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| quote: | Originally posted by MegaMan
producer should be as sober as a judge |
Maybe when you're producing something as assignment..
But when you're just a little "off the world", believe me it is much easier to make you "fly". you can imagine and come up with stuff quicker, this is my experience though. plus when you're hammering on a track and you drank some alcohol you won't mind to let it rest if you still dont have inspiration, you'll be like; oh whatev.. instead of a sober "No I háve to finish this".
I am not stressing the fact that you should drink alcohol, mind you. I am simply stating this fact because it works for me. Haven't you ever noticed on a party that the awesome music simply feels more "trancy" when you're under influence of alcohol just a little?
And when you get home all tired, don't you just wanna crawl over the floor, into you're little studio to let loose all the inspiration you gained that night?
Well I do, I produced great tracks, (saying myself lol), when I was sober, I felt they were so good that I stood up behind my computer, opened up the volume and just started jumping to my own track. It's a great feeling, which you can "emulate", however small the amount, with a nice can of beer, of couple of glasses of some good wine .
I would never drink while I was producing when I still had school, simple due to the consequences it might have the morning after in school, ringing ears, light headache.. It's not a pleasure when you're doing final year math, chemistry or physics (think its the 12th grade or something? im not sure, in Netherland its just the 6th class of college).
Anyway, now I finished my exams, so I spent the few night that I have for myself producing, most of the time having drank some wine 
(i was just raised in a family where they have to drink wine around 21.00 lol) but everything just feels easier.
HOWEVER.
While being under influence makes you more "free of mind", it also decreases your accucary (?dont think its spelled right). So when it comes to final mixing, or mastering like some may call it, you might just want to wait until your sober again, personally I'd like to rest a day doing some other track, and then mixing and eq'ing the track I finished a couple of days ago .
I really do hope this opens up your mind a little!
Cheers!
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