We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Soundproof a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Soundproof , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

In the beginning I think like everyone starting out in this industry, it was hard not to gravitate towards feeling like I needed the whole expensive setup in order to be successful. I wanted the plugins, monitors, headphones, software etc that I was seeing all the top industry producers and artists using.

It took me a while to change that mindset into using what I had and just learning the ins and outs of how to make the best sounding music I could with what I had as I grew. It’s a never ending process but I think that’s part of the pull for creatives like me towards music where we need something that we can turn to to escape or express ourselves that never truly is finished so we can constantly be improving, learning, and evolving

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am a music producer in Salt Lake City Utah. I mainly specialize in making beats for artists in all types of different music genres from Rnb to Trap to EDM. I’ve been making music for as long as I can remember and decided to start taking it seriously as a business about 3 years ago. I run a youtube channel and beat store where artists can look through and purchase the beat they want, and have had the opportunity to have worked with artists all across the country. I’m most proud of my work that I’ve done with artists here in locally in Utah. I feel that there is so much talent here and love that I get to be a part of collaborating with local artists to grow and expose the rest of the world to the growing music scene we have here. Working with local artists also gives me the chance to be physically in the studio with them and it’s always a much better experience to be able to make something from scratch in person. In my opinion that always yields better end results and I am currently working on being able to do that more often.
I also have my own music that I make being a producer it gives me the power to be able to have 100% control of my projects from start to finish with producing, recording, and engineering my own songs. I look forward to dropping more music under my name as both a producer making albums featuring other artists in the style of Metro Boomin to showcase more of the local talent, as well as my own tracks under my own artist name.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I don’t think there is any particular goal or mission driving me. What I mean by that, is I’ve always made music. I made music for almost a decade before I ever even released any of it or showed any friends or family. This is something that I would be doing if it was making me money or not. It’s something I would be doing even if nobody ever got to hear anything that I made. Personally, making music has just always been a part of my life and if anything, the mission driving my creative journey is my mission to stay mentally equipped to handle life. I use it as an outlet, therapy, and something I can turn to to express myself in ways that I’m unable to through words.

How did you build your audience on social media?

When I first decided I was going to go this route and become a producer for other people, at the time I was running this Instagram account with a friend revolving around gaming that we had grown to become pretty big. We had both gotten tired of pursuing this and didn’t want to run it any longer, so I ended up taking it over and making it into my own producer account. Obviously there was a disconnect in the type of content I was starting to post so that was a challenge to overcome, but being able to start out with an account like that I feel was a big advantage. It got my foot in the door and allowed me to be able to work with people who otherwise wouldn’t have paid me attention as well as gave me a sizable audience out the gate. Lucky for me I had the talent and the music to back it up, because if I didn’t, the following wouldn’t have meant anything. With that going for me, everything else was just about being consistent. I started posting on youtube multiple times a week, I posted new beats on my beat store daily, and began using Instagram and Snapchat to build relationships with other artists. I tried to connect with just about every decent artist I could find in Utah and was able to gain attention through that and word of mouth.
So all in all I guess my biggest piece of advice would just be consistent. Don’t let up. Might have to be for years but if you see growth, no matter how slow, you’re doing something right so keep at it. And also networking is so so important, especially in this industry. Your ability to network is just as important as your ability to make the music.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/SDPF?fbclid=PAAab063LUEu2ztrvE0t0OrjKJ_6bdBRkBzkbZR_Asx3AZa6i_Ew0QV9dj30o_aem_th_AaWdBNW8CTsQcMVRpYBQZSFKqZ0uPoBP0SmstZhAurbHhctGXBDdSIQBSFd-_2EMsAM
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/prodsoundproof?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@prodsoundproof
• Other: https://www.beatstars.com/prodsoundproof

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