Peteonthebeat

Having the original intention to use it as an outlet for my music, I started Youtube back in 2013. Doing so led to the discovery of my passion for creating content. So, It didn’t take too long, and I began uploading stuff on various topics. Although low quality, some of it helped me grow as a creator and proved valuable and “interesting” to others. It also became the reason for the channel to get any subscribers.

For this, years later, after self-publishing my first book, I have some things to say to anyone who watches or happens to land on this page and my website. The first is to all my subscribers. Thank you so much for the 1000 subs! I really appreciate your support. The same definitely inspires me to improve my content and be a better creator.

The second is something to announce to all people watching or reading my stuff. While for a good chunk of time fasting, notably the OMAD plan, nutrition, and NoFap were my content’s main focus, as evident by my last uploads, that’s no longer the case. This means that I like discussing not just one or two but all the tools and tactics helping me on my path.

Apparently, the more I mature, living this hunger, fapping, drugs, sex, and other addictions-free life, the more I find answers in the practices for spiritual development, particularly in those of the Western Tradition. Because of that, I’d like to share the learned just like I did with the mentioned. Only with more structure and totally better quality. This includes summaries and reviews of different occult, philosophical and psychological texts, essential techniques, suggestions, and perhaps analyzing other content influenced by that.

Along with this, I’ll also fit some essays on long-time experiences with things that made me a better human being and life lessons learned. Something I found is that my viewers and readers tend to like those. And, I enjoy making them, so why not doing it. If I produce music, I’ll likely upload it as well. If I don’t, then it will definitely be on platforms like Bandcamp. And I’ll use it as a background in my videos, just like I do with that I already produced.

Okay! But what about the OMAD plan and fasting, NoFap, nutrition, working out, etc. Am I giving up on those? Hell, fucking no! Due to how they transformed me as a person, I plan to do each for the rest of my life. And as long as for working out… until my body allows for it.

Truth be told, if it wasn’t for those, I’ll probably never consider spirituality, let alone delve into daily-practice-requiring methods, despite there was another factor playing a role for that too. I also likely wouldn’t be writing and making content. Partly because I wouldn’t have time and energy; partly because of not having space in my mind… For this reason, and their enormous contribution to my existence, I wrote a book to serve as a manual on utilizing them together. Dedicated to the people who find my content helpful, the book’s also written for the kind of person I was when starting my journey.

Though the best platform for sharing everything, Youtube tends to… let’s just say not necessarily show content to its potential viewers. And the same applies to Google. Recognizing this, I couldn’t let all the knowledge I gathered through tons of research, experience, and struggle get scattered in videos that likely wouldn’t make it to their appropriate audience. Plus, life taught me that those things work best when applied together as parts of something greater. Hence, it’s infinitely better to have them thoroughly explained in one body of work, the summary of which you can check here.

Including the maximum amount of detail, I finally finished that body of work entirely on my own. And now what? And now… At this stage, I really don’t have anything more to say about those subjects. However, if you feel you need some personal assistance, you can fill my website’s contact form, and we’ll figure something out via email. Yet, I’m pretty sure this won’t be the case, as long as you utilize the book as written in it. As long as for unboxings and product reviews or any other videos, I don’t plan to do those unless it’s directly related to the mentioned topics. If I change plans, I’ll let you know and use a different channel.

I also won’t repeat the enormous mistake of telling my audience that I’ll upload frequently. Brainwashed by gurus, I tried that in the past, basically embarrassing myself massively by delivering abysmal value and quality. Causing tons of anxiety and burnout, this insanity hasn’t improved me as a creator even slightly. What it did, though, was teaching me two valuable lessons. (1) I’m not a frequent uploader. And (2) I can’t live with myself if posting stuff that I know I could do better with my current equipment. And this requires time…

Actually, I’d rather not upload/post, instead of uploading a piece of crap with no value, quality, and style/originality. It’s just how I’m wired, and I’m grateful for it. Plus, the mentioned system for spiritual development is commonly regarded as The Great Work. And I firmly believe the same must be presented in the possibly best manner.

Nevertheless, working on a article/video always takes several hours of my day, every day. So, whether that’s writing, recording a voiceover, filming, editing, or rerendering stuff I’m not satisfied with, you can rest assured that a video will be uploaded once meeting my criteria. Besides working harder on my articles and narration (in the past year and a half), I also invested in equipment that significantly improved my production quality: the Apollo Twin Audio Interface, the Neumann TLM 103 microphone, and the DJI Ronin S gimbal to compliment my slider.

Commonly neglected, the audio is 50% of the video, either making or breaking its quality. And now I feel mine is quite decent. Despite its audio, however, I think that a video can still be “quite boring” if excluding broll shots of the subjects discussed and light graphics relating to the topic. This is where AE and my beloved slider and gimbal come into play. Whatever I film as a broll, I always use one of the last two to bring motion into the video. The titles I do mainly in AE.

