How long do you typically spend on a track

[86.]

takes me ages to do tunes. normaly 2 to three months if i get them finished.

takes me the best part of a day to get my a drum beat made or a bass patch programed and sequnced. couldn't even begin to contemplate making a tune in a day.

wish i could to be honest not getting nearly enough done at the mo

If I had all day at home....I'd be in that camp. But I get a couple hours here and there in the day. When I wake up....and then by the time I get home, within 1.5 hrs of working on something I'm too tired to continue.

indeed this my problem, i do a full time job and only have the energy 1 -2 hours in the evening then long sessions in the weekend, so i make slow progress. normally forget what i was going for the weekend before so end up restarting all the time.

so yeah need to find a way to start getting stuff down faster, ho hum

some recent shit: structuring the shit from the get go....setting markers for intro, breaks, outros, etc etc.

so you work within those guidelines....you got less room to waste time. obviously shit can switch up.

maybe you already do this.

[coyote]

indeed, i have started doing that over the last few weeks and it certainly has helped. get stuff sounding right is where i fall short, but ive taken a few months out to do naught but sound design and harddrive tidying.

so who knows maybe my next set of tunes will happen quicker. but anyhow no worries its all good.

[doomproduction]

i find the most exciting part is crafting the bassline. most boring part is when you've done the 1st drop, and you then have to structure out a whole tune while adding very little musical content to it. dull but necessary!

then you bounce it, play it back and realise half of it is the wrong volume,

repeat this about 5 times (by now i normally going insane as the same bassloop's been listened to for several hours)

and... it's done. upload to myspace, nice zoot, enjoy. good feedback makes all the tweaking and late nights worth it.

[vertex]

My last track took around 1 week, mainly because I was getting to grips with Reason again after not using it for a whole year.

[tavravlavish]

ive just started producing so dont listen to me but heres what ive been doing. usually start a tune until it annoys the hell of me but it has potential, then i let it sit there because i dont want to rush into something when im pissed off at it i just wait until i have the time a patienc to make it what i want it to be. To me this is the best way to go about it, i just like to get the idea out there so when the time comes i can really commit myself to sit down and make it awesome and it will be awesome oh yes, it will.

plus i think the good thing about my noob strategy is that as i get better at mixing and stuff like that i will have a bunch of tracks just waiting to be produced at a better level as opposed to throwing out a bunch of songs when i dont really know how to do shit properly.

[abZ]

takes me ages to do tunes. normaly 2 to three months if i get them finished.

takes me the best part of a day to get my a drum beat made or a bass patch programed and sequnced. couldn't even begin to contemplate making a tune in a day.

wish i could to be honest not getting nearly enough done at the mo

If I had all day at home....I'd be in that camp. But I get a couple hours here and there in the day. When I wake up....and then by the time I get home, within 1.5 hrs of working on something I'm too tired to continue.

indeed this my problem, i do a full time job and only have the energy 1 -2 hours in the evening then long sessions in the weekend, so i make slow progress. normally forget what i was going for the weekend before so end up restarting all the time.

so yeah need to find a way to start getting stuff down faster, ho hum

That is pretty much my deal. Exactly tho you adapt if you are serious about making tunes. I have it to where I get the tune basically done in like 3 or 4 hours then I just crash. Next day or whenever when my ears and mind are fresh I will mix down. Don't usually have to do much but I just have to be sure I am going to go with what I have.

[tavravlavish]

1 day one tune= wobbley snoozeeers

[mooseforyebs]

this question is a double edged sword

[Okota]

I know it doesn't really matter! Caus each to their own 'n all! But how long do you spend making a track? Finished all in one day?
Lots of mini sessions over a week?
Personally, I can get really carried away with tracks spending weeks making hardly any changes at all in the final stages. Its rewarding, but can be a pretty long process.
Ez

[Disco Nutter]

I think there was a similiar topic posted a while ago.

Anyway - usually I spend a heck of a load of time to finish tunes off!

Jason

[Okota]

Ah right shit! I must of missed the similar topic... I know repeating stuff pisses people off!
Ez

[djake]

as long as it takes....

repeating threads will never end. a repost is generally a repost of repost

[warmthgetmatch]

I hope this is the type of response you want... sorry if its not!
Umm I think I spend typically 4-12 hours on an original track. From start to finish, then i am prepared to send it out for people to tell me whats up, what i need to change, what sucks ass, or if it sucks ass and should never be touched again. I am in the position though where I cannot mixdown my tracks where I create them at, so i depend on the opinion of others quite a bit as to what I should take to mixdown at other facilities.

Sorry for the rambles, I would say I spend 8 hours creating a song, 1 to 3 listens with people i trust deconstructing the song with various individuals, then a pause for smoke, then onwards with the final judgement.
If you trust the musical merit, the only question is its technical arrangement and mix down of the elements.

Sorry if this was unhelpful.

[aspect-dubz]

i can wack out a tune in a day if im really into it, but at the moment this tune im working on.... i started about a week ago and i just cant seem to make any progress

[Ongelegen]

as long as it takes....

this!

I ussualy have more than 1 track in the works. Spend a few hours a week per track to keep my ears fresh. But usually i dont finish anything haha

[Okota]

Cheers for the replies!
@warmthgetmatch that sounds like a good method getting a few trusted people to comment on what could be done. I just get frustrated having thought i'd finished a track, then listening to it again and hearing so many changes I want to make... like the track in my sig, I'm guna go change it then replace the audio on soundcloud. I'm just never happy! This is just a bit of a rant really... I quit whining now and go produce some music! hah.
safe

[Raze]

it depends if I'm feeling what I'm making or if i think about sidelining it

the tune I've just finished - the sickness took me about 8 hours in all...the mix down isn't great but I'm crap at that stuff
but sometimes i can be on a tune for weeks

I've always got 2-3 I've made like 64 bars of then my creativity just gets ruined by real life or sleep and i end up not going back for ages
and by that point i think its the dubstep equivalent of jedward

I spent like a month on a drum and bass tune i wrote ages ago and now i listen to it it's actual cringeworthy

[p.t.b.d]

I make a tune an hour
24 hours a day

[mars]

anywhere between 3 days and 6 months lol

[kp mike]

3 days