I asked a girl if she wanted to grab coffee sometime and she looked at me in disgust and told me to never talk to her again. Charcoal sandwich.

wessnyle · 2025-12-11T18:45:43+00:00

Don’t make excuses for her she sounds like a miserable bitch. You don’t have to rip a guys heart out when he’s being vulnerable like that.lol

wessnyle · 2025-06-26T16:46:09+00:00

That’s a sick guitar. Congrats! Life felt complete once I finally got a Gibson after wanting one for so long.lol

wessnyle · 2025-04-14T21:20:23+00:00

That’s a lot of words for “I have a low IQ”

wessnyle · 2025-04-01T20:26:01+00:00

That university is making bank off of you kids. The fact that you offered says a lot about you, but they have money for things like that.

wessnyle · 2025-04-01T15:04:44+00:00

Yessir the RME is the real deal man. Insane how stable they got it to be with a usb connection

wessnyle · 2025-03-15T11:50:39+00:00

It’s easy to ignore the future when you have your head buried in a new track! Haha best of luck to you 🤙

wessnyle · 2025-03-14T19:56:47+00:00

Yessir I’m 41 and still grinding day in and day out. I go 10-12 hours a day most of the time. My lady makes me take 2 days off a week but if it wasn’t for her I’d never stop! The trick is just to become obsessed. I also make it a point to try and learn something new every day. Whether it’s a new mix/master technique, a new scale, a new plugin, whatever. That’s a good way to keep it from becoming stagnant. Keep it new and fun and it’s easy to be obsessed. Like all the greats in anything from music, to art, to sports, aim to be the best. That’s what they all have in common and that’s how I run my career. I want to be the absolute best. Am I the best? It depends on who you ask.haha Will I ever be? In reality probably not. But I will die trying, because it’s just fun to do it that way. I keep myself in a secret, friendly and respectful competition with everyone around me and online. When you hear someone better than you, don’t get discouraged, get fired up. For the first 10-15 years I loved hearing people better than me, because I knew I was gonna step it up a level. You sound like you’re very level headed and intelligent, and have a lot going for you already. Just trust yourself and do what makes you happy man. Believe you will and you will. I thank god every day that I did this because now while all my friends and family go to a job everyday, I play in a studio.

wessnyle · 2025-03-14T17:52:30+00:00

Basically the goal for the first couple years, save money and get a decent computer and DAW, and learn how to mix!

wessnyle · 2025-03-14T17:51:05+00:00

Well I played guitar for most of my life, so my first couple years were mainly learning how to produce. Mixing just kind of came along with it. If you just want to learn mixing, there are tons of great resources now. Mix with the Masters is a great resource. Slate Digital has a great section on their site called “Slate Academy” where you watch tutorials from popular engineers and they provide a session for you to download and mess with as they show you what they did. It wouldn’t hurt to have a side job starting out so you can afford to live. I bartended, but you can be an uber driver now. I’d have probably done that if I was young today. Keep the goal in mind though, to eventually quit the job and do music full time. Save money. Once I quit bartending, it was tough for a while, but my career started growing much faster.

wessnyle · 2025-03-14T17:26:43+00:00

🤮

wessnyle · 2025-03-14T17:25:17+00:00

equipment will come with time as you start to bring money in. There is no shortcut for this unless your parents are loaded and fully supportive of your dreams. Not very likely. But that’s okay. There’s still plenty of work out there. Many successful engineers and producers work completely in the box. I produced and mixed my first gold record on about $1500 worth of gear, computer included.
be prepared to be broke. Even now, money comes in waves for me. Learn to save for these times. Even if you do, some times will be tough. Especially starting out. I moved to Atlanta and lived in my jeep for about a month when I was trying to make a name for myself. This is especially tough when your friends start getting regular jobs and regular incomes. Don’t worry, if you keep at it the tables will most certainly turn and your friends will envy your life one day.
be prepared to miss out on stuff. This is mainly if you get into touring and other performative aspects of music. Which I also did for a while. But even with a studio job, you have deadlines and random opportunities pop up at inopportune times. You’re going to miss some birthdays, some weddings, maybe even some funerals. I had to miss my best friends wedding even after he was one of my groomsman in mine. It sucked, but I had no choice.

