"I guess I do this thing sometimes when I'm making a song, I'll sort of close my eyes and envision the music video or the place that it's sort of transporting me to."
"I don't pick beats or buy beats for a name's sake; it's all about the sound and feeling."
"Even the best harmony lines in the world won't sound good unless they're mixed right."
"Always remember, the goal of tuning is not to make the vocals robotic but to enhance their natural beauty and expression."
"David Bowie, when he recorded records, he'd have the person still trying to figure out what to play, and he'd stop them at the point where they were just about to figure it out."
"It's hard, it's complicated to make something simple. A simple pop tune, but it's got heart, it's got swagger."
"By the time you get this album out, like things might have changed... You're not getting this album out anytime soon."
"Rodney Jones is an American artist and music producer."
"The big news about MPC One is that it brings in a lot of the capabilities of its bigger brothers, the MPC X and the MPC Live, in a much more compact and affordable package."
"Overall, pound for pound, if you work with the features checklist, MPC One probably has the most options and features."
"Let's move on and talk about effects. So effects on MPC One can be applied on multiple levels, all the way from pads to key groups to programs, sub mixes, and the master output."
"Now it's like people with laptops and fruity loops are making hit you know what I mean."
"Producing records... is just about the best thing you can do as an artist."
"One of the most difficult things to do on your own is create your first full-length track."
"Spending time with people that don't make the same music as you do... you'll improve so much."
"I encourage you guys to mess around. Even if it doesn't sound good, it's still better."
"Original music is the best. You never ever want to be anywhere near having to ask permission to do something."
"I don't sample anything. 100 percent original."
"When I learned production, that's what changed for me... once I started getting comfortable with the software, I was like, 'Oh my god, I can actually make this [__].'"
"My beginning now is more than just producing; it's teaching the younger generation about making music with what we've got."
"We want the sound to be so hot, we want to hear the goosebumps popping."
"Recording a track with his mouth wired shut proved how innovative this guy was."
"Metro Boomin produced some of the most popular songs in the last 10 years. His style is iconic, his sound is influential, and his music is simple, all at once."
"Metro Boomin was about to do something that very few other producers have ever done."
"A good producer always succeeds because there's no fakeness, no performance, just the best ideas you can possibly come up with."
"These are medium-priced, these are Sennheiser HD25s. They're flexible, sound great, and they tell you everything you need to know to make professional sounding tracks."
"Ableton Push 2 allows you to create pretty much an entire track without looking at the computer."
"If you can clearly hear the audio you're making through good headphones and/or a sound card, you can make better decisions."
"You're going to hear much more detail on headphones than on monitors."
"Your first attempts at music production will not be good. It's okay. There is no magic bullet; it's all about working on it and keeping the creative juices flowing."
"Knowledge is fantastic, but getting into the habit of working every day on your music production is the most important thing you can do."
"I'm big into music production. There's so much good music production, especially in pop music."
"GarageBand on mobile is much more than capable of making professional music."
"Beyoncé is always kind of ahead with what she does. I'm sure this was like cutting-edge production at the time."
"Kirby's decision to stop producing as The Caretaker at the conclusion of Everywhere at the End of Time showcases his dedication to discipline in such extraordinary fashion."
"A DAW, or digital audio workstation, is a program basically where you make your music."
"Auto-tune doesn't mean what people really think it means."
"Everybody's making music for somebody, probably other than themselves, even if they say, 'I just make music for me.' Nah, somebody's hearing it."
"Every song you make ain't just gon' be like that, but just do it. You never know what the song gon' do."
"It's loaded with top-notch production, Beatles-esque vocal harmonies, quality songwriting."
"Even if it's against the rules, if it sounds good, do it."
"The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to dial in this parallel compression." - David
"I'm a firm believer in I would want to record the thing, I want to track the overdubs, I want to mix the thing."
"It's kind of like Christmas morning receiving a mix, hopefully, yeah, the excitement of Christmas morning when you're receiving a finished record back."
"Recorded Let's Dance, Nile Rodgers asked for a slap on guitar. Ended up with a wild tape delay."
"Beyonce is a scientist of songs. I've never seen anyone work the way she works."
"His pioneering wall of sound technique saw him layer several instruments to give an orchestral feel to a song. It transformed pop music."
"Mick's unique style and sound have become synonymous with our latest projects."
"The Pro EQ plug-in now has linear phase filters, input and output meters, and a spectrum analyzer with four views."
