Production Confessions Confidential

[MikeyOhh]

I have no idea how to do a mixdown and consequently hate every track I've ever made.

[kreutzbube]

i spend hours tweaking a sound just to decide that it's shit and dump it.

when i get to a loop that is really cool, i get very euphoric about making the tune. during the next three days, when i tweak and hear it over and over again i get increasingly sick of it until i hate it and think its a piece of shit.

never give up sth you hate in the moment

i get what u say, and first i try to force myself by saying: "cmon, remember how much u liked this in the beginning!" and i carry on. but eventually this descends into torture and i get a small glimpse of how guantanamo-prisoners must feel when they have to listen to the same eminem-tune over and over again for hours and days. i guess i just have to become good enough to finish off a tune quickly.

[Hircine]

Sometimes I feel really tempted to just chop old mid range sounds from other songs and use them in a different one and have an instant banger like some big money producers but I have a moral code against it

[NinjaEdit]

You guys need to spend 10 minutes doing research. Anyway, my production is flawless.

[Artie_Fufkin]

^^haha I know, I feel really smart though from some of these posts. thats my confession. reed dem synfefiver menuals folx

Sometimes I feel really tempted to just chop old mid range sounds from other songs and use them in a different one and have an instant banger like some big money producers but I have a moral code against it

Especially when the snares sound sooooo similar. I tried it once and showed my friend and it had him fooled.

No, in all seriousness, I use a lot of the same patches in all my tracks.

that's worse than being Oedipus.

I wanted to produce brostep to impress people in high school, and when I got to know this forum better, I wanted to impress you guys so I tried to imitate the producers you like.

I wish I was friends with some of you in real life.

[OfficialDAPT]

I spend very little time on mixdowns and I don't have a mastering process that I use. I also spend too little time on everything else like synth design and construction.

[fragments]

You guys need to spend 10 minutes doing research.

This thread definitely made me realize I know a thing or three.

Anyway, my production is flawless.

[outbound]

I know it's hardly an original one but apologies to all those songs I never finished and.... moved to the recycle bin

[Mason]

i havn't finished a song in 3 months

[travis_baker]

I don't understand compression.

this one applys to all of us

[krispy]

I haven't completed a track in half a year
And I read a book on musical theory and still have trouble constructing a simple melody that's in key

[travis_baker]

mate its all about ctrl D

[silkpantsman]

i hate my style but ill be fucked if im gona cop some1 elses!!!

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

I use way too many highpass filters probably.

[Genevieve]

I overEQ and generally OVERPROCESS everything to hell for weeks, then wonder how everything sounds like shit. Then I get the clever idea to remove everything again and suddenly it starts sounding pretty again. It's so hard for me to accept that most tracks don't really need much more than an EQ.

[bkwsk]

It's so hard for me to accept that most tracks don't really need much more than an EQ.

Yep, it's a gradual process. You also have to "demistify" a lot of your fave producers when you start realizing that. Not to mention the "Put a Fausage Sattener on every track" Youtube tutorials.

[skimpi]

some of the posts in here are silly, like not mixing down or mastering that much, and not using much eq or compression (if any), or not know how a flanger works but knowing what it sounds like.

You are saying them as if its some taboo, like, you dont need to do/know any of that to make good tracks. Plenty of people do minimal eq and compression but stil make banging beats. you dont need to know how a flanger works, just aslong as you know what it sounds like and what it is going to bring to the track.

[fragments]

I overEQ and generally OVERPROCESS everything to hell for weeks, then wonder how everything sounds like shit. Then I get the clever idea to remove everything again and suddenly it starts sounding pretty again. It's so hard for me to accept that most tracks don't really need much more than an EQ.

This was probably the biggest epiphany I've had in the last six months.

[cryptical]

deadmau5 ghost produces all my tunes

[123kidd]

dont know the first thing to working with/processing vocals