Does anybody else hate everything they produce?

[Cacoph0ny]

Is it just me or are you never happy with a mix no matter what? I'm convinced that as long as I make it I will hate it no matter ho good it sounds Is there any way to make myself cut this out? It prevents from any progress. I need to low my expectations I guess.

 

[professorlamp]

Well I know your pain, I think pretty much everyone here does, and it's a good thing because whoever is exactly where they want to be can't progress any further. Aslong as you're striving for more you're always gonna get more, so keep hating

 

[Melodeath]

I'm beyond satisfied with my own band's stuff that I recorded. Other than that, I hate all my other mixes haha

 

[iHate]

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Edison

 

[AudioPhile777]

Does anybody else hate everything they produce?

No. Absolutely not.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Edison

This is win. And true.

 

[visceral]

Pretty much.

This is why you should never produce your own band.

 

[Morgan C]

Every time I think I'm perfectly happy with a mix, I'll come back a month later and find a whole ton of things wrong with it. Even Sneap says he can't stand listening to his own mixes for a long while afterward.

 

[abt]

Well I know your pain, I think pretty much everyone here does, and it's a good thing because whoever is exactly where they want to be can't progress any further. Aslong as you're striving for more you're always gonna get more, so keep hating

+1 Pretty much sums it up perfectly for me.

 

[BLUElightCory]

Every time I think I'm perfectly happy with a mix, I'll come back a month later and find a whole ton of things wrong with it. Even Sneap says he can't stand listening to his own mixes for a long while afterward.

This sums me up as well.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

This sums me up as well.

Add me to the list. I'm often stoked on a mix I'm working on but when I come back to it after a month or so, I hate it. I can still objectively judge whether or not I did a good job considering the circumstances, but I still won't like it.

Well, as long as the band is stoked, everything's ok.

 

[sys_fail_you]

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Edison

show me something Edison didn't steal and I'll show you Tesla's superior counterpart. -sys_fail_you

 

[abt]

show me something Edison didn't steal and I'll show you Tesla's superior counterpart. -sys_fail_you

Another valuable contribution to our forum. sys_you_fail

 

[Seth Munson]

I love all my productions, because they are progressively getting better and better.

and if it werent for me previous, not so great ones, I wouldnt be where I am today.

 

[sys_fail_you]

Another valuable contribution to our forum. sys_you_fail

my bad. i thought it was relevant to question the integrity of a person being quoted, especially in the context of inspiration among aspiring and established audio engineers...

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Does anybody else hate everything they produce?

No quite the contrary I like what I produce a lot.

Now if you asked if I like everything I mix?

Fuck no.

 

[abt]

my bad. i thought it was relevant to question the integrity of a person being quoted, especially in the context of inspiration among aspiring and established audio engineers...

Ah, you're alright.

No quite the contrary I like what I produce a lot.

Now if you asked if I like everything I mix?

Fuck no.

I see what you did there...

 

[MetalSound]

i´m nearly always satisfied with last mix i did......and then comes the next one and i´m not happy with the old one but i´m satifisfied with the last mix.....and then comes the next one and i´m not happy with the old one........

 

[-Loco-]

I'm the same. The reason my band haven't done much is because i've taken so much time to try and gather 'the sound' that i want for the tracks we do. It mostly seems to be guitar tone that's dragging it down. I hate playing one tone and being like 'fuck, this is massive' play it a few days later and i'm like...'what the fuck was I thinking?!'. Things are looking up now though. If you have time do it in bits and keep backing to it with long breaks in between, i've been trying it for 2 years now.

 

[sys_fail_you]

I'm the same. The reason my band haven't done much is because i've taken so much time to try and gather 'the sound' that i want for the tracks we do. It mostly seems to be guitar tone that's dragging it down. I hate playing one tone and being like 'fuck, this is massive' play it a few days later and i'm like...'what the fuck was I thinking?!'. Things are looking up now though. If you have time do it in bits and keep backing to it with long breaks in between, i've been trying it for 2 years now.

i know your pain. i went through heads, guitars, pedals, strings, pickups, cabinets, mics, etc. i settled on a 20th ann. rg550 through a rivera head w/ a bogner OS cab only to never nail what i "heard" in my mind. it took me a while to realize that i had gone over it many times, but the bass tone was wrong for it. i borrowed my bass player's rig for a weekend and sure enough, once i had captured his tone accurately, the whole mix fell into place effortlessly.

 

[Harry Hughes]

I'm the same. The reason my band haven't done much is because i've taken so much time to try and gather 'the sound' that i want for the tracks we do. It mostly seems to be guitar tone that's dragging it down. I hate playing one tone and being like 'fuck, this is massive' play it a few days later and i'm like...'what the fuck was I thinking?!'. Things are looking up now though. If you have time do it in bits and keep backing to it with long breaks in between, i've been trying it for 2 years now.

Sounds like you need to spend more time referencing rather than trying to get that "tone" blind