"That is a talent, you know. We think of these producers that do hip-hop or any music and you're like, yeah well there are producers I could do that. No man, you could not do that."
"Every little change counts, whether I want like a guitar cut out something, muted something added, or just put in a whole new song."
"His Beats were dense and layered, and throughout his career, he sampled countless genres to create soundscapes that were melancholy yet hopeful at the same time."
"He proved once again to be a master curator... he sort of like navigates through towards his own personal dystopia as he's seeking Utopia."
"You can go all the way from not having created a single sound in your life to actually making some really awesome sounds you can use to juice up your games."
"10 albums is more than probably most artists have ever put out unless you're someone that's just using AI generated music it's hard to just put out 10 albums that's a lot."
"Don't be precious with your ideas and serve the song, not your ego."
"If you're just starting to get into house production try and investigate all the things that we've shown you here because it really is fascinating how this all occurs and how taking the tricks from the past can really help your future productions."
"Digital audio workstations and softwares have allowed artists to experiment with different kinds of genres."
"I've found over the years that Ableton is just a brilliant way of making music."
"It's easier to make experimental music than it is to make a mainstream hit song."
"The t8's bass synth provides full 303-style voice with versatile sound design options."
"We have a song that'll be coming out before the end of the year that we're finishing up right now."
"We're gonna have a song out that we're finishing up right now that will be out before the end of the year."
"The truth is that producing electronic music takes just as much effort and talent as any other genre."
"The rapping was on point, beats added an extra layer of entertainment."
"The beat had that extra dramatic feel to it, fit really well with the verses."
"Not only do you have a skill in identifying and branding your own sound, but to the point where you can take someone else's body of work rearrange it and make it sound like your own song that is talent."
"Do you realize that on this album we only realized it over the weekend Ringo hadn't got a song?"
"We're just trying to make 10 really good songs and put it on a record, you know? It's weird how refreshing it felt to people."
"Man, I'm looking around, you got the Juno 106, you know, the Roland."
"So it's just it's a thought that's in the back of my head I'm sorry Owen I haven't spent another second working on a Christmas album but that doesn't mean I'm not going to I would like to I think it would be fun."
"Basquiat produced a hip-hop record called 'Beat Bop.'"
"We want our records to play loud and proud on whatever medium we're working with." - Alan Silverman
"Wow, if you geck it, they will come. My friends, wow, I love that, Kenny Beats."
"My mix is almost like you would have like in a recording studio."
"We really tried to make a body of work that would sound great listening at home from start to finish."
"It was so fun to hear this because I know you've done layering of your voice and various things before, but hearing just you on all of the parts, it was so cool to hear that entire range explored."
"If Kanye says to Dre, 'Hey, we worked on 12 joints,' just was crazy, right? 'Yo, can you got my email? Can you send them to me?' 'For what?' That's the conversation I want."
"Ryan you co-wrote and co-produced sucker and cool and were the executive producer of the new album how did you all meet and decide to work on this together."
"Cakewalk is easily my top choice for the best free DAW. It's 100% free with no strings attached, and I'm just really glad that a highly customizable professional piece of software with a Sleek user interface exists for musicians."
"The idea of spatial sound is very exciting because I consider rooms to be as important an instrument as the individual musicians and instruments in the song."
"At all costs, no matter what, I'm going to create, I'm going to write, create, and produce as much original authentic music as I can."
"Sampling is a new art form created out of necessity."
"A good sample should help reimagine or re-interpret a song, and simultaneously worldbuild for the artist’s own song."
"When artists sample, especially a well-known song, it immediately sets up a comparison between those artists."
"Songs from his home studio... that's the story of Dollar Mendy and Tunak to Noktun, a song that has an important place not just in music history but in internet history."
"Give Ross, Cee Lo, and Nas and everybody can get out the studio."
"Mikey Ruckus, AEW's music producer, is very talented and versatile."
"Selling out is when you make the record you're told to make instead of the one you want to make."
"I'm happy that we were able to do more songs on this new EP."
"Trust your ear at the end of the day. You learn all this stuff so that you can master it and so that it becomes natural, but the ear is the greatest thing."
"The 808 is like a weird machine but it's something that we built our culture off of and then now most recognized."
"This do-it-yourself approach extends to his music videos and album art... provocative and purposely unrefined."
"It's very difficult to play to a click accurately and with ye'll, instead, what it ends up being is a very useful tool for post-production."
"You real talented man it's just your beats a little light in the ass."
"If you get a good editor that's also a musician that also knows how to direct a music video This Is What You Get."
