Hi everyone. First time posting, but have been following the community for several years. Been at the production thing for around five years now. Still learning, still having fun, and still inching my way closer to my musical goals.
Specific, technical advice aside, the single thing which has helped me the most is understanding how best to allocate time and attention.
I wasted hours at a time tweaking perfectly good drum samples only to end up denuding their impact through misguided tinkering.
I needless obsessesed over my inability to seamlessly integrate my aucoustic guitar playing into my electronic tracks until I realized that it was the shoddy recordings, not my production skill that was ireeedemable.
And so on. Try to remember that good samples probably don’t need much processing and bad samples may never yeild usable results despite processing. Don’t gild the lily. Don’t polish the turd.
Thoughts? Anyone else have some pithy production aphorisms?
Submitted March 26, 2018 at 05:07PM by richard_golbes https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/87c8df/gilding_lilies_and_polishing_turds/?utm_source=ifttt