I've never been a deadmaus fan until this video

this guy is really right and really hysterical, I feel like this ALL THE FUCKING TIME when [people get me to listen to stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bzu8xNp5X4

Great vid. I love mau5 for keeping it real. I think you two would be friends.

I’ve given up “teaching”. Maybe it’s me? Might be, I dunno...I can’t seem to get anything thru to people asking for help. What I see as white light blinding obvious they couldn’t find with google maps. I don’t understand how to unfuck that kinda thing.

Kicks are just the tip of the iceberg.

Like to go back & kick whoever came up with this format of “tips/hacks/etc.” for engineering. It’s like giving a would be aircraft mechanic a “hack” for inflating tires on a 747. Sorry man, this is a wholistic enterprise. Gonna have a plane wreck with well tended tires. Hacks only cause myopic thinking & a distorted view of your capabilities.

you know, I feel like people who don't want to learn from basic principles, tediously and laboriously how sound as 1s and 0s or gauss on magnetic dust turns into voltages that then drive a transducer and push air back at you are shortcut people. They think there's a fast route to everything and a formula. They also have this idea of a perfect mix, but there's no 1 perfect mix for even the same song. THere might be a number of great ways one could do it. Anything that puts it forward well is a valid proposition and they could be pretty different.

Lately I don't even do things the same way 2 days in a row. I'm so far from a formula for anything.... I'll listen to a mix project really carefully and get a feel for it and then if its weird like a lot of stuff from my clients tends to be? I open up by drawing an oblique strategy card and that's how I decide where and how to start or if I should be using a typical drums up process but consider looking for transitions or maybe think of the sections individually or whatnot, you let the random card determine your initial focus. Sometimes I draw 2 in a row and use both. Then I try to apply my technical skillset creatively and hope my interpretation of the music and the card(s) leads me in a direction that is good for the artist. I don't even wait to get stuck anymore, I know I won't, i can do something adequate in an hour.... I assume that and short circuit it right out of the gate. THis stops me from going "giant kick go boom!" or whatever.

Hacks only cause myopic thinking & a distorted view of your capabilities.

yeah, the hack is to make yourself listen to the whole thing intently and treat it sympathetically whether you liked it going in or not, right?

I love mau5 for keeping it real. I think you two would be friends.

I didn't know that this mainstream EDM guy was as pissy as I am about the downside of the internet and computer recording for musicians where its despecialized everyone to the point where its amateur hour. I could see myself having a good chat with this guy over tapas and sangria or something