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Producing music is the new fad!
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| sooper |
FROM: http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=226175
| quote: | Originally posted by k la
Is it me or does this appear to be the new fad... everyone spins now, so people are taking it one step further! |
:rolleyes:
I guess I'm a lil over-sensitive :toothless |
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| alanzo |
I'm the only person on a campus of about 2000 people that is as dedicated to producing/composing music..
I.E... I didn't download a copy of Reason/FL last week and played around with the included samples to feel "teh m0s7 uber-1337"
^ doing that is about the extent of most people, they realize how hard it is and quit
So, no, it's not the new fad, if anything, TRYING it then sucking.. then quitting is ;) |
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| Derivative |
yer i tend to agree with the statement above. its the same with alot of things though. i didnt actually know many guitarists throughout uni. of the people i know that own a guitar, only half of them really know how to play it. the others gave up when their fingers started to hurt (they didnt even play long enough to callous their finger tips!). aquiring a virus a couple of days ago has really turned my head inside out because its a ridiculously complex instrument, even with prior knowledge of music and production. i can see alot of people selling their synths and studio gear and saying it sucks because its not immediately obvious how to control every aspect of the sound you are creating.
in the same way that greenday prompted alot of kids to pick up guitar, i imagine songs like flashdance (which still gets played about 10 times a day on radio 1) prompted alot of people to dabble in computer production. most will take one look at a sequencer window, think 'holy ! where do i start?!' and alot will just give up. some will stick with it. even less will get really good at it. but its the same with any creative medium that gets popularised. 5 years ago it was harder to write tracks in your bedroom as a hobby. go back a bit further and you needed a prohibtively expensive studio to write EDM. although if you were good you could write it on a modest setup, back when i used to listen to old prodigy, it wasnt really obvious how these songs were made and i never thought of it as feisible. i only began to think it was feisibly possible for me to write electronic music when i got a copy of floops and vanguard. we now know of quite a few people that write cracking good tracks in their bedroom using all software. so now its become affordable and easier than ever to get into, its only natural that more people will give it ago. |
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| sooper |
Please note: I am not calling Producing trendy, a new fad.
I'm making fun of the guy that did!! :D |
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| Lombardo |
I think djing is the new fad! Everyone in my town wants to be a dj. Im glad I am just producing.
I have been in some for of music for along time. I started out playing bass guitar in a heavy metal band when I was 13. Electronic music just won my heart.
Anyway, I hope producing is the new fad for some people. It just means its gonna be around that much longer. |
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| ZxZDeViLZxZ |
i just read that thread and lmfao... ya know whats funny is i dont accutally know many people that produce but the number of people i know that claim to be djs and suck major horse at it is staggering.... about 5 years ago the dj fad tookoff down in houston and it just never stoped everyone was a dj reguardless of what skill leval or what they had. aslong as they had a mixer and some sort of turntable they called themselfs a dj. it was really funny allways meeting people taht were like ohh yeah i spin and their friends are like yea hes ing awesome and all this other but then youd listen to their latest mix cd and nothing was on beat everything was cut doing ambient mixes to spare themselfs the embarassment of having beats hitting at wrong times....
but yeah it appears theres a growing number of amature producers and most of themw ill use a program a few times and then never use it again and yet still say they produce.... me personally ive been trying to learn many aspecst of sound engineering and production and over the past few years havent even gotten close to getting near good enough to even really feel good about tracks i do... but i feel alot of this has to do with the fact that ive been into edm music for such a long time taht my standards are good are way over the top. plus the fact that ill make a track that i think is decent and everyone will be like ohhh my this sucks but then ill make a track that i think is half assed and everyones like omfg this is amazing you gotta finsh this. for example i have 2 tracks im working on currently both sent to the same people and i am constantly getting mixed results ones a more progressively housed track with lots of fm synths and heavyier basslines and so on and lots of emphesis on the constant percussion change. lots of people like this track becuase its not the norm for as far as whats being put out and say the sounds in it are amazing. but for my tranced up track theres lots of supersaws arps heavy percussion builds and long epic builds, and a few people consider this track to be good but not nearly as many that consider my more progressivly housey track to be good....
so what im trying to get at is its a fad indeed but its a fad that unless you can constantly improove yourself youll never get anywhere and without a vast number of opionated reviewers you wont be able to grow. letting on group of people base their opion on one track isnt enough in my opion a track should be seen great by many groups of people that draw differnt opions of what they think a track should sound like..... if any of you are curious as to the two tracks im talking about ill post both for direct download....... but i forwarn you i think they both suck major but hey my opion is probly gonna be harder on myself but ohh well. |
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| onceler |
| While I dont believe it is a fad and am in agreement with the posts above... production is the next logical step after you get good at djing. just like making your own music on guitar is the next logical step after you learn the basics and get good enough to sound good. |
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| Derivative |
tbh its the same with anyone who picks up any instrument. you pick up a guitar for a couple of months you call yourself a guitarist, albeit not a very experienced one. i have no objection to people calling themselves DJs despite not having spun records for that long. ive noticed many of the DJs i know are becoming interested in production but i think most of them are juggling too many work commitments to really sit down and learn the ropes. as onceler says, it is just a logical progression from picking up any instrument. you want to push it further, write your own songs on it and see how far you can take it. the number of producers in southampton that i know through the uni are still in a massive minority. theres barely any, and that includes those people who warezed a copy of reason a couple of weeks before.
even then, i would say that theres not enough good dance DJs about, so i appreciate the influx of people getting seriously into DJing through communities like this (as long as they promise to kick off in southampton sometime and offset the cheese majority around here :eek: ) |
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| mef |
| quote: | Originally posted by Derivative
tbh its the same with anyone who picks up any instrument. you pick up a guitar for a couple of months you call yourself a guitarist, albeit not a very experienced one. i have no objection to people calling themselves DJs despite not having spun records for that long. ive noticed many of the DJs i know are becoming interested in production but i think most of them are juggling too many work commitments to really sit down and learn the ropes. as onceler says, it is just a logical progression from picking up any instrument. you want to push it further, write your own songs on it and see how far you can take it. the number of producers in southampton that i know through the uni are still in a massive minority. theres barely any, and that includes those people who warezed a copy of reason a couple of weeks before.
even then, i would say that theres not enough good dance DJs about, so i appreciate the influx of people getting seriously into DJing through communities like this (as long as they promise to kick off in southampton sometime and offset the cheese majority around here :eek: ) |
Its getting there matey! ;) Only a matter of time! :D
There are actually a few good producers in uni. Stu Cox just got one of his tunes played by John Askew and he said he loved it. Thats quite cool. Lucky Bastard imo. :rolleyes: |
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| Derivative |
| yea. olli perrez is signed to nukleuz. i think hes one of the organisers of the dj society round here. hes all software aswell and a floops user. |
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| mef |
| Yeah. U ever go to DJSoc meetings? You dont have to be a DJ y'know ;) Come to the Bridge on Monday.:D |
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| meDina |
| Personally i think its just way too easy to produce decent electronica nowadays.. Pirated software is too easy to obtain and it gives anyone with a basic knowledge of music alot of power |
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