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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Success for me is making tunes that I think can stand alongside my personal favorites, regardless of whether anyone wants to sign them or whatever. The source of my despair is still being nowhere near that, at least in my own mind.

The challenge of meeting that level of production doesn't keep you fresh and inspired on the daily?

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Originally posted by meriter your personal favorites aren't made with Live 8 man

LOLOLOL ignorance. What are they made on bro? Humor me LOL!

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Originally posted by Kismet7 Give me raw examples of "arrogance", or dig yourself back into your hole, because everything i've read from you could be wrapped in toilet paper, and you sound a bit disgruntled i've achieved something perhaps out of your reach? And you have a rather ignorant outlook about success, I cant help you there.

I don't really care what you think and lol at achieved something out of my reach

I just think you talking about success like you're been producing and releasing tracks for years comes off as twatish. That's all.

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Originally posted by mfitterer1 The challenge of meeting that level of production doesn't keep you fresh and inspired on the daily?

I enjoy trying to meet the challenge right up until the moment I do a close comparison between my own finished tunes and my favorite tunes. Then it seems kinda pointless because I think I will never reach that level.

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Originally posted by alanzo I couldn't possibly. It's in my blood.. it's a large part of how I define myself. If I'm not working on music, learning, having fun, I'm not living. It's as simple as that.

This. For me; it's my true love, however corny it sounds ha. It's one of the reasons I hit brick walls in relationships, i'm very up front with the fact that nothing & no one will ever replace music as the number 1.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I enjoy trying to meet the challenge right up until the moment I do a close comparison between my own finished tunes and my favorite tunes. Then it seems kinda pointless because I think I will never reach that level.

That's the best part imo; seeing where they stack up and then tweaking what doesn't meet expectation!

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Originally posted by mfitterer1 LOLOLOL ignorance. What are they made on bro? Humor me LOL!

I'm just saying I'm pretty sure Sasha didn't throw together Airdrawdagger with Ableton.

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Originally posted by meriter You don't need a bunch of expensive equipment to "make good music" but if you want your shit to sound like Deadmau8 or whatever you're going to need more than a pirated copy of Reason. Right tools for the right job. No one ever said making music was easy and it's certainly not cheap. If you drop $200 on a drum kit guess what it's going to sound like a $200 drum kit no matter how well you play it, and that's going to kill your inspiration. Ask guitar players if they like playing shitty guitars. Try being a DJ and spinning your awesome set on Gemini belt-driven XL100's. Not saying you should drop a ton of money on equipment but if you want a professional sound a good place to start is with professional tools. In the mean time all you can do is make the best of what you have and work around that. Sampling is a good way to get quality source sounds if your software/hardware isn't cutting it. By the way not all hardware is fundamentally better obviously. You get what you pay for. I've got a yamaha synth that was about $700 in 2000 and it more or less sounds like ass except for a few patches and things which is basically all I use it for at this point. Also there's nothing like the interface of a hardware synthesizer. I probably don't give FL, Live, Reason ect enough credit and that's obviously personal bias. I could never work with that shit. I need knobs and buttons and LCD menus but that's just what I was raised on.

+1 well said.

i'd add that its good to start off on shit equipment, build your craft a bit, try to get that C level equipment sounding as good as possible, and then only better things will come out of you when you get some proper equipment. Having great equipment from the start is a really nice shortcut though, but you gotta extra hard to build your craft.

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Originally posted by mfitterer1 I don't really care what you think and lol at achieved something out of my reach I just think you talking about success like you're been producing and releasing tracks for years comes off as twatish. That's all.

Ok, yah I'd figured you'd take the little kid route.
And why would'nt I share my success with a forum i've been a part of? I should have waited till you magically found my music on your own? Especially after folks asking me "I wanna hear your music", well now you can, so i'm sharing my story.

And where is your evidence to support your claims? I mean if it was worth pointing, there must be a ton of it.

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I'll never throw in the towel. One thing i'd like to add is that i never feel like quiting until today. The more sounds I have in a project the more i want trash it and give it up and start new. Basically the more I have the more frustration I get.

I fucking hate Rihanna

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Originally posted by meriter Who the hell is BT?

LOLWUT? I'm sorry but I have just seemed to lose all seriousness in your posts.

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Originally posted by meriter Your primary focus should be making good music. That's all. No one gives a shit how you do it. And the people that do are fags.