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"Fresh Ears" Phenomenon

How often does it happen to you guys, that you've written a part of a tune, you don't feel like working on it anymore, then after a few days you re-visit it with a "fresh set of ears" and you hear stuff that shouldn't be there, or -- the opposite -- you suddenly realize something should be added, and you have new ideas?

Should you be worried, if all of a sudden you lose interest or don't know how to continue?

i think you have to leave a track and come back later, because when you get so engrossed in it for so long, you only hear how it should sound, and not how it actually sounds. Or, you have been working on it long enough to be satisfied with mediocre things.

i think when you go back to a track later, you hear how it really sounds, and you arent satisfied with just mediocrity (is that a word?).

Should you be worried if you lose interest in a track or dun know how to continue? not at all, just start a new project, then go back to the other one much later. Sometimes you just exhaust your creative juices.

I was talking to trancevision about this today actually and we both agreed that if you hear the track to much you'll probably start to hear what you didn't put in it instead of what you actually put there...I think almost everyone ends up as perfectionists when it comes to their own tracks...

one way to avoid this might be to get it reviewed by other's then yourself...let your friends listen to it, let us here listen to it, hell you can even let a complete stranger to listen to it...that way you can really get confirmed if you need to put that extra little thing in the track or if it's already good enough...

it's easy to overdo a track but it's hard as hell to do just enough to get it perfect

Re: "Fresh Ears" Phenomenon

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Originally posted by Eugene How often does it happen to you guys, that you've written a part of a tune, you don't feel like working on it anymore, then after a few days you re-visit it with a "fresh set of ears" and you hear stuff that shouldn't be there, or -- the opposite -- you suddenly realize something should be added, and you have new ideas?

I do this all the time, and I think it's an essential part of producing.

For some reason it's a human characteristic to hear or see things that you create differently than others do. I dont know why, but it is very clear that it happens. After you leave something for abit and come back to it, you loose that 'connection' you had with it before (though only temporary) and you are able to hear it with a more unbiased ear. The longer you leave the track, the more unbiased you become.

For example, usually when you're in the earlier stages of starting out producing you think your tracks sound better than they actually do. I know I did! I even sent out a few of my earlier tracks to big labels (like positiva and purple eye) and now I go back and listen to these tracks, and I think to my self "easy.. no wonder they didnt want to sign me!"

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Originally posted by nic01445 i think you have to leave a track and come back later, because when you get so engrossed in it for so long, you only hear how it should sound, and not how it actually sounds. Or, you have been working on it long enough to be satisfied with mediocre things. i think when you go back to a track later, you hear how it really sounds, and you arent satisfied with just mediocrity (is that a word?). Should you be worried if you lose interest in a track or dun know how to continue? not at all, just start a new project, then go back to the other one much later. Sometimes you just exhaust your creative juices.

agreed 100%

i get bored of most my stuff but when my dad says that's mint im usually onto a winner seeing as he only said it for nudawn and my new tune woo lol

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Originally posted by Project T i get bored of most my stuff but when my dad says that's mint im usually onto a winner seeing as he only said it for nudawn and my new tune woo lol

heh, i have to rely on my mom, my dad says everything i do is good, so that isn't helping me much.. my mom actually liked "full scope", she thought the thunder was cool..

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Originally posted by DJ Chrono For example, usually when you're in the earlier stages of starting out producing you think your tracks sound better than they actually do. I know I did! I even sent out a few of my earlier tracks to big labels (like positiva and purple eye) and now I go back and listen to these tracks, and I think to my self "easy.. no wonder they didnt want to sign me!"

hahaha, that happened to me!
I thought my early tracks were wonderful and I even sent them to labels! LOL

How about makin a tune then comin back 2 years later to produce a remix when your skills and studio have both advanced somewhat (Eg luke im talking about Starwake pt 2) :P

I also think its the same as when you make a mix cd, if you dont listen to it straight away and leave it maybe 2 or 3 weeks then listen u pick up more things that u never noticed at the time of mixing it.

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Originally posted by tor8024 my mom actually liked "full scope", she thought the thunder was cool..

:hah:
hehehehe... laughed so hard when i read that

but it's true what everyone says... you gotta get away from some track's.... like my latest track.. i changed everything on it after being away from it like 10 days... when i worked on it i liked it, but when i got home again and continued on it i reworked everything wich made it alot better

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