AU5 Answers ALL of Your Fan Questions!

So many specific questions! Enjoy this Q&A!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Favorite Song Produced
1:08 Favorite Plug In
1:27 DAW
1:33 What has influenced your production sound the most over the last decade?
1:56 Best Piece of Music Production Advice
2:25 Do you ever feel like a struggle between complexity and listenability?
3:08 How long do you hold onto an unfinished project?
3:31 What’s your mindset behind L and R panning things? How far do you push it?
4:06 Is there a strategy for motivation?
4:58 Will you ever release Divinorum on Vinyl?
5:10 How do you come up with your melodies to work with the entire track?
5:30 What do you usually do for those spectral growls?
5:45 Why isn’t color bass quite mainstream yet and when do you think it will be?
6:01 What was the inspiration/ backstory for the all time classic “Snowblind”?
7:30 What do you do when you hit writer’s block?
7:53 How many hours do you enjoyable produce everyday, and how many is seen as work?
8:20 Will brostep come back?
8:30 Longest project it took to complete and why?
9:10 Love your music
9:18 Do you see yourself having any more Ophelia releases?
9:33 Will you give us your razor wavetables?
9:47 Best path to deleting one’s signature sound?
10:31 He’s an inspiration
10:36 What do you think about implementing surround sound in an LCR based track as the norm?
11:02 Serum or Vital?
11:36 What made you fall in love with music/production?
11:56 What is your other passion/hobby besides music and graphics?
12:28 Why the name AU5?
12:45 Any advice on mixing music with lots of melodic content happening simultaneously?
13:22 At what point in your career did you feel really had established yourself in electronic music?
13:50 How long did it take you to feel like you were good enough in music production?
14:10 Deadm+AU5: Any correlation?
14:14 Any artists you’d like to collab with this year?
14:25 When did you realize you found your sound?
14:31 What’s the best way to approach the music business?
14:54 What did you think of your 2016-2017 era?
15:15 Any advice on staying motivated for longer for a period of time or just in general?
16:02 Favorite generator plugins?
16:14 When dealing with negativity, do you avoid it or face it head on?
16:57 Will you make more color bass tracks in the future?
17:12 Who inspires you?
17:54 Any advice for students already taking the school of bass and serum masterclass?
18:11 What helps you write emotional songs? How does that differ from writing heavy songs?
18:53 Do you write/arrange in one project and sound design in another?
19:34 What do you think about Panda Eyes style?
19:39 Any chance you will collaborate with Virtual Riot?
19:54 What do you do when you’re not producing music? What’s your approach to work life balance?
20:19 Collab with Haywire?
20:40 Any info about updates to school of bass?
20:50 Walkthrough of the new release?
21:04 Favorite max for live plug-in?
21:30 A best free software to get started with?
21:55 Are you working on an album or EP?
22:05 Are there any other genres you’d like to branch out to?
22:21 What is the track you like the most this year?
22:53 Do you think we’re approaching a limit of how much better sound design can get or do you think possibilities are endless?
23:44 When did you find out you were a wizard?
23:53 When did you land on earth and have you spoken to our leaders yet?
24:09 Where do you see your project in three/five/ten years?
24:19 How do you get the inspiration for certain sounds or certain melodies?
25:10 Has AU5 always been your artist name?
25:13 Is there any general message or story that you’re trying to convey in your music? If so, what is it?
25:37 Do you have any suggestions for creatives who are delving into the storytelling aspect of what they create?
26:07 What’s the electric piano sound in Piece of Me?
26:17 What’s the first genre you wanted to make?
26:31 Do you make other genres of music that doesn’t get released?
26:57 Considering VR Doing?
27:22 Importance of analysis of alchemy?
27:27 Waffles or pancakes?
27:31 When sound designing, do you ever have a specific goal or what it should sound like or do you just wing it?
28:13 What is your favorite genre that isn’t EDM?
28:24 How did you figure out those sound designing techniques?
28:48 Multiband sidechain?
28:54 Best way to force yourself to not obsess over a single sound until you’ve lost the flow?
29:16 How long do you spend on average working on a track?
29:43 What are some of your favorite foods?
30:13 Will you ever release that ID at 47:00?
30:20 What got you into music production and did you ever play in a rock/ metal band?

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[kostaa]

Love listening to Austin's deeper insights. Great format as well.

[MaahirMomtaz]

YESS I love his music. Been listening to him since 2013. I think the first track I heard was Blossom or Halcyon

[tsundasphere]

Au5 is by far my fave electro dance producer cause ngl the music beats most of the high-end DJ stuff that you see at raves, it slaps XD I remember being hyped af when he collabed with Rocket League back in 2020 with voidwalkers, I though for sure interstellar was there too but idk maybe mandela effect? can't find it being linked with RL other than montages 😂

[mdu]

yes Finally, ya'll really know how to keep us waiting 😂😭

[newmikeee]

Love the ft on the Channel, AU5 😍.
One thing I would say about this episode is that it didn’t seem as fun interactive as the usual. Felt a little awkward.

[mdu]

Yo tell Val to reply to AU5 we want that Collab ASAP

[RDEDtwentypercentcooler]

Au5 choose a great track of Tyltm








but I still prefer Prayers by BTSM