Office Steppers

Perfecture · Post by **Perfecture** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:27 am

wub wrote:So should have worked from home today. Done fuck all and Massive still hasn't turned up

I wish I had nothing to do, I have been manic all this week due to it being end/start of the month hence my lack of posts recently. FInance sucks for this reason.

On the upside finally got my new tune nearly finished, But still got the mixdown to do and the many many tweeks.

anyone finished/started their christmas shopping??

wub · Post by **wub** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:30 am

Perfecture wrote:
anyone finished/started their christmas shopping??

Ordered one thing for the missus so far, but it hasn't turned up yet either. Was planning to do some this week, but with the weather as it is I'm fucked if I'm leaving the house to trapse round London in the crowds. Might have to be an online shopping session over the next couple of days and just order everything in one go.

stevemac · Post by **stevemac** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 1:34 pm

Sorry if already mentioned (didn't read at 14 pages of this thread!), but does anyone else get annoyed when they spend most of their day thinking about production, get home to make some tunes but come up with very little. Get's me well vexed! Feels like I've cheated myself!

Perfecture · Post by **Perfecture** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:01 pm

stevemac wrote:Sorry if already mentioned (didn't read at 14 pages of this thread!), but does anyone else get annoyed when they spend most of their day thinking about production, get home to make some tunes but come up with very little. Get's me well vexed! Feels like I've cheated myself!

Yeah man, Join the club

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:06 pm

stevemac wrote:Sorry if already mentioned (didn't read at 14 pages of this thread!), but does anyone else get annoyed when they spend most of their day thinking about production, get home to make some tunes but come up with very little. Get's me well vexed! Feels like I've cheated myself!

Nah, never happens to me mate. All my tunes are made in 20 mins and are FYAH!!

Just kidding, I get the exact same thing

Have you tried writing down ideas in a notebook whilst you are at work? It helps me to remember stuff.

stevemac · Post by **stevemac** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:47 pm

yeh I do that - I just email myself.

Having said that, most of the stuff I write down is reminders of things to learn and practice rather than tune ideas. I got back into producing after a few years off and realised I knew absolutely jack balls about the synth side of things - which is a bit of a hinderance when you decide to start producing electronic music.

lostcosmonaut · Post by **lostcosmonaut** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:52 pm

I always have little melodies I've made up playing in my head all day, then completely forget them after blasting out other tunes in the car on the commute home. Thinking of investing in one of those little sequencer apps for my phone so I can pop off for a toilet break and write them down...

wub · Post by **wub** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:44 pm

Russia.

Bollocks.

stevemac · Post by **stevemac** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:29 pm

lostcosmonaut wrote:I always have little melodies I've made up playing in my head all day, then completely forget them after blasting out other tunes in the car on the commute home. Thinking of investing in one of those little sequencer apps for my phone so I can pop off for a toilet break and write them down...

This is a good idea. Come to think about it, I just realised that work let me install whatever the fuck I want on the their laptop and I spend all day with my headphones in anyway. So I should just install Reason and get down any ideas as soon as they come into my head.

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:07 pm

I'm tellin' ya, Reaper, couple hundred plugins, a few gigs of samples - all on a 16 GB stick. It's a great time to be alive.

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:28 pm

alphacat wrote:It's a great time to be alive.

couldn't agree more

jsills · Post by **jsills** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:16 am

JFK wrote:
stevemac wrote:Sorry if already mentioned (didn't read at 14 pages of this thread!), but does anyone else get annoyed when they spend most of their day thinking about production, get home to make some tunes but come up with very little. Get's me well vexed! Feels like I've cheated myself!
Nah, never happens to me mate. All my tunes are made in 20 mins and are FYAH!!
Just kidding, I get the exact same thing Have you tried writing down ideas in a notebook whilst you are at work? It helps me to remember stuff.

did that routine for years. inspiration is inspiration tho. sitting and wishing you were making tunes isnt the same as sitting at a daw and being focused and inspired. i made plenty of tunes after working 40 hour work weeks. now im barely working and my output of music isnt significantly higher because im not inspired to write tunes 100% of the time. the point is - strike while the iron is hot.

Ldizzy · Post by **Ldizzy** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:10 am

^ im trying to do that.

a late night coffee always helps if ur tired... i figured out u cant really push an idea back to the weekend... so i just do my shit and make sure i finish it

Mehlovich · Post by **Mehlovich** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:58 am

Right, its friday.. still cold as fuck.

Anyone doing anything this weekend??

I have got a gig my self tomorrow... right now i just want to smoke the rest of the spliff from last night and chill. So thats what im doing to night

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:29 am

Mehlovich wrote:Right, its friday.. still cold as fuck.

Anyone doing anything this weekend??

I have got a gig my self tomorrow... right now i just want to smoke the rest of the spliff from last night and chill. So thats what im doing to night

Got a tune to finish. Cant get the fuckin sub to sit well, its a real pain in the balls.

Gonna get some new monitors on Saturday so that will be chill

Good luck for the gig mate

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:37 am

Hopefully trains go back to normal by tomorrow - gotta venture to the other side of London..

Tonight is house party business though!

Mehlovich · Post by **Mehlovich** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:17 am

JFK wrote: Got a tune to finish. Cant get the fuckin sub to sit well, its a real pain in the balls.

Gonna get some new monitors on Saturday so that will be chill

Good luck for the gig mate

What monitors you getting??

Thanks

wub · Post by **wub** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:53 am

Woke up past 8am for the first time in months, very weird. Had a random idea last night to adapt the Bass Resampling template I'd set up in FL (with instance of Fruity Filter to split the frequencies) for use with some drum breaks.

Ended up spending 5hrs loading up 4 bar drum loops, then creating weird effects on the individual frequency channels (like gradually increasing flange on the mids w/ a l-to-r Fast Dist panning on the hi's) and bouncing out. Some of them work, some of them sound shit in the cold light of day.

Also tried some sort of Sidechain keying effect last night, whereby I'd have an instance of 3xOsc running underneath a snare pattern, with the Sidekick VST on the mixer channel setup to play a short burst of White noise (only using a single Osc btw) every time the snare hit. Fiddled for about 45mins trying to get it to sound like how I wanted, then gave up when I realised I was over complicating matters.

Jak The lad · Post by **Jak The lad** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:02 pm

I hate readin the production forum at work, always makes me want to get home and on the mac to make something

But I do it every day and can't stop. Need to bring my Macbook to work for lunches, but not allowed.

wub · Post by **wub** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:06 pm

Jak The lad wrote:I hate readin the production forum at work, always makes me want to get home and on the mac to make something But I do it every day and can't stop. Need to bring my Macbook to work for lunches, but not allowed.

Download yourself a copy of Audacity and/or Hammerhead on the work computer if you can. I've got Audacity at work, chopping up funk records at lunch and when on conference calls keeps me sane.

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