1:30 Don't be Avicii - 2:38 Career Advice - 3:57 Bass Trick - 4:32 Snare Mini-Class - 6:26 Publishing - 10:02 Favorite Plugins - 10:31 There Is No Right and Wrong (Duda Story) - 11:55 Why Zedd Rarely Collabs - 12:49 Follow Your Heart, Stay Excited - 13:26 Subscribe For More - 15:07

[@Finda5]

you misspelled avicii 😁

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks! Fixing...

Avicii's legacy will never be outdated just do it with your own touch guys, like what kygo or martin garrix do...

[@aintnostory]

they worked in the same genre but they dont sound like each other at all

[@sebastianvaldes9434]

@@aintnostory not true kygos music does sound like tims garrix also but yes not always

[@enlightenedsoul8897]

@@SteliosMusic Wrong, so wrong. Martin Garrix and Kygo do not sound outdated

[@Arcessitor]

@@SteliosMusic And that his production was usually acceptable. Martin's are ear-bleedingly bad and always have been.

[@Arcessitor]

@@enlightenedsoul8897 Bruh, Wizard and Animals, with the benefit of hindsight, sound like nail on a chalkboard. They sounded bad even for the time, now you would be embarrassed to have that be your record.

[@HowardCharlesUK]

That transient on your bass tip is a gamechanger

[@SolStateMusic]

Ya! Good luck with it!

[@cubictony]

I've been so worried about how I design my instruments, but hearing Zedd say that presets can be enough is just the advice I never knew I needed. Thanks!

[@SolStateMusic]

Great to hear! Happy music making

[@nbtph9769]

I mean Avicii hardly do any sounds design, he mostly use prestes and loops and still make some banger songs. Its all comes down to how you use those sounds.

[@officialwintur]

Honestly,your goal should be to make good music.If you used a preset the fan of the song isnt going to notice or care.

[@adirsab]

depend on the genre

[@Woodlediedoo]

Hey man, I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU. I have a full time job and don't have time to follow all these streams, even though I would love to do it. Your content is incredibly organised, looks slick and helps a lot of people. So thanks from the bottom of my heart.

[@SolStateMusic]

Aw thank you! Appreciate the kind words. Glad it helps you and thanks for your support! More videos on the way...

[@Woodlediedoo]

@@SolStateMusic Awesome!! Can't wait, keep up the great work man.

[@rachel_rexxx]

Thanks for cutting this together

[@SolStateMusic]

You're very welcome Rachel!

[@lanfrey]

Came from the subreddit. Glad I discovered you my man, as an avid follower of the Musical Streams youtube channel (an uncut and unfiltered source for the back catalog of many music production twitch streams). I always left timestamps and takeaways on that channel before bcs I feel like that's how you understand value. And I'm glad you're clearly getting value from this my man at the same time helping us out. Looking forward to more!

[@SolStateMusic]

Aw thanks! That's also a great channel. Totally agree, without timestamps a 2+ hr stream is really long. Appreciate your support

[@__-eu7wu]

same here lmoa!

[@arisstuffff]

If even *the* ZEDD calls your stuff generic, it's probably time to push yourself.

[@SolStateMusic]

Yup! No choice but to embrace reality when an expert says that.

[@heartstall]

@Southern Hemisphere yeah he peaked during the clarity days

[@LunicussOfficial]

@Southern Hemisphere Generic as fuck now, but back in the early days this dude was super innovative- that's why hes famous now

[@OYNG]

he pretty much pioneered his edm sound and made it mainstream, cant fault him for sticking to his sound

[@audiostuff9065]

Lol dumb dumbs, Zedd is only 'generic' because he invented that style of being generic. Everyone else copying him is generic. The dudes making what hes always been working towards. Thats like calling Skrillex generic for making a dubstep banger.

[@TheD3LAY]

Amazing video! Thanks for that. I love the way Zedd makes his music since I first listen to "Shave it up" back in the day. Great times...

[@SolStateMusic]

That was a TUNE

[@max6419]

Thank you soo much for editing this stuff, it's such a huge help for many people who want to learn and get better at music production!

[@SolStateMusic]

Regarding the Bass trick, Oliver mentioned to me "Don't think I've ever done that with my arp stuff but sometimes the hi-hats/perc can take care of the attack...Zedd knows his shit!"

[@shadabtanjeed]

is it Oliver Heldens he is talking about?

