What is your main production enemy?

[phrex]

ah - don't get me wrong. my gf supports it. but i guess it pisses her off when i tell her that i'll come by in an hour.

meanwhile i open an old project................



....6 hours later i drop by

[cloak and dagger]

another one is confidence...


making a tune that i love, sending it out, and hearing nothing back...so i start thinking about what i don't like about it, what keeps it from being perfect, and get burnt out

[Trichome]

finishing a tune, being really happy with it..
then listening to some producers with mad skills..
then realising how bad my tune really is.

[krispy]

My main enemy is the computer. I spend 8 hours a day on the computer at work and the last thing I want to do when im not at work is go on the computer

[Perfecture]

finishing a tune, being really happy with it..
then listening to some producers with mad skills..
then realising how bad my tune really is.

Agreed.

Don't worry though man, we will get there in the end

[Johnst]

finishing a tune, being really happy with it..
then listening to some producers with mad skills..
then realising how bad my tune really is.

This. this a lot. i'm always happy with my progress and how things turn out, then i'll listen to pretty much any major producer and go

[back2onett]

I'm a technical percfectionist, I over-analyse everything. When I should be thinking up crazy experimental arrangements and harmonies and whatnot I end up thinking up crazy experimental ways to get that stereo field a little bit wider or how to get that snare a little bit tighter. Basically as I get better as a producer I get worse (or at least more distracted) at songwriting. Hurts bro.

[jaydot]

I produce a lot. And I still can't get my mixdowns as good as, cos composition you can do off the cuff but stuff like mastering and mixing is where you'll get found out if you don't know what you're doing.

[ninjadog]

My main enemy is myself always thinking my tune is not good enough.
Weed is another one, once in a while it helps but more often distracts me.
My 360 is king of the distractions.

[5-0-what]

this

Laziness/Distractions/Lack of sticktoitiveness

I come up with lots of ideas but there's no way I'm going to actually sit down and work on most of them properly, all the way to completion, with all the time and effort they require

Also the ideas are all over the place and don't go together or make any sense at all

Adult ADHD basically

and this

you guys seriously get distracted while doing music??

that is actually the problem in my life. i fuck up so many things (not paying bills because i sit all day doing music, getting my GF upset because i'm regularly delayed for hours, miss uni....)

i get lost in music and nothing really can get me away from it when i feel it...

sometimes i don't feel what i'm doing. then i just immidatly stop producing and go on with (the rest of) my life.

and kinda this

Procrastination, Not finishing my tunes, and listening to my fav producers new track which cause me to question why Im I doing this...

and specially this

ah - don't get me wrong. my gf supports it. but i guess it pisses her off when i tell her that i'll come by in an hour.

meanwhile i open an old project................



....6 hours later i drop by

yeah that's right I'm jobless so i sit in front of my comp all day starting new projects
that get to about 64 bars then turn it off then i go work on my next mix cause I'm playing every other weekend at least then come back to that tune not like it close it immediately open back up fl build some bass patches time stretch some vocals get on dsf see some new technique go back try it like it call my old lady say yeah i will come over for dinner open a new project get in the zone write a whole tune in the next six hours post it on sound cloud and then check back every 2 minutes to see how many plays its got
decide that some shit needs cleaned up go back start to edit get frustrated start new project and begin again this is about how it goes if i don't finished the complete idea in one session it never gets finished
1500 + flp files ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Neff]

finishing a tune, being really happy with it..
then listening to some producers with mad skills..
then realising how bad my tune really is.

this, this and this

always feel happy with a tune when i finish it, come back to it like the next day then realize it is piss poor and just feel shit



then i start a new beat and all is well

[AllNightDayDream]

A combination of message boards, RSS feeds on the latest news, and digging on youtube for tunes. The internet is like a drug man

When actually producing, I find that all of my spontaneous ideas have a time limit, and if I don't find the right sample or distort something the right way etc. to achieve the right sound by a certain point I forget what I was gonna do with it. Extremely frustrating.

[jsills]

porn

[IC0N]

Having amazing ideas in my head but then not being able to reproduce them correctly in my computer.

[FSTZ]

Time

not enough of it

[Rekah]

My main enemy is myself always thinking my tune is not good enough.
Weed is another one, once in a while it helps but more often distracts me.
My 360 is king of the distractions.

i always find if i have a spliff i instantly want to make a tune, but i get about 30mins into and then think i cant be arsed, also my production skills hold me back, like i try and make a bass sound etc i have in my head, cant make it get pissed off and listen to a 8 bar loop for about 2 hours then scrap the idea, its been the same for about 2 years now.

the main thing i really need to do is sit down with someone that knows there shit about everything production wise so i can bombard them with questions, if i try and read stuff off the internet like tutorials or watch video tutorials i always find i need to ask questions about it but i cant, and if i learn something chances are i forget what i just learnt by the next day, damn this short term memory loss

[mortalgrey]

Just being too busy with other things. I work 40hrs a week at my job that actually pays me, then put almost as much time into my label...Leaves no time for production. When I do try to produce, I just think that I should be working on promo or something, and I can't concentrate.

For instance, I bought Massive last week during NI's 50% off sale...Haven't even unpacked the .zip file yet.

[sackley]

All that has been said.

But, something interesting i noticed...

when I went from a 30 hr/wk for work to a 60 hr/wk schedule I was actually more decisive and reasonably creative (as in not twiddling knobs for 20 minutes with no real outcome). I guess because of the small amount of time i did have to work on stuff I knew I had to get my ideas down quick. Anyone else get this sometime?

Then a vacation and a week long dry spell. Gonna chop up another break and see if anything happens.

[mortalgrey]

not feeling inspired? work anyway. organize your sample library. build patches, so that you'll always have that lowpassed triangle chord or 808 bass when you want it.

Good advice.

[Erebus-7]

memory and motivation mostly

I normally get crazy awesome ideas mid way through the day i go to sit down to get um in a project and just forget shit, so annoying, also happens when im about to go to bed and just cba to get up and get it down as a idea.

plus motivation to actually take time out of my crazily busy day to get in the zone and throw down some ideas, sucks ass, got 3 weeks over christmas to just chill and write tunes though so all should be good !