"If you could find that person to really help you mold your sound and help you really mold your ideas, that just makes the music 10 times better."
"You should be in there and I've never been in the studio with Cole and see how you work."
"Using suitable instruments and the right key is necessary to create the correct vibe."
"When he drops an album, you can almost guarantee it's going to be the best produced album of that year."
"Building the anticipation of music is crazy."
"I haven't heard anybody roll off top in on kick drum since the Miami crowd came along."
"Tyler arranges, produces, and writes all his music, crafting each piece with precision."
"The greatest guitar sounds on records have no premeditation to them at all."
"The beats in his production... it was a lot more smooth than typical Tyler joints."
"When you put together an album, it's different than just releasing a bunch of singles."
"We wanted a soundtrack that could be very cold and very mechanical, very machine-esque."
"Crowdfunding is a great way to cover your production costs and build a solid fan base."
"I just love everything that clipping does in terms of just like the stories they tell and the production behind it."
"You could get your point across in seven songs and even ten songs it's all dependent upon the delivery of what you're talking about the messages you convey."
"Can you work with other producers and stuff like that yes the last three projects has only been you and I've enjoyed them but I like it's almost like what's next and is it only gonna be you."
"By setting the pre-delay properly, you can maintain the dry signal while still adding all the ambience that you want within your mix."
"Because it was happy with what I performed on the production that we had available at that point. But I was like, 'No, that's not what I would do with my album.' That was what I was doing to actually get the deal."
"Give some production credits on your album to some of your audience."
"You gotta have beats. It's really like you gotta kinda just be true to yourself."
"It's like a modern-day jam, we know we're all producers, so we'll go in there, someone, you know, even if you go past someone's room and you just hear a song you like."
"Not only about the message, it's about the way he curated this album as an artist."
"Some of the best production we've heard ever on a hip-hop album."
"Perfection is boring. Mistakes, the most exciting elements of making music."
"I'll be totally fine if I never win as long as I see this through to completion."
"I'm just blessed I can be able to make beats and know how to actually sell cause y'all realize I don't have this big ass face card or social media present."
"Dynamics are a crucial part of humanizing drum parts, and the drummer is in charge of a song's dynamic roadmap."
"It's like chill I'm still producing you know I'm still making music I'm still doing my things but just more calm."
"We're gonna do R&B Voltron, okay? So I need to know who you're going to get the vocal from, who you're going to get the performance style from, who are you gonna get the styling from, you know, you're gonna get the passion of the artist from."
"If you could make a song that you want to tell your kids about and you produced it, you're going to be here for a long time."
"Start in a crazy sound and work it and polish it."
"For the price point that this is, you get everything here, that workflow, the sound content, it's such an amazing product."
"Better performances on better songs with more talent over a long period of time will translate into easier to record songs, easier to mix, and no-brainer to master songs."
"Good arranging is good mixing. A killer mix is one that was mixed long before it was even recorded."
"I just want the artist I work with to go down as ghosts because they really are."
"I want to be known as the producer that really put St. Louis back on the map."
"Try it with your basses, your melodies, and all sorts of stuff."
"You know, doing what you did allowed you to create some incredible records."
"FL Studio and Ableton Live are used in virtually every fiber of the mainstream music industry."
"I'm gonna try as hard as I can to turn this into a track that I would be comfortable sharing and releasing."
"Make music for platforms like PremiumBeat; these are platforms that license royalty free music to filmmakers and YouTubers."
"I knew Teen Spirit was special because I couldn't stop listening to it as a producer that's a good sign for me when I'm working on something that I make a cassette and play it over and over and over."
"I'm really proud that they puzzled together in a way that, well, I'm just glad that we finished writing this record."
"This is definitely the most collaborative record we've done within our band from start to finish."
"Just two weeks after his accident he created a mixtape called 'Through the Wire' while his jaw was literally still wired shut."
"Cease and desist, that's the name of my next mixtape."
"Your vocal producing records and you guys are creating records from scratch."
"It's not like a masterful like Metro Boomin everything is in its right place perfect beat but it has something visceral in it."
"Nirvana’s brilliant songs didn’t get lost in cheap production."
"I sold my Rolex chain and bought studio equipment."
"Everything on the music production so far has been so vocal driven..."
"The reverb that people are chasing is the artificial reverb."
"He covered the board. We were all very critical about these seven-song projects, but I feel like you did it."
"There's no way we all have been able to create these string parts even if that's all we did within 90 minutes."
