THE NEXT LEVEL

I’m constantly experimenting to find that ‘next level’ and it’s amazing because every time I do, I discover a simpler approach to getting an even better result.

The next level always gives me an easier, more guaranteed way to achieve a predictable result. Pocket Compression is one of those ‘Next Level’ paradigms.

And so as I continue evolving and getting better, all these older inefficient approaches get replaced by simpler, more intuitive tricks.

Reinventing the wheel isn’t always necessary and since we’re all artists, and we all want to get better at our art, then it’s important we do everything to continue evolving.

The way I accelerate this process of evolution is by keeping a pen and notepad next to my studio computer and whenever I do something that I find glorious, I simply write down the steps I took to achieve it on paper.

This has the effect of fast tracking the learning process as well as making your automatic, reflexive access to skills and resources more robust and consistent.

I’m basically just keeping an archive of all my awesome engineering and production wizardry, because it would be cruel not to reuse the same wizardry-level successes until they become persistent reflexive successes in the future.

It would be so much nicer to reflexively catch ideas like we’ve caught falling objects from the cupboard than to go the other more difficult and unreliable way.

Keeping a notebook of my own techniques has provided an invaluable boost to the rate, speed and consistency of my own evolution and I hope you’ll agree it’s something that can help you too.

At the end of the day most of what’s powerful is simple, ridiculously simple; especially compared with the complexity that was necessary build it.

But in a field like audio engineering that tends to attract the technically attracted, there’s a trend towards drowning things in an ocean of complexity.

In the end art is meant to be the result of ‘artistically’ simplified complexity. And if we don’t stretch to simplify, reduce, and intensify what remains then we will miss the benefits of challenging ourselves to always reach that next level.

At the highest levels everything is subtractive and simplified. Only what’s absolute or essential remains, everything else is just clutter.

So if you’re interested in learning more about audio engineering, music production and my philosophy of music you can go visit www.mybeatlab.com where you’ll find free tutorials and content that will help you reach the next level.

Good luck and always keep stretching towards that next level.

To Learn More

Get free resources and tutorials at my website http://www.mybeatlab.com

Get my NEW Book “The 3-Space Reverb Framework” @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BBX3FMN

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