What are your bad production habits?

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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby cplbradley » 19 Mar 2013 21:12

i can't seem to get any ideas i have right
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby ajbiz11 » 20 Mar 2013 08:42

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Bad habits...hmm,

1) Making music on da school bus or at lunch...
2) Not reading manuals
3) Crappy Headphones...my monitors are 3 hours away
4) Scrapping a whole project because of ONE thing
5) Trying to do something I can't yet...like WAY BEYOND me...not just learning

Probably doesn't help that I'm not supposed to touch my laptop...so I can't do anything at home :(
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Mr. Bigglesworth » 22 Mar 2013 23:26

Not experimenting enough. Sometimes I go through nearly all of my bass presets before I just give up and make something new. I tend to fiddle with patches in multiple projects till I end up with something nice.

When I do dubstep I keep doing the style of Wub in Skrillex's Cinema remix. (2 deep wubs, snare, high sound etc).

I try to make housey saw waves with massive. Not impossible, but it's tedious enough to mess with my workflow.

Good news; I'm getting better at not over compressing my everythings.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby nOk » 26 Mar 2013 09:42

I have 2 bad habits. First off, I NEVER listen to anyone's music. I don't know why. I have an ipod but I haven't changed the music on it in about a year.

Second bad habit is one I haven't done in a while, but I sometimes base the structure of my music on other peoples music. Not the actual music, but the construction of the song.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Genkar » 26 Mar 2013 11:29

nOk wrote:Second bad habit is one I haven't done in a while, but I sometimes base the structure of my music on other peoples music. Not the actual music, but the construction of the song.

I wouldn't consider this to be a bad habit. When I was first starting, a lot of people told me to do that. It's a pretty good way to learn song structure IMO.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Aurum Noble » 26 Mar 2013 11:47

I keep offputting things, but that's mostly because I'm also done with uni.

I also tend to not adjust the volume well during mastering, which is something I'm working on. I'm trying to get better!
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Rider » 11 Jun 2013 16:49

Bad habit: Losing the manual to the Program/Hardware I just got
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby SpmSL » 11 Jun 2013 18:39

Spent the past twenty minutes trying to figure out a way to reduce the feedback on a guitar without reducing the gain. There is none.

It sounds so empty without maxed out gain ;_;
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Conchetupony » 11 Jun 2013 21:12

So far, it seems like I never have the motivation to retake tracks, and I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my guitars' tone, before mixing.

SpmSL wrote:Spent the past twenty minutes trying to figure out a way to reduce the feedback on a guitar without reducing the gain. There is none.

It sounds so empty without maxed out gain ;_;

Assuming you mean noise (as feedback, as I know it, is when the amplified guitar signal enters the pickup again in a loop, emphasizing harmonics), you want some sort of noise removal. Try a noise gate, noise shaper and subtractive EQ (such as REAPER's ReaFir in Precise mode and Audacity's "noise removal" tool). I usually go for the latter myself.

If you're recording it yourself, try different hardware configurations to get a decent tone while having little noise.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Muffhunter » 11 Jun 2013 23:23

I tend to use the same drums a lot lol.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Dr. Plague » 12 Jun 2013 04:13

Muffhunter wrote:I tend to use the same drums a lot lol.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad habit.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Muffhunter » 12 Jun 2013 04:22

Dr. Plague wrote:
Muffhunter wrote:I tend to use the same drums a lot lol.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad habit.


Why is that? Sometimes people wanna hear something different though,
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby itroitnyah » 12 Jun 2013 05:54

Haha, yeah, but changing up the synths and composition between songs is plenty enough for something different
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Conchetupony » 12 Jun 2013 06:12

Pretty much the only person who would notice, and care about you using the same drum samples would be other musicians.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby SpmSL » 12 Jun 2013 08:31

Conchetupony wrote:Assuming you mean noise (as feedback, as I know it, is when the amplified guitar signal enters the pickup again in a loop, emphasizing harmonics), you want some sort of noise removal. Try a noise gate, noise shaper and subtractive EQ (such as REAPER's ReaFir in Precise mode and Audacity's "noise removal" tool). I usually go for the latter myself.

If you're recording it yourself, try different hardware configurations to get a decent tone while having little noise.

I'm using subtractive EQ as well as noise removal. The problem is that too much noise removal will cancel the note before it's had a chance to ring, it almost makes the tone sound clean, taking away from the chunkyness.
I will try fucking around with the hardware a bit though.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Dr. Plague » 12 Jun 2013 14:21

Muffhunter wrote:
Dr. Plague wrote:
Muffhunter wrote:I tend to use the same drums a lot lol.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad habit.


Why is that? Sometimes people wanna hear something different though,

Conchetupony wrote:Pretty much the only person who would notice, and care about you using the same drum samples would be other musicians.

Basically exactly this. And even if you use the same samples, just EQ them differently or something. Hell, I've been using the same snare for the past 6 months on almost all of my songs, and nobody's called me out on it (well, out of the people who've listened, haha). I change the pitch sometimes, layer it with another snare for a different sound in one part, etc. Just 'cause you used the same sample doesn't mean you still can't change it.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby DijiTwitch » 12 Jun 2013 15:42

Two chord and four chord songs, and making songs unpleasingly repetitive. I usually end up with like, 40 patterns max for a five minute song in FL.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby JSynth » 12 Jun 2013 19:58

I have the tendency to "tweak" my synths only to end up wreaking them.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Mr. Bigglesworth » 13 Jun 2013 04:21

I never name anything as "kicks, snare, bass" etc in my mixing panel.
It makes it difficult to keep organized :T
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby JSynth » 13 Jun 2013 05:16

I probably use the glockenspiel way too much.
It just sounds sooo good.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby ExoBassTix » 13 Jun 2013 05:20

Omg. I should pan stuff way more.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby Mr. Bigglesworth » 13 Jun 2013 05:40

panning is the best.
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Re: What are your bad production habits?

Postby S.P.P » 13 Jun 2013 06:00

Muffhunter wrote:I tend to use the same drums a lot lol.

The Living Tombstone uses that one snare for almost all of his songs. Still most successful musician in the community.

My Worst production habit is not producing. Seriously, I'll get motivated to do something, spend half an hour making something that doesn't turn out right at all and go "ahh, fukkit" and stop.
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