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what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:24 am
by chronicrecords
for me i can honestly say it was dubstep.
im 20 years old was big into hiphop in my highschool days. i actually fucked around with making beats on garageband when i was like 14-17, then just stopped all together as i started smoking pot heavily and drinking. wish i stepped it up back then and started learning about engineering and shit i would be so much farther advanced then i am now.. oh well cant go back in time.
i listened to a bit of electronic music back then but not to much, mostly just popular techno songs or w/e had no idea about underground electronic music.
i think it was about 2-3 weeks after discovering dubstep(which was about 6 months ago now) that i had made up my mind that i NEED to learn how to make my own tunes.
been reading heavily on production tryin to suck up any knowledge i can since then
by the way, i still cant get a decent crystal clear sounding mix... any advice ?

Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:50 am
by rook
I've been a DJ for about 11 years now and producing seriously for maybe 3.
I started producing because I love playing shows and I want it to someday be my livelihood.
It seemed kind of halfassed to never add anything new to the pot.
I probably would have started producing earlier if I had any confidence in my musical ability at the time.
I'm far better now than I thought I'd be able a few short years ago, though definitely a long way to go still.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:13 am
by tavravlavish
music. i was in a punk rock band when i was about 8-11 years old, we played a bunch of shows in the seattle area. im 17 now and as my taste in music has progressed over the years I have changed the way i make music, i still play guitar and a little bit of drums but I mostly just enjoy nerding out on my computer these days and sometimes have a jam sesh with my buddies, i hope to someday be able to get a decent mix, help out in studios, get a few releases maybe, I just love being involved with music in one way or another. i think i have a lot to offer and thats why i produce. I do my own thing and keep things fresh, I like to feel like im accomplishing something and setting goals.
well theres my life story i dunno why i just wrote that.

Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:25 am
by Pedro Sánchez
an unhealthy obsession with sound.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:37 am
by Skepsis
dubstep made me want to produce
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:38 am
by AnalGangstaHo
I thought it'd be a good way to get some fadge.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:41 am
by kejk
I've always been into synthesis, so it was cool when dubstep came 'round about a year or 2 ago

Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:18 pm
by JFK
Because I noticed all the guys on the music production course at college got all the quality pussy.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:26 pm
by safeandsound
One of my friends sold a Commodore Amiga to a bloke who ran a studio and in part payment
he said he would give my friend some studio time, my friend invited me and I was totally
in awe, we put a jungle tune together in this studio and I knew I would have to be setting up a studio,
no going back. This was around the time of Lenny D Ice's We are I.E. (and Moby's Go!)
I had 4 commercial releases since, not exactly top 10 tunes ! but nonetheless really great fun.
Life changing day in the studio that one.
The studio owner was Bizzy B of Brain records.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:27 pm
by kejk
JFK wrote:Because I noticed all the guys on the music production course at college got all the quality pussy.
You should DJ if you want pussy. Producers get nothing more than a slice of bread.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:43 pm
by ketamine
kejk wrote:
You should DJ if you want pussy. Producers get nothing more than a slice of bread.

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Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:26 pm
by collige
1. I read Venetian Snares' wiki article.
2. I Downloaded MED Soundstudio out of curiosity.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:45 pm
by drokkr
Phuture 303.
Those guys have changed my life.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:49 pm
by gender
AnalGangstaHo wrote:I thought it'd be a good way to get some fadge.
win
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:00 pm
by ninjadog
I still remember the night I heard hardcore techno. My friends and I were tripping on acid in like 1994 and we happened to find the college radio station and it was playing some hardcore shit, I was instantly hooked. It wasent till years later when I could finally afford something to produce with, which was Reason in 2002.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:05 pm
by hurlingdervish
i was sick of playing in JAM BANDS. actually i started both guitar and production at the same time but the production slowly took over.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:20 pm
by polygonfiction
I needed music for a film I was making so I thought I'd make my own. That was three years ago. Now I'm making another and I need more music.
That and Kode9's
Glass - that tune still gives me the shivers.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:22 pm
by clone-a-side
the love for music
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:44 pm
by relik
safeandsound wrote:
The studio owner was Bizzy B of Brain records.
Legend. Pretty funny your friend sold a commodore to him, which he probably used for all his early releases on Brain and Joker.
Re: what made you want to learn /start production
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:30 am
by yamaz
One night I was tripping and my friend showed me Reason 3.0. Having no prior musical background, analog or electronic, I spent the rest of the night trying to wrap my head around that program, and loving it. The rest is history.