We’ve all been there. In a rut.

Your music sounds half-decent, but it’s not great. And while you're having fun producing, you're progressing slower than the DMV on a Wednesday afternoon.

You read articles and blog posts on sound design, mixing and processing chains — you ask friends for feedback, you even try reaching out to successful artists on Soundcloud & Spotify but never hear back.

You plunder through forums and scour through Reddit just hoping you’ll come across a golden nugget. You even desperately try Googling your production questions, but the 16 year old you came across on Youtube giving advice doesn’t seem to know what he’s talking about either.

And since you’re serious, you try going to a live meetup with other producers, but that felt like a waste of time. Then COVID happened anyway...

So you try private online coaching, but it was expensive, lacked structure and you didn’t see the progress you hoped for in any sort of meaningful way.

And when you question yourself,
you think you should double down and work harder.

You watch artist interviews who talk about locking themselves in a room for 16 hours a day for years and years doing nothing other than music. And in the back of your mind, you wonder...

Did they cancel their Netflix account? 🍿
Do they forego guac at Chipotle? 🌯
How did they survive or pay rent? 💰
And how did they maintain a social life? 🤔

And then there is the small matter of actually finishing music consistently. Because even if you manage to get signed to a label, you’ll have to follow up your release with — *you guessed it* — more releases. 

And don’t forget about the fact that music producers have to be in 10 places at once — on top of making high quality, professional music consistently, you have to also...

You feel overwhelmed with ideas about what you should and shouldn’t be doing. The amount of tools, software and plugins out there just makes your head hurt...

Ugh. I know, I know. It’s painful to think about. 

And because it’s painful and overwhelming, you keep doing the same thing, watching the same Youtube channels, finding the same tutorials, making little to no progress.

And when you compare your music
to the artists you love and look up to, it falls short.

And because this is a difficult problem, you try to focus on what really matters. You start to think “man, if my mix just had that ONE thing, that x-factor...then, and only then, would my music sound great.”

But let me break it to you: your mix isn’t missing one thing. It’s missing a lot of things. This is our brain trying to solve & simplify for a very complex problem that involves a lot of moving parts.

You know, stuff like EQ, saturation, compression, sidechain, reverb, stereo imaging, gain staging, automation, sound design, layering, songwriting, music theory, arrangement etc. and can’t be solved by any one individual tip, technique, strategy or concept.

Being stuck sucks. I get it. So let’s get you unstuck.

Imagine getting a call from an A&R at Universal Music and being told:

"Dude, your mixdown sounds incredible..."

That's exactly what happened to me one random Thursday afternoon (...after spending 8+ years painstakingly pursuing nothing but music production).

It felt so good to hear, I could cry.

Because it wasn’t so long before that moment that I was a depressed, cubicle-slaving 9 to 5er, doing the corporate grind. Waking up every day to the same alarm clock, the same commute, and the same coworkers I didn’t want to be around...

And as bad as that was, eventually, my negative attitude caught up with me and I got fired from my job. Uh oh. Life just got real.

More time is not the answer

And with all that free time, I decided to pursue music once and for all. But interestingly enough, with all the time in the world, my music didn’t get much better. In fact, I think it got worse because I started focusing on all the wrong things.

Because of that phase, I know exactly what it feels like to struggle with your mixes for years and years with no end in sight. There is nothing more frustrating than knowing your music doesn't sonically stack up to your favorite artists.

When something just sounds...off.

There’s a faster way to see results

But you don’t need to waste your time like I did. You don’t need to take an entire decade to see results. You don’t need to produce for 12 hour days for years on end like I did, endlessly tweaking, changing, fiddling and practically praying for my music to improve. There is a faster, more organized way.

In fact, you can learn from a team of music producers that have ‘been there, done that’ and streamlined the process into organized, digestible steps . Because we both know, the internet has enough mediocre compression tutorials…

We break things down into basic building blocks (like legos) and then progress to the harder stuff using proven frameworks, helping countless students conquer advanced music production every single year.

Because you can also make professional music in your bedroom like thousands of other artists. It’s totally possible.

Even Finneas O'Connell, the producer behind Billie Eilish, fresh off 5 Grammy wins last year, holding a trophy in his hand, said...

"We made this music in our bedroom.
We still make music in our bedroom.
You can get one of these too."

And it’s true. Yes, you’ll still need to work hard, put in the hours and be persistent, but more than anything, you need to know what to focus on. And that’s exactly where we come in.