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... Making Albino patches, staying awake, using the same drum pack, stick a few cheeky gabber kicks on tracks, drinking tea, eating beef and jalapeno sandwiches at 2.30am, wanting to buy a Virus, sampling my dvds, tweeking my live set up... In a loop of this shit 90% of the time.

drokkr wrote:Staying awake

Me too. I stay up later and later each day, and this leads to a fucked up sleeping pattern haha!

Another thing I do is tweak my physical workspace a lot, trying to achieve the perfect workflow surroundings. In my last place, I moved my entire room 5 times before I was settled

futures_untold wrote:

drokkr wrote:Staying awake

Me too. I stay up later and later each day, and this leads to a fucked up sleeping pattern haha!

ME three

always going to bed late and always waking up early to work on tunes and always running late for work...not good.

also if i start a new project i can't get it out of my mind until it finish properly may take days,weeks,months and always re uploading new versions on my soundcloud

cool thread!

I've realized over the years that I don't necessarily produce just to make music; the experimentation, challenge and learning experience is a huge reason why I do it. So I always get a little uneasy at the earliest signs of repeating myself and panic a little bit. It's pretty much why I gave up Reason for Cubase; I felt like I was too comfortable with it and I didn't like the idea that I was relying on any one piece of software to make music. Even now, I'm using both Kontakt and Shortcircuit for the same reasons.


But to answer the question: I always assign an LFO to the low-pass filter on my bass, and I don't make wobble or use a lot of midrange...I just like to have a bit of movement in the sub-bass. I also tend to make a lot of my hi-hats the same way and feel like I need to work a little harder on them. I also tend to use reverb and delay on just about everything, even if its just a miniscule amount. Other than that, I really enjoy taking a fresh approach with each tune.

drokkr wrote:Staying awake

6:30am is normal right??

christthetiger wrote:

drokkr wrote:Staying awake

6:30am is normal right??

Lol, Im in bed at noon and up at 9! Fuckin nocturnal, I swear it... Fuck it, nothins worth doing in the daytime during PAs winters anyway...

I cant stop shovelling fucking snow! Were gettin record snowfalls this year, n its every couple hours Im diggin myself bakc out the front door. Oh how stupid I am, for wanting to live in the mountains.

smoking green all weekend every weekend. it's got bad, but there's fuck all else to do. and its half term for me this week coming omg its so crap.

I'm quite nocturnal myself..

I usually have one night I stay up till like mid day, then sleep till like 7-8pm, then stay up till 9-10pm and sleep till 6-7am, its crazy yo'

legend4ry wrote:Like.....If you listen to the first 30 seconds on 90% of my tracks on souncloud, they start with a pad .....


Anyone else do something simular to this? Its starting to annoy me I need to break the habitttt!

why? i quite like it when a musician has something that comes everytime again. somehow like a tag. though i'm not talking about a pad in the intro.
more of the whole track... if every of your tracks have the same kinda feeling, maybe a sample you always use (in different ways) then i think it's okay and even really good.

just thinking of joker... you always hear that it's joker. and same thing you can say about many other big names.

legend4ry wrote:I'm quite nocturnal myself..

I usually have one night I stay up till like mid day, then sleep till like 7-8pm, then stay up till 9-10pm and sleep till 6-7am, its crazy yo'

Are you unemployed per chance? (I am too)

That's what I did just before Crimbo... Fucked me a up a little haha.

Back to normal now.

futures_untold wrote:

legend4ry wrote:I'm quite nocturnal myself..

I usually have one night I stay up till like mid day, then sleep till like 7-8pm, then stay up till 9-10pm and sleep till 6-7am, its crazy yo'

Are you unemployed per chance? (I am too)

That's what I did just before Crimbo... Fucked me a up a little haha.

Back to normal now.

i started doing this sort of thing after chrismas when i started working only 2 days a week instead of 5 days.i have like 2 days i just stay up then sleep a day then have 2 days where i go a sleep at about 5-7am wake up about 1-4pm then work two days get no sleep and then back to the start. it has made me go a little crazy. if i was unemployed i can see this being such a bigger problem for me because ive got 2 days a week where i have got to be some where and i got some sorta cycle.
(fucked up sleep crew)

vulvavibration wrote:

legend4ry wrote:Like.....If you listen to the first 30 seconds on 90% of my tracks on souncloud, they start with a pad .....


Anyone else do something simular to this? Its starting to annoy me I need to break the habitttt!

why? i quite like it when a musician has something that comes everytime again. somehow like a tag. though i'm not talking about a pad in the intro.
more of the whole track... if every of your tracks have the same kinda feeling, maybe a sample you always use (in different ways) then i think it's okay and even really good.

just thinking of joker... you always hear that it's joker. and same thing you can say about many other big names.

I get those vibes off the Ganja White Night guys.

shortinos wrote:Make a loop, fix it up, play it on loop for a couple days, think of what i can add to it, add nothing to it. Start new track (rinse and repeat). I have about 100 loops i've made sitting on my harddrive. I like them all but i never progress them into songs. I spend about a week making each loop. Meh

Same thing with me.

Basic A wrote:Wobbles are a hard habit too break, but, Im workin on it.

Tru!

christthetiger wrote:

ninjadog wrote:I cant stop smoking pot.

dude, i smoked some herbs from BC and was floored. it was such a dank indo, i was literally scared.

Same here! went to the states last summer to visit some family, my cousin got some of that bc bud.
started seeing some chessboard with this pixelated gameboy looking mario character walking across it got and color shifts and all that,
couldnt possibly be natural herb, or could it? weedgeeks?

nowaysj wrote:Pretty negative list here, but.

Can't stop being unable to create the sounds I want.

Can't figure out the third element. Drums, bass, and ?

Can't write a transition.

Can't write a song.

Can't take a section and make a variation on it.

Can't keep my head clear enough to evaluate a beat while I'm working on it. I go from loving beats I'm working on, to hating them. I don't know if it's delusion from the start, over listening, or over working the beats.

Can't stop working on music.

Completely SPOT, ON!


Nice to know other people feel like this, sort of?

trike12 wrote: christthetiger wrote:

ninjadog wrote:I cant stop smoking pot.



dude, i smoked some herbs from BC and was floored. it was such a dank indo, i was literally scared.



Same here! went to the states last summer to visit some family, my cousin got some of that bc bud.
started seeing some chessboard with this pixelated gameboy looking mario character walking across it got and color shifts and all that,
couldnt possibly be natural herb, or could it? weedgeeks?

Lmfao... I dont even smoke and i find this funny... Cuz The North America's swear by overseas, and you guys swear by the America's, so that tells me neither side has ever tried the others, n your all talkin out your asses!

I dont live in the capital we get shit weed where i live and i dont smoke often, so in the us i smoked more and a lot better weed. i dont swear by anything from my town man

Making dark tunes.... ahh

Also like the rest of you, turning nocturnal haha

smoking

jsills wrote:smoking

Basic A wrote:

christthetiger wrote:

drokkr wrote:Staying awake

6:30am is normal right??

Lol, Im in bed at noon and up at 9! Fuckin nocturnal, I swear it... Fuck it, nothins worth doing in the daytime during PAs winters anyway...

I cant stop shovelling fucking snow! Were gettin record snowfalls this year, n its every couple hours Im diggin myself bakc out the front door. Oh how stupid I am, for wanting to live in the mountains.

youre from PA? me too negro!

Don't worry i have the same problem... (well its not a problem atm,) the last 8 ish tunes i have got, starts with some pads, arps, wind, air, rain, and things of that sound tpye. I cant help it, but i guess thats they way i do this/