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I always have the problem that when im playing with a synth and im high im spending all the time listening to the sound. Then i keep spacing on it. And at one moment im like Damn i just spend 30 minutes listening to the same sound. So i dunno if it makes me better or something, i just know that making a tune takes me hell of alot longer xD

I think playing guitar and all that on drugs can help make it a bit better. But when you need to get into the details of sequencing, and hitting the right frequencies, it doesn't come out right if you're off your nut.

continuumdnb wrote:

High Contrast wrote: he also said something about it being bullshit that people like ray charles played better when high

Thoughts?

how could he actually know this? sounds like he's taking his own perspective and projecting it onto every musician..


Charlie Parker was on an amphetamine regimen - just a coincidence that a speedy saxophonist was on speed?

the red hot chilli peppers where definitely better when they where on smack

Coming up with idea's for a tune is always easier for me when im high, acid helps improve your timing!!

See I think drugs have done some good things for us. If you don't think drugs have done good things for us then do me a favor. Go home tonight and take all of your records,tapes and all your CD's and burn them. Because, you know all those musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs, man. --Bill Hicks (comedian)

Well, for me trying to produce when i was high bored the shit out of me, i just didn't have the patience.
Playing synth with the band while high is alot of fun though, and we have written alot of our songs high.
Trying to work in flstudio though, i quickly get frustrated and bored.

really? i find things just flow if i'm high and producing. i start w/ one sound that gets me really excited.. then i notice it's just begging for this and that.. and now it's going in such and such a direction.. and before you know i've got a whole tapestry of automation and midi notes. i got a sack for the first time in a while last weekend and pounded out a couple tunes i'm REALLy happy w/, they're my favorite tunes at the moment

I'd say i like to produce when im high but it needs alot of mixing the next day for it to sound how it felt the day before,
i (unfortunately) have to agree with that bad man, drugs (weed atleast) does make alot of bad shit sound nice.

I listen to everything waaaaay too loud when fucked. Whenever I get in after a night out I'll put things up full blast thinking it's normal levels only to realize in the morning I've probably shaken my neighbours out of bed.

narcissus wrote:really? i find things just flow if i'm high and producing. i start w/ one sound that gets me really excited.. then i notice it's just begging for this and that.. and now it's going in such and such a direction.. and before you know i've got a whole tapestry of automation and midi notes. i got a sack for the first time in a while last weekend and pounded out a couple tunes i'm REALLy happy w/, they're my favorite tunes at the moment

nah not for me, making nice loops nd riffs or just messing around with a vst yeah, but when it comes to putting a track together or mixing nd mastering, thats where i lose interest. playing cello though, i could sit playing it for hours. probably because i feel more of a connection with the sound, staring at that big grey Fl interface doesn't exactly inspire creativity.

theprjctmyhm wrote: acid helps improve your timing!!

funny guy just like mushrooms help with mental arithmetic

such a boring topic.

tavravlavish wrote:such a boring topic.

well there are plenty of other topics to choose from

There is a bong in the studio at all times.

clarity is where it's at.

but an occasional blunt is nice too.

A spliff while im making a beat gets me absolutely nowhere, i'll spend hours tweaking and not have much to show for it. If im doing other things, getting stoned, get some inspiration and start making a beat, thats when the magic happens

jaydot wrote:A lot of the Beatles' work was written on acid. It can't really make you creative, or at least enhance creativity imo. It just skews your perception of what sounds good. Everything sounds good when high as High Contrast points out.

The beatles definately made their best stuff during their acid frenzy period Lucy in the sky with diamonds is a mad track

To all the performers out there, what are your performance enhancing drugs that you use to enhance your performances? Jokes!

Any odd ball combinations that have gotten you into/out of trouble/deeper into the mix?

Performance Killers?

What are your little helpers on the path to the ecstatic?

When I jam live with my friend Mr 808 I always smoke DMT!

Its the only way to go.