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Originally posted by iammesol If you're gonna' play dumb, then forget I said anything

I'm trying to, believe me.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery I'm trying to, believe me.

by the way, kookie monster is pretty cool

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Originally posted by Mike_Foyle by the way, kookie monster is pretty cool

Nice one

That's kind of like asking what's easier to cook - cookies or pies?

It just depends on what you have experience with, how you learn, what you pay attention to, etc. There are some things about production that people struggle with for months and that I've learned instantly - and yet there are others that I've discovered when I started browsing this site that people here were practically doing with their eyes closed and that I still haven't grasped.

You can't really look at levels of complexity either. That's just a question of investing more time on a given track. "Difficulty" is really a complicated thing to define in this case.

iammesol- 1
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FFS, give it a rest, kid

i would say trance...it doesn't seem very hard

I think you lot need to stop fucking whinging at each other and retaliating with such minor things for some kind of piss poor one-up-manship. Lets keep the discussion aimiable shall we?

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Originally posted by Mike_Foyle i would say technically its one of the easiest as well. you can pack a trance track full of lots of little sounds until it sounds full.. if its not quite there yet you can throw in some other random little synth or whatever. what IS difficult is making a track with alot less sounds, which still sounds full. becasue each sound has to fit perfectly in the mix.

+1

Uplifting Trance

Uplifting trance can get pretty complex sometimes, mainly being that to build a song with energy is hard enough, but a good tune requires dedication and tons of atmosphere without atmosphere you really dont add charater to your tune, and those levels can get pretty hectic sometimes mixing it down nicely, especially with those saws and all those loud vst's a punchy kick and compressing it right. Making a driving track is hard enough, pulling off a nice atmosphere even harder, managing sound levels can be a nightmare. but man do i love it.

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iammesol- 1 mystery- 0

house... loop that shit

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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit house... loop that shit

You forgot techno!

None of them are easy to produce well. It all takes a certain amount of skill

I don't think you can call it be genre. Saying "trance" will go from the most uninspired, preset dominated generic anthemer all the way up to one of BT's excessively tweaked, synth-opera studio masterpieces, with everything in between.

I'd say loop based music that uses samples heavily. Hip-hop or funky house for example. You are using repetition, you're using little more than a beat, sample and bassline and you didn't even have to write the main chunk of it.

The hardest for me would probably be something like Orbital's cohesive albums. The Middle of Nowhere plays like one glorious hour long track, but the most multi-layered, innovative and rich track you can imagine. The production is outstanding, the music unique and the arrangements are often very complex. Big, leftfield journey albums like that.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I'd say loop based music that uses samples heavily. Hip-hop or funky house for example. You are using repetition, you're using little more than a beat, sample and bassline and you didn't even have to write the main chunk of it.

That is true, however I don't think it's really fair to compare loop based music to producing "real" (I couldn't think of a better word) tracks since in those genres the music is only a backbone (to rapping, for example) and not an actual track as such.

You can get pretty creative with sampling too but that's a whole different topic altogether...

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery You can get pretty creative with sampling too but that's a whole different topic altogether...

Oh yeah. I'm not denying the artistic power of sampling (just listen to DJ Shadow for proof of that).

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Oh yeah. I'm not denying the artistic power of sampling (just listen to DJ Shadow for proof of that).

or most of the stuff on ninjatune lol

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Originally posted by Floorfiller i think it's pretty easy to make any terrible song in any genre...but hard to make a good one in any genre...

Well said

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