[@SolStateMusic]

@@shadabtanjeed No, it's this Oliver - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fICtXqRuoJ2bl9U

[@gusteeno]

You are an absolute legend! Another SUPER helpful (condensed) video. You've got a subscriber for life! Thank youuuuuu

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks Chris! Appreciate you and your support!

[@t_3m4l]

Props to zedd for the honesty here... It really helps us producers just looking for more experience and advice mixing

[@last_cadence]

I was pretty happy that he was able to listen to one of my songs too! Although its not EDM, he seemed to like it :)

[@itsotherjosh]

dude thanks to you and the youtube algorithm i now know zedd streams

[@guacnchips]

you’re a king for this

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks! Zedd certainly did his part too

[@poindextertunes]

the sound design comment was spot on 💯

[@SampritRaihan]

This is a fantastic compilation of tricks! Awesome to see my upcoming collab featured too. It's an honor!

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks for being part of the video!

[@oklol9004]

Zedd sped up sounds like a normal XQC video

[@hugokabonsen5049]

Thank you for summing up 8 hours of content i would have had to go through without you😅

[@SolStateMusic]

You're welcome! 15 min is a way better deal than 8 hours :)

[@AnymMusic]

love the streaming setup in the bedroom haha

[@manuelposadarodriguez7376]

love this as always brooooo

[@jaym2112]

I love the string of advice that starts with "don't listen to what other people say." This advice was followed up with "try to be unique, don't do [x]." Honestly, this "don't sound like this guy" or "it's not memorable or unique" ... "It sounds dated"... This is good feedback if someone is trying to be relevant to their peers. If they are trying to stand out and win the music popularity contest, that's solid advice. If you just want to make music you like and are just trying to make it as good as you can, it's shit advice. My tastes are way different than most. Maybe that one style from 15 years ago was my absolute favorite. The fact that some kid thinks it's irrelevant now IS irrelevant to me. Now, if it's of poor quality, that's different. That's valuable info. I think a goal of making music unique or memorable is understandable, but juvenile. Why? Because who decides? To what end? There are tons of songs that I remember and are terrible (how about a commercial jingle?). Unique? How about I bang on a bunch of shit in my kitchen. That'd be different, but would it be good? If you make stuff that you love and do it with passion, that may translate to others... It may not. There are a few songs I made that I love that I also never let anyone else hear. Why? Because I wrote them for me. They are a little odd, but sometimes the melody pops in my head randomly and I find myself humming it and tapping my toe. ... I should clarify... The feedback of "this sounds dated" or "like [someone else]" is useful. It may be irrelevant, but it is honest feedback, which is good. The "try to be unique" advice is a little weird to me. In my opinion, being UNIQUE or MEMORABLE should be the biproduct of some other goal, not a goal itself.

[@MarkDLion]

Many people missed the first tip, how to relax if you are doing a stressful mix.

[@antonellomascarello4698]

Amazing musician/producer. Love your music !!!

[@johnalmirante6590]

Man thanks for editing this way saves a lot of time .🥰🥰😀 love to you 💕 ❤ Very inspirational

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks John! Appreciate your kind words. Happy music making

[@daaoraavida]

Just discovered this channel, ty for the uploads

[@SolStateMusic]

Awesome, thank you for your support!

[@Cesar_73_Jefe]

Nice interview Zedd and i agree..

[@ZKMUSIQUE]

thanks for the video, i really need a lot of music production advice

[@musicsamples-electronicdan9717]

Wonderful Job, great featuring 💓 😄

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed

[@rohinagrawal9727]

awesome, this was much better than my reddit post!

[@SolStateMusic]

This wouldn't exist with YOUR post :)

[@rohinagrawal9727]

@@SolStateMusic 😀

[@Melanholix]

Noice job editing this!

[@SolStateMusic]

Thank you!

[@gigachadd_slu]

U're the best!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@SolStateMusic]

Hey again Chadd! Appreciate you

[@djcj]

Thank u for this wow

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks for watching, glad it helps

[@gabspada1245]

i don't agree with zedd saying that it sounds outdated. there are a lot of people who really are looking for new stuff like that to be put out by new artists, like a new "golden era-inspired" edm. the misconception of "if it sounds similar to avicii/old edm/etc, it can't be good" is really ruining our music, i don't like spinnin records now for example, it's shit, and it's because big artists are shitting on smaller artists doing their favourite sounds and on their songs. be creative, be the best version of yourself, and don't be scared of making songs that zedd won't like. that's how we will resurrect this genre, big artists already did their thing, now it's our turn

[@daxnait]

Hello , i hope your understand my spanish, I agree and disagree at the same time, on the one hand I agree that if you are looking to do something where many people recognize you or create a new "hit" it is best to sound in your style, but I disagree with Zedd at the same time because many and I even like the "Golden Age of EDM" style, so I don't see anything wrong with doing that, but, as he says, it will sound like Avicii, Martin Garrix, Afrojack.

