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How much time are u supposed to spend on a track?

I know this varies from person to person, and time to time... but how much time are u supposed to spend on your tracks?

how much time do u spend average when finishing a track..

I spend 2 days up to a week.. after that i dont finish at all..
any thoughts?

I would say each track takes me about 15-30 hours in total to make. I would never be satisfied with a track that took me less than 10 hours to make. Taking time to craft out your music is the key to a good track in my opinion.

^ That sums it up ^

My opinion...i spent in total 2 months on this track, possibly more(no more then 40 hrs actual focus time)...because of course i have a life as do we all and need to concentrate on other shit as well..bills/relations/etc.


Sebastiano

I spend far too long on my music, then I get to a point where I feel I just have to get it finished because I'm getting so sick of the tune...

From the tunes I've made so far - Average Time = 1 to 3 months.

any where from 4 weeks to a month or 2 on tracks.

so far ... 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 4 days. Since I work fulltime that's just evenings + weekends.

I'd really like to learn mAd production skills down so I can more quickly make tunes ... that way I won't be completely bored of them by the time they are finished.

i spend no more than 3 hours on a track... oh yeah, thats why they BLOW SO MUCH.

i dont spend much time cause i get frustrated and i can never get what i want so i just finish the song half assed. maybe i should work on that

If it takes over 2 weeks for me I usually abandon it since it's not really going anywhere.

I've managed to do stuff in just a couple of hours but that's usually more of a case of sheer luck than anything else. It takes about a week normally.

Don't know really, whatever I start producing isn't based on luck, it's based on a composition I did for classical piano in my free time, and I really don't know how many hours that took me, I play whenever I have the time, if I didn't have to sleep, I think in the morning my fingers would be broke or something The production itself is done in one long day, but then I go out mastering, and that could take me a couple of days to get exactly what I want. If it takes me longer then a week to get the tune, I leave it, and get back to it after a couple of months with a fresh mind.

a week has not much meaning mr mystery as you could consider that as 7x 24 h or 7x 8 h or 5x 8h or ...
I'd say for me it takes about 2-6 hours to create the basics (4-8 or 16 bar loop with most elements) then as much time creating build up and some fx. 2 hours of mixing and 1 hour of recording/mastering.
The rule with my tracks mostly is, the less time I've spent on the basic loop, the better it sounds (I'm an impulsive producer ). Anything above 6-7 hours sounds forced and needs to be reworked or deleted.

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Originally posted by BelgianGuru but then I go out mastering, and that could take me a couple of days to get exactly what I want.

how could you possibly spend that much time on mastering??
I believe you mean mixing?

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Originally posted by DeZmA a week has not much meaning mr mystery as you could consider that as 7x 24 h or 7x 8 h or 5x 8h or ...

Well duh, of course you exclude work, sleep etc from that.
I'd say 2-4 hours every day.

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Originally posted by DeZmA how could you possibly spend that much time on mastering?? I believe you mean mixing?

That could be the case yes. Have I interpreted the terms wrong all these years ?

I mean this : Making it sound good on every stereo I can get my hands on, car radio, kitchen radio (or screaming babies as I like to call them argh). And as mistery said, days is a maximum of an hour or two. I go to uni and I have to work at night so I can buy food, I can't produce if I don't eat (I die) I think that's mixing then .. is mastering only EQ'ing ? I don't master then lol, well I do, but I do that while making the track.. I mean the proces where I fix my song so it sounds how it sounded in my speakers, everywhere (which is never the case after my first take). That process, I figured was mastering .. maybe it's mixing then Makes more sence yes if you call it mixing .. but I also tweak the EQ a bit .. so maybe it's both ? Enlighten me !

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Originally posted by BelgianGuru And as mistery said, days is a maximum of an hour or two. I go to uni and I have to work at night so I can buy food, I can't produce if I don't eat (I die)

It's not just a time related issue for me either. If I spend more than 4 hours on the track at once I start to lose the focus on the "big picture" and get lost in tweaking stuff that doesn't really matter. Producing is always wise to do with "fresh ears".

True also, but if I have the time producing 8 hours straight, I will do it, simply because I can't stop I'll work on more then one track then though. But yes, the day after what used to sound so great, suddenly sounds like sjiet !

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Originally posted by BelgianGuru the text above o_O

I consider mastering as doing some processes to increase the loudness of a track (limiting and multi-band-compressing) and some fine-tuning processes

I don't get it, if it sounds good on monitors or hq headphones you won't change things if it sounds crappy on some low end stereo
I do check things on several systems but mostly if it sounds right on moni's it IS right (which makes sense doesn't it )

Well you see, my botty can't afford monitors. Well I can now, I'm getting a pair next month, yiha ! That's the only reason why it takes me longer I think.

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