Production Confessions Confidential

[Living_Tragedy]

I leave my kicks and snares at 0dB.

[hendrix126]

-Most of my "good" sounding songs are flukes when they are being made; saying that I get lucky when I make them.
-I often bandwagon genre trends to try and take influences from each and put them into one.

[Cubicle]

I chain smoke cigarettes when I produce, so much that when I leave the room to make a pot of coffee or something I get a rush of smoke hit me when I open the door.


Producing is killing me.

This.

I am extremely scared that people will find my tracks 'weakly' produced.
I sample way too much. (not sure if that's a bad thing or a good thing)
I masturbate way too much when I'm producing, honestly, can't produce for 4 hours straight.

[chekov]

I masturbate way too much when I'm producing, honestly, can't produce for 4 hours straight.

[jimbeaux]

i can't for the life of me, understand or figure out FM synthesis. sytrus, or fm8.

[bkwsk]

I don't even think I'm learning to create music, I'm still learning to understand music.

[Snarfie]

I chain smoke cigarettes when I produce, so much that when I leave the room to make a pot of coffee or something I get a rush of smoke hit me when I open the door.


Producing is killing me.

Sadly this

[InternetSlaveMaster]

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.

Yeah, this.

Like the guy who said "I don't bounce down to audio, I keep it as midi"- who said you have to bounce down to audio? If you are low on CPU or like mangling audio more than midi, that's fine, but it's not a negative to not do it.

There are no right or wrong ways to art

[dougriley]

for ages i thought i needed payware plugins to produce the sounds i was after...

little did i know how capable the software was within my DAW

[D00FY]

I cun't spell very well.

jk...

I can't make leads because I've concentrated so much on making basslines. (Practice starts after next track...)

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

I think the worst for me, is the fact that no matter how often i say its a bad thing. I master my own tracks within reason. Well sort of. I eq and limit them slightly.

[jaydot]

I deleted my best tune from my soundcloud and harddrive and now it's gone forever.

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

I have done that once ^ it wasn't a great tune though when i did it

[fragments]

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.

Yeah, this.

Like the guy who said "I don't bounce down to audio, I keep it as midi"- who said you have to bounce down to audio? If you are low on CPU or like mangling audio more than midi, that's fine, but it's not a negative to not do it.

There are no right or wrong ways to art

OK. I realize it's not what either of you are saying and I realize many producers do put out an album or two with minimal technical knowledge. This isn't even directed at either of you...but this attitude that you don't need to know anything (same goes for the music theory threads/arguments) is just ridiculous to me. I highly doubt most good electronic music is being made with minimal technical knowledge, it's just not logical. Also, I doubt there are that many natural talents out their who really just figure all the technical stuff out on their own. Any whiff of this gets me fired up.

You may all continue the thread now.

[meditation]

Tbh reading all these does not make me feel so bad about what i do any more, knowing that im not the only one who has no fucking clue what im doing.

[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.

Yeah, this.

Like the guy who said "I don't bounce down to audio, I keep it as midi"- who said you have to bounce down to audio? If you are low on CPU or like mangling audio more than midi, that's fine, but it's not a negative to not do it.

There are no right or wrong ways to art

OK. I realize it's not what either of you are saying and I realize many producers do put out an album or two with minimal technical knowledge. This isn't even directed at either of you...but this attitude that you don't need to know anything (same goes for the music theory threads/arguments) is just ridiculous to me. I highly doubt most good electronic music is being made with minimal technical knowledge, it's just not logical. Also, I doubt there are that many natural talents out their who really just figure all the technical stuff out on their own. Any whiff of this gets me fired up.

You may all continue the thread now.

Im not saying you dont need any knowledge at all, but you dont really need to use compression or EQ. I do, but some people dont, and make sounds that fit together without the need of EQ, because they know how to, and compose that way, I do not so need to know how to EQ things apart. Im not talking dubstep, you need the knoledge to make filthy dubstep sound good, but some people can just make sick sounding techno with hardware just recorded live to tape in one take, and that kind of stuff doesnt need to sound pristine and have a lot of technical knowledge put into it, besides how to work all the gear they have, to sound good.

I can get what you say though when people think you dont need no knowledge, you need to know some things, but how a flanger works is not one of them lol.

[BassQemistry]

I haven't learned FM8 yet because I don't like how it looks. Reminds me of Microsoft Excel.

[ephyks]

I don't know what drum transients are. I also never shape my own drums. I just find samples and eq them. Too lazy to make my own percussion.

[Hircine]

I masturbate way too much when I'm producing, honestly, can't produce for 4 hours straight.

/thread

[hutyluty]

do they show alan partridge in brazil?