When I first started out, I heard alphazone and wanted to produce everything like them. My tracks were going in that same direction for a bunch of tracks, then something happened and it all switched on me. I'm now producing what I feel at the current mood and just creating that feeling in the track. Good luck on your journey :P

___________________
DAW: Ableton Live 8
VSTi: V-Station | Tone2 Gladiator | Sylenth1 | z3ta+
VST FX: URS Channel Strip Pro | URS Classic Console EQ Bundle | IK Multimedia CSR | TC M30 Native Reverb | FabFilter Timeless 2
Headphones/Monitors: Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro/No Monitors

Yeah I try to make what I like, however because I never do it my tracks always have a unique kind of me feel to them. Someone said recently when I showed them something that is has me written all over it so I must have a style of my own somewhere. I do try to make it sound like what I hear though, just never turns out that way.

___________________
My Links
Ocean State recordings
My Myspace
Facebook
Soundcloud

Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

On the very subject of hoaring other peoples styles, what is that bass just a big siney/triangley thing ?

___________________
My Links
Ocean State recordings
My Myspace
Facebook
Soundcloud

Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

i either sit in front of my computer and play around with some sounds and then build the song around it so it always turns out different.

or

i hear a song i really like and make a song similar.

either way ive made lots of dif tracks lately from tech to prog to uplifting

___________________

quote:

Originally posted by davedresden it's a good thing your tits have no bearing on the outcome of my career

JDC
JDC Website
JDC Facebook
JDC Soundcloud
J Cannons Facebook
J Cannons Soundcloud

quote:

Originally posted by Sonic_c Yeah I try to make what I like, however because I never do it my tracks always have a unique kind of me feel to them. Someone said recently when I showed them something that is has me written all over it so I must have a style of my own somewhere. I do try to make it sound like what I hear though, just never turns out that way.

I feel about the same, always depends on the mood. I have learned some thing here and there and am trying to get inspirations more in the small pieces of a tune. More like making a set of all the inspirations then making a tune after only one song.

When I first started I tried uplifting trance and housey stuff but have since decided I like producing psychedelic trance. It just seems like finishing a psy track is so much more gratifying that finishing a run-of-the-mill uplifting track. Plus, I was never very good at happy music. Even my most exuberant track is pretty boring, imo.

___________________
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soundcloud

A good place to start is this thread:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...069&forumid=48&

A lot of producers on here all listed their inspirational tracks, the tracks that get them to try (or in some cases admit defeat).

I generally find that if I'm gravitating towards a particular sound, feel, drive even rhythm, then I really listen to those tracks until I figure out what it is that I'm drawn to. Often if you find the common link between several tracks it's much easier to poinpoint what it is you're truly aiming for.

I actually did peruse that thread. And it kinda sparked this one.

I had a feeling that the obvious inspiration would come from the tracks that make us shiver and get all goosebumpy.

However, I'm sort of an enginerd so I'm all about the process and what's behind it.

I know a few folks who produce music they can't even stand to listen to when it's done, in fact, some are not really fond of the genre at all and are just really good at producing it. It's incredibly bizarre.

So I wanted to see how the fellow trance monkeys here went about things and gather a bit of insight on the matter.

Sometimes I feel like I actually get most inspired when I take breaks from listening to the sort of music I want to make, and spend my time with completely different kinds that I have no interest in making, like classical music or rock.

It's almost like doing this lets me get out from under the influence of electronic artists and just "be me" in my own productions, instead of trying too hard to emulate certain styles or constantly comparing myself to my electronic music heroes. I can just create rather than worrying about how I measure up or whether I'm doing things "right."

Anyone else experience anything like that?

It just takes time, 1 year ago I knew nothing about prodution, I think I'm doing OK now, but no where near where i want to be

___________________
Soundcloud

+1 with BoJingles, variety of influence is always good to broaden the scope of what sounds "good." If youre a Riff lover, rock music is founded on riffs. You can catch some really epic hip hop beats on the radio too, it all inspires me to a "Music" focus, and inspires me to start hammering at some trance.