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What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:07 am
by stoney
Hello all,Not posted in a while but was wondering what you lovely folks find frustrating about producing music? Whether it be something to do with mixing or sequencing etc.I always found compressors a nightmare to get my head around. I would use them but not really have an understanding of why I wanted to compress the track in the first place which probably led to bad mixes!Just wondered what you guys find (or used to find) frustrating about writing/producing and music technology?Cheers everyone
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:09 am
by deantaylor
Everything ... lol ... I'm just a songwriter.
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:03 am
by ibanez468
Ditto that! Everything! It hasn't stopped!
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:57 am
by mfowler
getting the mix to sound professional... would like more clarity and punch... getting a decent mastering level without over compressing... I could go on for a while..
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:16 am
by stoney
mfowler don't hold back you've only just going after all I hoped others like me would share their production frustrations !
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:20 am
by mazz
Right now it's getting my room acoustically right for mixing. Also finding an affordable desk that accomodates an 88 key controller, control surface and gas a large writing desk surface. I'm going to have to have that one built.
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:57 am
by garrettmiller
Mixing bass and kick so they work well with each other. Too much bass, not enough punch, vice versa... Can be very frustrating.
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:05 am
by Mark Kaufman
Computers.
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:54 am
by t4mh
I agree Bass and Kick. But then I don't do any vocal work so maybe that. The rest of it is pretty straight forward.Keith
Re: What's your biggest producing frustration?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:42 am
by hummingbird
right now I think my biggest frustration is finding the sound that I want for a particular line. I've taken to writing melody and counterpoint using an electric piano patch, and then I start wandering through my collection of instruments and synths looking for a quality that jumps out and says "yeah" when applied to that line.my other frustration is creating enough low end... or bringing it out enough - I think I'm getting better at it. I know if I post on the forum, at least one guy will say "it's too top heavy, add more bass" I think I'm getting better at mixing but I am still a little confused over when to EQ and when to compress.