What should I be doing?

[Foreplay]

To get better at producing, like should i just make tracks and learn as i go, or is there stuff i should be reading? Just wondering and wanna see what you guys think.

[Neds Newt]

Both

[hasezwei]

don't read/learn too much. you'll end up forcing yourself to do stuff, have too high expectations and when you fail to meet them you'll end up frustrated which makes you slowly hate producing.

and do not try to learn certain stuff to the point where you forget what kind of music you actually want to make. i did that, now i can make reese basslines that sound like everyone else's, woop dee fucking doo.

so my advice would be: do tunes until you've found your own style, no matter how crap they might be and then worry about sound quality

[zerbaman]

don't read/learn too much. you'll end up forcing yourself to do stuff, have too high expectations and when you fail to meet them you'll end up frustrated which makes you slowly hate producing.

and do not try to learn certain stuff to the point where you forget what kind of music you actually want to make. i did that, now i can make reese basslines that sound like everyone else's, woop dee fucking doo.

so my advice would be: do tunes until you've found your own style, no matter how crap they might be and then worry about sound quality

Yeah this. I'm pretty pissed off for approaching it in a similar way to hasezwei. Really I blame dubstep for this. Before I heard it I made music, then afterwards, I was making dubstep. Knowledge really shuts doors in some ways. Now I dunno if I'll ever find "My Sound"

[3za]

Producing, now get to it

I learn something everytime I make a track, and I feel the learning curve to be exponential for me. I have been grinding for years, but the last few months everything has just started to click together, and I fell that I am developing more than ever.

What I am trying to say is that know one, learnt to play saxophone from a book, and the road is a hard one, but if you keep your head in your daw, you should get there one day.

But most importantly have fun

[Heartless]

Spend a lot of time learning to program a synth. Sounds like a no-brainer but a lot of people seem to just try to get by with only the most basic knowledge.

First, make sure you completely understand all the different parts and the terminology. Then start recreating sounds you've heard in tracks, and not just dubstep wobbles. Simple ones at first, then move on to the more complex stuff. You wanna get to a point where if you hear a sound, you think "That sound like a square with an LFO on the pitch and..."

[Foreplay]

Producing, now get to it

I learn something everytime I make a track, and I feel the learning curve to be exponential for me. I have been grinding for years, but the last few months everything has just started to click together, and I fell that I am developing more than ever.

What I am trying to say is that know one, learnt to play saxophone from a book, and the road is a hard one, but if you keep your head in your daw, you should get there one day.

But most importantly have fun

I see

[ChadDub]

don't read/learn too much. you'll end up forcing yourself to do stuff, have too high expectations and when you fail to meet them you'll end up frustrated which makes you slowly hate producing.

This. So much this.

[Sine69]

The best way to learn is to do

[ChadDub]

Just follow your heart, and your soul will follow the ponies.

[TekWarfare]

Chronic masturbation

[Karoshi]

Producing, now get to it

I learn something everytime I make a track, and I feel the learning curve to be exponential for me. I have been grinding for years, but the last few months everything has just started to click together, and I fell that I am developing more than ever.


But most importantly have fun

This.

I have noticed that in the last month or so, instead of starting 10 things a week and at most one of them turning into a semi listenable song, that now im starting maybe 5 a week and 4 of them are developing into something more. things DO just click all of a sudden, usually when you dont expect it! just keep at it.