What are your bad production habits?

[Friv]

I tend to spend too much time exploring sounds and melodies than actually making music.

So many wonderful melodies and patches went to oblivion because of that.

I have the complete opposite habit as that.

[Anonagon]

I put Poulin Le456 on every synth.

Every synth.

Also I always use the same bad drum samples that don't go with the songs I'm making.

[reach]

I use crappy Vengeance Loops to test my drops before actually implementing them

[K3WRO]

I always resample the same loops all the time and I always forget to master the crash cymbals

[bmo13]

Although I am fairly descent at sound design, I tend to get very lazy and use lots of presets, as well as use loops and breaks for drumlines I'm to lazy to lay out myself.

[Challa]

I use Ozone on multiple mixer tracks, that makes my projects lag more and more until I just can't work on them anymore. The multiband stereo separator effect in it is just so good, haven't found any alternatives for it yet.

[airdropmusic]

I use Vengeance loops. I don't have a good drum rack ATM (I'll be moving to Live soon, Drum Rack in that works great). I also tend to use the same chord progression in a whole song; it can be kinda repetitive.

[airdropmusic]

I don't get what's so bad about using the sample drum samples in one song to another. It's not like the song will suddenly become boring because you used the same kick sample in this song and another song. Rock songs don't often use different drums, I think.

I just think that if you have a good kick sample, you're allowed to use it in as many songs as you want, but it's really more of a matter of when you will get tired of the sample, or if you'll find a better sample or something. I don't know, I just don't see anything wrong with it.

My problem is I tend to use the same drum samples in places where they don't fit well.

Yeah that's really the main thing. It's not that using the same samples will make your song boring. Samples that work really well in one song can sound like absolute shit in another. If the same sample sounds fine in both, cool, but try not to make a habit out of it because THEN it starts to get boring. tombsnare

A bad habit of mine is going into a song wearing shitty headphones and getting too engrossed in it to get my Sennheisers, which I keep in a cabinet on the other side of the room to keep them safe from cats. I have a tendency to come back to it later with the good headphones and getting discouraged because the mixing sounds like ass.

Wow, this. Except it's with good headphones and super expensive monitors.

>Uses headphones to mix
>listens on stepdad's studio monitors
>shit
ok

[Forza SoundFire]

Starting a piece before I've got it in my head. Just grinds to a halt unless I know where I'm going, or sounds inconsistant.
Just done it now =/

[StevenAD]

I have a tendency to rush through the mixing and mastering process because it's so damn boring.

This results in most of my tracks... having bad mixing and mastering. Funny how that works.

[CaptainFluffatun]

For orchestral, I just plop a reverb unit with high and low decay on the master

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Not really paying attention to proper compression ratios.

[FLAOFEI]

TOO MUCH BASSSSSS!!!!!!!!
TOOO LOOOOOOOOOOWWW!!!!!!!

Srs! I used to have "sounds" below 10 Hz in some of my songs!!! WHY DID I EVEN DO THAT??? (oh yeah, it was for da lulz. lol)

I usually remember to fix those things before I releas a track though. Which takes us to my second shortcomeing. Organiseing!
I have 12 tunes allmost done for an album, and even though I probably could be done in a week or two ill probably end up haveing 16 allmost done tracks when I finaly releas it :/
Im not good at that stuff.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I felt so dumb when I realized that hats aren't compressed 16:1 like I had it (wasn't paying attention, turned knob till it pleased me please don't kill me)

[Genkar]

I have school, so the little time I have to do music is kind of stressful for me...
So writing music while stressed.

Yeah, because of school and band and such, I have a very limited amount of time to actually make music, which is quite upsetting.

[Mondogreen]

I use the same buildup and breakdown fx for every song that demands them. Also, I'm intimidated by pads and soundscapes.... so I don't make them x.x

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I use the same buildup and breakdown fx for every song that demands them. Also, I'm intimidated by pads and soundscapes.... so I don't make them x.x

I've never been good at pads ._.

[Nine Volt]

I have WIPs numbering in the triple digits yet more than half my songs are borne of a single bout of inspiration over a 3-4 hour time period, followed by a couple days of revisions and peer review.

[cplbradley]

i have a habit of using too much stereo spread. Trying to break the habit though

[Stakeout Punch]

Everything I was going to say has already been said.

Reverb all the things
Compress all the things

...twice.

Same samples every track
Same presets every track
Same general drum idea every track
Brick arranging everything
ADHD can't focus on one track for more than an hour before spaghetti starts getting on everything
50+ unfinished nor likely to be touched project files (the sad part is that some are actually good but are too depressing to fix)

I think the biggest problem is that lately I've been driven to try and make every track perfect mix wise so I'm not experimenting with synthesizing or having fun period really. So I'm just churning out sub-par stuff to feel productive.

Which means that creativity stays low.

[Xane]

I have a habit of making about a 16 bar "drop", and completely dropping the project. I have about a hundred WIPs just consisting of a 8-16 bar loop. I almost never finish what I start.

[Pickslide1992]

I have a repetition problem, mainly with drum patterns. There are some kick-ass fills I have in my head, but executing them in FL would be a pain to get right.

Also goes for my guitar prowess. I tend to overuse my tapping to where my fingers more or less tap dance all over the fretboard and I sound like a poor man's Eddie Van Halen. I guess my solution here is learn how to solo better and maybe learn some of those rapid-fire licks?

[Friv]

I haven't read this thread but >inb4 soundgoodizer.
As for my bad habits, I tend to never make leads anymore, I just slightly modify a patch I've already made.

[FlyingNinjaBannanas]

Never finishing my projects.
Getting discouraged at my projects.
Spending hours on Synths without anything coming out of it.
Never finishing my projects.
Crafting every sound from scratch and never using presets. (Not a "bad" thing, just something that adds to the fact I never get anything done.)
Procrastinating.
Wanting things I can never have and letting that want affect my ability to FINISH MY PROJECTS!!!

[Genkar]

I just thought of something else that's really a bad habit of mine.

All my stuff just sounds really repetitive. I tend to base my entire songs around one melody, and they end up being incredibly monotone and boring. I don't do it as much with remixes, but oh lawd, it's horrible when I make any original work. I don't really know why I have so much trouble with it, but I'm starting to try new things and I'm hoping I'll eventually get somewhere with it.