How long do you typically spend on a track

genfu · Post by **genfu** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:48 pm

how long do usually you spend making a single track, which you'd call finished?

mamosa · Post by **mamosa** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:12 pm

intersting this one

vonboyage · Post by **vonboyage** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:26 pm

Varies Really..

Most tunes i dont even finish, i go back to em like a month later n think..

"ahh i got an idea for this.."

and then end up using the drum pattern/melody in something else..

... which i then finish in a week

But Yeah..

A Week I'd Say.

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:39 pm

Normally try and stick with one track for a week or so, then resign to the fact its rubbish, and start another one a few weeks down the line. Repeat to fade.

vonboyage · Post by **vonboyage** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:42 pm

kins83 wrote:then resign to the fact its rubbish, and start another one a few weeks down the line. Repeat to fade

Im Sure Ur Beats Aint That Bad !

kellu · Post by **kellu** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:03 pm

mmm that really depends ,sometimes in 2 days you have a nice stuff and things are running fast and sometimes you have to work on really more hard and 1 week is not enough ,there no absolute rule

fubar · Post by **fubar** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:18 pm

most of the time if im really on it ill get most of it down in a couple of days and spend a few more days getting it sounding as good as I can, all the tracks that I like and have gone well are like this, if it take longer than a day or 2 to get the main body of the track down 80 per cent of the time I wont finish it/ get bored of it.

blood_on_neon · Post by **blood_on_neon** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:41 pm

Same. My tracks normally go down in 2-4 days, then I go back and tweak. There's no real rule though.

narcossist · Post by **narcossist** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:46 pm

sequence a track from stratch in a night, fuck with for a week, hate it, realise a week or so later its not too bad and finish it within a month. then hate it again

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:45 pm

Ive finished one dubstep beat, took me ages to get that far. normally start x amount in a month, never happy with them and dont have a plan for finishing them like I do with my hip hop. Hip hop I can start and finish a tune in a day, normally have a few started and a few to be finished going at any one time.

threnody · Post by **threnody** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:09 pm

Depends...the latest track i started really was 6 months but some of the ones i've just finished are 2 years in the making...it's a long process with lots of different stages. Obviously the actual basics are usually quite quick (put down the structure etc...of 2 tracks in about 5 hours today) but tweaking, adding, effecting, moving to other pieces of software, listening, mastering, editing....it can take forever so i suppose at some point things are just done....

Always worth giving it time!

unempty · Post by **unempty** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:21 pm

There is no "It's never finished" or "No idea, I was outta my head" option, so I'll have to pass.

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:04 am

I've done tracks in about 15 mins before. Genarally its 48 man hours spent over two weeks. I used to spend months just on drums. Then i though fuck it just do whateveer comes out.

sully_shanks · Post by **sully_shanks** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:58 am

48hrs is about right. tho thats when im colab-ing. get way more anal about detail when workig solo.

j_j · Post by **j_j** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:42 pm

45 mins tops.
make 10 tunes day..youll have sutin to pick from then.

jack sparrow1 · Post by **jack sparrow1** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:01 pm

J_J wrote:45 mins tops.
make 10 tunes day..youll have sutin to pick from then.

word

same

obiwan · Post by **obiwan** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:05 pm

Twenty mins minimum 1 day max

misk · Post by **misk** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:55 pm

all my dubstep tracks that im putting online now have been 12 years in the making.

i invented dubstep in my room over a decade ago, but im just now playing them out.

really about 48 man hours sounds right.

blood_on_neon · Post by **blood_on_neon** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:29 am

Fairdoos to the fast-as-fuck crew!

Need to train myself to do that: I dither too long sometimes!

blip · Post by **blip** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:33 pm

First ideas could be in one day, finished tracks I guess very very seldom in less than one month, if I can ever call them finished.

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