Stupid things u do while producing

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:18 am

Aftee wrote:
djake wrote:smoke stupid amounts of ciggys, basically chain smoke sometimes.

once i opened my window and played my track really loud and went onto the road outside to get a different veiw on it.....
lmao, I do the same thing sometimes if I'm starting to make a track I'm feeling..put it on loop, turn it up and walk around the house and such to see how it sounds....stand up and back away a bit first, then the bathroom, hallway, downstairs..lmfao

lets me know if the track is really bumpin or not

I'm beginning to either play video games or watch movies I've already seen while producing, helps me just let my creativity out rather than sitting down and trying to FORCE something out, but it's a movie I've already seen or a game I'm just fucking around on so I don't have to worry about missing out if I stop for a minute to add something to the track

I do that shit too. I think we are all just neurotic. I am probably going to find that I do everything everyone else does. When I go out to smoke I purposely let the tune play and I check it as I am going down stairs then while down stairs I can inspect how everything in the low end works together and finally when I get out side I go over to the side of the house to smoke so I can hear bits coming out of my window. From outside often times I hear parts that aren't actually in the tune or maybe it's just the city or nature leaking in but often times these phantom parts get added for real when I get back up in the studio.

megaladon · Post by **megaladon** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:29 am

I do that tv thing as well, and it really is pointless. I find when I want to concentrate and really get to work I want everything to be tidy and my computer running properly, then I'll spend the next 40 minutes cleaning my computer, re-arranging files, cleaning old rubbish off my pc and closing down 200 antivirus programs before actually starting anything. By then I'm usually ready to go to sleep.

I was wondering when I read that 'EQing in the box' tutorial thing the other day, is it a bit ridiculous to actually try and draw a track (as in 'splodges' in the spectrum/volume/pan/time graph) to get an idea of the mix and which elements to include?

aftee · Post by **aftee** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:17 am

Megaladon wrote:I do that tv thing as well, and it really is pointless. I find when I want to concentrate and really get to work I want everything to be tidy and my computer running properly, then I'll spend the next 40 minutes cleaning my computer, re-arranging files, cleaning old rubbish off my pc and closing down 200 antivirus programs before actually starting anything. By then I'm usually ready to go to sleep.

I was wondering when I read that 'EQing in the box' tutorial thing the other day, is it a bit ridiculous to actually try and draw a track (as in 'splodges' in the spectrum/volume/pan/time graph) to get an idea of the mix and which elements to include?

man do we all have the same shit or what...

I really have problems with my work area being dirty...vacuumed well, no clutter on the desk...everything arranged nicely...It's been dirty as hell for some time but I'm cleaning it all up now and finding a nice spot for my keyboard and guitar..should be putting out better stuff with a good environment

nice cold water seems to help the production as well

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:23 am

when i try and go sleep ill start think of melodys and production type stuff so i have to go on my pc and make it before i can get to sleep gets fucking annoying

megaladon · Post by **megaladon** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:30 am

Aftee wrote: man do we all have the same shit or what...

I really have problems with my work area being dirty...vacuumed well, no clutter on the desk...everything arranged nicely...It's been dirty as hell for some time but I'm cleaning it all up now and finding a nice spot for my keyboard and guitar..should be putting out better stuff with a good environment

nice cold water seems to help the production as well

Weird isn't it, I've rearranged my desk about 20 times in the last couple of months to try and get everything all nice.

I'll get a tune/idea in my head that makes we want to write something then have to loop in my head over and over until I've tidied up, gotten a drink and restarted my computer about 40 times 'cos my fucking soundcard keeps disconnecting. I've usually got sick of what's going through my head at that point.

And Dzaa watching those retard kids in your signature (seemingly) dance and sing along in time to Burial is really funny.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:21 am

See while I would much rather have the lab all nice and tidy my time there is limited so I rarely clean. It looks like a tornado just went through right now. It's pretty bad. Every time I clean I am carrying out 2 garbage bags and 2 cases worth of empties for recycle. I could probably do a whole load in the dishwasher with the glasses I have up here but fuck me it's two flights of stairs to the kitchen.

r · Post by r » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:12 am

somtimes i also produce while im dancing in my room. nothing but you know

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:34 pm

Eops wrote:I have a habit even worse than the tv ...

