I was questioning my life choices after seeing him purchase the Zahl with - I assumed - his own income from synthfluencer videos…however debt financing might be another explanation 
I think about this a lot with his videos. He has so much gear, so much expensive gear, more than can ever hope to be used.
It’s not a judgement, I am up to my neck in gear. I just love the gear itself as much as I love using it. This isn’t my career and I don’t record. I wonder how he affords all this stuff…it’s way beyond my collection and I am frequently struggling and sacrificing other areas to maintain and grow my collection.
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Maybe being a synth YouTuber just pays way more than most people think it does. I have found that there is a pretty strong inverse relationship between the actual importance of a job and the amount of money it pays…
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Nothing malicious but I often wondered myself how he got that Zahl and all the gear he gets his hands on 
I think he gets a lot of assumptions like having rich parents or he married into royality 
but he did a video on the very topic - all seems very genuine and basically down to hard work.
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And I’ve just noticed that he always looks fucking knackered 
… maybe he drives a taxi and does a bit of bar work on the side
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I watched the first fifteen minutes of this (his income, not how I could build to something similar). And he does not put figures on the last two sources of income (commissions/collaborations, and live concerts), but the rest of it adds up to a decent but modest income, probably less than mine. And then I looked at the price of that Zahl mixer. I had underestimated it by an entire order of magnitude, a factor of 10. Elektron sent him the A4, probably other companies send him stuff, but I’m guessing Zahl did not? I’d have to plunge into YouTube to try to answer that, and while I can read very quickly, I can only watch videos at 2x.
It’s called aging.
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I don’t know anything about the guy but he clearly has money, and it’s not from making music or his YouTube channel.
Edit: Ah there’s a video, its toooo loooong haha. I didn’t assume parents though, just that he had a day job.
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Wonder how much 24k subscribers gets you.
From what I understand that’s starting to generate something more substantial.
He only recently started popping up in my feed.
My partner does this marketing and her example was a guy that gets avg 45k views per video, and is making $1k to 3k per month.
I know one of the guys gets like 2m views per video and makes about double that in income per month.
Anyways, maybe Oora could be a trust fund kid, won the lottery, hit it with crypto etc etc… Idk why its weird an average person to have some wealth or buy gear
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Me either.
Maybe he has a bad ass job 
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You can always ask @fredweb (Oora), he’s on Elektronauts. All I know is he was a Photographer.
There’s no judgement, just sheer curiosity. I basically have zero understand of anyone’s money situation. Close friends, family, even myself half the time lol.
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Wow, did not expect to read about people questioning my life on elektronauts.
Well, this is the “knackered” Oora , happy to reply to your questions.
Let’s try to shed some light on my vicious job.
I am a full time content maker and musician, I do my living with that,and it is hard as hell. I used to be a pro photographer and was doing easily 4x what I do now. Do I regret any choice? some days , but mostly I am happy.
I have been teaching my whole life just because I love it and it is my calling to share what I know and have. I discussed clearly how and why I do what I do, but obviously I can’t expect everyone to follow all my steps.
Doing content is a weird thing: you need to catch attention and keep yourself credible, so little by little you have to expose yourself to hating, which is something unavoidable.
@natehorn : I am not corrupted, I work with brands and only the ones I love. I have to keep my channel updated , I try to balance new gear with videos about creativity and music in general. Did you try to watch anything? The reality is that most of the people just want to see me talk about new gear whiteout even knowing I am a musician too.
Also you say my money come CLEARLY not from music. How do you know that? why you even feel entitled to say that? Would you go to any person sporting a cool car saying things like that? why a YouTuber deserve being joked upon? I did a video about that but is “too long” for you. so you jumped to conclusion even when I was giving you a detailed explanation. This feels really weird to me.
@TransGirlHappyHardcore since you know what I am up to, shed some light. I always love when some random strangers can share some truth in the form of witty short sentences.
@Tchu thanks for being an earlier follower. My videos in my little home paid absolutely zero, and it was not a sustainable model. I still do music, I still do almost daily IG video with just music. I’m trying, mate.
@mukade lot of people asked me about the comparison , mostly because of the 4 voice architecture and for the live use.
@cane_creek yes, it is my job, you are welcome to skip my video for ever. What I say might be blatantly obvious for you, but , guess what, world is filled with people with different opinions.
