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13 Best Music Production YouTube Channels
YouTube is a great place to learn music production but finding the right channels that offer good music production content is not that easy. That’s why in this post I’ll list the best (in my opinion) music production YouTube channels.
1) Pensado's Place
I had to start with Pensado’s Place, I just had to. Dave Pensado (mixing engineer) and Herb Trawick (producer) run their weekly show where they interview the best in the game of music production. I really love how in depth they go in their interviews and the great guests they’re bringing to the show. Absolute must watch for every, well, everyone.
2) Rick Beato
Ricky is a record producer, songwriter and an excellent sound engineer. He’s also an incredible musician and he loves his rock music (which you can clearly see from the themes of his videos). He goes really deep into music production with his tutorials as well as his rock music how to videos. Great channel.
3) Future Music Magazine
Future Music Magazine focuses mostly on electronic music but that doesn’t mean everyone can’t learn something new on this channel. They deconstruct famous tracks, often sitting alongside with the producer. Very interesting series is the NAMM series where they review all the latest gear and software from the NAMM show.
4) Waves Audio
The official channel for Waves Audio produce not only reviews of their latest plugins and tutorials on how to use them. They also put out a ton of very useful music production videos (mostly with the use of their own plugins). So if you own any Waves plugins (I’m pretty sure everyone does) this channel can be a game changer for you.
5) Andrew Huang
Andrew is a young producer and musician from Toronto. His channel is all about new production tricks, new gear and lots of fun. His style is quirky, fast and very funny. Worth checking.
6) Mix with the Masters
Mix with the Masters is mostly known for their courses but their YouTube produce video with some of the best audio engineers in the world. From Eddie Kramer, Chris Lord-Algee to Bob Clearmountain and many many more.
7) In The Mix
In The Mix is run by Michael Wynne, an FL power user and audio engineer. He shares lots of tutorials ranging from recording and mixing to mastering. He’s doing masterclasses on compressions, EQ’ing and many many more.
8) Produce Like A Pro
If you’ve spent any time on YouTube looking for music production content you’ve surely came across Warren Huart’s channel Produce Like a Pro. Warren’ stye is funny but informative at the same time. He’s one of the legends in the music industry (not only engineering), and you should definitely subscribe to his channel.
9) Cubase
When you starting out the chance that you’re using Cubase is pretty high but to understand how to get good with Cubase you really need a bit of help. The Cubase official channel will do just that – help you out with all the functionality of their DAW.
10) Berklee Online
Berklee is mostly known for their Berklee College of Music but their YouTube channel produces a lot of great and informative videos. From vocal techniques, film composing, production tips to copyrighting and songwriting.
11) Recording Revolution
Probably one of the longest running YouTube music production channels – Recording Revolution. Graham Cochrane can teach you not only music production but also all the aspects of making music and recording music.
12) Point Blank Music
Point Blank Music has been voted best electronic music school and their YouTube channel really reflects that. From deconstructing classic EDM tunes to in depth tutorials. Great for every electronic music fan and engineer.
These are my top 12 music production YouTube channels. I really think you’ll find them useful and fun because music production is about the fun too!
As a shameless plug (haha) I’ll also suggest to check out my own YouTube channel. It’s definitely not the best (yet) but I’m putting a lot of work into it and I hope you’ll enjoy watching it too!
Thanks for reading!
Tom
I’m Tom S. Ray and I’m head mastering engineer at Audio Unity Group. I also hold a bachelor with honours degree in music from Kingston University in London, I lecture mastering to students in Edinburgh College and to my online students via my Mastering Mastery audio mastering online course.
