The Power Of YouTube.

YouTube can be an extremely powerful tool for bands, as an extremely famous artist called Justin Bieber has found out. Future Idiots, a more appropriate example of using YouTube to their advantage have been doing pop to pop/punk sounding covers and they are starting to get 1000's of views on each of their video's and I believe that a large amount of their success is from good covers on YouTube, sticking to their specific genre (in this case their genre is Pop/Punk), finding a target audience and doing something that nobody else has either done or nobody does on a regular basis.

For Future Idiots creating pop to pop/punk covers, they have built a large fanbase all around the world, and therefore they have got a large audience that will listen to any of their originals.

Basically, what I am trying to say is that, if your in a new band and you want to create a name for yourself, do covers! lets say you are a heavy metal band but you still have some punk influences, do a ramones cover.... into your genre! It will create new fans, as well as strike up a discussion weather its good or bad (because it is an old song put into a new genre, there will be old fans that hate it, and new fans that like it) Discussion in this case is very very good!!

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Mixing: Before and After

Now, I can show you the after mix! It is still not a perfect example of mixing, but it shows the basics, and the basis of which mixing is built around.

I have created my own sort of EQ and by no means is it a professional, or recommended EQ although it sounds good for this recording and this style of song.

Attached is a screen recording of me showing you everything I have done in the mix to take it from very basic, to average, I am still working on it to get it sound as good as I can.

 I hope you can learn from it. Any questions feel free to ask and I would love to answer or hear any feedback. I do however have two active gates on my snare channel.... Im not to sure why although it did help :P

Thanks!

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Illusions

I don't know much background information on these guys, but after listening to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBEao_x9Bs I really like them, they have an awesome thick sound. good solid vocals.

I really like the sound that they have, it reminds me of a Linkin Park sort of sound, as the synthesiser sounds are backing through the song.

I have been checking out the user "TheBrendanSouth" And he has some really really good stuff on his channel! I really reccomend you check them out!! A song I really like is "Lights Out!" definitely  need to check these guys out!

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