u/Sweetthataintsweet

What was your job? And is trading making more money than your normal wage?

Any good? Worth the price? Or self taught with YouTube tutorials is more effective?

I spent 50+ hours and so much effort making this newly uploaded video so it's even better quality than my older works. I was confident to get at least 100 views per day but 1 week in it's being 36 views is beyond unbelievable.

I have decent amount of subscribers. The last time I posted on the channel was last year, my average views per video was around 5k.

Can anyone tell me if I posted at the worst time ? I posted it at 10:00 PM UTC on a Monday. Or the algorithm had big changes since last year? I want to re-post it but I'm afraid it would hurt my channel more.

So I have a very unique voice it is very hard to get it sound right. I have been self taught Ableton mixing and mastering past 2 years, this song is the best mixed and mastered I can do (did for 1.5 month), but the vocal part still don't sound compressed enough. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong in these setups below (vocal chain pic below)?

1. Once I got the instrumental tracks layered, I recorded and comped and faded the vocal parts.

2. I separated the vocal parts into verses, choruses, adlibs, then group them together as a vocal group (see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12pUrK4v4ibLsEQnC1LVstM7Q-45PrPF_/view?usp=share_link)

3. Then I checked spectrum of the reference songs including Ariana Grande's i hate that i made you love me, she's green - little birds, The Marias' no one noticed, and Colbie Caillat's When The Darkness Comes, to mark the average EQ on every instruments and vocal range.

4. Lastly glue everything together in the master channel with glue compression.

Thanks in advance!

I have a MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch Mid 2015 which is outdated for IOS for even installing touchdesigner, I'm still using it for music production despite it has loud fan noise when my Ableton is hitting high CPU usage.

On the other hand I have a ASUS Vivobook 16 with way better CPU and Ram but it has loud fan noise even running After Effects.

I want a compatible lightweight laptop so I can carry around for making videos and music with no fan noise. Any recommendations ?

For my production it is always the chorus' melody come first then the melodies of it, then I'd start choosing instruments sound nice with the chords that match with the melodies. But I always cannot decide which genre to make, always stuck between dreampop / neo soul / soft rnb / indie rock that I'd change arrangement and drums endlessly. Please let me know how do you do it ???

I have song ideas I really want to share with my followers and ask for their opinions, but when I posted last time I got 50 likes and 800 views in 30 mins, most of them are non-followers and someone even saved my post while no one followed me given I put CTA "follow for updated version" on the video. It is hard to feel happy than scared these days ever since AI music is a thing. Or am I just overthinking?