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When everything's fine and dandy and no writers block is trying to serve you a left hook, how many tracks do you average in, say, a month? I guess time (work and/or school and/or family life)

Curious, the range can be drastic with some folks.

Personally...I end up finishing 1-2 every week. 4-8 in a month I guess.

Like -10 / -12 db ish so I have to open audactity and norma... aha! Music tech jokes are a joy.

I have tracks that are now actual songs (about 5 or 6) but hardly any I'd call properly finished. I've got about 40 or so on the go from about a year or two doing this kind of music. Which is really fucking poor.

I go on a run, produce a bunch, then dont do anything for months at a time... my average for this year is pretty high, but Ive been feeling extra inspired lately. This month (april) Ive done 8. The month before, none. Im trying to keep it more consistant though.

I finish around 9, ever.


I can't make drums anymore and I can't get anything to sit in a mix.

Music's the only thing I'm good at.

FML.

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If I have 12 a year or one a month that actually see the light of day I am doing pretty good. I have had 6 tunes released this year probably only one of them was actually written this year tho. Gotta couple new ones coming tho! Quality over quantity.

Every year i get more productive, the last couple have been great for writing music, probably b/c work has been slow as fuckall.
For the past year i've probably avg 2-3 dubstep, 8-10 hiphop, a few downtempo/triphop/ambient, and a few cinematic/score'ish tunes a month with a few various others in random genres thrown in when i'm writing..

a few times every year, i'll be on the road for a couple weeks to a month at a time for my skateboarding obligations, which of course means i'm not working on muzak

depends. if im working hard at it, i'd say 5 - 8 a week. not all of them are good though. i'll go a month without making a song. I make a lot of stuff these days that im not really interested in showing to anyone.

I make 1 per week. When I started out using Reason I used to make about 5 per week, got Logic, got more into plugins, started making 2 to 3 per week, then started to find myself producing more aggressive stuff, experimenting with distortion and LFOs, automation, trawling through samples... made the process longer but the result a lot better.

I think it's better to write 1 track per week, I save the project as different names, and you can see where a track seemed to be going in one direction, but took a turn a few days after experimenting, where you develop a few new bass riffs that are more fitting with the drums, so ditch some of the original riffs. Some of my ideas then get sent off to be worked on by the live act I'm in, and then they really take hold, and take about 1 month per track to properly produce.

Most of the ideas probably take 1 day to 1 week to come up with, but producing an electronic track to the highest quality and mixing on pro-tools takes weeks.

Wow you guys work quickly!! I thought I was doing well finishing 3 tunes since the beginning of April, but I am very hard to please myself so alot of bits don't get finished to a point where I will post them up or send them to labels.

For the past little while...I've been waking up and leaving at 8am and getting home at 11pm....charged up and mad productive. Work on a tune til 2 or 3 am and then call it quits....start the cycle over again. Instead of being around the crib going endlessly at a track, I'm accomplishing more. I make things count and don't diddle around as much compared to when I have 6-8 free hours. Effective as hell.

Urban Reality wrote:I make 1 per week. When I started out using Reason I used to make about 5 per week, got Logic, got more into plugins, started making 2 to 3 per week, then started to find myself producing more aggressive stuff, experimenting with distortion and LFOs, automation, trawling through samples... made the process longer but the result a lot better.

I was working in a similar way at one point. I would bust out 5-7 tunes a week in the beginning. Needless to say most of those tunes don't get listened to anymore....maybe if I wanna get some laughs. Overtime it toned down....I didn't like the sound of a continuous hoover going in the low-mid to low-end of my tunes lol.

Once automation got involved it was a whole new ballpark. I love automating....it's by far the funnest part of writing (for me anyway). Playing connect the dots never gets old. Automating returns is also dope. Although I can imagine in the analogue world it's pretty wasteful having 3 different delay sends LOL.

1, if I'm lucky. Generally I have 4 or 5 tracks in the works, plus loads that I quit working on. I'd like to finish more though. I try not to rush it too much though.

maybe 6 / year

i probably get about 9 done a month.

FSTZ wrote:maybe 6 / year

ok...

maybe 12 / year

i'm awful, took a while to get the hang of things. if i'm good i'll have 1 a month, when i can be fucked to make a tune. once i get my monitors i'm gonna go for one a week.

Try and bang one out every two weeks but its more like a month.

Sometimes i can get really into the flow and do a track a day but that hasnt happened in ages.