Professional production doesn't have tons of instruments and sounds.
But each sound has its own and important purpose. NOTHING is garbaging the mix for no reason. Listen to any professionally produced song. It's always like that.
Trap beats today are all about sound design.
People think they’re so simple to make when really the melody was played on $10k of analog gear, has been resampled 12 times and has an effects chain 10 miles long.
🎚️ Ethan Stevens on Metro Boomin.
"Metro is a fan of analogue gear. He loves it. It’s something unique and something that we can make our own. It’s not like he’s using the same synth patches that everyone has on Spectrasonics Omnisphere.
We have some outboard gear and we like to use different types of hardware like the [E‑mu] SP‑1200, [Roland] TR‑808 and various guitar pedals. We just create our own sound. It’s a lot harder to do that with just software synths and plug‑ins.”
Produce = Create.
Creating your own sounds always gonna be goated. And it has nothing to do with "not using samples at all". If you know you know.
@natemixing
I was a rookie, but I was convinced that I'm a great producer, until I visited a real studio for the first time, heard my beats on pro monitors, with my own ears, and talked to a real producer for 5 minutes.
I immediately realized how amateur I am. And I heard how my beats REALLY sounded.
Lesson? Get off the bubble. Go and meet reality.
Producers who quit and got bitter can only teach you how to fail; they can’t teach you how to overcome failure.
The producers that have succeeded have overcome a lot of failure.
One perspective is more complete than the other.
Yes, I charge extra for vocal editing cause it takes long and is really annoying. If you tell me that it doesn't take that long then you're probably not doing it right