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10 videos · 4 h 5 min

The ProducerTube canon

The ten videos producers have saved to their playlists most often, year after year. Digital audio, gain staging, theory, compression, a home studio, and the history and money behind it all. Short and easy first, longer talks at the end.

10 videos · 13 h 39 min

Your first track, start to finish

For anyone who has just opened a DAW. Learn the tools, enough theory to write a part, how sound is made, then how to balance, compress, EQ and finish a song at a sensible loudness.

Deep dives

One subject, up to ten videos, in an order that builds.

10 videos · 2 h 31 min

Hearing compression, from first principles

For anyone who reaches for a compressor without being sure what it's doing. Start with what the controls are, learn to hear them, then see how working engineers use compression on vocals, drums, bass and the whole mix.

9 videos · 3 h 21 min

From a loop to a finished song

For producers with a folder of eight-bar loops. Learn how songs are built, write better chords, bass and melodies, then the arrangement moves that keep a track interesting all the way to the drop.

8 videos · 2 h 34 min

Getting a vocal right, from mic to mix

Record a clean vocal at home, then EQ, compress, harmonise and dress it. It ends inside a released hip-hop session to hear how a top mixer does it.

10 videos · 3 h 39 min

Music theory without the fear

Theory for people who learned by ear. Start with notes and chords, find out why harmony works the way it does, then hear from musicians who question the rules.

8 videos · 2 h

Sampling: the craft and the history

Where sampling came from and how it's done. A six-second drum break, a 1988 TV report, then finding, chopping and flipping samples, two Prodigy rebuilds, and the legal side.

8 videos · 1 h 46 min

Indigenous music of the Americas

Editor's picks. Indigenous artists from Turtle Island to the Andes who are carrying old songs and languages into new production: Wolastoqey song arranged for piano and strings, Inuk throat singing, powwow drums over club beats, and Andean digital cumbia. Start with the music, then hear the artists explain it.

9 videos · 2 h 13 min

Made in Canada

Editor's picks. Canadian producers, studios and sessions: Daniel Lanois on the records he shaped, the Quebec studio where the Police and Rush recorded, the Toronto producers behind Drake's sound, and some fine live performances.

Between sessions

Music-adjacent: for when you need a break from the grid.

10 videos · 5 h 33 min

Comedy break

Ten minutes away from the grid. Four chords, one canon, Kraftwerk's Hokey Cokey, hits rebuilt from kitchen noises, and the lick, for as long as you can stand it.

10 videos · 3 h 33 min

Vinyl café

Records you won't hear on the radio, from labels and crate-diggers who reissue them: Arabic funk, Nigerian Afro-funk, Ivorian ziglibithy, Japanese soul, Hawaiian grooves and Peruvian cumbia. Put it on while you work. Buy the records if you love them.