Good luck, my wife’s response was why do you need a guitar pedal when you don’t play the guitar?
the production thread
Here’s my rant of the week. Started rewiring my gear last week to get a proper dub mixing setup going. Works fine while jamming, but for the life of me I can’t get ableton to pull the audio from the mixer. It’s recognized, have the channels set up properly, spent probably 8 hours over a few days watching videos and reading forums trying to solve the problem.
Turns out there’s a setting in the mac security menu to give ableton access to the mic. One click, problem solved. I almost through the entire setup out the fucking window on Friday.
303abuser I know those kind of problems though. Such a time sink.
…a couple of recent bits that I haven’t shared on here:
Morty-C-137 Unbroken1 That’s it exactly, pure bloody rage lol.
Unbroken1 New stuff sounds good. Those projects look like two or three of mine in one.
Dan Upgraded to 4 over the holidays. The pattern player is great fun. Do I want a 909 all over every track - of course I do. I can see myself using it as an instrument - recording the performance in isolation and exporting to ableton etc.
Am sure there are better stem splitters out there, but am absolutely going to use it a ton going forward - for production and mixing on the fly. Integrates well, as you’d imagine, with the S4 I have - with controls to filter individual stems / add effects etc.
The Forever remix of Fields One sounds ace Damo!
It took us a year, but Essentia Sound and I finally finished our 3rd album. Sent it for mastering, should be out in April or May. I love the feeling of finishing a project and hearing how it all fits together.
I’m about half way through another solo album too. Going to try to finish that up in the next couple of months, maybe have it out by fall if things go well.
I think I’ll have another album finished towards the end of this year, to be mastered and out for the middle of next. I’ll have a handful of single tracks out this year.
I put this together for the recent bicep remix comp - I only had a couple of weeks, so you can imagine how I feel about it (unfinished!). Also unmastered.
303abuser similar peaks and troughs. Definitely get tired of it at times. I work from home now most of the time which has helped enormously.
I try and work consistently on ‘music’ but not necessarily in finishing tracks.
There are times where I’m bouncing around maybe 10 projects or so and it’ll get to a point where I perhaps concentrate on one of those almost exclusively which will then get driven to a conclusion (until it’s tweaked again when mastering).
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…multiple albums, crikey, you lot are prolific!
I can’t conceive cranking out material at that speed, the last 18 months have been the most (ahem) productive period I’ve had, I reckon I’ve around 15-17 finished tracks/remixes, and maybe 5 or 6 that are almost at the stage where I’ll push them through to completion (plus the standard 20-30 loops/ideas that may or may not ever make it past that point!).
Even then though, I’ve never really thought about them in album terms, pretty much all have been made individually, track-by-track… the idea of a series of productions that compliment each other or are created specifically to sit side-by-side is kinda intimidating to me.