So, how do you guys stay up late in the studio ?

[Shum]

[ComfiStile]

I have the complete opposite problem. When I have work in the morning and have ideas floating about, I have to force myself to go to sleep. It takes ages too.

I'm like an over excitable dickhead puppy.

[ChadDub]

Some nights I'll be producing, and it'll turn 12 AM and I'll still want to get something done, so I'll open up FL and just fuck with random shit, but I know deep down that I don't feel like doing this shit and that I won't get anything worth while done, so I just go to bed.

[tavravlavish]

I have a bad habit of getting stoked on a tune and staying up till as late as 10 in the morning. I get addicted to the tune and can't stop working on it. So... just get stoked dude!!

[Manic Harmonic]

Hypomania and caffeine.

[-[2]DAY_-]

Yerba mate, nutrition (keep your blood glucose level relatively stable), and Vyvanse.

$100 says it's not the mate or diet making this equation an effective one....
But mate is good.. more gentle and longer lasting than coffee imo

[Hyacinth]

smoke alot of weed (works for me, if it makes you tired or lazy your plain weird)

Coffee and willpower.

[Gewze]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed

[[asterisk]]

Yerba mate, nutrition (keep your blood glucose level relatively stable), and Vyvanse.

Seeing as how the third is only obtainable legally with a prescription, I would say your two realistic options are yerba mate and healthy, spaced out snacking. However, yerba mate alone does work wonders. Look it up.

Vyvanse keeps me functional in this f'd up world. But I'm opposite too, I have to take a pill to sleep when I'm wanting to work on a track.

[kaiori breathe]

I have sick ass ideas for a track, i really need time to put stuff together and make new sounds, but unfortunately i have work in three hours -_-, so i was thinking why not just work on the track throughout the night? ive tried in the past but i tend to fall asleep and have NO drive at all to produce, its weird. So my question is what do you guys do to stay up throughout the night ?

Exercise regularly, eat right = need only 5/6 hours sleep a night, max, with plenty of allowance for burning the candle at both ends when you need to in order to get some tunes done.

Alternatively, if you're a pussy, take the easy way out and just cram yourself full of shit loads of prescription medication.

[Manic Harmonic]

A better question would be, how do you guys NOT stay up late int the studio? Ill stay up till 4 or 5 when I have to be up at 7. Often times I just don't sleep at all.

[atticuh]

Alternatively, if you're a pussy, take the easy way out and just cram yourself full of shit loads of prescription medication.

I'm not sure that's a very fair statement considering the majority of people who mentioned prescription medications take them because they were diagnosed with a medical condition and are completely dysfunctional without the focus such a medication grants. In such a context, you might as well be saying that chemotherapy is also for pussies. Is taking a medication which helps you function/survive as a normal human being really the easy way out?

[kaiori breathe]

Is taking a medication which helps you function/survive as a normal human being really the easy way out?

Yes.

[SLASH]

Redbull and Voooodkaaaa and smokes! just gotta do the mixing the next day when sober.
I hear most of these bigtime electro and dubstep dudes like that crystal.

[Mammoth]

Is taking a medication which helps you function/survive as a normal human being really the easy way out?

Yes.

+1 I was on antidepressants for 16 years and now that I'm off and learned to deal with it I've been way more "antidepressed."

Don't drink coffee anymore so I drink tea or run on the treadmill to wake myself da fuq up.

[Teknicyde]

eat right if you're a pussy, or take the easy way out and just cram yourself full of shit loads of prescription medication.

Fixed.

Also, forgot to mention...

Eat the paper. All the paper. Have fun sleeping when your eyelids have some revolutionary shit on their minds.

[atticuh]

+1 I was on antidepressants for 16 years and now that I'm off and learned to deal with it I've been way more "antidepressed."

With all due respect, there are way too many factors as to why anti-depressants didn't work for you and why you may feel less depressed now as opposed to earlier in your life. Furthermore, to attribute the inefficacy of your treatment solely on the idea that "pharmaceutical treatments" don't work is incredibly short-sighted simply due to the complexity of that particular class of psychotropic medications. Causality, especially in pharmaceutical treatments regarding psychiatric conditions, is extremely difficult to establish without proper experimentation and control groups, and even then, every individual's body chemistry is so different that the various outcomes and adverse reactions can only be predicted as percentages of a population with fair margins of error.

[Towany]

Turns out i''ve turned nocturnal so thats when my brain comes alive, but i can't do anything about it cause doing stuff through headphones never turns out the way you want it. So i'll be thrivin to go but i can't! think thats what keeps me awake most nights now that i think of it. When i wake up the next day all the ideas I had in my head and the motivation I had is now gone and i can't muster up the drive to sit down and produce anything! Its a wonder how i actually get tracks done!

[Teknicyde]

+1 I was on antidepressants for 16 years and now that I'm off and learned to deal with it I've been way more "antidepressed."

With all due respect, there are way too many factors as to why anti-depressants didn't work for you and why you may feel less depressed now as opposed to earlier in your life. Furthermore, to attribute the inefficacy of your treatment solely on the idea that "pharmaceutical treatments" don't work is incredibly short-sighted simply due to the complexity of that particular class of psychotropic medications. Causality, especially in pharmaceutical treatments regarding psychiatric conditions, is extremely difficult to establish without proper experimentation and control groups, and even then, every individual's body chemistry is so different that the various outcomes and adverse reactions can only be predicted as percentages of a population with fair margins of error.

[Gurnumsbug]

I have insomnia...so staying up during the early hours is no big deal to me.
But if all else fails & i'm up at 9am, I say coffee, coffee, & coffee