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I have this trouble sometime that bothers me A LOT.

whenever I am producing, I don't know if its just me but when I make this sick sounding drop, I will keep on listening to that part, adding stuff, subtracting unnecessary sounds, etc.. but as I do that.
that first exciting feeling I got from that drop is not interesting anymore and it ends up sounding not good to me...

Is it because I am looping that part over and over again? or is it just not dope in the first place?...

I don't know if any of you ever experienced this.
If you get bored of your sick drop by listening to it too much, do you just get rid of it and go for another one?

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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2016, 02:25:12 am »
yes always

this means you need to switch to another project

or even start a new one from scratch

but its important to finish off tracks too

play with different sounds, and do something that you didnt do before


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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2016, 02:35:15 am »
Yea, you just gotta keep coming back to it rather than just spending a bunch of time listening.

It's easy to get saturated with your own work. By the time i get to the finalization phase of my songs, I am so done listening to it lol.

I'll come back to it, but you do get tired of hearing it over and over again lol.
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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2016, 07:28:55 am »
Exactly. I fight with this a lot too and to be honest, leaving the project for a while doesn't work so well with me either. It gets fresh for half an hour and then the boredom returns. Even if there was like a half year long break, lol. :D
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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2016, 10:38:36 am »
What I've been doing recently to overcome this problem is working in smaller chunks of time. Not listening to the song on loop.

So once the song is about almost done, I do this:

1. Bounce the track to audio.
2. Listen to the track on my laptop or iPhone. I find it more beneficial to be away from the DAW while doing this, it helps to just focus on listening to the track and not get distracted by what the track looks like in my DAW.
3. Without stopping the track, I take down notes of what needs to be fixed, added or taken away. I listen to the track about 3-4 times, usually by then I will have identified all the things that needs to be worked on. If not, I'll listen some more and take down more notes.
4. Finally, I open up the song in Bitwig, set a timer for 25/30 minutes, and get to work based on the notes from before. I check off each thing as they are addressed.

This approach has kept me super focused and productive, and I finish more tracks this way. It's helped me avoid ear and mental fatigue as well because I'm working in smaller chunks of time. It's also more fun this way! :) I totally understand how it can get boring after a while.

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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2016, 05:51:01 am »
Yes. The way I overcome this is by only looping small 1 bar sections when I'm mixing. It's a lot harder to get tired of the entire song if you only loop tiny sections in my experience. 1 or 2 bars is usually sufficient enough for me to be able to mix things without hearing the entire track being replayed on loop.
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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2016, 11:28:05 am »
I've started doing that too. I avoid playing the whole track unless I'm working on the arrangement or in a later stage like mixing and mastering. I play a tiny section, tweak it, replay, and stop playing it as soon as I can. I've realized there's a finite amount of times I can hear an 8-bar section before I absolutely hate it.

I've finished a couple of tracks after they got to the "hate it" stage, but I didn't end up liking how they turned out. So I try to avoid getting to that stage. If I feel it coming, I put the track away for a few days.
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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2016, 08:06:26 pm »
A good tip to remember.

Just because you are tired of it, doesn't mean the "consumer / listener" is or will be.

Just like anything, once you've heard it 1000 times, it gets dull. The good thing is that you got excited about it in the beginning. So one would hope that when the consumer / listener gets to hear it for the first time, they too should get excited. Remember that what you find boring might not be to the avg listener.

And I always say don't get rid of it. Save it, work on something else, and maybe some other creativity will spark and take you back to that project.
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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2016, 08:19:31 pm »
It's only natural when you listen to something 100s of times over trying to perfect it. The best thing you can do to avoid this is to work on a lot of different tracks, listen to a lot of new music, or stop working on it for a few days.
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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2016, 12:47:32 am »
Often. But imagine you were on stage every night for a month, doing the same lines over and over like actors have to - bringing that emotion every time and barely getting noticed.

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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2016, 02:20:11 pm »
Just don't listen to the entire 'set' of bars on repeat while you tweak the sound.  Say you have an 8 bar section and you're changing the tone of a single synth in subtle ways.  Solo the synth while you tweak it, checking often (but not constantly) against the whole track.  Or rather than even looping the soloed synth, just tweak it while playing your midi keyboard, and check the actual melody and context of it after you settle on what you think the change should be.  You want to lessen the amount of time your brain is just hearing the exact same thing over and over again, so just break it up!

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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2016, 04:12:02 pm »
I have this trouble sometime that bothers me A LOT.

whenever I am producing, I don't know if its just me but when I make this sick sounding drop, I will keep on listening to that part, adding stuff, subtracting unnecessary sounds, etc.. but as I do that.
that first exciting feeling I got from that drop is not interesting anymore and it ends up sounding not good to me...

Is it because I am looping that part over and over again? or is it just not dope in the first place?...

I don't know if any of you ever experienced this.
If you get bored of your sick drop by listening to it too much, do you just get rid of it and go for another one?

All the comments I would have had about the repetition part are already mentioned. But I might have a tip about losing that feeling. This works for me quite often. I regularly save my projects under a new version, like v1.0, after that v1.1 and so on. In that case you can go back if you loose the feeling, either to deconstruct what happened. Or just simply to start over again.





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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2016, 02:24:24 am »
when i get bored, and this happens sometimes lol,

i just work on sound design or something and then come back,

work on another project, play with different sounds, dont stick to just one sound

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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2016, 05:18:48 am »
All...The...Time...

Ive found ways to get around it though, I can share with you a sequences I use to basically keep me from hating music...

Step one - Take a walk in the neighborhood. Get some quiet, enjoy nature, even if its late at night - the world is your oyster.

Step two - After you take said walk, cook up some food - not sure about you but I find standing over a hot stove and enjoying a good meal is as calming as meditation (maybe I'm just weird)

Step three - Make some coffee/espresso (drink that strong stuff) and actively search for the shittiest, poorly written and produced music you can find... think about why you hate it. This should both help your diminishing ego, and teach you a lesson on what not to do with your music

Step four - after you've analyzed some pretty bad music, listen to a few songs that really inspire you, and focus on what makes those songs appeal to you, along with their subtleties.

Step Deadmau5 - hopefully you will feel some level of inspiration now and can work on your song without being too bored. If not, at the very least you got some exercise and a good meal lol.



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Re: Do you guys ever get bored of your production while you produce...
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2016, 05:35:44 am »
All...The...Time...

Ive found ways to get around it though, I can share with you a sequences I use to basically keep me from hating music...

Step one - Take a walk in the neighborhood. Get some quiet, enjoy nature, even if its late at night - the world is your oyster.

Step two - After you take said walk, cook up some food - not sure about you but I find standing over a hot stove and enjoying a good meal is as calming as meditation (maybe I'm just weird)

Step three - Make some coffee/espresso (drink that strong stuff) and actively search for the shittiest, poorly written and produced music you can find... think about why you hate it. This should both help your diminishing ego, and teach you a lesson on what not to do with your music

Step four - after you've analyzed some pretty bad music, listen to a few songs that really inspire you, and focus on what makes those songs appeal to you, along with their subtleties.

Step Deadmau5 - hopefully you will feel some level of inspiration now and can work on your song without being too bored. If not, at the very least you got some exercise and a good meal lol.

I would love to know.... Which music do you analyze under the 'shitty' category?