Too Many Plugins Muddies It: A Producer on Restraint
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0:00ASo what are some of the things that you learned about music in the last year that, like, you think it’s important for other producers, right, to be exploring and be aware of? Really trying to simplify stuff. I feel like when you’re first starting, it’s really easy to, you know, overload yourself with too much stuff, too much plugins, too much sounds, this, that, and then it just muddies everything up. A lot of it’s super simple. And I think that’s the key that’s missed. Like, the minimalism in it is what makes it a lot of the time. Yeah. The act -- uh, the lack of sound. Silence sometimes is nice.
