Look Inside a Production with 850 MILLION Streams

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[mwright]

Finneas himself said something to the effect of "if doing something produces the sound you want, that's the correct way to do it". I totally agree!

[MrBigNoodle]

It's kinda like food. If you put 10 different amazingly tasting foods with strong flavors together, it wouldn't taste good. You don't put chocolate and pizza and watermelon and salt and vinegar potato chips together. They all are amazing on their own but if you mixed them all together it would be horrible. You need some ingredients that are somewhat bland on their own for a dish to taste good. The most important ingredient is the one you leave out.

[wellthisisinteresting]

It makes me feel quite relieved to see the simplicity and attention to detail in this

[AJoelInOne]

Ryan Tedder talked about this in one of his master classes. Mic bleed, leaving fox comped, etc. The trend right now is for productions to sound more unpolished and raw. Intentionally underproducing this track in that way definitely fits that theme.

[joshuacrane]

Just watched an interview with Finneas where he said they used an AT2020 microphone on this track—a $100 mic!

[halfbee]

This really gives us confidence that we can do it! Simple is better when it fits the context of the song you want to make.

[ni]

BRO JUST PROVED "SIMPLICITY IS KEY"🎉🎉

[espacemaxim]

850 Miliion streams? That $10 check from Spotify is on it's way!

[CarmAlg]

Wow, this really puts things into perspective for me! I sometimes fall into the trap of fixating on little complexities, and the need to add more and more layers at the expense of simple, beautiful musicality. I guess our job as producers is to enhance what's already beautiful in the melodies or draw out and highlight the best in our artists.. not kill the vibe with over-production 🙈 Such an eye opener. Thanks for sharing this Nathan! Always bringing so much value through your videos, brilliant course and members community 😃

[cryptokingz]

If you get the multitracks from any of the classics from the 70, 80, 90's they are full of bleed but a lot of the time it adds energy and character to the track even if we don't know it's there. Polished doesn't always equal better.

[patrekuringvason]

if you look at 10:00 in the video I think he cut the vocal pattern to avoid the click, if you listen closely he was just getting rid of a clicky sound :)

[BeeHatz]

always wanted to see something like this, it helps me be confident in my creativity

[vewilli]

It‘s incredible how Nathan analyzes this producer‘s work. How effective all the little things are that are used here (effects, sounds, layers and much more). And if someone is able to analyze like that he knows what’s important to make a production successful. Here again one can see again what can be done with Logic alone. Incredible! 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻

[DebraBrown]

This was a great video, Nathan. I *think* Billie was 13 when they recorded this which would have made FINNEAS 17. I’d love to see how he does things now at 24. He’s an amazing producer because he keeps it simple with a side of imagination. Check out the soundtrack he just released for the movie Vengeance. Same brilliance.

[frog]

Dude! I have Logic and had no idea this existed, that's awesome. Really reassuring, and it was a lot of fun to watch.

[andremack]

Yes. I realized this too. A decent amount of successful songs doesn’t have 100 tracks in their DAW. It’s pretty insane and cool

[pemathinlay]

NEED MORE OF THIS STUFF ITS VERY INFROMATIVE

[thelookingcat]

I'm a part of Producer Accelerator rn, and I'm curious how you manage to keep making so much useful content, as it's honestly really respectable

[alexanderpiano]

I have logic and love how they include these project files. It’s so cool to see the chains and decisions that a near billion steamed song has. Nathan, I know you talk about this a lot, but I went through and took off the plug-ins, and, the production still sounds excellent. I do think the mixing is incredibly refined on this production, but it just adds to a rock solid foundation. This song is eq’d the heck out with tons of boost to the high end, and yet it isn’t harsh. It’s wild and I don’t fully understand how all those boosts to the high end don’t make it harsh. But still, take everything off and the bare production sounds really nice.

[dugganater]

It's simple, but you have to be GOOD to pick the right sounds. That's what takes years to learn (I still haven't learned)