6 years and after a few essential upgrades to my monitoring.

Though, not with out exploration and some investment into my sound.

i've always liked my tracks i worked on, but i feel better about what i make and how i make my tracks.

Quote from: Marrow Machines on May 22, 2016, 11:00:37 pm

6 years and after a few essential upgrades to my monitoring.

Though, not with out exploration and some investment into my sound.

i've always liked my tracks i worked on, but i feel better about what i make and how i make my tracks.

Yeah, in the moment, when I'm making the track, I can't help but to like it, the problem is when I get out of my DAW and hear some "pro" songs, suddenly the bad quality of my songs becomes very palpable, and I kinda feel discouraged to continue.

And I understand that investment is part of it. I'm currently using Sennheiser's HD-202 as monitors, but just until I earn enough to buy a pair of Yamaha's Hs7.

Thx for replying btw =D

np. it's good to consider how they get things, but ultimately they have the resources and the time to be able to dedicate to activities.

It also probably started out as fun and maybe eventually turned into work for them.

Always good to gut check yourself every now and again!

8 years in and still having major issues with liking my own material. ...which is bommer when it comes to marketing yourself. "There! Here you go. Track I don't feel good about. Please promote it!" ... 

i think its different for everybody but it took me about 4/5 years to start to feel good about my production quality

but then i dont think you ever feel good, you always want to learn and improve

this is an endless road

3 years in and I'm actually really confident and happy with my production skills,  but arrangement and composition is a pitfall for me. I've spent a majority of my time honing production techniques, and I think that makes it way easier to get my ideas down, but I wish I would've spent a lot more time working on composition

Good time to start is now!!!!!


I will say, transitioning into a balanced knowledge and understanding is one of the more difficult things to do with your life and skills you will acquire as you grow.

Just understand that learning sucks, and it's a tough road regardless.

might of said this before, but my calculus 2 teacher describe how she went through graduate school.

"you do a little of this and a little of that. get frustrated and walk away. come back at it again, and get frustrated again. you may end up with an answer or you may not. you may even end up working at mcdonalds, instead of doing your work! but you gotta come back to it, and finish it. it's not easy..."

bit of a paraphrase and quotes (probably can say that lol)


embrace the suck, become the suck. then get back to work!

Don't compare yourself to others, you're competing against yourself. Let the process be about you and the music and not you, the music, and someone else.

On the other hand, sometimes it's just damn hard to find yourself. Especially when you put your whole damn heart to something that turns out to be "objectively" bad. ...and you realize it after you've let it out to other people. That just crushes you. That whole "I made it for myself" thing doesn't work out of a sudden because you know you could have done better. ...or even should have, so people could have enjoyed your track more. So you start searching where the "mistake" might have happened and the only logical outcome of that is: Your taste. That's how doubts are born. ...and doubts are what lies between you and the good feeling about your stuff.

The way I see it is that it's not that my taste that made the song bad, it's just that I haven't bridged the gap between my taste and the skill needed to make the song good.

...and that's precisely the thing I have huge troubles with. I'd looove to believe that it's the gap, but Occam's razor shi*t n' stuff...