@HBIII be happy for me , if you can. No needs to be worried. I work , I pay my bills. I use lot of the things I have for my music and scoring, I can’t keep doing video of everything .
@sir-vector there are savings too!
@PJO my income range from 2 to 4k monthly, which is great money if you live outside the US. In Berlin that pays easily for an apartment , a studio and life expenses. Luckily the synths come at a deal.
I love what I do and I am actually working a lot to keep it running. I struggled with depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome and doing what Im doing , whit passion and honesty is what keep me alive.
I never refrained to reply to questions and I love discussions, when empower people.
I know that spending time replying to hate(ish) is never a good idea, but reading some of your messages was hurtful and I dont think I deserve any bad vibes. I dont do any harm. I just talk about music and instruments.
And to close: is 3 weeks im using daily the A4 , I love it and I am proud to be collaborating with Elektron. It will not substitute the Perfourmer. But it will be my live performances tool, I think.
Forgive me for grammar mistakes.
Ciao to everyone!
Fed aka Oora
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Hey man,
I just wanted to let you know that I love your channel, and hope you keep doing what you’re doing. I’ve been a subscriber for a long time now.
I’d also like to apologize on behalf of the greater community. Honestly, some people think they’re entitled to know everything about everyone these days. It’s really too bad that they can’t just enjoy the music.
Good on you for being straight with them. That took some courage.
Cheers!
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You sure don´t.
Youtube and the influencer space is this weird space between being a public and private figure.
Its good that you call us out when we get to comfortable “berating” the public figure.
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AFAICT, Elektronauts is generally cool (haven’t been here that long myself), but I have noticed that YouTube content is a topic that brings out the worst in people here and drags the discourse down to the usual low interweb standards.
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That and Teenage Engineering and Behringer.
its the holy trinity of bad vibes on Elektronauts 
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Back on topic: I enjoyed Oora’s A4 vs. PERfourMER comparison (and other of his videos). I was recently faced with that exact choice and I chose the A4. Still honeymooning, so the jury is out, and PERfourMERs often come up for sale around my way so I’m tempted every time.
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Seriously, I don’t think there’s any bad vibes (from what I can see anyway), and my comment was light-heartedly taking the piss, but that’s on me (I’m from north west UK, so that’s just how we are) - I’ll apologise if it was out of line. Your channel is cool, and one the ones that I actually watch a lot of, plus the music is good and relevant.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond 
Certainly no bad vibes intended. I’ll try to explain should you care to read.
I’ve watched many of your videos and it’s clear you put a lot of time and effort into them, and I’ve always enjoyed the music you make - as they have become more gear-focussed over time it’s hard not to notice that change.
But note my words, I recognised that I was being a cynic and paranoid, I wasn’t trying to make any strong assertions, just assumptions that I shared perhaps too freely.
Just to clear up a couple of things quickly though which I hope help cast things in a less negative light:
My comment about being ‘corrupted by big synth’ was supposed to be read as being silly, an exaggeration in reply to the previous comment, said very much with a touch of sarcasm. I’m British it’s how we work. Even if I do feel that there is more of a commercial angle I don’t sincerely believe you are a corrupted man, at worst I would believe you are someone taking advantage of the opportunities afforded to them.
Regarding your income, you misread slightly, I said that you ‘clearly have money’, but then did posit that it wasn’t from music. Maybe a minor correction but my main assertion was that you appear to be a man of means. The reason I assume this isn’t for any negative reason - a lot of folks that enjoy synths as a hobby have a job that can support it - my assumption was based on the idea that you appear to be doing very well for yourself, I’m genuinely surprised that your music career can support that - I don’t intend that as an insult (I enjoy your music), it’s just based on my perception of the income opportunities that would be available to you in that position and the size of your channel. Sorry I didn’t watch the full video, it was late and honestly I wouldn’t normally spend my time watching that kind of content, I’d posted my comment before I saw it was added which is why I added the edit.
Anyway I apologise that you stumbled into this conversation and it appears so negative. I certainly have felt that your videos have taken on a slightly more salesman flavour but I never intended to make you feel that way, for that I apologise sincerely 
You should keep doing what you love either way it’s clearly working for you and I appreciate the passion you put into your work.
Perhaps ironically I am often the one that attempts to douse the flames on anti-synthfluencer retoric, so I find it somewhat comedic I find myself in this position.
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