So when I posted my remix of Porter Robinson's cheerleader, most of the comments on it were really supportive and nice. But it's always the negative comments that you remember the most and leave the most impact. It's like that with a lot of things, I think it's something about human nature. And this one comment particularly stuck out to me and it's something that people have said before when they completely don't understand what I do with Remixes. So let's talk about it. Now I'm going to take the name out. I don't want to direct any kind of hate towards this person, but let's read this. The classic remix of putting drums and bass over the original song with little to no editing. So there was a little back and forth on this, but the general gist is that I'm essentially adding nothing and not being creative, not creating enough of a transformative work for this particular person. I offer to show them the project and how they are wrong. So let's take a look. Before we do that, apparently just asking people to subscribe is enough to get people to do it. So just like do it. The button's down there. Just click it. Touch it. What are you waiting for? All right. So let's take a look at the track. So as you can see, this is a lot more of a complex project than just the original audio, some drums and some bit of weight. Let's go on on here. Let's just listen to this. All right. This is what it would look like and what it would sound like if what they said was actually true. This is what the project looks like. Now I realize I should probably just let comments like this go, delete them, block them, whatever, but it really kind of irks me when someone doesn't in crew goes the whole perception of your creative work and minimizes it into something that in actual fact, it blatantly isn't. This will be the early time I go over this for someone who says something like this. Next time it happens, I can just point them here. In fact, I actually have them again while I was writing this script. A lot of people will look at something that they don't understand and make a patently wrong and broad generalization of it to minimize the skill involved in something. Have you ever heard people mischaracterize death metal and say that like the band is just chaoticly thrashing at their instruments and screaming nonsense to the microphone. It's either intentionally misleading in order to diminish someone's work or they truly don't know and don't want to see them hurt. So let's pick up on the statement. Let's start with the original song with little to no editing because really everything else doesn't matter if this statement is false. One of the first things I like to do with Remix is to split the tracks into stems with AI. For the most part, I've discarded the drums and I would normally discard the bass too. Sometimes I don't even use the instrumental part but I really like the guitar lines in this track and I wanted them kind of represented in the verses. The bass itself isn't really necessary but there are some kind of like textural things that I really liked and wanted to include. Let's actually take a look at it. So the bass itself is like heavily EQed, got some distortion on it and then a shape of box and some reverb. The incoming audio is already pretty well side-chained to a 4x4 beat but the distortion ruins it. So something like shape of box or LFO tool or even free limiter with a side-chain trigger can kind of get that back. The vocals themselves, I usually have this preset vocal chain that I just kind of mess with, kind of does everything I need for vocals. It really just has like a little bit of reverb, some compression to sort of bring it back up and then this side-chain compression and then some, do I even do anything with the EQ? I don't think I touched this from the last project that I made. It's just like this really high-end roll-off and this random, last tiny notch. I don't think that's really necessary. And the instrument, the instrument and the whole part of it doesn't really have anything but some, I think, some extra side-chain to really duck it on the kick. I also have this other vocal line down here that's in the intro and the outro that just has like a shape of box on it. Just for some like ambient kind of stuff, let's play it, listen to that. Yeah, just this like weird, like when you actually have everything all together, it's really kind of in the background. Woo, my computer's struggling a little bit on this. Maybe I need to close some shit. Ah, plays a little bit better. I don't know about y'all but I wouldn't call that little to no editing. Yeah, let's see if I can get a wall chop of that, that bass I was talking about the bass texture. I think we just need to hear this. I think it's a good one right here. Oh yeah, you hear that. Let's hear that sounds in the actual pharma mix. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty nice. Okay, so the next part, drum and bass is according to them, that's the only thing I actually added. This is a lead. These are some pads. I'm going to include some other stuff with this one but them are some plucks. And there's a whole bunch of effects and shit. Yeah, I know it's not my most complex remix. You should check out my Get Your Wish remix. There's a lot more in that one. But it means you're technically wrong, which is the best kind of wrong. And I think I know where your mind is going when you see shit like this, like these, let's see, specifically this, like these fills. Catch me a sample pack or like, you know, an almond break. Or these random bar end fills. Oh my God, he's using pre-made garbage. Personally, I think that criticism is really pedantic and inconsequential. You can take that argument to the extreme and be like, I don't know, like Lama God's drummer is super uncreative because he doesn't go and kill and skin a cow to make a snare drum. He's using a pre-built snare drum like a cheetah. That's some stupid, stupid shit, that's some stupid shit like that. I get that there's a spectrum of what an individual would find creative or uncreative. Man, what makes your opinion special? You're the only one talking. Do you think, do you think everyone actually believes that there's no creative merit in a remix like this? I mean, I understand remixes are inherently less creative than an original track, but that's, that's what remixes are. This video was really not necessary. I didn't need to spend my time making this. I get that. But it might be useful for some people to be reminded that this court exists for a reason. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything. But I guess that doesn't help if your actual understanding and perception is actually wrong from the get go. If you want to give constructive criticism and I mean constructive criticism, then the complement sandwich strategy is a great technique to use if you don't want to sound like an asshole. I find it crazy how I've been able to let my experience of making and releasing this remix to be tainted by one person's negativity. And in actual fact, it is just that one person out of what I'm super happy and stoked to see quite a few people who had seen this and been thoughtful enough to leave a nice comment. Something that shows me that my work is appreciated. Thank you to those people. I'm going to keep making remixes the way that I make them because it's clear that people enjoy them. I'm not going to change for the few people who can't see the value in what I do, whether you think it's creative enough for you or not. People find value in it. People enjoy it. It brings happiness into people's lives. That's enough for me. I'm going to keep making remixes the way that I make them.