What are your bad production habits?

[cplbradley]

i can't seem to get any ideas i have right

[ajbiz11]

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I want a Mac...and Logic Pro - my iPad capitalized both of those words...wow Apple

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

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

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.

[nOk]

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.

[Genkar]

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.

[Aurum Noble]

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!

[Rider]

Bad habit: Losing the manual to the Program/Hardware I just got

[SpmSL]

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 ;_;

[Conchetupony]

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.

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.

[Muffhunter]

I tend to use the same drums a lot lol.

[Dr. Plague]

I tend to use the same drums a lot lol.

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

[Muffhunter]

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,

[itroitnyah]

Haha, yeah, but changing up the synths and composition between songs is plenty enough for something different

[Conchetupony]

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

[SpmSL]

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.

[Dr. Plague]

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,

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.

[DijiTwitch]

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.

[JSynth]

I have the tendency to "tweak" my synths only to end up wreaking them.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I never name anything as "kicks, snare, bass" etc in my mixing panel.
It makes it difficult to keep organized :T

[JSynth]

I probably use the glockenspiel way too much.
It just sounds sooo good.

[ExoBassTix]

Omg. I should pan stuff way more.
My work =/= spacey.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

panning is the best.

[S.P.P]

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.