What is your main production enemy?

[flex vector]

The internet is probably my worst enemy. Lately I spend more time reading about production than actually producing anything. Also, after not creating anything for awhile I start to doubt myself and subconsciously make excuses not to work on music because I'm afraid that I won't be able to make anything good.

[deadly_habit]

believe me i could churn out tunes 24/7 for the dancefloor that would sound good and get some booties shaking, just no appeal to do that and it's not exactly hard to make formulaic stuff, i just find it really boring and not something i want to be known for

really? haven't heard a good tune from you yet!!

!!chea

well you like mt eden so taste isn't your strong point obviously

[Sirius]

believe me i could churn out tunes 24/7 for the dancefloor that would sound good and get some booties shaking, just no appeal to do that and it's not exactly hard to make formulaic stuff, i just find it really boring and not something i want to be known for

really? haven't heard a good tune from you yet!!

!!chea

well you like mt eden so taste isn't your strong point obviously

just keep telling yaself that!!

!!chea

[deadly_habit]

believe me i could churn out tunes 24/7 for the dancefloor that would sound good and get some booties shaking, just no appeal to do that and it's not exactly hard to make formulaic stuff, i just find it really boring and not something i want to be known for

really? haven't heard a good tune from you yet!!

!!chea

well you like mt eden so taste isn't your strong point obviously

just keep telling yaself that!!

!!chea

care to put your money where your mouth is with a tune battle good sir? cause i'm more than game
chea!

[Brisance]

!!chea

is this the new "wot"?

[Trebek]

The internet is probably my worst enemy. Lately I spend more time reading about production than actually producing anything. Also, after not creating anything for awhile I start to doubt myself and subconsciously make excuses not to work on music because I'm afraid that I won't be able to make anything good.

Thats how I feel sometimes, but lately I've been spending even just a few hours a day on it and I'm getting better. Also I'm trying to learn so many different things at once....Python, computer science, photoshop and some video editing. So my brain is just a huge clusterfuck all day long.

[Grime Syndicate]

Choon Battle, Please. This is one I'd look forward to...

[Sharmaji]

locking off "hey check out my tune!" and "how do I sound like datsik" threads.

I think, when it comes down to it-- you just gotta put in the work. not feeling inspired? work anyway. organize your sample library. build patches, so that you'll always have that lowpassed triangle chord or 808 bass when you want it.

[flex vector]

Thats how I feel sometimes, but lately I've been spending even just a few hours a day on it and I'm getting better. Also I'm trying to learn so many different things at once....Python, computer science, photoshop and some video editing. So my brain is just a huge clusterfuck all day long.

Haha, pretty much the same with me - trying to improve with Photoshop, Illustrator, css, php, javascript.....so many things I want to learn and get better at that I end up getting overwhelmed and just fucking around on the internet or watching a movie instead.

[deadly_habit]

locking off "hey check out my tune!" and "how do I sound like datsik" threads.

I think, when it comes down to it-- you just gotta put in the work. not feeling inspired? work anyway. organize your sample library. build patches, so that you'll always have that lowpassed triangle chord or 808 bass when you want it.

bingo that way when inspiration hits the groundwork is already laid out
hell even when i'm wasting time on here i'm usually working on some sort of patches or sounds or jamming out

[cloak and dagger]

believe me i could churn out tunes 24/7 for the dancefloor that would sound good and get some booties shaking, just no appeal to do that and it's not exactly hard to make formulaic stuff, i just find it really boring and not something i want to be known for

yeah making music is easy, i would be famous, i just don't want to be



for me, it's the fact that 1) I use a computer at work, so I don't want to sit in front of a computer when I get home, and 2) my studio computer is separate from the one I use for internet, so if I'm dicking around on the internet and want to work on a tune, I have to switch computers instead of before where I would just switch windows

[Shekul]

Working 40 hours a week in fucking retail. I need to be up at 7 tomorrow, but nope im finishing a track and it's 2am. -_-

[Sirius]

care to put your money where your mouth is with a tune battle good sir? cause i'm more than game
chea!

yeah bro i'm in.... battle sounds good.

but ah... to put my money where my mouth is.... you should be just making a track that I enjoy!

did you enter the DSF sample comp?? sorted if ya did!

!!chea

[deadly_habit]

believe me i could churn out tunes 24/7 for the dancefloor that would sound good and get some booties shaking, just no appeal to do that and it's not exactly hard to make formulaic stuff, i just find it really boring and not something i want to be known for

yeah making music is easy, i would be famous, i just don't want to be



for me, it's the fact that 1) I use a computer at work, so I don't want to sit in front of a computer when I get home, and 2) my studio computer is separate from the one I use for internet, so if I'm dicking around on the internet and want to work on a tune, I have to switch computers instead of before where I would just switch windows

no i'm just saying making generic dancefloor fodder with whatever flavor of the month sound is popular has no appeal to me
making yoi yois and robot noises with bassline that change every 16th note ain't that hard

[Sirius]

believe me i could churn out tunes 24/7 for the dancefloor that would sound good and get some booties shaking, just no appeal to do that and it's not exactly hard to make formulaic stuff, i just find it really boring and not something i want to be known for

yeah making music is easy, i would be famous, i just don't want to be



for me, it's the fact that 1) I use a computer at work, so I don't want to sit in front of a computer when I get home, and 2) my studio computer is separate from the one I use for internet, so if I'm dicking around on the internet and want to work on a tune, I have to switch computers instead of before where I would just switch windows

no i'm just saying making generic dancefloor fodder with whatever flavor of the month sound is popular has no appeal to me
making yoi yois and robot noises with bassline that change every 16th note ain't that hard

new thread in the production area! all posts concerning this should be posted there!

!!chea

[cloak and dagger]

ah ok, so making generic, unoriginal music based on a template set by other people and adhering to a ridiculously low standard isn't hard. i will have to remember that.

[MKRUGGER]

So what is the main thing that stop you from making music?

Mine is Internet, their is just to much shit on the internet. By nature I have to know everything, about everything its more of a curse, then a blessing. The Internet helps find lots of stuff out, but their is always more. I go on the computer, to just check e-mails, and shit. Then come across a word what I don't know google the word, end up on wikipedia, then spend fucking hours reading random stuff that has nothing to do with why I went on their in the first, them damn blue words on wikipedia

So thats my rant over, your go now.

Same thing happens to me..

I look at one simple thing, it leads to another.. Next thing I know, I'm studying damn monkey's or something.

I eventually just have to say STOP! ...

[dddemain]

ah ok, so making generic, unoriginal music based on a template set by other people and adhering to a ridiculously low standard isn't hard. i will have to remember that.

ahaha


but seriously, I find it really hard to pull myself away from production - I mean yeah sure there are the very rare occasions when I can't be fucked... usually though, spliff+coffee=beat.

[louieb]

schedule cant just sit down and work on a tune (whatever genre) as long as i want except rarely on a weekend. Getting to involved with the tune when really it would sound better if i just left some stuff alone. Spending alot of time learning new things every tune since i don't know nearly everything about production and i switch genres almost every tune.
Upside
have alot of just little projects sitting their and i don't get bored since im learning new things and trying a different sound usually.

[mta7388]

1 - endless roaming of the internet
2 - too many biddies...'cha ya know what i'm sayin brah?