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Posted by DJ Dinz on Nov-12-2004 18:37:

How long do you produce?

Hi guys...

i am wondering....
how long do you guys produce??
that include Mixdown...

I took 2days to arrange the song... but i took a very long time on mixdown....

can we share??
THNX

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Nov-12-2004 18:58:

It's entirely track dependant. Anything from 2 days to 2 months.
If it takes over 2 months it'll most likely never get finished.

Posted by alanzo on Nov-12-2004 19:13:

^ Mystery pretty much sumed it up for both amateurs and proffesional producers a like..

Posted by staticblue on Nov-12-2004 19:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
If it takes over 2 months it'll most likely never get finished.

I agree with Mystery about that. After a certain time, you often completely loose the idea that you had in the first place.

And 2 days is a minimum IMO, so that you have the time to get an objective opinion about what you are doing, which is quite important for the mastering and maybe even for the mixdown.

staticblue

Posted by Limit on Nov-12-2004 19:57:

just finished a track and I think it took me about a month or so to do everything from conception to mixing and mastering. I usually strat the mixing stage while I'm putting it together, but in the end it still always needs to touched up. Mastering ususally takes me a day or two mainly becasue i like to give my ears a break and listen to other tracks so I can compare, as well as taking long breaks(you should always do this becasue your ears get acustom to the sound your hearing and it can be very misleading. I also like to do a few different mixdowns and compare on different systems.

Posted by d-miurge on Nov-12-2004 20:01:

I prefer speak in hours : 50 in average, it's as a week.

Posted by DJ Coleman on Nov-12-2004 21:12:

I know someone thta worked on a song for about 300 hours or so. So you count how many days that is. Me i'm not into alot of production as much as i am in like djing etc.

Posted by Derivative on Nov-13-2004 00:18:

yer. sometimes i just bosh out a tune in a couple of hours and bounce it down and onto soundclick but (and this goes 99.9% of the time) im never happy with just that days work and i can spend days, weeks, even months sometimes just tweaking into the ground (often for the worse). i just overdo the twiddling sometimes.

i expect though that if i know my tools well enough i should be able to knock up a tune in less than a day and be in a position where it only needs a touch of mastering. but im not that confident with the tools i got to do that yet.

its the same with painting. most good water colourists just bosh out their best work there and then, when the ideas are still running through your head and you've got momentum behind you. the longer it drags on, the more likely you are to tweak a song to death (the equivilant of shredding the surface of the paper in watercolour - just plain overworking it). i think, irrespective of the time it takes to produce and master a tune, you have to enjoy all that time spent working on your song. if you start to hate it part way through, it really begins to show in your songs.

Posted by travbrad on Nov-14-2004 00:45:

Probably 25-50 hours per track, which can sometimes be a few days, and sometimes it may be a month (depending on how often/much i produce in a given time period)

Posted by dEEkAy on Nov-14-2004 01:08:

depends... 1 day - 2 weeks...i sometimes get a new idea and rollback the whole project

Posted by Fundamental on Nov-14-2004 06:28:

Somewhere between 3 weeks and 3 months.

Yes, I'm slow...

Posted by darkSIde on Nov-15-2004 02:39:

I work on tracks in bits and pieces whenever I find the time/inspiration, my last track i started in mid-September just now finishing it up completely.

Posted by CJConstable on Nov-15-2004 02:51:

Anything from an hour to 2 weeks

Although i dont spend all of that time working on the song, i would probably more likely forget about it, then come back to it 2 weeks later.

Any longer and i'd get bored of it and start again.