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Hahaha this is probably another aspect of music composition but, do you feel muscle pain staying a lot at the computer producing music making clicks and precise adjustements ? I have like a progressive pain in the back, the shoulder and the arm whenever I produce more than 2 hours and I have quite a good chair. SO am I a special case or have you also been expericing some of it while producing each day and making thousands of clicks ?

(If this threads is considered as being useless delete it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel
get a trackball and ergonomic chair
that and get up time time and exercise ffs

Adjust your monitor so that the top matches your eye level. Also, have enough room on the desk to rest your arm. Don't put the mouse too far away, cause you'll be reaching.



Also; learn your daw's keyboard shortcuts too. This will help both your workflow and your muscle pain.

i'm all dizzy due to eyestrain these days.

ya my shoulder hurts too

this is what I look like these days:

i have all types of pain from guitar playing and using the computer too long. I work for 12 hours in a row sometimes though.

Don't really get pains. However I have trouble staying awake when producing in the late evening sometimes. Like last night I was making a drum pattern but I was also half asleep and realised I was just pressing shit. So I went to sleep... Mainly due to having a 9-5 job.

Gotta take breaks man, If i'm at it all day I take breaks at least every 2 hours now, walk about, get a scran and stuff. I used to just sit there for 8 hours straight on some days and even forget to eat, just dragging audio regions around and tweaking virtual knobs but it was fucking my back, eyes and general health up, so I bought and positioned midi controllers so I have to get up and get hands on without having to stare at the screen to make music and it is much better.

Pedro Sánchez wrote:Gotta take breaks man, If i'm at it all day I take breaks at least every 2 hours now, walk about, get a scran and stuff. I used to just sit there for 8 hours straight on some days and even forget to eat, just dragging audio regions around and tweaking virtual knobs but it was fucking my back, eyes and general health up, so I bought and positioned midi controllers so I have to get up and get hands on without having to stare at the screen to make music and it is much better.

why would you do that to yourself??????????

Thanks you guys !

Really helped. But I realised something, when I'm super focused I sort of forget every muscle pain going on in my shoulder. Still I looked at the picture above (not the monkey one =__=) and really helped.

Painkillers. Get them.

Well pain killer works only ... one time or every other time you have to take one of those. I'm looking a bit more to know your long term tips and tricks on production ergonomy.

When I'm mixing down or playing the keys I stand up and dance a few steps.... else my neck n shoulders are sore.

the back and side of my neck where my shoulders begin is fucked its so stiff and tense. i try to massage it myself to loosen it a bit but its fuckin rock solid. i think i need to go get a professional massage or somethin as my posture is starting to fuck up from this as well. my neckseems normal now when its in a leaned forward position and i have to constantly remind myself to hold it up straight when im out in public. its fuckked i think im gona go see a docter or some shit

Balls. Grow them.

man how can you not know about ergonomics? but yeah have to agree with upstate, stop growing the balls on your chin!