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S2E08 – Ups and Downs of a Producer

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Being a music producer, you will see GREAT results in your first months, but once you start getting better.. you may not see such big increases in your skills. Keep at it, and do not give up, because the next time you do feel improvements with your music, you will be so happy you continued!!

You will CONSTANTLY be faced with these UPS and DOWNS as a music producer, so I tell you in this episode to be prepared for them, and we battle these ups and downs through education and practice.

Be prepared for new courses coming soon to my beatmaking training platform.. the new equipment is on its way, which I spent all last weekend researching.. (over 14 hours of research!).. but it will allow me to have reliable equipment for the long-term (hopefully!)

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S2E08 – Ups and Downs of a Producer

  1. Season two, episode eight, ups and downs of a
  2. producer. Being a music producer, there's times where you're gonna go through things
  3. and you're gonna see such great results.
  4. You're gonna be super happy, you see improvement.
  5. but there's gonna be a time where you're gonna kind of max out a little bit, and
  6. then in order to get better or in order to see better results, you're gonna have to
  7. put in more effort than what you put in originally to get to where you are today.
  8. Being a music producer, there's ups and downs so often.
  9. And I'm just telling you just to be prepared for that.
  10. And especially if you are doing this for a job, you know, if you get like a bigger
  11. placement, or if you start making, you know, maybe a little bit more money or
  12. something, you know, that's when you start getting a little bit happier.
  13. You know, things are like, oh, things are going good for me.
  14. But what happens is sometimes that doesn't always continue.
  15. You might only have that one big placement, or you may only make that money, you
  16. might not make more money. So it's important that you're prepared for the
  17. ups and downs. And the best way to kind of fight against that is reading and having
  18. knowledge in kind of different industries, it allows you to be very versatile,
  19. right? Because one thing I try to tell you guys is making your money in the music
  20. industry alone is very hard. It's also very dangerous.
  21. It's not a good place to put yourself to always be thinking that way.
  22. So if you're going through this right now, I'm here to tell you that you're gonna
  23. see some good things happen. You're also gonna see some like you know, you might not
  24. see as good a results as what you want, but the thing is that you have to keep with
  25. it, all right. If you stop, well, you know, that those are the efforts, you know,
  26. you're gonna reap the rewards of your efforts.
  27. So make sure that if you're serious about this, that you are putting in the time.
  28. I remember there was a time in my life when I was learning about drum loops, and I
  29. was just making drum loops left and right wherever I could, like different tempos,
  30. different whatever. I was trying to figure out where I can place my sounds within a
  31. drum loop, and essentially that's where safe spots came from, is because of just by
  32. trial and error of trying to figure out where can I click my sounds within the step
  33. sequencer. And so if you ever watch my videos and you see me clicking in drum loops
  34. really, really fast, and you're like, Oh, like how like how does he know where to
  35. click things in? Again, it's because I spend so much time making drum loops on my
  36. own time. All right, and so before wrapping up here, I just want to let you know
  37. that I have acquired some new gear, it's currently being shipped.
  38. I'm just waiting for that gear to start ramping up on courses here.
  39. What was happening was my voice was starting to fail.
  40. I have what's called a single channel preamp, it allows me to record my voice, EQ,
  41. do some compression, it has a gate to clean up background noise as well as a DSer.
  42. And so this unit was starting to fail.
  43. I bought it used at the time, it's called an art voice channel, and I'm assuming
  44. it's just the tube that's failing in it.
  45. But again, I bought it used, and I really want to take these courses and stuff
  46. seriously. So I am actually buying a new one.
  47. And in addition to that, I'm also buying what's called a power conditioner.
  48. And I'll talk more about this in time.
  49. But I learned all about a power condition, like not all about one, but I learned a
  50. lot about a power conditioner and why it's so important for your studio.
  51. So essentially, it's just a way to monitor your gear, making sure everything is
  52. healthy and protected from any unwanted bad electricity that can come in through
  53. your wall. Again, we'll cover more about that later on.
  54. So if you want to stay updated, you guys can s upend to the email list.
  55. just go to it'sgratuitous.com forward slash newsletter, or if you'd like to grab
  56. some of my free stuff, just go to it'sgratuitous.com forward slash resources.
  57. And if any of the tools are helping you out, always feel free to send me an email at
  58. hi at itsgratuitous.com. I will talk to you guys in the next
  59. episode.
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