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ez all,

just an observation really, i noticed when i started trying to produce(few weeks ago) i started listening to music in a totally different way, has anyone else experienced this or is it just me??

It is occupational disease.

Soon you'll hear sounds which your mates don't and they will think you are crazy

producing is the death of listening normally.

u will over anylise everything u listen to.

yea def agree.
When I listen to music now I listen to the fade in & fade out, drum loops, tempo...etc. It's a blessing and a curse at the same time :S

Once on a heavy dose off acid, I could see all the music being decoded in front of me into all the individual loops with the fades and envelopes. I could literally see the dubstep pattern before my eyes making a complex warping thread.

ye definitely true, it was the same when i first started playing drums, you hear the drum beat first then the music second

Worry not, after a few years you don't pay attention to it anymore.

with enough ganja in your system, listening becomes new again!

see i find that even though i notice and understand stuff in tunes that i never would have years ago (both production wise and music wise) it doesn't take away from the enjoyment or spoil it in the slightest by taking away the mystery, if anything i find good music more interesting;

xTheWiddler wrote:with enough ganja in your system, listening becomes new again!

music n weed is nice!

i can literally feel the layers in my head in a diagonal way (makes no sense, but it does to me )

edit: forgot to mention i aint big smoker these days thou, once in a blue moon do i spark up one

when i first started i was over analysing everything i listened to, but now im less aware im doing it.its definitely nice being able to appreciate how an artist did something, but now im starting to find my direction its getting less analytical as i start to listen to my own music.

I find now, I listen to stuff and know how its done and get bored real quick whereas before I started to produce i would have been happy just to listen to it.

Other music has to be really interesting or contain stuff that i dont know how to do now, shame really.

xTheWiddler wrote:with enough ganja in your system, listening becomes new again!

Ain't that so

You just have to learn to accept being more critical really...

I get bored quite fast from a lot of electronic music, nowadays. Especially when I hear the dblue glitch in a track.

Fixation wrote:ez all,

just an observation really, i noticed when i started trying to produce(few weeks ago) i started listening to music in a totally different way, has anyone else experienced this or is it just me??

Yep.

I don't think it's a bad thing though, infact you appreciate tunes more for how well they're put together as well as how catchy and interesting they are which makes everyone else like them. I constantly find myself listening to a tune I really like and trying to work out what elements are involved to make it what it is, and then getting back to the pc and thinking 'I gots to try me some o that!'. I think it definately helps the learning process to see how the best producers out there are doing things.

And yeah when you try and explain to normal people what tiny melodic or rythmic aspect of a tune you find so clever they'll usually think you're mental.

I'm a gig photographer too and it's kind of the same deal, I can't just go to a concert now without thinking about shitty lighting and what would make a good shot, etc, it's pretty annoying. It's definately made gigs too 'real' to enjoy now as much as I used to.

the same thing happend to me, when i first started producin i started to notice that when i would listen to the music i would start to see the structure and be breaking every instrument down, it was strange at first but now as the years have gone on its just standard procedure

aike wrote:I find now, I listen to stuff and know how its done and get bored real quick whereas before I started to produce i would have been happy just to listen to it.

Other music has to be really interesting or contain stuff that i dont know how to do now, shame really.

that's exactly the same for me. i try to listen to as much music as possible that i would never produce, ie. funk, reggae, jazz and soul. i can enjoy it without seeing fruity loops in my head thinking, 'yer thats that bit, and ahh that's how id do it'. its all good though.

ive missed 'nuff trams & been late for work time & time again jus 'cos my heads all in the tunes im listenin' to . . . breakin' things down, figurin' what softwares been used for what track etc etc . . .