having a life

[Still Young]

aigh.. so I'm feeling like since i started making music and doing this shit
i lost touch with lots of people simply cuz i get stuck in the daw figuring out stuff
and lose interest in other things, i guess
don't feel like going out.. prefer staying home just smoking and making music
it's been 4 years since i started producing and it feels like its not the same life i had before
i just get stuck in the same loop over and over
work > get home > check Facebook > open random project > get some shit done > sleep
it fucks me up

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

it fucks you up but you prefer it
i dont get the question here if you wanna go out(side) go out

[_ronzlo_]

Lives are overrated.

[fragments]

If you don't devote your every waking moment to producing sick wubz the dubstep Illuminati will never let you into their inner circle...


FFS...do what you want. Its entirely possible to make good tunes and have a life. Or not. That is one problem with the way people make music now is you can do it entirely by yourself. I find the more I get away from being an audio geek hermit and limit my studio time, but also make the most of that studio time the better my music is. If I devote all my free time to music I never get anything done or done properly because there is always a pile of hours ahead of me.

Go out into the sun you pasty hermit tnuc.

[xtcvsmistycold]

Its entirely possible to make good tunes and have a life. Or not.

surprised this needed explaining really

Go out into the sun you pasty hermit tnuc.

[Toolman4]

I know what OP is talking about and so does everyone else here. I myself have been at this production thing for the past 5 years now...Coming to terms with the idea that I feel guilty that my life isn't moving forward professionally, and I have a bachelors degree in Marketing and video game development....It's hard, and not a fun reality to go through. But the reality is, if you are able to afford yourself the opportunity to do what you love for however long you want to do it, there is absolutely nothing to feel guilty about.

Ultimately the only thing you should feel obliged to maintain, to whatever extent necessary, are all the positive relationships you have with people in your life. Beyond that, eff the judgement, and be happy.

Cheers

[outbound]

Yeah I used to go through the endless cycle of:-

1. I don't get out enough I just sit inside making music, let's go get a life
2. Well this is great and all having a life but I feel I wanna be making music instead
3. Repeat

Probably the weird part is you go socially bi-polar flicking between the 2, one week you're mr popular feeling pretty normal, the next you feel like a vampire leaving a cave or something! haha.

Seriously though do what you want. If you wanna make music do that, if you wanna have a life then do that. There's no reason why you can't do both though, just gotta get the balance right

[Crimsonghost]

It's all about setting a schedule. Dedicate x time to making music and x time to going out/doing other shit. I make sure I go on a bike ride 2times a week and hit the gym 3 times. Practice guitar 3times a week. I also make sure I go out every other Saturday night at least. Any time after that (minus a 40hr work week) is all time for production.

Do you have a laptop/ipad? Take that thing out. Coffee shop, bar, park. Whatever.

[curmee]

Nr.1.
unistall your daw and take some joga trainings with supershaped women,they releasing this creavity energy,
takes long time to collect it,but when you ready,make your supertrack and repeat nr 1.

[nowaysj]

FFS...do what you want.

Alrighty then Aleister.



Well OP, maybe you're feeling like there is a problem with how you've structured your life? I mean if you were just happily producing away, you wouldn't be posting threads like I've isolated myself and it sucks. You know?

I do think most of us know what you are talking about. Honestly, I enjoy some chitter chatter here and there, but really when I am out, it is usually so low density intensity... like shit moves so slow, and not much happens, and blah blah blah people talking about shit I just don't care about. Of course I'm like, FUUUUK I could be in the studio working on that track, I need to do this and that and this and that...

So I don't know dude. It is like I personally would like to go out and spend some time with people that are fucking helluv dope like me but I just don't know any. So if given the chance, I'm at the command center working on music.

But again, I've got a family, so I do spend a lot of time out and about doing shit with them, and I love that time. When I'm chillin with my little girl I'm never like oh I'd rather be making music, though there are times when I'm like I NEED to be working on music (fucking TUNA!) but uh, you do need to be out in the sun and in motion to be happy and healthy. This is well established science.

But also I'm kind of concerned about you saying that you just sit inside smoking weed making music. I don't know dude, I'm just getting a picture of someone withdrawing from the world, not because the external world isn't as interesting as your internal life, but because the external world is threatening, or in someway hostile to you.

