Jind
Grrrr!!! (I'm a bear)
- Mar 7, 2009
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Has it ruined my ability to write music?
No
Has it made it more difficult for me to appreciate the music I write?
You betcha!
I'll explain. When I was just writing music and recording it into an old cassette based 4 track, I would finish my composition within a few hours and be extremely pleased with the results. Now however it takes me forever to finish a track - I'm either unhappy with the way it sounds or I keep wanting to adjust this, change that, add just a little more something or another - I just keep futzing with it forever it seems.
I mean hell I used to write with just a simple drum machine that only played pre-programmed drum patterns, now I spend so much time just getting the drums right whereas I used to just lay down a track and play over it - maybe add a doubled part and then a lead. Now it's all about compressors, EQ, impulses, algorithmic reverb vs. convolution reverb, also now I use a lot of midi in my stuff so I'm doing a bunch of programming with VST instruments... It goes on and on.
There are some times when I long for days gone past when music was a simple pleasure. Now my "hobby" has become much more like a job and I already have one of those to occupy the majority of my day. Don't get me wrong - I still love making music, it's just more complicated and as was stated earlier - my appreciation of it is just not "simple" anymore.
No
Has it made it more difficult for me to appreciate the music I write?
You betcha!
I'll explain. When I was just writing music and recording it into an old cassette based 4 track, I would finish my composition within a few hours and be extremely pleased with the results. Now however it takes me forever to finish a track - I'm either unhappy with the way it sounds or I keep wanting to adjust this, change that, add just a little more something or another - I just keep futzing with it forever it seems.
I mean hell I used to write with just a simple drum machine that only played pre-programmed drum patterns, now I spend so much time just getting the drums right whereas I used to just lay down a track and play over it - maybe add a doubled part and then a lead. Now it's all about compressors, EQ, impulses, algorithmic reverb vs. convolution reverb, also now I use a lot of midi in my stuff so I'm doing a bunch of programming with VST instruments... It goes on and on.
There are some times when I long for days gone past when music was a simple pleasure. Now my "hobby" has become much more like a job and I already have one of those to occupy the majority of my day. Don't get me wrong - I still love making music, it's just more complicated and as was stated earlier - my appreciation of it is just not "simple" anymore.