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Hi there Ive been producing music for around 2 years now and ive been going to a nearby studio in Leicester. im not happy with the results im getting. im really interested in getting my music out there and im wanting to get down London and get some real studio time with some great engineers. if anyone noes of any studios that they can recommend send me a message


i produce hip hop/grime/dub step its a mixture ha ha.

What do you mean by you're not happy with the results you're getting?

Do you have any kind of home setup? A lot of the fundamentals of 'getting better' can be self taught and practiced at home required you have a decent listening environment and a dedication to learn. Studio time can be expensive and a move form the midlands down south is a massive step. If it's really what you want to do then go for it but I'm saying 2 years isn't really that long, and if I may presume, a lot of what you might be seeing as bad results are quite possibly down to your own relative lack of experience and not the studio it's self.

I would personally advise stepping up your personal game and strapping down to some serious learning and practice before you make a big move under the presupposition that it'll magically improve your output (it won't). Focus down on the fundamentals, increase the time you're actually engaging in making music, at least two fold, and get into the practice of critically deconstructing your work in terms of what's not sounding 'professional' and why that is, this will drastically deepen your critical relationship with music and teach you the delicate fine details of what makes professional sounding music, professional sounding. You'll be surprised how relatively little you need in terms of 'studio' to output high quality tracks, it's never the tools, but how you use them. To put it another way, if a producer with 10 years under their belt went to the studio you're ditching, they could push out a sick track with ease.

If it's studio time with 'the pros' you're after then I agree that the best way to get that is to go and find it. Just keep in mind that physically moving to chase that ideal is something you need to assess seriously in terms of whether your motivations are realistically attainable Vs the logistical weight of doing something so dedicated to a cause, when a lot of the stuff you might be putting in the 'grass is greener' basket can be easily attainable without moving home, and largely down to a change in perspective in a lot of respects.

Subscribe to Computer Music magazine (use each issue as a mini study source), Subscribe to Pensado's Place on youtube (put the methods taught/spoken about in each eppisode into practice). Use Facebook, this forum, bandcamp, beatport and other places to promote yourself and network for like minded people. Seek producers you consider to be making tunes you'd ideally want to. Approach them and ask for a collab mentioning your aim for that is to learn from them. You'd be surprised how many people are happy to do that kind of thing. Network in Leicester, fully rinse out all possibility that there isn't a few key people you can link up with to benefit your studies (I can pretty much guarantee there will be).

Probably not what you wanted to hear but still

Turnipish Thoughts wrote:

Bro, did you have a lot of coffee today?

search my name. It's not coffee. Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish yada yada... tbf I've not been active on here for a while so you might not be partial to my general essays

Fair enough, but are your essays usually entirely speculation? The guy just wanted to know some info about studios, not have a ton of words thrown at him

Benji wrote:Fair enough, but are your essays usually entirely speculation? The guy just wanted to know some info about studios, not have a ton of words thrown at him

Yeah sometimes. I felt obliged to give him a bit of advice based on my experience of this kind of thing. He can take it how he wishes. I'm not someone to be obeyed. Considering I don't personally know any studios in London and 'm fairly certain he's not the only one in Leicester on the same path. You put 2 n 2 together don't ya

Has my post to him bothered you in some way?

It was just very smug and pretty mental

Benji wrote:It was just very smug and pretty mental

How is advising someone to try and get better themselves and save some money by not buying studio time smug or mental. Seems like common sense to me

Nah, it was pretty mental........

Brothulhu wrote:

Benji wrote:It was just very smug and pretty mental

How is advising someone to try and get better themselves and save some money by not buying studio time smug or mental. Seems like common sense to me

Because it wasn't really based on anything and not what the guy asked

JFK wrote:Nah, it was pretty mental........

Man knows

Benji wrote:

Brothulhu wrote:

Benji wrote:It was just very smug and pretty mental

How is advising someone to try and get better themselves and save some money by not buying studio time smug or mental. Seems like common sense to me

Because it wasn't really based on anything and not what the guy asked

It was based on something. The OP said he's only been producing for 2 years and he doesn't like the studio he is going to. Which suggests that someone who has only been producing music for 2 years is doing his learning by buying studio time. Which is an absolutely absurd way of doing so. There is also the part where he said he didn't like the results he was getting at this studio and was willing to move to find a better studio. Which, again, suggests he believes the studio he's working in now is to blame for his music not being very good. Rather than the fact that he's only been producing for 2 years.

Despite the fact Turnipish was going on speculation, I didn't find his post smug at all. He's simply telling the guy that spending that kind of money will not yield better results if the problem is inexperience, not equipment. Which is entirely true. If the OP feels he's good enough then obviously he can just ignore the post entirely. But if there's any doubt then the advice Turnipish gave is spot on and hopefully gives the OP something to think about.

JBE wrote:

Benji wrote:

Brothulhu wrote:

Benji wrote:It was just very smug and pretty mental

How is advising someone to try and get better themselves and save some money by not buying studio time smug or mental. Seems like common sense to me

Because it wasn't really based on anything and not what the guy asked

It was based on something. The OP said he's only been producing for 2 years and he doesn't like the studio he is going to. Which suggests that someone who has only been producing music for 2 years is doing his learning by buying studio time. Which is an absolutely absurd way of doing so. There is also the part where he said he didn't like the results he was getting at this studio and was willing to move to find a better studio. Which, again, suggests he believes the studio he's working in now is to blame for his music not being very good. Rather than the fact that he's only been producing for 2 years.

Despite the fact Turnipish was going on speculation, I didn't find his post smug at all. He's simply telling the guy that spending that kind of money will not yield better results if the problem is inexperience, not equipment. Which is entirely true. If the OP feels he's good enough then obviously he can just ignore the post entirely. But if there's any doubt then the advice Turnipish gave is spot on and hopefully gives the OP something to think about.

Thankyou!

I felt a bit licked at the unusually negative responses to me taking my time to help a man out with where I felt he had his head at. At least someone understands