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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
And the point that EchoSys is making is actually incredibly on point; As a newb here, you either realize that you don't know everything and get the way things truly work, or you get a hiding, can't take it, and leave.
I'm not saying this to be an arsehole - I have helped so many people over the years - we were all one at some point - it's that what the regulars see all too often is a fatal combination of an overblown sense of entitlement mixed with false knowledge. That does not fly around here and frankly it's healthy.
If you ever go to work in any pro studio, it's exactly like this but 1000 time worse.
The first thing you get taught is that you don't know shit and most likely what you think you know is wrong or at least only half boiled. The second thing you get taught is that you need to have a really tough skin and be able to take a joke, and certainly not take yourself at all seriously.
That is exactly like life in a real studio, in fact any workplace which is high pressure.
And although it's tough for some people, it's healthy as we don't know everything, and there's always someone better or more knowledgeable than you, but over time, you get the hang of things, you learn the real insights and actually how things work and then gradually there's less and less people that know more than you do, and at that point you actually know some shit.
Just look at things like the serato forums or audiophile/hifi forums - there's so much nonsense and misinformation on those forums that they aren't even worth accidentally clicking on to.
And granted, some people don't stick around, but there's been plenty of people who get how this place work and have stayed - just look at the join dates of many of the people in threads on the first page. There's actually only a handful of us who have been on here longer than say 5 years.
I hope you stick around, it's always good to have people who are passionate about what we're all in to, but learn how to deal and how to play  |
Well, as I've said, I've been on this site for several years. I just made the kosmotika account recently because that's the name I'm going to be working under for now. I can't even remember the name of my first account it was so many years ago.
I'm always open to new information; the only reason I know anything I do know is because I scoured every part of the web trying to find info on how to become better as mastering, mixing, etc. So maybe some of what I say is nonsense because I'm getting it from nonsense sources, but I really don't know the difference. If there's a tutorial on how to do something I'm interested in doing, I'll have a look at it and try to experiment with the information provided.
Any "advice" I give here is more or less just repeated from seeing it somewhere else...and a lot of the time, that info comes from TA!
I've definitely become a lot better than when I first started making trance exclusively in 2011...
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I by no means think I'm hot shit; I don't like most of my work in comparison to just about anything I've got in my collection and to this day I spend a lot of time looking for new guides to help myself improve; ESPECIALLY on the mastering front.
I suppose all in all my hangup is that I want to stay away from producing "modern" sounding songs, but most of the information I can find is about that kind of sound...
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