20 Music Producer Lessons to Save you 10 Years

Starting my studio up for real. I asked ChatGPT to send me to someone who can help, they sent me here. Thanks bro.
Point 20 is the best one.

Go through sounds and favorite them. Brilliant. I need to do this asap. I spent 2 hours looking for a specific keyboard sound yesterday.

Wow, I was trapped in sexy looking plugins instead of focussing on the basics. Thank you! 🐣

Appreciate that all for one one for all, to the fellowship of the musicians round table, who, are phenomenal producers! So ‘instrumental’ on every level, angle, scale, brain cell, etc

“Make Music Like Mixing Doesn’t Exist” 🤯 This 🙌 Thank You Sir 🙏
Great Videos With Just The right Amount Of Depth without creating pure boredom 👍 🫡💯

This is a really good video.. thank you man... this helped a lot

Great video homie! Thanks!

no vocal and production in the world is gonna save a mediocre song.

“Produce like mixing doesn’t exist” is a great mindset. Low end is all about arrangement—and honestly, so is everything else. Groove needs space. Contrast is fundamental. Counterpoint > harmony. Everything is rhythm.

Learn basic sounds and synths, understand what matters across the frequency spectrum—fundamentals, harmonics, and how not to stack too much in one spot. Logic and Ableton have enough stock tools for most people to never need third-party stuff.

Guitar’s underrated—because it’s not MIDI, you have to actually play, not just edit. Logic’s Overdrive and Compressor are insanely good for stock plugins. People sleep on them hard.

EQ is often a band-aid for bad tracking. Most of the time when I A/B it in context, it sounds worse with the EQ than without (though HP/LP filtering is super useful). Just because you can use something doesn’t mean you should. EQ is duct tape, compression is glue—and neither fixes bad source material.

Thanks! Have you included the link to your piano for producers course?

This video contains more ads than Mobile games ...... Annoying to watch

You are guiding right always you never talk about shortcuts instead of creative efforts . solute man from india

Feel like I’ve got the secret knowledge now 😎

Thanks man! This is great!!!!!!

Hi Nathan, great stuff as always. Speaking of sound libraries, I once saw you using Devastator in Kontakt however I cannot find the video anymore. What Devastator is that? Warzone or something else?

Facts!!!

Thanks Nathan! Good lessons. I was a bit distracted at the start by this new room you’re in. Are you going to make a video about how and why of this new space? It's obviously not the basement, lol.

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This is so so good..... Golden information for me man. Thanks a lot 🙏

100% super solid gold advice!!! absolutely must-know stuff...

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You're on fire! Loving your videos, super thanks!

hey , can you help me with this problem that im facign with while recording drums the levels are always too hot like why the hell does that happens ... like whatevr kit i use or plugin i use its alwaays like 0 db or close ... why is that .... and also tell me what things can Ido to counter that .. like fader , compressor , eq or soemthign else as well

great video! where is the piano for producers course link?

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Thank you Nathan! Your insights are always extremely helpful, be it PA or free content such as this. Now I just need to figure out how to keep all this in mind at the same time while working on a project LOL. Do you have any advice, or does it just happen organically as you lather-rinse-repeat? For now, I’m probably going to combine all these points in a single text file, print it in the largest font possible, and pin it right above my monitor!

Great reminders Nathan!! Especially the "producer validation" 😳🤔🥴

Wait is Nathan in a new studio or am I tripping

Awesome video, but examples would have been great!

This whole video is really really well done Nathan. Every single point that you made has significant value and it's never too much to hear you say to have intention. You should be really proud of this one. I'd give saturation an honorable mention on essential plugins.

Missing your vids man . .

Ty, super timely. I produce my first full orchestra track and it's kinda hard :>

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