That, however, also takes plenty of time to stabilize the footage and render the sequences… Or at least it does when using a mid-2012 MacBook Pro. And the same applies to the final render, which is 4k, although youtube sometimes downgrades the quality. Hopefully, I’ll update in the future, and this will speed up things. Yet, updating seems unreasonable until seeing Apple’s entire M1 line-up. Plus, my videos can definitely use more light, and I’ll likely do that first.

Last but not least, all my videos are basically articles on my website. The most recent ones are also available in audio-only format, just in case you want to listen to them; some are also on Medium.

With that said, should you read this blog and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Well, to this, I’d say that it would be better to first consider my last uploads, which are literally my best videos. Some good recommendations include those on the Middle Pillar, the Lesser Pentagram, and the Elemental Equilibration rituals. Also, the One Year Manual Book Review and the Chicken Qabalah book summary.

If those seem intriguing, and you like how I do things (in terms of value and overall production quality, i.e., script, narrating, editing, etc.), then you most definitely should. Hopefully, I’ll see you again sticking around for the right reasons.

Thank You For Your Time!

The OLD Version

Greetings everyone…. Please allow me to introduce myself.

I go by the name of Peteonthebeat aka POTB. I’m producer, turntablist, content creator and writer/blogger.

I started messing with Turntablism aka the art of scratch around 2007. Getting involved in it helped me overcome big part of the addictions developed during my late childhood and puberty.

How that happened was mostly through battling and competing in the local DMC competitions.

My first real battle and appearance on stage was in the 2008 when I placed 2nd in the National DMC. I entered the same battle on the next year, but then I won the 1st place. 2009 was also when I stepped into a gym for the 1st time.

I continued bettering myself as turntablist and in the next years I won 3 scratch battles in the biggest academia for scratching: Qbert Skratch University (QSU).

However, to me there was no point of being able to perform all of those techniques, if I couldn’t somehow make them part of musical compositions created by me.

In the end of the day music and not anything else was the thing which ignited my passion for scratching. And same one was what I always wanted to do with it.

Incorporating the sounds I create by playing that unique on its own musical instrument in my production, later became my speciality. And very important part of my signature style.

By fooling around with different equipment and taking courses in music production, I started making beats in 2012. Back then I wasn’t calling myself Peteonthebeat. The name has been giving to me later by my mother.

Around the same time I also finished my first entirely produced and scratched by me project: “Turntable Fiend”.

Meanwhile my passion for fitness and bodybuilding also got bigger.

Admiring the physiques of the 70’s and 80’s bodybuilders, I became determined to improve mine. And eventually attain inspired by that era look.

I started learning about the different methods of training and dieting. Self experimentation was and, still is my way of finding out if something works for me or not.

Although I never wanted to compete, bodybuilding became very important part of my life. My daily training is one of the rituals which I value the most. Between 2014 and 2015 I became internationally certified as fitness trainer and nutritionist.

I also built my website Peteonthebeat.com in 2014 which as platform for my music and the other content I create.

I stumbled upon Biohacking while searching for a way to stay energetic and make gains at the gym without compromising my inspiration and creativity. Being interested in it made me start looking on my body from a different perspective and reflected on everything I do.

In 2015 and 2016 I dropped 2 entirely made by me albums “Jack Of All Trades” and “Magic Dice”.

The 1st I dropped as mixtape and the 2nd, was is my first release on iTunes.

The idea to film and edit my own music videos came while I was working on tracks and artworks/covers for both of them. So that was what I started doing.

Apart from those things I also have bachelor degree in public relations, but it never became my thing. I guess I’m way too introverted for it.

Writing on the other hand is something I wanted to do almost since I got into Turntablism.

I always knew that if I was capable of helping myself by reading and listening about other people’s stories and experiences, then probably someone out there is going to be able of doing the same after hearing about mine.

In the end of the day, I acquired all of my knowledge & skills and massively improved my whole life, because of the information provided by the good people on the internet. Shout out to them.

Creating content and doing for others what those people have done for me not only feels natural, but I also believe is the right thing for me to do.

Deep inside me I always felt like I owe it to the world. Or at least I do to some extend.

Because of that I started writing and making videos about many things including: My personal stories and experiences with different stuff, Self help, Nofap, Nutrition, Training, Lifestyle, Fitness and Others.

I as well continue producing and making music videos for some of my tracks.

Once in a while I make an unboxing video or review of something and I upload it on Youtube. I also upload my music videos and notify my subscribers if another channel publishes content created by me.

An example of that is my 2017 turntable routine, which was included on Djcity’s list with the best routines for 2017.

So if you like my work, consider subscribing. That way you’ll get notified every time when I publish new content. If you want you can also support me by making a small donation on my Patreon page. Or to follow me on Instagram.

Thanks fo reading this and have a nice one.

Yours Truly:
Peteonthebeat