How long do you typically spend on a track

[syrup]

about half a light year

[skimpi]

about half a light year

so, 6 light months?

[BonerJams04]

hey fgts lightyear is a distance not an amount of time

[skimpi]

hey fgts lightyear is a distance not an amount of time

LightYEAR

LightMILE

I think we know who is right here, ey?

[Figment]

i don't think reverb is entirely wrong...

it takes me about 15 hours to produce 16 bars, ffs IMO laptop keeps crashing

[JensMadsen]

about two months if i work on it consistently

[dougriley]

i'm slowly starting to realize it all comes down to how well prepared i am for the arrangement of a tune. if i i'm mixing sound design (to a certain extent) in with arrangement, forget about it, i prob won't even end up finishing the track.

[swerver]

f'king forever. full time job, 3 kids....not enough hours in the day

[Electric_Head]

Normally less than a few hours up to a couple days.
Dislocated finger means it's gone to not producing at all.

[koncide]

I find it really difficult to judge. I constantly recycle old beats, patches, grooves, samples, I find my tunes I'm workin on to be lieeek rag dolls stitched together from old parts and then painted with aerosols.

Probably about 20 hours work minimum though to get at tune to the mastering stage.

[cryptical]

lightyear is the distance light travels within a year in a vacuum
so it takes johney around 3 trillion miles to produce a track

google b4 u start gettin cheeky m8

[VirtualMark]

lightyear is the distance light travels within a year in a vacuum
so it takes johney around 3 trillion miles to produce a track

google b4 u start gettin cheeky m8

That is quite a long while - it takes me about 30 parsecs.

[alphacat]

You've never heard of the Alpaca Hamkin? It's the ship that made the Kessel run in 4 parsecs.





But seriously, OP:

It can take as little as 2 or 3 hours and as long as years. It alllllll depends. Sometimes the tune writes itself; other times it's like trying to stuff a live eel into a nun's shitlocker.

[nameless133]

About 2-5 days.

[Rappone]

other times it's like trying to stuff a live eel into a nun's shitlocker.

Music to my eyes


Never takes me more than 3 days. A few hours every day.

Then again I'm still a beginner, for pros it can last up to a month of daily effort.
I've read an interview for a pro trance producer/dj that he takes a whole year making his 12 track album, in the studio daily. He lays the groundwork and driving melodies on his tracks then keeps switching between them for hearing with fresh ears and tweaking each track all throughout the year. It sounded like it makes alot of sense, since I've tried sleeping on a track for a week, then coming back to it, I noticed many more minor areas that could be improved. and so forth.

YADA.

[mixedbyLUSH]

no more than 144 minutes for a dubstep track
clearly the watershed

I nearly fell off my bed I laughed so hard.

[Comfi]

Well I woke at 11 this morning and produced my new tune (in my sig) from then till about half an hour ago, leaving an hour for toilet breaks, food and misc. Can vary though but I have a pretty quick turnover when I'm going good. Though, it's been eight months since my last 'release'.

[ill mindset]

General Question for you all.

how long does it take for you to make a tune from start to finish?
or how long does it take to get a general demo idea for e.g. 16 bars of a drop.

Where are you from? Your username is also the name of my friends band. Is this Jim or Zach? haha

[bkwsk]

Usually between three to six sessions, between 16 and 36 hours total.

[ChadDub]

How long does it take you to make a song/choon/beat/whomper? Because I've been working on a beat for a total of 25 hours and 13 minutes so far, and that's racked up in the past 4 days. It usually only takes me max 8 hours but this one I've been actually trying on.