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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2016, 08:49:48 am »
I listen to my work too much, and everything starts to sound familiar.
When I make something sick, I spend much time listening to that 2 bar loop to admire my work.  :P

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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2016, 04:47:25 pm »
I spend too much time on songs and end up ruining them/making them too complicated
I don't listen to anyone's advice besides other musicians
I disparage my girlfriend's opinion when she says she doesn't like a song.

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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2016, 07:04:27 am »
- Adding effects to a channel, not being sure whether they really make it sound better, leaving them on anyway
- Wanting to keep things because I've put a lot of work into them, not because they make my track better
- Defaulting to 'add something' when I feel a track needs to be better

These are so real, I definitely struggle with these.  Learning to be honest with yourself about whether you like whatever you've just added to your track is incredibly difficult.  Coupled with a tendency to add stuff, things can get out of hand fast.

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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2016, 11:14:32 am »
I end up using almost all of my time making the drop of and song and use waay too little time on breakdowns, I usually make my kicks WAAAY too loud when starting a track and I also tend to over compress things alot.
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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2016, 02:36:53 pm »
For me I have the issue of being lazy too often or procrastinating to the point where I get nowhere for a couple weeks. Then of course I have a habit of giving up too easily when I end up making something I don't really like.

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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2016, 03:22:51 pm »
The last thing I was working on I'd written down what needed doing to finish it, but every time I opened the project I ended up fiddling around the edges and not doing any of it.
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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2016, 10:41:50 pm »
I make all the elements, and then take weeks putting it all together even though it´s all cut´n´paste from thereon out...  I guess I just love making parts.
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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #22 on: February 15, 2016, 04:45:13 am »
I make things way too hard for myself and try to make virtually everything from scratch, which I guess is good in the long run, but it makes "the long run" about 50 times longer. I take like 3 or 4 months to finish a track because of this and because I tweak little pieces of tracks in ways barely anyone would notice for weeks at a time.

Also I have fairly consistent struggles with self-confidence when producing; I compare my songs to my favorite artists and think, "How the hell did they do that, I'll never figure that stuff out." I've gotten better about this recently, but I still fall into that mindset sometimes. It's pretty toxic when you're trying to be creative.

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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #23 on: February 15, 2016, 07:10:48 pm »

making a different track within the track I'm working on lol


i hate that. you make an awesome melody, but it just changes the track too much, so you cant delete it and you cant keep it

Save that as 1.A and 1.B. All my new projects start off as "project 1, then project 2, ect". So I save one as project 1A or 1B when I run into this issue. Keep both of those ideas. You can delete whatever you don't use later on.
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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2016, 04:43:45 am »
finish a chunk (20-40 seconds) of the song  and then browse the internet for another hour looking up random videos or doing a/b comparisons. super bad habit.

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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #25 on: February 18, 2016, 05:21:56 am »
Changing a track so much that i end up making several considerably different versions and never completely finish any of them

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Re: Admit your bad habits
« Reply #26 on: February 18, 2016, 01:11:26 pm »
Hitting the limits of my production knowledge then just fiddling instead of going away to learn shit
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