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What do you consider your best production?

So am curious, most of us been here for a while, and producing for a long while as well.

So am curious, what do you consider your best work, and i want to know from your point of view, so don't base your opnion on the feedback for example.

For me i have a weird feeling, am listening to my old stuff, like the Static blue remix or the Illuminate one, and i feel like the flow is so much better there than my new stuff, yes the productions are not so tight but i don't know they feel just better in my ears.

Maybe it's because it reminds me about the good old days when i was just starting, it sure felt good if you completed a tune regardless the feedback and i believe this feeling dissapears once you start to get better, then you just want your tracks to be liked and played out or even signed.

what about you?

i havent finished a song in a long time. but i agree. my older stuff is nowhere near as tight as the stuff im doing now. but back then i just saw a tune all the way through, regardless of whether i made a tonne of mistakes along the way. my newer stuff...you could say its better. but its never finished. so it never feels complete.

hey i agree your staticblue remix was great IMO do you still have the mp3 btw ???

personally there is no doubt for my traxx : before = shitty , now = a bit less shitty

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Originally posted by xternal hey i agree your staticblue remix was great IMO do you still have the mp3 btw ??? personally there is no doubt for my traxx : before = shitty , now = a bit less shitty

yes, i still listen to it hehe.

it just flows so well , want me to upload?

yes would be cool. One day ive gotta remake that meening of ice track, the melody was really cool imo

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Originally posted by xternal yes would be cool. One day ive gotta remake that meening of ice track, the melody was really cool imo

yes it sure is!, uploading .

http://fahad.johnsteenbergen.com/ice.mp3

thx mate !!!

(EDIT) listening to it at the moment, it had a good groove indeed. The beat/percussions was very decent imo, even if it all needed some EQing. I agree that its way under your producing level at the moment but its so normal.

Since you seem to think that your new tracks have less flow/groove, why dont you come back to a more uplifting style like that remix of meening of ice. Could sound great now that ure very good at mixing .

when i compose... when i feel i have no more idea in the song.. i'll leave it... n sometime if i feel satisfied...ok then that it...

but after producing n produce... n i went back to my old track that i am satisfied... i feel so "shit! is this what i do last time... it sound like hell" day by day i feel my song is better than last time.. n till now i cant figure out is it done/not...

so who can tell that our song is done or not??? IMO

i'd say my tracks get better each time.. not in terms of melody or general feeling, but in terms of production. my tracks used to be all muddy and stuff, which is not the case anymore..

what is strange though, is that a track i'm content with everybody seems to dislike, and a track i'm not at all satisfied with seems to do well.

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Originally posted by xternal thx mate !!! (EDIT) listening to it at the moment, it had a good groove indeed. The beat/percussions was very decent imo, even if it all needed some EQing. I agree that its way under your producing level at the moment but its so normal. Since you seem to think that your new tracks have less flow/groove, why dont you come back to a more uplifting style like that remix of meening of ice. Could sound great now that ure very good at mixing .

you have no idea how hard am trying, after Furor and the Airborne remix i can't seem to make a decent bassline or a good synth for a melody.

even prog is letting me down, oh well one of these phases i suppose.

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Originally posted by TOR i'd say my tracks get better each time.. not in terms of melody or general feeling, but in terms of production. my tracks used to be all muddy and stuff, which is not the case anymore.. what is strange though, is that a track i'm content with everybody seems to dislike, and a track i'm not at all satisfied with seems to do well.

i have that also, Shades seemed to good for people, i wasn't 100% happy with it.

As for the production improvment, well it is obviously that you improve with each production, since you want to avoid errors for example wrong EQing or something.

(this is maybe a bit offtopic )

i have "phases", that can last "a few days" to more than a month, where i cant get out anything decent out of my work. in those "phases" im always trying to make things sounds better, i can spend something like 2 hours tweaking a kick or testing some percussions combinations. Ocasionally i come out with one half decent sound, but thats all.
during those phases i also have plenty of ideas for remixing tracks, new half decent melodies.

And then one day i launch my program and i have TEH idea. and then after generally 2 to 4 days of intensive arrangement/mixing, i get at laaast a track done ;-).

so it seems that my productivity isnt constant at all, and i know its like that for many other producers. Its a bit sad because u've got the impression u're losing so much time

my best track is my last, in my sig for some comment !

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Originally posted by d-miurge my best track is my last, in my sig for some comment !

cant see anything in your sig
EDIT: just bought some new eyes, i can now

For me, every last track I do is my best.. I continue to get better and better....

don't really know.. people seem to like my bt - force of gravity remix the most.. and i like it myself... but the track that have got stuck most in my head is my "unknown title" track.... but my favourit track isn't finished yet.. i'm working on it.. hehe

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Originally posted by dbl but my favourit track isn't finished yet.. i'm working on it.. hehe

The best stuff I've done is easily the songs I've made in collaboration with someone else. Luckily the guys I've worked with have some true talent and the tunes wouldn't be half as good without them. Thanks guys!

Out of the 4 (yes I've only made that many) tunes that I've made by myself, I think the overall sound is improving in each. Which one is better is simply down to opinion, because I feel all 4 tunes have had a different style so far...

Hmm..

I know I've been improving a lot. Though choosing my best production comes down to two. It is either Wounds or my remix of Costa Del Sol's Once Upon A Time In China.

Hmm I think that Morne Luce is my best production.
I mean it's not that complicated but the mastering is great cuz i didn't need to do any.
Now for real, I like the dark atmosphere I made there.

my AvB - communication remix

unreleased

The one I enjoy most is Nothing Lasts Forever.

It was my 2nd production ever, it's really simple (I think there's only like 10 tracks at most), but I love the sound of it and the mood, all it needs is mastered a bit better.

Most people said that tune was nice but too simple, yeah it's very simple but I still like it

I dunno...probably "Introspection" (yet) as it has gotten most of the hype.

anyway...dunno about my upcoming vinyl release..might run good, comes with an Alucard and ALTF4 Remix

oddly enough, what is my best song (or what sounds the best to my ears at least) was my very first song i made. I had no knowledge of eqing, compression, etc and was just using FL without any VSTs. Sure, my production value is 100X better than it used to be, but my songs now still don't get me grooving as much. I'm working on a tune right now that's pretty good, but it still just doesn't flow as nicely as that very first one.

I haven't been producing for that long so I think I get better with every production and I think my last production was my best, it was a remix of Greece 2000

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Originally posted by travbrad oddly enough, what is my best song (or what sounds the best to my ears at least) was my very first song i made. I had no knowledge of eqing, compression, etc and was just using FL without any VSTs. Sure, my production value is 100X better than it used to be, but my songs now still don't get me grooving as much. I'm working on a tune right now that's pretty good, but it still just doesn't flow as nicely as that very first one.

that's a good point. the more you get into production, the more elements you keep an eye on.. to a point where the results do not sound spontaneous anymore.

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Originally posted by TOR that's a good point. the more you get into production, the more elements you keep an eye on.. to a point where the results do not sound spontaneous anymore.

Amen!

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