How long do you typically spend on a track

[tripwire22]

back when i couldnt save it would be a tune a day but now that i can i either never finish shit or it takes more than a week

[Blue Patterns]

one day( as in 10 hrs in a day flat) - 1 week

[Brisance]

depends, but I only tend to finish the ones, I take a day or 2 finishing.

[the dub lemon]

Not as long as I'd like to but more time than I have spare. We seem to be getting tracks into playable states in about 4-5 sessions. Personally I'd rather spend longer to make them really good but end up cutting it short due do lack of available time

[my_fickle_eye]

ye usually takes me at least a week because of all the automation! (spending bout 4 hours a day). But sometimes it can take months and sometimes i just dont finish it, im still improving every time i create a track, but the learning curve isnt as steep so im leaving less tunes unfinished because i think they are sub standard.

[dignan]

I usually do 2 songs a week...

[deranger]

I generally take a pretty long time from my first inspriation to a finished track. Maybe a couple months. I don't how these other folks can make tunes so quick! I can come up with ideas easily but actually taking the time to get them as good as possible takes me a long time. Altough, it's not like I'm working on one track 8 hours a day for months. I work on more then one track at a time, I have a day job and so on.

But, yeah, it takes me a long ass time!!

[DZA]

Couple of hours or could take couple of weeks

[deamonds]

how long does it take everyone to get to the point where they are proper happy with something?

[Lemonlust]

I ususally use the same synths and mixer settings for most of my songs. I save all my mixer settings and synths. It cuts my production time a lot. I used to spend days trying to figure out a sound. So Saving all the things I like saves up time.

[paravrais]

[Iorek]

when I'm really feeling a track I can have the majority done in 48 hours but I know its probably shite and make myself re work it for the next week with small tweaks here and there then a proper mixing before it's done....only problem is I haven't quite figured out the whole proper mixing part so I haven't finished a track yet...

[zerbaman]

FL has a time counter. Mine rarely goes over 12 hours.

I don't know, even when I do get technical with stuff, it just doesn't take me that long to do. I've always wondered what it is that keeps people working on a tune for that long, know a dnb producer, Puzzle, spends as much as 60 hours on tunes, I'm, kinda embarrassed at how quickly I get it done, surely I'm missing something
Longest I remember spending is 20 hours.
I very rarely finish anything I start overall, about 300 "works in progress"(parts to recycle), 30+ finished bits over the past 4 or 5 months

[Iorek]

"indian-army-vs-american-army-holy_necroposting_batman"
url for this is great

I'm quite impressed to see a necro from 2007

[RightOnTime27]

lolz at the permanent vacation on zomby's user name, also I spot a jack sparrow post. didn't know he ever posted here. anyways its normally about 2 weeks

[bigfootspartan]

A month give or take I'd reckon. I'm not working on only a single tune for a month, but typically to finish up a tune it'll be around a month.

[Thierry_D]

for a while last year i was doing 2 - 6 hours max in spread to a week but since october to march i stop making beats only recently gone back to it but people say mixing music is like riding a bike at the moment production for me feels like am riding a tricycle again lol

normally 1 week to 2 weeks these days i've tryed to spend more time on tunes but i drift away and want to start new tunes instead
but this year i want to make less music so will try to spend more time on them..

i'll try to make quality not quantity.

[Shum]

lolz at the permanent vacation on zomby's user name, also I spot a jack sparrow post. didn't know he ever posted here. anyways its normally about 2 weeks

Jack Sparrow posts here fairly regularly. As for me, tend to just churn out shells of songs in about 10-15 minutes and come back to spend about an hour putting together a decent mix.

Nice necro.

[Ldizzy]

anything i like is made quick, and then i let them sleep for months and revisit.

[Hoborg]

I have a serious tweaking problem...tracks take me weeks, minimum, and if I leave it alone for a month and come back then I feel the need to tweak more. Not sure if its a bad thing, but it seems like a lot of the big producers really churn this stuff out...maybe they just have a solid workflow worked out