5PiECE

Struggling to achieve LOUDER mixes that compete? 🤔

Understanding how to manipulate loudness, particularly by enhancing the PERCEIVED LOUDNESS of a track, took me awhile to figure out 🥵

BUT, once I wrapped my head around it- it was a game-changer. 🤯

Mixes started cutting better across listening devices and were able to hold their own up against other industry tracks💪🏼

Like myself not-too-long-ago, this could be the very thing you’re missing too 👀

Click the link to watch the full video to learn about 3 of my favourite strategies I use EVERY TIME to get more loudness out of my mixes: https://youtu.be/3TupsTPSSlc

Use THESE 3 METHODS For LOUDER Mixes Toronto mixing engineer 5PiECE demonstrates 3 techniques to achieve louder mixes and masters.Achieving louder mixes isn't just a numbers game - its about pre...

“Wherever you go, there you are” - Jim Russell

I don’t know if you know this but…

Putting myself out there through my content has not been easy ❌

We’ll actually, at first it was - because nobody gave a s**t 💩 nobody watched my videos, nobody cared but I continued to post 📲

0 followers became several thousand, and on YouTube I just passed 13,000 subscribers today 🤯

It’s been a blessing to do this and grow as a person, and educator, in the process 🙏🏼

However, as my lessons reach more people daily, I’ve begun to encounter a lot more reisistance, pushback and just general negativity lately 📉

Comments from people who don’t know me at all yet literally question my knowledge, experience, character and integrity 🤔

Honestly, I’m not used to it 😅

My mission with my free content has always been to HELP people 🤝

To TEACH them what I never knew and show them things that I had to learn the HARD way 👷🏼‍♂️

Lessons learned when I was barely sleeping 3 hours a night, interning at 2 studios and working a night shift at a warehouse to make ends meet 😣

Building my own business from scratch with no prospects or guarantees 🎲

Winning $200,000+ in grants from $0 💸

I have to remind myself that I am NOT who these haters try to make me out to be 😓

These days, I’m more shocked that I have haters to begin with 😳

But like my guy told me the other day:

“I don’t know anyone that’s winning who takes time out of their day to leave negative comments on a post”

Hopefully that isn’t you 🚫

And if you’re going through something similar - If people are doubting you, throwing shade, and projecting their negative emotions onto you when all you’re trying to do is DO GOOD….well….

I guess we’re both winning 😉

WHY do YOU do what you DO? 🤔

I’ve been an entrepreneur (in the music space of all things) since 2015 📍

7+ years and counting of relying on myself to make ends meet ⏱

My choice to pursue this path boiled down to AUTONOMY 🚀

Being able to fully decide what I want to do, when I want to do it 💪🏼

For years I worked for others; helping them build their dreams while simultaneously never working on my own 🛠

I was UNFULFILLED and worse, I did nothing to fix it 😢

I really didn’t want to REGRET not at least TRYING to pursue my dream 💭

And I feared that a few more years on the path I was on would LOCK me in 🔐

Until one day I was FED UP 🤬

When I decided to become an entrepeneur, I had a full time job offer at a marketing company with a nice salary and benefits, and I turned it all down to pursue music fully 🫡

I was $30K in debt, getting out of a toxic relationship, with almost nothing in my bank account, no prospects, no guarantees - really NOTHING that made it a LOGICAL decision 🧠

All I had, as cliche as it sounds, was my FRUSTRATION in my circumstances, and my BELIEF in myself - that if I actually gave it 100% of my effort, I would HAVE TO succeed EVENTUALLY 🔑

And now, I make an honest living doing WHAT I love WITH people I love while HELPING others along the way 🙏🏼

Now it’s not all sunshine and rainbows - I certainly have eaten my fair share of 💩 over the years and likely still will in the future 📆

Years of unrelenting work from wake-up to bed time, no days off ☀️🌕

Being judged and doubted by those you thought would support you most 💔

Making a horrifying amount of mistakes and learning the hard way (which also turns out to be the best way) ❌

I would not wish this life on somebody who isn’t meant for it. It’s not easy, and the journey comes with many peaks and valleys (You mostly see the peaks here on Instagram) 🏔

But I’m THANKFUL that I took a chance and never let up 🎲🙌🏼

I’m EXCITED for what’s coming next ➡️

And I’m OPTIMISTIC that if I was able to pull THIS off, you can do whatever the f**k you believe you can too. BET THAT. 🎰

So why do I do what I do? 🤔

Because I STILL like to prove MYSELF and OTHERS wrong ✅