Music Production in General

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Hi guys,
I'm doing a research on music production and I though that might be a good topic to discuss here.
Maybe we could help each other finding a solution to our problems :)

I only have one question:
what is the most annoying thing (that gives you pain) related to music production?

For example:
For me was always difficult to do collaborations. It's so annoying that you need to export your project, save everything as audio files. and sometimes people doesn't work with the same DAW so it's a bigger problem.
I found the solution to this problem with splice.com
Or another example: it is really hard to achieve the result I can hear in my head.

I hope this will be a nice topic to discuss

Cheers!
 
Hey, Deej! Can I call ya deej? Topic runs a bit broad, everyone has their pet peeves, and their tirades. To some, it's being asked personal questions about what bugs them. :laughings:
Seriously, Deej, That's a great site your promoting there, but home recording is mostly done on free (audacity, LMMS, etc) or inexpensive (Reason, Studio One, reaper, etc.) DAWs. They're gonna need to broaden their scope.
One of my biggest gripes is trying to record everything in a 10x12.5 room. Guitars, bass, amps, piano, mike stands, drum set all crammed into a little bitty room with two doors and a ton of sound damping. Only thing I can recommend for people in my boat is get really organized. I tried, but I hung four mike cables on four different walls in the middle of the walls. Came back the next day to find one ball of cable in the middle of the floor...:eek:
 
Space and time. Too much stuff in too small a space (like Broken) and not enough time in the day to do all I want.
 
I want to change my vote to cables. I want to get a government grant to find out how four cables laid straight side by side can inexorably tangle themselves together, and don't, I repeat DON'T add a guitar stand into that mix!!! I pulled three well coiled cables out of my cable box (a milk crate) yesterday, unwound them laid them on the floor and went to make a sandwich. When I came back they were in knots and all tangled up in my guitar stand. It was a horror show.
 
BroKen_H said:
I want to change my vote to cables. I want to get a government grant to find out how four cables laid straight side by side can inexorably tangle themselves together, and don't, I repeat DON'T add a guitar stand into that mix!!! I pulled three well coiled cables out of my cable box (a milk crate) yesterday, unwound them laid them on the floor and went to make a sandwich. When I came back they were in knots and all tangled up in my guitar stand. It was a horror show.
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You've got a polterfeist! Move! Now!
 
BroKen_H said:
When I came back they were in knots and all tangled up in my guitar stand.
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It's their mating ritual.

I don't really have a reoccurring pet peeve....but there's always some element of love/hate going on within the whole process.
I've learned to just push on when something goes off-track, and usually it comes back on track.

It is a constant labor of love.
The other day I was tracking...well, trying to...and it was getting late, like 10-11PM...and even though I'm a night bird, it was just one of those "I'm so not in the mood" nights....but I knew I had to get work done so I can continue with the production.
So, a short snack break, and I came back and figured to give it one last try for the night.
Ended up tracking until 2:00AM, and the good stuff didn't start to happen until 1:00AM.

There's always something trying to interrupt your workflow...be it a bad cable, or the sound of the guitar, or what have you...but you just have to keep at it.
 
deejay_santiago said:
I only have one question:
what is the most annoying thing (that gives you pain) related to music production?
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For myself, my own stuff, I enjoy the whole process, from rough idea to finished product. The whole thing is a pleasure.

The most annoying thing? Recording other people.
 
I'm with the others before me that talked about space. Pretty much everything has to be brought out............set up........moved to fit and sound right.........put away and re-organized to fit where I store it. More space would allow me to set up the desk better.........the monitoring situation better and on and on. To say nothing about when I have another musician in to work with me. Geeeez...........
 
The most annoying thing: Retakes. And you would think with ALL the retakes I do, I would be used to it by now.... :(
 
The worst part for me, I think, really is file management, backups, archives, version control, etc. I just don't have the discipline. You'd think that after 25 years and the loss of several albums to hard drive failure and/or lost master tapes I'd have figured something out, but...
 
ashcat_lt said:
The worst part for me, I think, really is file management, backups, archives, version control, etc. I just don't have the discipline. You'd think that after 25 years and the loss of several albums to hard drive failure and/or lost master tapes I'd have figured something out, but...
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I second that one.

I recently just lost 3 recent projects that I will need to re record for free. 5 years worth of projects as well. I now backup to a cloud service every night so that won't happen again. Unless a terrorist blows up Carbonite's memory storage...
 
Carbonite looks pretty good if it's really unlimited for $60 a month, but I avoid connecting my studio machine to the internet at all. How do you work that?
 
Well, I myself have internet connected to my recording PC for only Ilok and other software based things. I turn off the LAN connection at all other times. Created shortcut for that so it is easy. Now I enable the connection after recording for backup purposes.

The next level up plan from the $60 one allows you to backup an external drive. The one I subscribe to is the personal plus one for $99 a year. I assume you could just set up backup for that drive from another computer and swap cables between computers to save the data.

Oh, and that is $60 a 'year' for the home plan. Not per month. :)
 
jimmys69 said:
Oh, and that is $60 a 'year' for the home plan. Not per month. :)
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Errr...yeah...that's what I meant...:drunk:

$5/month I can do. $60/month is out of the question for an endeavor that is already way in the red!
 
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