Do any of you get completely pissed off with recording?

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yeah i get frustrated a lot, but then i look back at the hours I just spent and concluded that it was time well spent.
 
Pitseleh said:
yeah i get frustrated a lot, but then i look back at the hours I just spent and concluded that it was time well spent.
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A lot of times I will look back and regret wasting all the hours I spent mixing a piece of crap.
 
I get pissed with not recording. One of my monitors is busted at the moment meaning I can't do an awful lot in the way of mixing. And fuck knows when I can afford to either get it fixed or replace the set.

I never really get pissed off with recording or mixing or whatever. It can start to drain me I guess at times. At which point I just down tools and go do something else until I get the urge to go back to it.
 
legionserial said:
I get pissed with not recording. One of my monitors is busted at the moment meaning I can't do an awful lot in the way of mixing. And fuck knows when I can afford to either get it fixed or replace the set.

I never really get pissed off with recording or mixing or whatever. It can start to drain me I guess at times. At which point I just down tools and go do something else until I get the urge to go back to it.
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You could mix it in mono, then check your panning with 'phones until you get your proper monitor setup back! Just a thought :)
 
Ironklad Audio said:
eh...i just get pissed when my computer is screwed up

for instance, i have song i'm working on right now that has a corrupt session file. when recording overdubs, it won't give me a pre-count in. it also crashes my DAW if i try to import or export tracks from the session, and now it won't even let me move anything within a track.

talk about frustrating.
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I have one session that I started way back in logic 6, and decided to put on an album now. needed lots of updating and all the guitar tracks and shit put on it. Every time I try to record midi with Battery2 to update some of he drum sounds, it crashes....only on this song, not a single other session has that problem. Now I'm going to have to a. convert the sample library to ultrabeat or exs24, or regen the entire session. now THAT pisses me off.
 
AMTA said:
Most of it is just frustration. I only get to record maybe a few times in a week, so time is limited. Sometimes when I do have the time and the house is cleared out, I just plain don't feel like recording, and that is frustrating in its own way.

Then there are times where I go to record a guitar or vocal part, and think it sounds great that day, and then the next day it sounds like total ass to my ears. Then I have to go through the process of rerecording the stuff, and possibly do it a third time if it happens again.

Lately a lot of the frustration is due to the state of my guitar right now. I don't have money for strings, and the strings that are on it are old as hell. It really messes with the innotation. So between every take on this latest track, I've been tuning up, and tuning up, and tuning up, etc.

The tracks I'm recording now require use of a capo, and innotation problems + capo = hell for staying in tune. I'm still a noob on the recording thing, so there's a lot of noob problems I have as well. Even though I know these things, it's easy to forget since it's not really "routine" at this point. Case and point being in the song I'm recording, I recorded the distortion guitar with too much gain and mids, so I have to go back and redo that.

Ugh....
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I have a bit of that problem atm. The people have a 4 year old upstairs and he goes to bed of course at an ungodly early hour, his bedroom is right above my studio room, aparently...so that introduces a lot of time restraints and frustrations...esp if I'm working most of the day...leaves me an absolute minute window of time...it's enough to make me want to move.
 
Yonce N Mild said:
I get frustrated sometimes when I put lots of work in and the finished product doesn't turn out like I want it to. When I feel like I'll never get good at this recording thing I just go back and listen to my old tracks and it becomes pretty obvious how much progress I have made.

Lately though I'm running into the law of diminishing returns. Going from total crap recording/mixes to passable demo was fairly easy. Getting from passable demo to "pro" sounding is proving to be much more difficult.

Sometimes I just need a break. It's like my brain gets tired. If I'm hitting it pretty hard at work and school I find I don't have the mental energy to work in the studio.
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you'll do fine, it takes a long time to get a feel for. Just keep at it and you'll see improvements over time.
 
Yes I regularly get pissed off, the gear has become the end rather than the means. You'd need about three lifetimes to explore it all.
If you're a musician first and a studio engineer second it can be very frustrating.
Loads of musos struggle with the technical shit cos it stifles creativity.
I come in that category, constantly having to try and visualise what's going on between all the bits - computer, software, mixer etc. etc.
Usually I remember it long enough to get the job done only to forget the next day.
Or is it just me?
 
