michaelhigh
New member
I'm my own worst critic (believe me, it has to be this way, regardless), and it took me years to learn when and where to bail on a take. The NANOsecond I'm off pitch with a vocal I can feel it in my head, I don't even have to hear it with my ears on the exterior. When my drumming lacks articulation it's take (fill in the blank). And when my bass line doesn't synch (and I don't quantize) it's redo time. A ProTools producer/engineer once told me that you can chop your ass off, if the part you're chopping sucks you're fucked.
All this is to explain that you can be a good self-production team if you can kick your own ass on a regular basis, like 40 or 50 times in a three-hour session. Go ahead. There might be a sting after the kick, but the feeling of a near-perfect and acceptible take is the reward, especially if it can draw the right kind of attention.
All this is to explain that you can be a good self-production team if you can kick your own ass on a regular basis, like 40 or 50 times in a three-hour session. Go ahead. There might be a sting after the kick, but the feeling of a near-perfect and acceptible take is the reward, especially if it can draw the right kind of attention.