Finding your identity as a producer.

[Coolschmid]

You sound homosex. You should go on a self realizing adventure through the Himalayas with a quadriplegic hooker.

[smalltock]

How adventurous

[SunkLo]

You sound homosex. You should go on a self realizing adventure through the Himalayas with a quadriplegic hooker.

I wish you actually were a girl so we could make babies.

[hutyluty]

so is your tock actually small?

[smalltock]

Relative to certain volumes, I'm sure.

[skimpi]

Yeh like similar to what Wub said I guess, having an 'identity' doest mean that you have to produce the same track over and over. If you have your own identity then that means you can make music of lots of different styles, but it can still be tied down to you, you are gonna still do things the same way when making different style of tracks. I dunno whether its more for playing in stuff though, than dragging in audio, or moving MIDI notes around, that you will naturally play similar sounding melodies and drum beats and shit.

[Skeemstep]

Been producing for almost 5 years now and I'm just starting to find 'my sound'... It just comes with doing things a certain way that you find has the best results but never be afraid to totally venture out of the box

[tintala]

Comes from having your workflow down,which in turn is effected by your library of sounds. Workflow directly impacts your sound. Get a bunch of 128's and your workflow will improve significantly in the context of your song.

[Jedeye]

My thoughts on having an 'Identity' as an Artist..

The way i see it your identity is the culmination and application of all the techniques you currently know. The little idiosyncrasies in the way you process sound. It's how you use and process drums, bass, leads,pads etc. Over the years you build up a palette of sounds/patches which you use on all your tracks. When choosing new sounds to add to your arsenal you will have preference over some sounds more than others based on your particular tastes.

You will lean towards certain rhythmic patterns, melody's and chords that resonate with you. You might listen to your favourite artists and copy certain techniques, liking the way a particular person uses high hats or reverb on a snare. This will add to your already growing skillset. A good example of this philosophy is Bruce Lee's 'Jeet Kune Do' fighting system. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless.

Over the years you will gather, often subconsciously, hundreds, sometimes thousands of separate techniques that will in time fuse to make you more individual as an artist, your music will become a true representation of you. In the beginning, the gap between you and true expression is a chasm but in time that gap will close and you will eventually find it much easier to materialise the sonic vision which gave you the inspiration to start making music in the first place.

Cheers, jed

[Kronix]

This is my 1st post on this forum, but hopefully I can bring something to the table here.

I've been producing for around 4 years now. I started off creating anything and everything for at least the 1st year. I'm talking hip hop, drum and bass, house, trance, dubstep, you name it, I tried it. I settled on creating drum and bass after a while, but again, there was never any real style to my stuff. One track would be a minimal style, the next a liquid or neurofunk style! Over the last year or so I have moved on to deep dubstep and only now do I think I've finally found my own sound and style.

Don't go chasing it, it really doesn't matter what you make right now, just keep focusing on pushing your creative juices and learning new tricks within production. As you progress things will start to settle into place, you'll find a genre you prefer to produce over others, and certain sounds you'll like to go back to.

Don't stress it, it'll come with time and patience.

[local space]

I don't think identity just comes with the years. It's not something you obtain, more something you let go off.. you stop trying to make this kind or that kind of tune and just mess around with sound.