yeah, maybe, but if you watch 4 different vids and not one of them agrees with the other what should you believe?
An even worse case: what if three of them agree but they've got it wrong? If you do not have access to your own professional to set you straight you may well end up doing and believing something that is going to make your productions worse rather than better.
this is why getting a technical background in the discipline by studying with seasoned professionals is important to begin with.......add in your professional reading (by which I mean recognised magazines/journals and books in the field, not some half-baked blog-post) and you come close to being able to pick the poor sources of information - takes years not minutes and won't happen at all if you are not prepared to say that you need to learn wht the pros know to be true as opposed to accepting what some 14 year with fl says is true....
WHY are you arguing the point? if it doesnt sound right then look up more tutorials! no point sitting on your arse in front of your computer and NOT doing it, ESPECIALLY if you cant afford to go to school and learn it there!! where else will you learn? it teaches skill and motivation.
you can find people with reputable channels (such as FL Guru - im pretty sure FL Studio pays him to make instructional videos) and you save those channels and compare the vids.. what YOU are arguing, is laziness - if you cbf doing further research after something doesnt work the first time then maybe music production isnt for you....
i feel like youre telling me to give up because i learn from youtube? i cant afford college because i live out of home and work full time and cant afford not to be at work 5 days a week. and you know what the cost of living in sydney is like..
im actually '23 year' by the way - and here's something i cooked up from scratch in less than 3 hours last night. say what you will, your negativity is your worse enemy.
Catfish (FINAL) by SKERRICK on SoundCloud - Hear the world
^ everything there, i learnt from youtube.
dude, if you can find me a bunch of 'seasoned professionals' that want to spend their weekends/spare time with me, ill be all over the opportunity like white on rice, but you cant, so either i dont learn from ANYWHERE or i get motivated and teach myself through watching youtube tutorials.
i live in sydney mate and i know for a fact its damn near impossible to support yourself, pay the bills and study without any sort of external help.
so honestly man, take your condescending tone and quick little quips elsewhere hey.
in terms of professional reading, im frequently on the forums of soundonsound.com (hugh robjohns, mike senior etc are admins and will answer virtually ANY question - look them up to see their career accolades) and warbeats.com as well as here.
i also have about 40something editions of futuremusic magazine.
oh, and ive been at this for just over 2 years. so yeah, i guess you really hit the nail on the head there with the character profiling..
PEACE.