This is where I fail as a producer. I'm so confident of my homemade samples and patches. I can come up with catchy riffs and melodies. I understand pretty much everything about the software I use. It's been about 5 years since I started producing music. I've played drums for over 12 years. I can no...

Make at least some compositional judgements of your tracks outside of the studio. The aesthetic impact of your workspace around how you hear a track is actually quite significant, hearing it in different contexts will help you make better calls on how it sounds. WORK FAST. Nothing worse than getting...