Sorry, post is choppy, am working on music. Writing a sentence, then working on music, writing a sentence.

You know, I don't think your music is going to go anywhere if it just stays in the bedroom indefinitely. To really have a flow, I think songs need to be built and then moved out into the world in some way. The flow. Like in and out, in and out. If you have no out, the songs just kind of stack up and clutter your mind/computer/just all that shit. Need that flow.

So, come on down to the TUNA! and post a track a week. This is a pretty good way to start a flow happening, where tracks are externalized out into the world, even if it is just a sound cloud page, they will at least live out in the public, and not in your dusty bedroom.

And then consider taking it further, and putting together some kind of real world location where you and other local producers can play toons out. It doesn't need to be the fucking Panorama bar or anything. Just fucking something to play some tunes to some people. The pressure of making something interesting, I'm sure will whip your flabby production and arrangement techniques into shape. That is the theory at least.

Anyway, can't talk shit about shit I don't know shit about anymore right now. Best of luck dude.

[fragments]

That is Mr. Crowley to you bub ;p and some spot on advice ^ above. I especially like the last bit. I have thought of trying to round up some friends to lease a small space for a small, membership based social club. Installing a modest sound system. Get bar and few taps. But shit, I dont know anyone anymore! I would even make my three season garage into such a venue if I knew even two other people that would be interested in participating....like I have this dream of just having a littlle sound system every Sunday afternoon, get the grill going, a cooler full of beer....maybe a spliff on the sly when the neighbors arent looking...

And yea...I get grumpy about these kinds of posts...but its because I want to see people be decisive about their own lives. I want them to be self analytical. No offense I but I would never go on an internet forum and ask people if they thought I was spending too much time doing anything.

If you are asking, if you are concerned the answer is to try the opposite. Get out and do something and see if that changes any of it. It is certainly not going to hurt you to get out of the house Friday and Saturday eh?

[ehbes]

Nr.1.
unistall your daw and take some joga trainings with supershaped women,they releasing this creavity energy,
takes long time to collect it,but when you ready,make your supertrack and repeat nr 1.

hot yoga is fucking hard, had to do it for baseball.. Never again

[123kidd]

Fragments, sounds like a jam Id be so down for.
If only I met cool kids like you irl.

[fragments]

Fragments, sounds like a jam Id be so down for.
If only I met cool kids like you irl.

If you are from Northeast Ohio, USA we can get this shit started this summer.

[123kidd]

From Toronto, Canada unfortunately

[Toolman4]

nowaysj...

I appreciate and respect every word of that post. A lot of which I should try to work on more for myself.

[nowaysj]

Toolman sees me. I see toolman.

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Took a really nice bike ride with my family into the countryside. Despite my area being in the biggest drought in recorded history the fields and hills were covered in unending wildflowers. Overwhelmingly peaceful, positive, and a total different soundscape. Amazing to turn off the (sub)urban hum. When it is gone, your inner voice can just speak, without having to shout over everything else.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Can only really reiterate what's already been said. It's all about balance. Given that making music sadly means sitting at the PC 'til your eyes are red and your arse is numb, the best break should involve being outdoors. Nature deficit disorder (which is actually a real thing..) can be quite harmful. We're organic beings, so it's best not to get too detached from that. Once I finish a tune I make sure I have a full day of being outside, the woods, the beach, climb hills whatever. Just giving your mind an opportunity to reset in natural surroundings. Oh and I always have my notepad for ideas on me Probably the best investment I've ever made! Strongly recommend.

[Echoi]

So glad to see I'm not the only one who went through this weird time of life where where music production just took over absolutely everything (4-5 years to put a number on it). It's like everything in life though, moderation is key, because sitting in doors all day and night shunning the world, just trying to improve your music really does have an adverse affect on your personality/social skills.

Never had an obsession hit me like this one, didn't help that I was unemployed for quite a while either. Now it's the complete opposite, I work, have a young family, and studio time has been hard to come by. Now I've moved to London, away from my family, and have just gotten my studio set up in the new digs, so am looking forward to some well earned late nights tinkering on the buttons again

[outbound]

@echoi good to hear it mate!