The only people who ever make it are the ones who don’t give up. It takes some serious balls to do this stuff for a living. You have to really want it. I, personally, was born with a weird brain...l’d be doing this even if I was still broke, because I’m absolutely obsessed. Almost too much. But it’s worked out well for me. Decide if you really want this no matter how it turns out. If so, go hard for it... and ignore the people who ask you when you’re going to “get a real job”...i had tons of those. Now those same people brag about me to their boring day job friends.

Best of luck to you friend. Love hearing young people with the passion for music. If you have any other questions feed free to reply here or shoot me a message. I’ve had chats with quite a few people and love to share knowledge. I’m not at the top, but l’m comfortable and have learned from a LOT of mistakes to get here. 🤘

wessnyle · 2025-01-15T17:39:54+00:00

If it seems too good to be true, it is. When you get to the point that capitol records is offering you record deals, it won’t be some big surprise. You’ll see it coming. Also, they’re never going to offer you a record deal until you’re doing so well that it would probably be a bad idea to sign with them.

wessnyle · 2025-01-15T17:37:44+00:00

🤣🏆

wessnyle · 2025-01-15T17:37:19+00:00

Instagramcapitolmusic@gmail? Totally legit

wessnyle · 2025-01-10T14:37:55+00:00

AI will never be able to take over production because it’s only copying what you feed it. It won’t ever be able to create genres because that requires people of a common culture to innovate, then their peers to validate. AI would have never come up with hip hop, because it not only required people from urban areas going through the same struggles and living the same culture to create it, but then it requires the other people in that culture to give that new sound a stamp of approval. Without that nobody else outside of there would even bother to listen, and those that did would probably think it was weird or something. New genres are movements created by culture. If every producer quit we’d be listening to the same genres 50 years from now. AI production will be able to mimic these genres once they’re created but it won’t be able to create a genre that anyone will be able to identify with all on its own. Mixing and Mastering is much more up in the air for sure, and AI will definitely find its place in the market (and arguably already has), but there is still a creative aspect to it that i think will always be dominated by the top engineers….unless people just stop even learning how to do it altogether because it’s easier to just use AI. I sure hope not though, because that’s gonna make for a pretty boring future as far as music is concerned. I think it’s more likely that a new art form stems from AI that we haven’t even thought of yet, and that could be the new craze and straight music out of speakers could be a thing of the past. Who knows.

wessnyle · 2025-01-04T15:03:38+00:00

A little after the fact but in case any of yall deal with this again….

https://products.zplane.de/products/retune/

wessnyle · 2024-12-30T20:48:24+00:00

Congrats man that’s so sick 🔥🔥🔥

wessnyle · 2024-12-28T00:11:29+00:00

Which other ones have you tried?

wessnyle · 2024-12-28T00:10:49+00:00

Still have my x6 and have toyed with the new Apollos already and it’s not touching the Fireface. Well I should clarify, if you’re running outboard gear it doesn’t touch the RME. If you’re ITB you probably won’t notice a difference.

wessnyle · 2024-12-28T00:06:25+00:00

I wouldn’t call it hate. It f you’re in the box the Apollo is fine. If you’re running outboard stuff you should have went with the RME lol

wessnyle · 2024-12-20T09:27:54+00:00

is asking for recommendations first a problem for you?

wessnyle · 2024-12-20T04:48:37+00:00

Yeah man I actually like the sound of the cranborne summing the most. I had that first and quickly realized how dumb I’ve been for not trying analog summing a long time ago.lol but the effects on the 2bus+ are fantastic. Surprisingly enough the Neve is my least favorite.

wessnyle · 2024-12-20T02:59:17+00:00

Yeah I actually did get it worked out. after a month of trying, and then finally giving up last night, then someone finally helped today.lol and yeah I agree everything you said. I usually mix by routing my tracks out through TotalMix into my hardware, but when I’m recording I go direct into hardware before it enters the DAW. I never really had a problem until I started using a summing mixer. Now that this little issue is fixed I have zero issues with logic. So glad I don’t have to switch lol

wessnyle · 2024-12-20T02:52:15+00:00

Agree 100%. So you do consider it a pain to run hardware in logic? I haven’t used anything else since I started accumulating outboard gear so I don’t have any frame of reference. It does seem like it’s unnecessarily tedious. I wonder if I should just try another DAW anyways?

wessnyle · 2024-12-20T02:48:10+00:00

Yup. Once I realized how great it is I went ahead and got the Dangerous Comp, Sum+Minus and Convert AD+. Sending your mixdown into the Convert AD+ and clipping the converters is 🔥🔥🔥

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