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Hey guys
I was just wondering what habits all you guys have picked up while producing, one of mine is EQ'ing absolutely everything, it becomes too intensive after a while and I
have to abandon ship, any way around needing to EQ sounds so much?

ATP.

AwakenTheProphets wrote:Any way around needing to EQ sounds so much?

Have better sounds.

Nasty habit: Sitting down to produce a track you're stuck on, ending up fucking around on DSF or reddit instead.

Harkat wrote:Nasty habit: Sitting down to produce a track you're stuck on, ending up fucking around on DSF or reddit instead.

replace reddit with twitter/facebook and theres moi.

beer, cigarettes, dsf and finishing working on track ideas within half an hour and ditching them forever (and then starting on a compeltely unrelated & equally unusable idea).
that and 8 bar loops.

haven 555, afuct, wangdp,xbunny

SpookySpaceKook wrote: finishing working on track ideas within half an hour and ditching them forever (and then starting on a compeltely unrelated & equally unusable idea).
that and 8 bar loops.

With you on that one. Also, creating an awesome sound then getting writers block lmfao!
The earth is another bad habit, and sometimes I turn to it at the wrong times. Nah mean
I also tend to work on a track/project for hours straight without breaks and it can ruin my creativity sometimes too

Focus 2h straight on a patch without properly listening, and putting it into perspective and think it's awesome. The day after you realize it's pure garbage.

Another one : Opening up my DAW for a production session when I don't have ideas/inspiration. Basically forcing myself to work.

chewing tobaccer yeeeehaaaaaw

FAARE FACED wrote:Another one : Opening up my DAW for a production session when I don't have ideas/inspiration. Basically forcing myself to work.

What does "inspiration" even mean exactly? Like, how do you know if you're gonna make something good if you don't sit down and find out?

That's just the way I see it though. I never know EXACTLY what I'm gonna make until I make it. Sometimes I think "okay I'm gonna make a bassline now, or a drum loop now", but I never really know exactly what it's gonna be

dubunked wrote:

FAARE FACED wrote:Another one : Opening up my DAW for a production session when I don't have ideas/inspiration. Basically forcing myself to work.

What does "inspiration" even mean exactly? Like, how do you know if you're gonna make something good if you don't sit down and find out?

That's just the way I see it though. I never know EXACTLY what I'm gonna make until I make it. Sometimes I think "okay I'm gonna make a bassline now, or a drum loop now", but I never really know exactly what it's gonna be

I don't know either. Sometimes I have a bass riff or something in my head and I try to recreate it, and sometimes I don't have any idea so to speak but I have "inspiration".

Inspiration, as I used it, is more a state of mind, a mood in which you are that allows you to create, to let things flow without any frustration. You just feel like producing something right now.

I found out that the more time I spent producing, the less productive I was (in terms of quality), so I try to step back from producing for some days to let the ideas and inspiration stack up, then I do other sessions to transform this in a piece of sound (for one or several days). Once I'm empty I leave to come back only few hours/days later. It's kind of a sine wave

What I meant in my previous post is that sometimes, when I have spare time, I push myself to producing even though I don't have any inspiration, and nothing good ever comes out of this. It's like starting a conversation when you have nothing to say, it's pointless. I still do it frequently though, by mistake.

SunkLo wrote:

AwakenTheProphets wrote:Any way around needing to EQ sounds so much?

Have better sounds.

But my sounds always have unwanted Frequencies :'(

I'll quite often sit there making music for 45 minutes with an unlit spliff in my mouth. Not particularly nasty, but pointless.

Not renaming individual instances of effects VSTs, making subsequent automation a pain in the ass as I need to back trace (HA!) what is pointing to where.

£10 Bag wrote:I'll quite often sit there making music for 45 minutes with an unlit spliff in my mouth. Not particularly nasty, but pointless.

why not just light it?

AwakenTheProphets wrote:ne of mine is EQ'ing absolutely everything

I don't see why that's a bad habit? Literally every track in my projects has an EQ on it. It's to make sure everything is sitting in the right EQ space and to make sure there aren't any rogue frequencies messing with my shit. For example you might have a hi hat sample that has some random low end that doesn't show up much on your spectrum, but it will munch headroom and muddy your mix. So I stick an EQ on just to be safe. Could be a silly idea I guess but I dunno, i've kinda got used to it, its not harming anything.

My worst habit would have to be cutting corners. I'm quite a lazy producer and just want everything to be "NOW!". I've sometimes re-used elements from other tunes simply to finish it quickly and get on with the next one. Why spend 2 hours sifting through kick samples or creating a new one when the kick in that other tune I made 2 months ago would sound perfect here? Has pluses and minuses but it does get to a stage where I think "No, i've rinsed the shit out of that sound now" so go back to the drawing board eventually.

picking my nose and wiping the bogies on the underside of my chair

epochalypso wrote:picking my nose and wiping the bogies on the underside of my chair

i was honestly going to say that

Dahneboy wrote:

epochalypso wrote:picking my nose and wiping the bogies on the underside of my chair

i was honestly going to say that

I normally flick em out the window

Sparxy wrote:

Dahneboy wrote:

epochalypso wrote:picking my nose and wiping the bogies on the underside of my chair

i was honestly going to say that

I normally flick em out the window

Nice to know!