"We've got two stereo pairs of mics capturing a sense of the stage and then we've got a whole bunch of closed mics which are all being sent through to three apogee symphony interfaces."
"He's giving musical direction to get these artists on his beats that's completely different than just sending a beat pack out."
"This found it, this sounding too funky right here, man, I gotta do something to it."
"The inspiration factor of stereo effects is such that you just leads you off into other places."
"Each album is essentially a document of what the solutions to those problems at that particular time were."
"Every lyric, every sentiment, every between-the-line thing, every even all of the music, everything that Ro and Angel and Giddy and all of these guys did is so elevated."
"Most of the music we did for The Witcher were jam sessions." - Marcin Przybiowicz
"It's personality... it's slick but it's still got enough organic stuff... it's like a really well-produced, well-rehearsed garage band at the end of the day."
"Yo, this is crazy, this is a hard sample, shout out to Heatmakers cause what they did"
"Miller enlisted the talents of Mark Ellis professionally known as Flood to produce Violator."
"It's probably also really expensive to make 40 songs for every project."
"Making a beat in front of somebody doesn't necessarily mean it will come out as a polished product right away."
"You probably have to go somewhere else and add more elements to the beat outside of the initial situation."
"I think it's the best ever produced album of all time in my opinion for hip-hop."
"He gave me like a rule book about how to record but it was really just me observing."
"A good producer is someone who can make you hear the emotion or the intent of the line."
"She is not a pop artist who comes in and sings over the top of a track created by someone else."
"Some of the best songs I've made I'll freestyle then some of the best songs I've made I wrote."
"They finished half the album and they took a big break to gain some perspective on what they'd just written."
"It's my job on the live stage and the studio to come in with my sound."
"It's those limitations that make us sound like us."
"Endless encoders are really nice to have because the physical knob matches the position of the virtual knob in your DAW or virtual instrument even after switching instruments or effects."
"The Soviet Union did in the 1950s what Japan did in the 1980s."
"This is how you can jump from a preset in Ableton to another preset, and it's really quick."
"Let's try it, shall we? Just try it on the melody again."
"There's gonna be for sure like Improvement there's gonna be it's gonna be more evolved and I feel like lyrics Wise and sound wise and production wise for sure."
"I don't believe in punching if because if you can if you can't feel it you know sometimes if if it's not one whole verse all the way down you know I don't like it to feel punched you know but then again that's I'm left-handed."
"This is the stuff that really started my career, as an artist, as a content creator, and as a music producer for hire."
"Kenny has a vast understanding of the regional sounds and histories of cities to pull from when making beats for an artist."
"This album and 'Flushing My Flesh' were more of a plan, you know."
"If you make a mistake, it's okay. It's just music. Keep going."
"Don't invest in an image, invest in equipment."
"This, in my opinion, represents one of the best synths that money just can't buy because it's free."
"He's obviously doing the music, he's got the Sidemen thing going, which is going really well for them for the music, the boxes, we're bringing."
"Two things that really make for good records are deadlines and small budgets. The things that make for bad records are no deadlines and endless budgets."
"Literally any sound ever can be good in a song if you find a place for it."
"I'm dropping albums. I'm dropping at least a classic a day. Tell Hope to do the average on that because he averaged knock [ __ ] up."
"Press one, yeah. We dropping. I'm dropping albums. I'm dropping at least a classic a day."
"Honestly, if I didn't have time to just sit on my computer making beats when I was a kid, I would never be here."
"G-Unit's debut studio album featured guest appearances from R&B singers Joe and Butch Cassidy and production from producers such as Hi-Tek, Dr. Dre, and Scott Storch."
"When I record a song and I do the song and put it down, that's like a painting, it's finished."
"I feel like every song that I ever produce, there's this moment where it's like I want to quit music to some degree."
"The partial crossfader is a very powerful feature... you don't get on other synths."
"Real skill lies in mastering the highly technical details behind creating a pro-level mix."
"We love a challenge - so I'll show you how they modified the sample first and then we can go through exactly how the sample itself was made."
"Creating space in the pattern where the 808 isn't playing - breaking the monotony of having the 808 just constantly playing in the song."
"Balancing your elements... recording the sounds... not a ton of shaping."
"So the effect of this is that often, it can make the vocalist sound more urgent and give a vocal more kind of aggressiveness and impact."
"Background singers save people, they usually do what the artist does and more."
"Ultimately, it absolutely does not matter what MIDI controller you choose as long as you choose one and start making music."
"Pharrell and Lord went 200 above that breaking everything."