What Music Production Topics Does the Tutorial Library Cover?

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The Tutorial Library at producerlibrary.carrd.co is a curated index of music production tutorials hosted on YouTube, organized into three main areas: Effects, Composition, and Sound Design, plus a Technical Info section covering general mixing and mastering. It is a link directory rather than a course — each entry points to an external video, and the site's stated aim is to be a free compendium that avoids redundancy while staying practical and in-depth. According to the site itself, the project has since evolved into a monthly newsletter at producersmonthly.substack.com.

Effects

This is the largest section, split into five sub-areas.

Dynamics & Gain

  • Beginner's guide to compression (series)
  • How to hear drum compression
  • Hearing attack and release
  • Using clippers to get loudness
  • Overview of sidechain methods, maximum accuracy in sidechaining, and sidechain compression — when and how
  • Dynamics and physical integrity
  • Limiter lookahead
  • Transfer functions deep dive

Saturation, Distortion & Waveshaping

  • How distortion works: saturation for peak control and harmonics
  • A three-part in-depth saturation/distortion tutorial series (credited to "sseb")

Filters & EQ

  • Beginner's guide to EQ (series)
  • EQ, why bother?
  • EQ ear training
  • EQ to shape distortion
  • Linear phase vs. minimum phase
  • Why most EQs shift phase, and what phase is and when it matters
  • EQ cramping
  • EQ deep dive

Reverbs, Delay & Space

  • How to shape a reverb
  • Advanced reverb explanation
  • Different ways to use reverb in mixing
  • Haas delays
  • Panning above/below the head using psychoacoustics
  • Different panning and widening methods
  • Delay beyond echo and reverb

Creative FX

  • Thinking out of the box with FX

Composition

Six sub-areas, moving from writing notes to full arrangements.

Sub-area Topics listed
Melody 5-step melody checklist; Ethiopian pentatonic scales
Harmony Chord progressions & harmony (series)
Counterpoint Counterpoint for arrangement; applied species counterpoint (series); imitative counterpoint (series); Schenkerian analysis (series); Bach's puzzle canons
Arrangement Arranging your music; arrangement of a hyperglitch EP (series); Tracey Brakes — "My Twee Monsters" project breakdowns
Ear Training Intro to ear training; the major scale
Microtonality Primer on microtonal stuff; intro to microtonal in electronic music

Sound Design

The synthesis methods section covers both classic and experimental approaches:

  • Subtractive synthesis
  • Additive synthesis
  • FM synthesis, plus an in-depth FM series and a tutorial on recreating all basic waveforms with FM
  • Granular synthesis
  • Modal synthesis with EQs
  • Physical modelling basics and techniques
  • Concatenative synthesis
  • Wavetable masterclass

Technical Info: General Mixing & Mastering

  • Mixing: The art of mixing (Dave Gibson); four traits of a good mix; ear training for mixing; basic routing terminology; phase in mixing; bus processing and mix glue
  • Mastering: Loudness and what LUFs are exactly; the three main goals of mastering; Spotify tech specs as an alternative to mastering; a Matt Davis mastering masterclass and workshop

How to Use This Index

Because the library is organized by category rather than by difficulty or software, the fastest approach is to pick the sub-area matching your current problem — for example, "why does my mix lose punch when I limit it" points to the Dynamics & Gain list, while "how do I write a countermelody" points to Counterpoint. Note that the site lists no pricing or login information for the linked videos; those terms are set by the external hosts, so check each video's own page. For ongoing updates, the site directs visitors to the Producers Monthly Substack newsletter.