Drugs and Production

[DubMikey]

When i used to smoke weed i always thought it really helped, but now I've stopped i realized i would just make some shit loop and listen to it on repeat for hours. Without it i'm a lot more structured to my approach to making music and imo have better ideas. Its basically the same with everything, when stoned my brain would lie to me and be like you do everything much better when high but as soon as i stopped i realised what a load of bullshit this was and all it was doing was slowing me down.

You are right about the "listening to the same loop over and over when high" haha. However, I find it to be very effective when pumping out all the ideas you have while being sober, and THEN hit the ganja. All new weird sorts of ideas come to mind!

[Isley]

dry arrangements and green mixdowns

[outbound]

I've only produced high (on weed) once before and I wasn't impressed. It was good in the way it broke out of my usual way of thinking and I was trying different things but it's hard to see the bigger picture. Like I could come up with a sound or drum loop or something and be happy with it but stretching my imagination to turn it into a song was not happening.

DJ'ing while high is different though, not smoking it atm but if I did I wouldn't have a problem with a few tokes while mixing, my brain seems much happier to mix high rather than drunk.

[nameless133]

Actually sometimes I drink beer while I'm producing and rarely I smoke hookah with normal hookah tobacco, no green stuff.

[wolf89]

There is a fair chance that you end up thinking that something boring as fuck is the most sonically wonderful thing ever.

[Synkopate]

Being stoned does help me come up with interesting melodies and rhythmic arrangements, but its shite for everything else. I went about 10 months where I would constantly blaze, and due to laziness I didnt put out a single track. I guess it just depends on the person

[Hircine]

this thread again?

[lloydy]

[Fowles]

I can't produce when i smoke weed, unless its very small amounts. But it does give me a different perspective, and I can only tell if i like a song or not, if i can listen to it when i'm really baked. I pick up on different things and know what needs to be fixed/ how to make it better, but i can't proceed with the action while I'm still high. Just gotta wait till im not high, and hope that i remember the ideas.

[Flippity]

I've produced while tripping a few times. The first time I was on 5 tabs of acid and could not understand ANY of the knobs or names of anything on the program. I had problems remembering how to open up ableton. But, After a Shpongle show I was on the same amount of tabs and gained so many ideas from his set, so once I got home I was coming down from my peak, which made it easier to understand my computer. I still didn't know how to do anything with the program, so I re-taught myself the whole program the whole rest of my trip. I didn't get any songs organized but I had a fuller understanding of the program. So last saturday I went to an Infected mushroom show, I was on a fourth of shrooms and went home and made this incredible psychedelic electro/house song. But, what I've considered after the trip is it would be easier if I pre-arrange everything before I tripped, so I have a skeleton to work from. So, some day I'm off from work next week I'll be dropping a few tabs and going in deep. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm sure all will go well.

[Today]

good way to handicap yourself and waste time in the studio. i write and arrange sober, mix sober, and then i do drugs after i get paid

[Dystinkt]

good way to handicap yourself and waste time in the studio. i write and arrange sober, mix sober, and then i do drugs after i get paid

subjective opinion, depends entirely on the person.

[twilitez]

good way to handicap yourself and waste time in the studio. i write and arrange sober, mix sober, and then i do drugs after i get paid

[crazeehorse]

its all about having a couple of loops premade then setting up a microphone for you and your friends to shout profanities into over the course of a night on the rhino tranquizers. wobbling round to that same loop for hours and hours, then arranging it all in the morning over a nice cuppa

[BrightLights]

I was on opiates for a couple years, and I definately found my inspiration going away pretty quickly. I did make a few bangers, but you really don't feel and embrace your music neary as much as when your sober. Now that I'm clean and sober making music is so much more enjoyable, Im really conected to all my tracks on a higher level of emotion than before. As with weed, its fun but afte a while you start to think you can only make goodmusic when your high, and really you have to learn to be able to make good music sober too. I make most of my music sober now, but I usually have some home made chai tea to relax me, that shits bomb. Also, I was making a lot of music when I was addicted to xanax and klonopen, and I thought it made me such a better musican, but really I made the weirdest fucking beats now that I listen tthem. I think it just loosens you up and calms you down so much that your music just kind rolls together and feels perfect, but i can get that same feeling from doing yoga, meditating, and then pouring some chai tea before I start putting out ideas, just with a way clearer head, state of mind, and level of consciousness. It is nice to make music from a different perspective evey now and then, but just dont do anyting thatll limit your consciousness or feeling, it'l really inhibit your creativity and connection to your music.

[arktrix45hz]

I can't produce when i smoke weed, unless its very small amounts. But it does give me a different perspective, and I can only tell if i like a song or not, if i can listen to it when i'm really baked. I pick up on different things and know what needs to be fixed/ how to make it better, but i can't proceed with the action while I'm still high. Just gotta wait till im not high, and hope that i remember the ideas.

Which you won't unless you're pen in hand writing shit down, trust me!

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

I agree tbh. Weed doesn't help me at all, I kinda enjoy it though, its a bit of a laugh. me and my mate always get high if we make tunes together but it seems to work quiet well that way
#DrugsAreBadMmmkay

[Today]

good way to handicap yourself and waste time in the studio. i write and arrange sober, mix sober, and then i do drugs after i get paid

subjective opinion, depends entirely on the person.

tripping in the studio?

maybe when they'd plug the guitar player in and let him have a few passes, and all he had to do was play. but not for this type of shit. i'd bet money it's a total waste of studio time

[joegrizzly]

Mostof the great musicians of all time have written music when they were high,or atleast used it as some sort of inspiration for their tunes... smoking weed can make you more creative, but obviously drugs (even a plant) effect everybody differently so it all depends on what works with you... Don't stop getting high and making music because thats what works with a lot of the people here... Think of your best tunes,did you make them high or sober? I also think sound design is more interesting when your high, obviously you can end up spending hours making something and it turns out completely wack, but this happens when your sober also..Nice topic though