When Im sketching stuff I have radio fivelive blabbering away - I turn it off when Im getting into a particular sound but most of the time it endlessly gabbles at me - its awful really but when I turn it off I have that awful feeling of being alone with my creativity ... which is great when I genuinely feel creative but like sharing a lift with a psychopath when my mojo is dry

The radio! You are the winner so far WTF?

DOOMTROOPER/T40 · Post by **DOOMTROOPER/T40** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:52 pm

I name all my projects something stupid and forget which project is which a couple of days later.
I also have a constant habit of rearranging folders in which samples are contained for somereason trying to make shit more organised , and I end up opening Reason and it can't find the samples so i got to relocate them all.
Also tend to drink a lot of beer when producing, I always find it relaxes me a lot more and i get so much more ideas and once i have one idea I'm on a role for the rest of the night.

I also have a stupid habit of playing a track in progress about 50 times over and just walk round the room and constantly open the fridge even if i aint hungry and there's nothin in it... Sometimes it makes me bored of the track before it's even completed

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:14 pm

Eops wrote:
abZ wrote:
Eops wrote:I have a habit even worse than the tv ...

When Im sketching stuff I have radio fivelive blabbering away - I turn it off when Im getting into a particular sound but most of the time it endlessly gabbles at me - its awful really but when I turn it off I have that awful feeling of being alone with my creativity ... which is great when I genuinely feel creative but like sharing a lift with a psychopath when my mojo is dry
The radio! You are the winner so far WTF?
I know its insane ... I do turn it off once I latch on to something honest ...

I am not making life easier for myself

See I have the radio on too but not by choice. I have some electricity issues in my house. The radio comes through my left monitor. It's not very loud but it still sucks. I also can't keep a lightbulb for more than a month before they burn out. I gotta get the old man up here to help me ground shit out a little better.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:18 pm

T40 wrote:I name all my projects something stupid and forget which project is which a couple of days later.
I also have a constant habit of rearranging folders in which samples are contained for somereason trying to make shit more organised , and I end up opening Reason and it can't find the samples so i got to relocate them all.
Also tend to drink a lot of beer when producing, I always find it relaxes me a lot more and i get so much more ideas and once i have one idea I'm on a role for the rest of the night.

I also have a stupid habit of playing a track in progress about 50 times over and just walk round the room and constantly open the fridge even if i aint hungry and there's nothin in it... Sometimes it makes me bored of the track before it's even completed

That reminds me. I always name the project the first thing that comes into my head when I save the first time and it just ends up being that throughout working on the project but when it comes time to finish it that is when I give it it's name but I only name it on the rendered wav not the project so when it comes time to do the final mixdown for a label I have to search for an hour to find the original project files. I am trying to remember to change the names of the projects now tho.

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:20 pm

staying up allnight and starting a track at 6am this morning then going to sleep at 11am then waking up now

megaladon · Post by **megaladon** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:37 pm

T40 wrote:I name all my projects something stupid and forget which project is which a couple of days later.
I also have a constant habit of rearranging folders in which samples are contained for somereason trying to make shit more organised , and I end up opening Reason and it can't find the samples so i got to relocate them all.
Also tend to drink a lot of beer when producing, I always find it relaxes me a lot more and i get so much more ideas and once i have one idea I'm on a role for the rest of the night.

I also have a stupid habit of playing a track in progress about 50 times over and just walk round the room and constantly open the fridge even if i aint hungry and there's nothin in it... Sometimes it makes me bored of the track before it's even completed

I've got so many tracks named after films or just random words from the tv that was on at the time, it really does make things difficult to find doesn't it.

r · Post by r » Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:15 pm

For organizing your files :

Make a Production folder -> 3 folders in here called beats, setups, tracks

beats for the starting stuff, setups for the nice sketches, tracks for the finished/almost finished tracks.

name your projects by date like : '09-29-03 - (wip name)

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