As for me, used to be a couple days....as time has gone on I spend longer and longer....and longer on each tune I make (with the lucky exception of my latest track which has surprisingly gone pretty fast!)
I'm sucker for being impatient when producing, like to get the main part of the track done in a day, normally means I'm still working on it until the early hours, but this can also be where the magic takes place...
If I push myself I can just about finish a track in a week due to having a full time job and a few spare quality hours over the weekends. The reality is tho, it usually takes me at least two weeks these days, or longer. Getting the main ideas down isn't the problem - its the last 10% which takes up well over 50% of the time! This seems to be a universal production phenomenon.
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Hell it really does vary for me....
one of my best tunes (imo) switchbac i wrote mixed and finished in a day!
my last tune pathic took about a week,but recently im so busy at "real" work
im having problems completing or even starting anything!!
but on average id say afew dayz,it really depends on how inspired i am and how
anal i get about it!
yeah guys, it varies for me too like its tough referring to what Tomos said with the work factor involved as I drive 50 miles and back everyday from work and live on my own (cooking a "healthy" dinner every night plus washing up when I come home also takes a big chunk outta my weekdays) I end up being stuck with tunes for a number of weeks each - Demon's Womb took over 6 weeks on and off in total!!
that said my recent track I'm hoping to upload soon - i took thu / fri off last week (plus sat / sun woohoo!) and got the majority of the tune done then for me i can sometimes spend aaaaages just trying to get the main vibe and hook sorted - that is the key to a good tune imo and until i get it i just keep at persevering with various ideas
its soooooo tru once the arrangement is in place all those tweaks and engineering bits can take a fuckin lifetime
At the moment i havent finished anything for well over a couple of months now.
but sometimes (very rarely these days) i can get the bul of a tune done in a day
so it can be all over the show.
these days i really have trouble getting in the zone so to speak which is only fucking things up.
And as i haven't been in the zone for months i get even more frustrated
and as im getting more frustrated i find it harder to get in the zone
u must be a musical god if u can write and finish propperly every tune u make in a day , i fucking hate getting board with a track thou , drives me crazy cause u get a real buzz off it and u play it so many times but then u loose all the joy
and then u end up iver hating it or fuckin it up , mostly 4 me its usually takes me a couple of days , but im no expert and i try to get the main idea down in 1 day then finish it all in the next few days !!!!!!!!
21-11-2008 14:26
CLARKFADER unregistered
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these days i really have trouble getting in the zone so to speak which is only fucking things up.
And as i haven't been in the zone for months i get even more frustrated
and as im getting more frustrated i find it harder to get in the zone
So its a catch 22 that i so badly need to break!
yeah ive had that same problem mate but getting it back again , at last
!!!!!!
Generally I spend a good 4/5 hour session on a tune getting all the main ideas down and then i'll stop before it goes stale. Once i've got my main loop running i'll export a 32 bar version and run it thru a decend spectrum analyzer to make sure bass and drums are right and to see if more mid/high end sounds are needed to flesh out the mix.
Then i'll go back to it the next day with a fresh perspective (hopefully) and decide what's missing.
Most tunes are finished in one session. I do all my mixdown as i go. I know people do strip it back and mixdown seperately but I don't really see that working for me.
I get a sound exactly as I want it when it goes in or i get rid of it before i waste too much time tring to force it.
Almost every tune I've made has been done in one session or over 2 days as described above.
The majority of work for me goes into listening to the finished tune on mp3 player , home stereo , friends stereo , thru dvd payer etc to make sure mix works well overall.
Once or twice i've gone back and adjusted a sound or made a slight change because I've noticed a prob just from listening to it soooo many times. There's a good chance the problem wasn't even there but i've been known to overly analyze stuff !
I tend to make most tunes whilst stoned so a good test is to listen the next morning with a clear head and if it still sounds good you're on to something !!
I get carried away designing sounds that noones ever heard before, only to realise they don't really fit the tune.. They get stored for later tho. Yeah I'm really slow, Call it perfectionism if you want, I call it indecisiveness, I hate committing to a sound when I feel there could be more done to it, Especially as I like to use a limited palette in a lot of my work.
I must argue with some of you guys, I see no problem in spending more than a month one a track, if you get it done well, that's all that matters in the end.
It should be about quality not quantity.
Sometimes if I feel that I really got bored of a track (or got stuck), I simply put it away and start a new one, and sometime later (weeks, months, years
) I come back with a fresh mind and finish it.
However I agree, if you spend too much time on a single track, you end up being frustrated, and you start hating it (and yourself).
When this happens, just start a new track, the time you spent on the previous one was not a waste, you just have to finish it someday
good point Sundancer, although i see the polls are leaning towards however long it takes to get a tune finished or over a month anyhow
i've been taking longer and longer, purely for attention to detail and ur right its probably best to put a tune away for use in future, but i don't like the idea of that, worried that i may never go back to it ever so really i will spend however long it takes to get a tune finished - as long as i think its worth it (otherwise i can't go onto my next project without a clean consiounce!) again - my main problem is actually sparing the time to produce (any time i get is so precious and valuable i don't have time to make un finished projects that will be left on my laptop for a eyars time hahaa)
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ive not finished one yet. next year my mjrs is letting me cut down real work to focus on music ( what a women hey). so hopfully next year when i finish somthing i can takke part in your poll
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Originally posted by the moneyshot
ive not finished one yet. next year my mjrs is letting me cut down real work to focus on music ( what a women hey). so hopfully next year when i finish somthing i can takke part in your poll
wow!
wanna exchange missuses?
mine is the complete opposite! "u love ur music more than me do yoooooouuu???????!!!!!"
wow!
wanna exchange missuses?
mine is the complete opposite! "u love ur music more than me do yoooooouuu???????!!!!!"
mine used to say that all the time, so i just explained to her in my nicest possible voice and say " baby if had to choose between you and my music we WILL be saying goodbye to each other "
wow!
wanna exchange missuses?
mine is the complete opposite! "u love ur music more than me do yoooooouuu???????!!!!!"
mine used to say that all the time, so i just explained to her in my nicest possible voice and say " baby if had to choose between you and my music we WILL be saying goodbye to each other "
You old romantic you.
My missus ocassionally complains too. Left to my own devices, I'd probably be producing music 24/7. The only thing that stops me is having to work and the dirty looks I get from the missus when I've had my headphones on for too long.
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wow!
wanna exchange missuses?
mine is the complete opposite! "u love ur music more than me do yoooooouuu???????!!!!!"
mine used to say that all the time, so i just explained to her in my nicest possible voice and say " baby if had to choose between you and my music we WILL be saying goodbye to each other "
You old romantic you.
My missus ocassionally complains too. Left to my own devices, I'd probably be producing music 24/7. The only thing that stops me is having to work and the dirty looks I get from the missus when I've had my headphones on for too long.
both of you
i know the feeling! haha may give that a try Jay
lol!
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and then u end up iver hating it or fuckin it up , mostly 4 me its usually takes me a couple of days , but im no expert and i try to get the main idea down in 1 day then finish it all in the next few days !!!!!!!!
) I come back with a fresh mind and finish it.
button and select my name. I'll personally kick it to the murky depths of hell where it belongs! 
wanna exchange missuses? 
mine is the complete opposite! "u love ur music more than me do yoooooouuu???????!!!!!" 
lol!