Keep it simple, work hard and have fun

Do this because you love staring at a screen 8 hours twisting knobs, layering sounds, experimenting and doing something that evokes an idea and makes you feel good while music fills your room.

Use 4 busses (1 with short reverb, 1 with medium reverb, 1 with long reverb and 1 with delay) to create depth in your mixes.

Read less, make more.

Music advice is one of the most pungent cesspools of subjective bs in the world. People are so protective over their "art"...."my songs are my babies" blah blah that they'll either completely hide how they do things (which typically means it was way easier than everyone thinks and they're insecure that people will realize they're not doing anything special) or they'll flat out reject any method they aren't already utilizing. Production is even worse because it's 50% arrogant idiots trying to make bangerzz, 45% pretentious music nerds who can't hold a conversation from their high horse and 5% musicians who genuinely want to make meaningful, innovative music and lift the scene. Unfortunately, it's usually the other 95% that makes the most noise and claims to be "experts".

The good news is that there's 1,000,001 ways to create an amazing song, you just have to find one that works for you.

Listen twice as often as you speak.

'Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.' ~ Theodore Roosevelt

it's a dude thing...

RIP