Andrew Barr
I help rock and metal artists stop spinning their wheels and actually finish and release their music.
The work:
I've landed tracks on the radio, collaborated with Fender, Slate Digital, Waves, and more — and worked with artists and bands across the US, UK, Europe, and beyond.
The teaching:
10M+ views. 1,000+ students. Official course creator for Slate Digital.
What students have done:
→ 250,000 Spotify streams on a first release
→ Paid brand deal from his music
→ Now producing for other bands
🎙️ Every week I send out Music Minute — one real lesson from the studio or the coaching chair. No fluff, no filler. Just what actually works.
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Andrew Barr
I watched my mentor blow a bands mind in one conversation. Here's how it went. 👇
Mentor: When do you want this Album out by?
Band: We don't really have a deadline. We just want it good.
Mentor: *laughs* So you probably want it out before you die... right?
Band: *Laughs* of course
Mentor: Ok then... so when do you plan on dying?
Band: 😐
Here's what he taught me: If you don't have a REAL deadline on your music that you fight for, you don't care enough about it.
11 hours ago | [YT] | 11
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You’re not a perfectionist if you’re not even working on it at all.
Go open your DAW, bruh.
23 hours ago | [YT] | 17
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A guitar pick changes the tone more than most people realize.
23 hours ago | [YT] | 19
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I have never admired a producer who said “the little stuff doesn’t matter”
1 day ago | [YT] | 11
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Planning on making a Free Masterclass soon. What would you rather I make it on?
6 days ago | [YT] | 11
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Actually good mixing advice 👇
1: The mute button is the most powerful tool to find problems. Got too much mud? Start muting things until it goes away. You can find more by muting than by soloing.
2: Most things in mixing is just volume control. Fader? Volume. Panning? Volume between left and right speakers. EQ? Volume on specific frequencies. Compression? Automatic volume control that turns down the loud parts. (The first ever compressor was called the "Leveling Amplifier" AKA "LA-2A")
Volume is MOSTLY the job, so start there.
3: A "reference track" isn't for your music, it's to calibrate your ears to your room. If you're not listening to other people's music in your studio, you don't know what your studio (or headphones) sound like.
4: If a client doesn't know you're working on their music, it's like you're not working on it at all. If you made any progress, TELL THEM. This can get you hired again.
5: You don't need a vocal booth in a home studio. MANY home studio "vocal booths" sound worse than if they just tracked in the studio next to the laptop.
Set up some acoustic treatment in your room so your monitors sound good, and your vocals should be (mostly) fine after that.
Got any more? I'd love to hear them 👇
6 days ago | [YT] | 54
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Downloading stems recorded in a multimillion dollar studio, recorded though analog gear where mixing decisions were already made, then using these stems to learn how to mix your own music recorded on a focusrite is maybe not the best idea.
1 week ago | [YT] | 26
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If you wait for perfect conditions to make music, you almost never will.
Life is rarely kind like that.
1 week ago | [YT] | 35
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The “next day mix check” is a humbling experience sometimes.
It usually means I lost sight of the sound I was going for the day before.
Regularly take 5 min breaks and use references if you have them after each break.
1 week ago | [YT] | 16
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Thoughts on the new Tone3000 plugin?
1 week ago | [YT] | 8
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