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What drives me the most crazy about producing.
I was really thinking about this hard, the fact of where all my really good sounds or tracks come from.
**(rant warning)**
I know how fx are going to change a sound to a degree. And I can have an idea of what throwing a crash through a crusher and gate will result in.
But EVERYTIME, all of my best sounds or mixes have always happened by *accident.
Because we all know a small tweak can make a big difference. And what drives me really crazy, is this. A dumb example but its a slice of what I do all the time.
My thinking when I'm making something new >>
"Cool loop, its got a groove but it sounds too simple.. too 'already heard' before.
Let me get it shuffling a bit..
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.. oh, ok.. I like. But its like I'm looking for sugar and am only finding aspartame still.
I know!
I'll open Glitch and crush it!
I never liked what a crusher does when the setting are more then a little bit. Its that little bit of distortion I like, but I wish it could somehow amplify that little bit so it sounds like A LOT. Once you crush too much it sounds the same no matter what the sound is.
So rather then turn up the crush knob I open another glitch. Run the hardly crushed sound through another hardly crushing glitch channel. Oooh, I like that, had no idea it would sound like THAT, pretty cool.
But still sounds like something that didn't take a lot of work.
*thinking*
Lets send it through a phaser and play with some knobs. (play with knobs for 15 mins)
.. no, grr.. lets try a flanger!
(in like 5 seconds)
Omg! I love it! Those crushed hats really have some beautiful overtones to them.
Thats the sweet spot I was looking for."
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This is how like all of my good sounds are discovered.
Like I have an *idea of what might happen to a sound, but I can't imagine anyone hearing a sound in their head and thinking "ok I need to use this & this, set it exactly to this, and I'll get that sound".
And thats what I hate.
Its like science but its not at all.
And I feel like my really best work has come from making mistakes, studying why they worked (or why I THINK they worked) then using them as a template to make more and better mistakes in the future.
Am I fucking crazy?
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