[@gabspada1245]

@@daxnait you're absolutely right, by the way i talk spanish too

[@daxnait]

@@gabspada1245 Where Are You From?

[@biggradeentertainment9427]

this channel is amazing

[@MrBurnyC]

Your videos are so good!

[@SolStateMusic]

Thank you! Certainly helps having Zedd and other great artists share secrets

[@evanthorn5089]

He is right. It’s about good songs.

[@jamesreidngbicol]

Legend

[@vegetarianfoodberlin3057]

Omg finally!

[@SolStateMusic]

Yes! Better late than never

[@user-qz6sc6hz7t]

This was a great vid

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks! Glad it helped ya

[@aichi337]

How do I become as successful as Zedd in all areas of life?

[@mileezy]

Awesome channel, you should do one with Chris Lake next

[@SolStateMusic]

haha didn't realize he was streaming! Just subbed so let's hope I find something good.

[@misterrockster]

Your channel will blow up

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks! Hope so, that will allow way more great content!

[@OverdriveMusic]

I love Zedd, but enough of the clock ticking please. Every single song has it!

[@shantanusrivastava9744]

Every song has a kick too

[@teknikvlt]

@@shantanusrivastava9744 bruuh

[@ISOwav]

Bruh I was listening to this in the background and then had to go searching for a rouge chrome tab playing valorant content, and then realized zedd was just playing valorant lol

[@OUTSHADES]

I want to join his discord server

[@martinfernandez4467]

Awesome

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks Martin! What was your fav tip?

[@martinfernandez4467]

@@SolStateMusic The bass trick

[@SolStateMusic]

@@martinfernandez4467 Cool, 909 snares can work well for that :)

[@theostene4444]

Can I get an invite to his discord?

[@shaboogen]

You need a Patreon mate. You go to so much effort to aggregate this content for people.

[@SolStateMusic]

Have thought about it, maybe at some point in future.

[@samwu1836]

Wait, he was lactating at the start? No wonder his music is so milky and creamy. Hmm, ZEDD's milk.

[@TheDamnation12]

Bruh..

[@jaym2112]

1:48 Sometimes when people ask, "how do I make this sound," some primadonna jumps in and retorts: "why don't you make your own sound [like a real musician]?" As if someone's not a real guitarist if they don't chop the tree down and fashion it themselves. I thought Eric Clapton was a good musician. Turns out, he's a big phony, and Fender is the real deal. Obviously, in the infinitely adjustable electronic music arena, a person's claim to fame or genius might be in their sound design/choices, and not copying the sound of others would be preferred. But some people get way to wrapped up about it.

[@zeddslavskigarritsen]

I wanna get my music heard by him....Please, I want that Discord servers link...

[@djovercut]

I lost some respect for some of Zedd's work when he was producing stuff just to make money but wasn't really his style. However, I just gained respect for Zedd for using IRC hahaha.

[@mvrc74]

How ironic when he says be original when it comes to your music and yet I remember when he tried to copy The Chainsmokers' "Closer" style in his track "Stay". After the True Colors album, Zedd's song were 90% sounded like everyone else in the industry.

[@RedMotionMusic]

True Maybe he had to do The Chainsmokers like style because of business

[@FNTZY_Music]

BEST INTRO EVER HAHAHAHA

[@karlonehouserecords]

Chaces to get noticed by a wide public are 0,000000000001%. I think you need to be yourself and pararell also be like somebody else. And one more thing: currently we are at the top of technical sound design. There will be no better synt with mystery oscilator or another magic plugin. In the result we all will be like Avicii and others. But I agree we have to put our hearts in to our music. When I create a track and I have goosebumbs that mean I love it and this is what I was looking for but I couldnt find among others. And that is why I've started creating my own music. I could listen do YT all the time but barely I could find 15 songs that I liked within every 3 months.

[@movement6514]

Zedd wasnt able to be an avicii, easily said :)

[@g.o.9513]

Wow, an AKG C414 microphone for live-streaming.... ($1,000+ microphone).

