Stupid things u do while producing

r · Post by r » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:23 pm

Everybody does stupid things. It could be not saving projects or really weird habits......maybe even superstition.

I chew a lot.... just on my teeth. i know maybe chewing gum would be a good one but somehow im not that kinda person. After trippin a couple of hours behind my computer and waking up again, my teeth and jaw feels REALLY BAD

so whats ur problem ?

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:25 pm

drink shit load of coffee
smoke bare cigarettes
get pissed off

zillion · Post by **zillion** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:28 pm

I wouldnt say its a stupid thing i do but a lot of the time i just make music that i enjoy and thats it. If i get to the point where i dont like i just open a new project.

Oh and im easily distracted so have to go to extremes to make myself concentrate like getting up and messing up my internet connection just so i dont get tempted.

djake · Post by **djake** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:38 pm

smoke stupid amounts of ciggys, basically chain smoke sometimes.

once i opened my window and played my track really loud and went onto the road outside to get a different veiw on it.....

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:55 pm

djake wrote:smoke stupid amounts of ciggys, basically chain smoke sometimes.

once i opened my window and played my track really loud and went onto the road outside to get a different veiw on it.....

Don't smoke at the computer man, go to the window or outside or other designated place. That way not only you wont smell like a firefighter, you also will get a lot of inspiration and ideas by standing up, moving and smoking.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:00 pm

Brisance wrote:
djake wrote:smoke stupid amounts of ciggys, basically chain smoke sometimes.

once i opened my window and played my track really loud and went onto the road outside to get a different veiw on it.....
Don't smoke at the computer man, go to the window or outside or other designated place. That way not only you wont smell like a firefighter, you also will get a lot of inspiration and ideas by standing up, moving and smoking.

Not only that but your monitor will turn yellow and the fans in your comp will be caked with dust. I ruined a few comps that way

I have a smoke free house now... well free of the baccy anyway. I go smoke outside every hour or so. It's good to take a break from the sound for 10 minutes or so and I seem to have a flood of ideas as soon as I walk outside.

The weirdest thing I do I probably hold a piss in because I am in the middle of working on something. Or I'll listen to it one more time before I quit about 20 times in a row haha.

djake · Post by **djake** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:02 pm

i no i shouldnt but im lazy, plus i clean my computer on a regualr basis

norman swashbuckle · Post by **norman swashbuckle** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:05 pm

put the tv on then mute it

eastern electrics · Post by **eastern electrics** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:08 pm

i smoke a lot of cigarettes.

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:23 pm

Don't you get annoyed by the high pitched noise, the TV is constantly putting out or the movements in the corner of the eye? Or your TVs are behind you and you got all fancy LCD stuff?

collige · Post by **collige** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:25 pm

I have a tendency to put a shitload of gain (sometimes up to 3 maxed out renoise "gainer" plugins) on my channels and then drop the master volume to about -22db to compensate.

I also name all my projects with random 3-5 character names and forget which song is which. Sometimes it takes me 10 minutes to find an old tune.

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:26 pm

I touch myself in the bad place

ALOT

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:30 pm

Put all my baccy stuff (rizla, filters, backy pouch) on my midi keyboard and to lazy to clean it off, so I tend to only play 5 notes out of the 25 on my keyboard then move around the notes where I want to via the mouse.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:47 pm

Legendary wrote:Put all my baccy stuff (rizla, filters, backy pouch) on my midi keyboard and to lazy to clean it off, so I tend to only play 5 notes out of the 25 on my keyboard then move around the notes where I want to via the mouse.

No shit, I gotta nice Axiom 49 which is great for setting all my shit on lol

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:50 pm

abZ wrote:No shit, I gotta nice Axiom 49 which is great for setting all my shit on lol

same, opened mine up the other day the amount of cigarette ash and backy in there was unbelievable, took so long to open up soooo many screws

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:20 pm

I've gotten into the habbit of doing some stuff in traktor first

1. gives me musical and structural ideas

2. I get a reference for the mix

3. Makes me think about how the track would work in a set

It's gotten to the point where I cant write unless I've done this first

aftee · Post by **aftee** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:07 am

djake wrote:smoke stupid amounts of ciggys, basically chain smoke sometimes.

once i opened my window and played my track really loud and went onto the road outside to get a different veiw on it.....

lmao, I do the same thing sometimes if I'm starting to make a track I'm feeling..put it on loop, turn it up and walk around the house and such to see how it sounds....stand up and back away a bit first, then the bathroom, hallway, downstairs..lmfao

lets me know if the track is really bumpin or not

I'm beginning to either play video games or watch movies I've already seen while producing, helps me just let my creativity out rather than sitting down and trying to FORCE something out, but it's a movie I've already seen or a game I'm just fucking around on so I don't have to worry about missing out if I stop for a minute to add something to the track

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