TerraMortim said:
I have a bit of that problem atm. The people have a 4 year old upstairs and he goes to bed of course at an ungodly early hour, his bedroom is right above my studio room, aparently...so that introduces a lot of time restraints and frustrations...esp if I'm working most of the day...leaves me an absolute minute window of time...it's enough to make me want to move.
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This sounds like the real source of your frustration especially seeing how you identify them, "the people". It would drive me nuts to live under that restriction. It's like ok, it's junior beddy time, back in your cage. Grrrrrr...
 
TerraMortim said:
I have a bit of that problem atm. The people have a 4 year old upstairs and he goes to bed of course at an ungodly early hour, his bedroom is right above my studio room, aparently...so that introduces a lot of time restraints and frustrations...esp if I'm working most of the day...leaves me an absolute minute window of time...it's enough to make me want to move.
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I feel sorry for folks in the apartment/condo/roomate situations.

I will say though that the kid probably doesn't care - it's his folks. I have small children and they will sleep through anything. I mix well into the night and my kids never notice.
 
yeah that could be the problem. It's making me about foam at the mouth every day. The thing is, I really like this suite...very large, nice, newly renovated, quiet neighborhood. I have an album's worth of material to finish by next month and because of this crap it's not going anywhere fast. It really blows being in a shared housing situation like this... Just can't afford something that isn't connected to anybody. Vancouver is HORRIBLE for that, paying almost $1000 a month for this place and it's a "good deal" cheapest houses here are like $1200 a month (if they're in low class areas) up to more money than I can imagine throwing away to a landlord, buying houses is pretty much an impossibility for a vast majority of people, only baby boomers can afford those. Bloody olympics lol.


The kid doesn't care, is absolutely correct. He's actually a cool little kid, he told me when he was in the front yard one time, hey I heard dat music you do... cool dude cool dude. Dat music good! He told me he likes the booms (lol) The last time I had someone over doing guitars at about 8pm (someone who is actually pretty hard to get rounded up to get in to do tracks...arg), knock knock knock on the front door... our kid is trying to sleep and he can't with the loud noise, can you move it into another room? oh yeah... I'm going to dismantle the entire room, computer, monitors, my outboard gear, take down all of the acoustic treatment etc, and set it all ..so we turned the volume way down...keep in mind we were recording guitar direct, so it wasn't that loud in the first place...and then it's so fucking quiet we can't even get in the zone to get some shit down (was a bit of a heavy, very Ministry, like song), so we just gave up, and I still have yet to get the bloody guitars on that song. I do have to say that sometimes I rebell, wait for a few hours and then go in there to mix..these people go to bed at the time of 2 year olds lol, even the grown people. I don't think anyone can hear it when I do that...just don't want to push my luck, cause when it gets too late they COULD call the cops on me.

It's not like I go complaining when their kid throws a fit and kicks his feet against the floor, which echos throughout our suite (we have all hardwood, and stone floors...lovely for every other reason but that).

I miss when I had an my own suite at a commercial studio, those were the days.
 
My main frustration is me.
It's taken me 10 years to realize that a guitar stand to the right of the recording station means I can put the thing down safely while I deal with a faulty lead etc & then I don't label the faulty lead & try to use it next time - it's ME!
 
not for me, most of my stuff is usually for me, from the tracking to mixing, it's just for personal knowledge, so nah i don't get tired of myself, especially with me being the peoples champ!!!!! :D
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
You mean like after 8 hours of tracking, they still say that their piano (or guitar or drums or triangle) still doesn't sound right, and when you ask them how or why it doesn't sound right, all they can tell you is "I don't know, it still just sounds a bit 'ootzy'. It's too green and needs more hair on the ankles, ya know. Got another beer?"

It's times like that when I'm glad I don't keep loaded weapons in the rack. :rolleyes:

G.
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That's when you can appreciate the talent/chutzpah of people like David Gates/Todd Rundgren/Paul McCartney/Leon Russell who simply do everything themselves instead of wasting time stroking the massive egos of lesser talents.
 
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