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What Takes Up Most Your Time When Producing?
« on: February 28, 2016, 01:33:40 am »
I wasn't really sure which thread to post this in so I apologize if this in the wrong place.

I'm curious what do you guys spend the most time on when producing a track?

Composition/Notes?
Mixing/Mastering?
Songwriting/Lyrics? (If you do write lyrics)
Arrangement?
Instrumentation?
Sample Selection?
Ambience/FX?

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Re: What Takes Up Most Your Time When Producing?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2016, 05:11:42 am »
I try to spend the least amount of time working on a track. But I give it enough of my time to have it be the best that it can be.

"Perfection is the enemy of progress."

I really take that to heart with many aspects of my life, and you've heard me say that before.

The tricky part is finding a work flow and the right amount of time YOU'D liked to spend on a track.

This rule of thumb seems to come in handy when doing any sort of work.
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Re: What Takes Up Most Your Time When Producing?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2016, 07:22:24 am »
If i do a track with very complex drums ,the drums programming/sample selections and stuff will probably be 40-45% of the composing ,then comes the melodies,chords,song structure and FX another 40-45% and then the mixing(and  self made shitty mastering) ,getting everything right etc. for 10-20%.

Sometimes drums takes more times ,sometimes melodies take more time,it depend on the track.
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Re: What Takes Up Most Your Time When Producing?
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2016, 07:48:51 am »
Listening to the track, hesitating, and fixing shit I messed up when I was building the track. Not even kidding, these probably take 50-90% of the time I spend with a track.

Apart from those, everything happens in a state of flow so it feels like a breeze, but I guess I spend most time doing stuff I don't know how to do yet. Lately it's been things like using ambiences and risers.
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Re: What Takes Up Most Your Time When Producing?
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2016, 01:13:13 pm »
Fiddling around the edges instead of doing the meaty stuff that really needs to be done
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Re: What Takes Up Most Your Time When Producing?
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2016, 02:29:50 pm »
for me, because I'm not classically trained and really like progressive music where you kind of need melodic content I spend a lot of time trying to come up with melodies or good soundscapes to fit together.
I am also a sucker for falling into the mixing details before I've even got an actual track together. You know....start some drum processing before I've even wrote a hook or melody etc.
You should get the main body of your track down before going into the fine details of mixing.
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