How To Make Modern Indie Pop Like Valley, Nightly, and Joan

I show you guys how to get a modern indie pop sound similar to bands like valley, nightly, and Joan. I'll go over how to get 80s style synths to blend with poppy guitars, layering lots of vocal layers and harmonies, and some EQ tricks like how to get your kick to match your bass.

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Hi, I'm Seth, I've been Songwriting & Producing music for the past 10 years. I made this channel because I couldn't find any music production tutorials in my niche on guitar based pop that actually broke down specific songs from artists like the 1975, LANY, Muna, etc. Every week i make an instrumental from scratch in the specific style of a popular guitar-based pop song and show you how I recreated it. I show you my sample selection, production tricks, guitar tones, mixing chains, mastering plugins, all of it. I've worked with many artists in bringing their creative ideas into the real world. I've worked on projects for Warner Music Group and three songs I've written (and two I've produced) have made it onto Spotify-Curated Playlists (Love Pop, OPM Workday Marathon, & New Music Friday Philippines, Cozy Christmas Pop).

[SongEssenz]

Jesus Christ, this is freakin heavenly. Production, songwriting and vocals just outstanding on all levels.

[brentkeanu]

Aye!!!
Your production never ceases to amaze me my man! Super proud of what we made 🤘🏼😭

[noahalthoffmixing]

dude the ambience in this track is gorgeous

[curtisbrause]

Production is amazing as always but THAT SINGING. 😳 Love your channel and learning tons!

[danielsaintmusic]

Absolute BANGER. Production, vocals, songwriting, mix, all of it 10/10

[tholos]

One of the best part of this productions is that, the song is really freaking good. :)

Great work of course but man that makes it so much easier when the song is so dialed in.

[DanielAlbertson]

Then the hardest part becomes finding good singers that are willing to put in that kind of effort lol

[DanLugoMusic]

this is a banger! that vocalist tho What a great breakdown, too. really appreciated the detail. subbed!

[creepylittlekidKNSD]

Thanks 4 all this wisdom shared with us Vel!

[iainthemusic]

this video is really great and super informative! love it

[youremybleud]

amazing work dude! really inspiring tutorial to watch as an indie pop artist myself. keep crushing it!

[dylanfergusonmusic]

This is CRAZY bro- thanks for your content!

[miltonBBR]

this is great. have you heard of the band chief? listen to the song someone to love. would love a breakdown of that

[muhdizzwan]

i kinda wanna know the effects you use for vocals that makes it sounds good for the lead and doubles

[josher]

Subbed when I heard the song, so sickkkk

[TheHousesmusic]

Hey Seth! Just found your channel. Learning music production and I thought I would recommend Rick Rubin’s book “The Creative Act”. It has been such a great help and I thought a creative person yourself would benefit from it. It’s been a huge help for me!

[ZephBuenavista-xsvn]

Can you also make a video how you mixed his vocals and Bg vox?

[josepe]

nice video! I have a question: I always wondering why we should double guitars or synths, or whatever instrument? I Mean, what is the science behind that? Because one sound plus the same sound again, is not just more volume? With saturation, distortion & compression is not enough to enhance any sound? What is the point exactly of double tracks? Stereo wide? what is your opinion? A video about that would be amazing. THANKS! 🙏

[vincevillafanmusic]

How do you get the full project to play with that many tracks without your computer stopping ?

[andrewjones_fitness]

Can you do a video for one of the newer Beach House tunes? Less poppy and more dreampop/shoegaze type track