Let me ask you a couple of quick questions, and – please – be honest with yourself...
- Are you happy with the quality of your music?
- Do you struggle to get your ideas past the loop stage to a fully arranged track?
- Do you get frustrated that your music doesn't sound anywhere near as good as your favourite artists?
- Do you struggle to find the time to produce because of your family or work life?
- Do you spend hours watching Youtube videos, but your music never seems to improve?
- Does it give you a pang of envy when you see music producers travelling the world, playing gigs and making money?
Thought so...
Well, guess what? You're not alone.
I've been there, too. BIG time.
I – like you – started producing music in my bedroom out of the sheer passion for it. I downloaded a cracked version of Reason – then Ableton – and spent a lot of my free time glued to the screen.
It was great fun!
Experimenting – twiddling knobs and making stuff come out of the speakers. I knew it wasn't great, but I loved doing it! After all – that's what counts – right?
My parents and friends would politely listen, and be VERY kind with their feedback (edit: They lied to spare my feelings!).
BUT – after a couple of years of this – nothing was really happening and I was getting very frustrated and disillusioned.
I would start a new idea – get really excited about it – and then kind of lose steam as I didn't know what to do next, what to add, or what to remove.
(And that was even BEFORE I got to the mixing stage).
At that point!? Forget it!
Compressors, EQ, reverb, multi-band processing....I was picking stuff up from tutorials, throwing plugins on and just hoping for the best - which as often as not made it sound WORSE.
I realised that without any sort of real progress, the whole thing had started to become a chore – rather than fun (which was the whole reason I started!).
I would listen to my favourite producers at the time and wonder things like “Why don’t my tracks sound like that? What am I doing wrong?”
I tried desperately to achieve the same results by listening REALLY closely to their music – then cramming more and more elements into my songs; layering sounds and adding effects – but if anything it made them sound quieter and muddier!
I would then try the opposite; stripping everything back, slapping a limiter on the master channel and pushing it to the max – just trying to get close to that professional sound. (If you’ve tried that, you’ll know it doesn’t end well!)
I became so exasperated I even completely gave up several times – I even sold all my kit several times (and then bought it back!).
I was broken.
But something always pulled me back. That love for the music that I couldn't shake.
After years of back and forth, start and stop, something snapped in my mind, and I knew I was going to make this work - WHATEVER it took...
I said to myself “Look, Will. You KNOW it’s possible to get this quality of production ‘cos other people are doing it, but there’s something you’re missing that you just can’t see. You need to get some advice”.
When I finally got over my ego (and fear) and started seeking advice from mentors (and they started sharing their secrets with me), reading hundreds of articles and magazines, and REALLY focussing on the key techniques that got results, it was like the lights slowly came on.
...And it all culminated in a hot, sweaty hotel room in northern Australia, when all I had was a laptop and a pair of headphones.
There was a remix competition I had found online, and – whatever it was that had snapped in my mind – told me "Will, you ARE going to win this competition – no matter what it takes".
Trouble was - I only had 48 hours to write the track!
So – I knuckled down – and committed to not stopping until I KNEW my track was the best it could possibly be.
Without knowing it, everything I had learned up to that point *clicked* into place, and I produced my best track ever.
I actually sounded like it could be played in a club and rock the dance-floor.
It sounded professional.
Well – I won the competition – and through that got my first manager, and my first paid remix work.
I developed my skills more and more, and over time other producers started asking me how I was getting my mixes so clean, and labels began employing me to remix other artists’ tracks, and then master them, too!
Now this was a breakthrough! Producing music I love and getting recognition (and money) for it? The best feeling in the world! :D
But that was just the start...
I eventually compiled everything I had learned into one place so I didn’t have to keep repeating myself to other producers over and over again, and since applying these exact techniques, I’ve gone from frustrated bedroom producer to professional music producer and achieved the following:
- Had professional agents find production work and gigs for me.
- Worked with some world-class artists (some of whom have worked with Axwell, from the Swedish House Mafia, Deadmau5, sung in Hollywood blockbusters, or starred in the X Factor)
- DJed all around the world (including at The Ministry of Sound in London).
- Been commissioned for official remixes for EMI.
- Produced tracks that have hit the Top 10 in Beatport, and Number 1 in Juno, and Trackitdown.
- Co-Produced music that has been short-listed for a Grammy.
- Had my music played on Radio One by Pete Tong and Danny Howard, as well as support from Oliver Heldens, Paul Oakenfold, Tommy Trash, and many more.
- Been approached by record labels for freelance mixing and mastering work.
- Spoken at music production conferences, alongside heavy-hitters such as Nicky Romero (this year I will also be attending ADE in Amsterdam).
The funny thing is…my first break came when I was travelling and producing with just a laptop and a pair of headphones in a crappy hostel!
»» HINT: Your equipment has nothing to do with why your music doesn't sound as good as it should.
So, how can you achieve the same...or MORE?!
It's not rocket science. If I can do it, you can.
I'm not naturally musical, or especially talented.
It's just a case of applying tried and tested techniques to cut out YEARS of frustration and crappy-sounding music.
And how do I KNOW that you can create pro-sounding music, too? Well, because I've helped these people do the same...
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