[@squishrabbit]

Zedd's big trick is taking other people's music and taking credit for it

[@gd_xl]

This is awesome, he’s no up front with his critiques

[@SolStateMusic]

Really? he seems pretty honest to me

[@Fox_is_Fox]

You are so good, thank you for your input! here's mine. Your jazzy weird chords in "Good thing" are the culprit of your label's deception, the song actually stops there. Your tracks "the middle", "Clarity" and "Starving" are simply brilliant! but "inside out" (probably more personal) is just an bad song ;-) ... and Your house is too expensive buddy lol (think property taxes!!!!)

[@Rexalt]

Too many ads for content that isn't yours. Otherwise thanks for the upload.

[@Gordonhermederme]

Songwriting > Sound Design

[@zorawar1560]

If u don't know sound desgin..man u will be always a normal producer...

[@uriels4097]

Completly disagree with me about presets. Imagine producers only used presets, electronic music Will ne the most generic and boring sh!t ever kinda like pop

[@SolStateMusic]

Personally, I love presets. If you want to embrace innovation and push the genre forward through sound design, that's cool too.

[@AyItsJames]

I don't think that's what he's saying nor is endorsed within the producer community- Rather than designing sound from scratch, finding a preset that hits the general idea and tweaking to your tastes saves time. There's no need to program a sound from the oscillator up. Add or take away harmonics and vary a preset to make it your own.

[@_luni_2834]

I mean, if the composition is pretty tight, ill let that pass

[@Vincent-Vega24]

Or just wait until another producer sends you an already fire ass song, bitch about who sang the demo, make 100 people sing it, then use someone that sounds exactly like the girl that sang it the first time. Then tell the whole world that you done every note in the song and never tell exactly who really produced the song. Just ask Porter Robinson....... Just Sayin the truth.........

[@stephenjimenez6129]

Thanks for the good info. Presently music is becoming more n more artificial, yeah, and all this ‘ducking’, (side-chaining), sounds like n AGC on a consumer-cam-corder-mic with that annoying ‘breathing’. It’s like this stylistic trendy technique is sucking the soul out of music. It’s like the obnoxious trend with ‘metal’, where every measure must be jack-hammered with frenetic double-bass blasts, that robbed the music of dynamics and nuance. Present pop to me sounds like it’s a cookie-cutter facsimile of every other song out there until the song is no more than a corporate advertising meme.

[@SolStateMusic]

Thanks for watching. Guy from Disclosure had something cool to say about this. He said more and more he's looking for character in records, not perfection.

[@olli2591]

He tried hard not to openly diss Avicii lol. Aviciis productions were very clean and he perfected this style, but his songwriting was pretty boring from a musical standpoint. Ofc you can't say that openly to an EDM mainstream audience lol.

[@SwaggyPie]

How was his songwriting boring from a "musical standpoint"? I personally, can't think of any dance music producer whose songwriting is more interesting. Would be interested in hearing your view on this, since I've never heard anyone say that before.

[@sebastianvaldes9434]

lol aviciis music was the most interesting edm piece ratheer than those one note drop bullshit

[@Iamfeelzmusic]

If only Zedd actually made his hits.

[@paul_nthny]

Ah yes if i use samples from Singular Sounds it must also mean that Grey ghost produced my tracks amirite

[@Iamfeelzmusic]

@@paul_nthny you sound dumb the track was made by monsters and strangers a group along with a songwriter they worked with on the track. You can literally google it so you don’t sound dumb.

[@ayushroy9066]

Zedd 32 years old net worth of 44 million dollars .avicii dia at the age of 28 retired at the age of 26 net worth of 85 million dollars . Zeed , avicii is way far better than you I think u heard wake me up. Hey brother and his album true

[@SolStateMusic]

Just to be clear no disrespect to Avicii. The point was be unique.

[@karnsandhu]

judging someone on how much money they have!!nice

[@ayushroy9066]

@@karnsandhu thanks ,bye the way I am not angry with ur comment lol 😂😂😂😂😂.

[@karnsandhu]

@@ayushroy9066 👍♥️

[@kaizen5415]

13:27 I wish i still had that ol' Zedd advice video from like 10 years ago that the original uploader removed🤔 where bro asked him for advice to get on..& Zedd said to do pop remixes..as he did for Skrillex..Lady Gaga..etc. that's the same tactic as tryna remix artists that get pushed by the algorithm..but a few million$ later..he's above it🙄 but he also surely mashed up acraze x squid game to get the algorithn push..and it worked sooo..he proved my point yea when youre pretty much retired like Zedd..you can just 'follow your heart' and create passion projects for fun🙄

[@dhpstudios2009]

, just a question, what is your official email adres, the one onthe site doesn’t work