how many times do you listen to your own tunes.

foodstampz · Post by **foodstampz** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:52 am

haha just a silly , curious question. I feel like i spend to much time sometimes listening to the tune over and over for hours till i find something wrong with it. sometimes i don't. guess its comes with more skills. just wondering . is re listening over and over and over normal.

another question, anyone ever actually finish more than 1 track in a day .??

start to finish.?

peace and bless.

steppo · Post by **steppo** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:45 pm

i try not to spend a lot of time analyzing (or overanalyzing) cuz if i spend too much time listening to it, il'l lose interest and stop working on it :/

foodstampz · Post by **foodstampz** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:59 pm

haha nice picture..

yeah thats what i was getting at , theres sometimes a fine line before you change up something thats perfectly fine . then it geos it something else. btu then again thats also the process of some amazing ideas.
im just going to go with if i have the time spend it, if i dont dont. lol. thanks for the reply man.

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:44 pm

generally i know when i've made something worth continuing or finishing when i invoulnatarily stand up and walk upstairs for no real reason. ill usually get like the intro and main section locked down but then end up listening too many times and developing and altering what i already have instead of actulally adding more. so making 1 track in 1 day just doent happen to me. i get too perfectionist about it and take months but then i have loads of different tracks going also so it evens its self out.

addict · Post by **addict** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:47 pm

steppo wrote:i try not to spend a lot of time analyzing (or overanalyzing) cuz if i spend too much time listening to it, il'l lose interest and stop working on it :/

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:16 pm

I listen to it about, 10-15 times during making it, like all the way around.

Then i'll listen to it once a week to see if I can any new ideas for it.

Plus it'll see if it gets boring if you listened to it more than 3-4 times.

psyphon · Post by **psyphon** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:17 pm

Personally, I chuck my current track on my ipod, slam it on repeat and have it looping over and over on the way to work and back again.

I may not be listening to it closely, but subconciously I must be cos I'll start finding the bits I maybe wasn't so sure on suddenly jumping out at me.

I find that productive although there's no way on earth I could ever bosh a track out in a day...

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:31 pm

probably hundreds total.

but about 30 in the mixdown stage

crutch · Post by **crutch** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:00 pm

i find if i lissten to it too many times then when i change somthing then it automaticly sounds wrong. almost as if it gets drummed into my head to how it should sound.

pupstar · Post by **pupstar** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:11 pm

i listen 2 my stuff way 2 much, 1 of the reasons i hate makin samples to show frends ect. cuz i wont change it nemore. but its all gd, turn it of 4 a cppl minits n its fresh agen

buckfaster · Post by **buckfaster** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:50 pm

i listen over and over until i'm sure it's right. i make sure i take breaks though and come back, so i dont wear myself out or desensitise myself to it. usually bounce the tracks off a couple other people though and see what they make of it too.

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dushume · Post by **dushume** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:04 pm

Yeah i usually listen to my tracks on different mediums and speakers such as my cd walkman, pc speakers, laptop, car, hi-fi.

My monitors at uni et

I try not to over listen though as i usually either get bored of the track or my ears tire and end up not getting a decent sound.

nehuenspace · Post by **nehuenspace** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:11 pm

i do listen my traks alot, an then in end up realy tired of the song...
so now once i got something i start to listeng it by parts, just the parts im working on, if not you end up dreaming with it...

i cant imagine making one track per day...tom me is a very slow proces..
i kike to compare it with wine...
if you drink to much, you end up fucked up... so its better to drink maybe night by night, once you got something let it rest, it will get better slowly...

serox · Post by **serox** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:52 pm

psyphon wrote:Personally, I chuck my current track on my ipod, slam it on repeat and have it looping over and over on the way to work and back again.

same.

r · Post by r » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:26 pm

finish it, spread it, dont listen it. after 2 weeks you can listen to it as a listener instead of the maker

ism · Post by **ism** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:05 pm

if i listen to a track too many times without takin' a break it either sounds REALLY good or REALLY shit ! so, ive gotta take regular breaks, every couple of hours or so i chill at somethin' else for maybe 20min, just so that when i come back to it ive got a fresh(er) perspective.

remondo · Post by **remondo** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:37 pm

listen to my own tracks loads, basking in my own self glory

Sometimes I just lay back and listen to my tunes over and over. lame.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:44 pm

Constantly listening to things I've made, every day, again and again.

Trying to figure out what's gone right, what's gone wrong, what stylistic elements reoccur etc.

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:21 am

worst is when you do it to tunes that aren't finished, like you're waiting for them to magically finish themselves, or just imagiining what they are going to sound like when you finish them. And then it just never happens

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:47 am

I listen to my own tunes a lot. I like them.
I write music I want to hear.

I definately notice things in the production that I would change. I notice other people's comments and why they say the things they do and it makes me more aware of certain things the next time i lay down a track. But in terms of the music, I write what I feel, so I enjoy listening to the music as though someone else wrote it.

Hell I just barely feel like a part of the creative process. It's like the music comes through me/from my subconcious, rather than my identify (which is quite true).

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