Long story short, I've been using music as a hobby for over 10 years, I'm 32 and you know, I don't consider myself successful at all in life. I had tons of health issues in my 20's which kept me from advancing in life. I make decent money right now but I hate my job and it's not sustainable. I haven't had a serious relationship in over 10 years. I've dated girls here and there but nothing serious.
Anyways, I spend ALOT of time producing. I'm taking like 4-5 hours a day and that's when im working full time. This week I'm on vacation and im planning on spending a solid 7-8 hours a day producing.
Except for the runners high I get a the gym, nothing comes close to finding that perfect acapella to throw on your track. It seriously gives me a rush like no other.
I also don't have many friends anymore, in your 30's, all your friends start spending time with their spouses and kids and you're left alone on weekends to do whatever.
In December, I had just lost my previous job and I decided (with immense regret) to sell my studio equipment, this included two JBL LSR308, two 27 inch led monitors, audio card, midi keyboard. stands, and my license to Reason 8.
BIGGEST REGRET OF MY LIFE.
Honestly, within about a week I started getting depressed. At first it slowly crept up on me but I quickly realized that I had just let go of the one thing in life that made me truly happy, producing music. December, January and Feb were the worst months of my life mentally. I really REALLY wasn't doing well. Tons of anxiety from not knowing what to do with my life and so on.
I quickly realized that my lack of being able to make music drastically affected me and as of right now I can't afford to buy a whole new setup like the one I had:https://i.redd.it/dfq5x1ycaunz.jpg ...This is my setup now:https://imgur.com/a/QyFtF and frankly, I don't even give a shit. I just wish I had better speakers for the single purpose of mixing. I've always been told that my mix downs are fucking great so I need to get better monitors ASAP. And the dual screens help so much with the workflow.
So now I just have my old m audio keyboard filled with coffee stains and my old ass computer speakers that suck tremendous balls, but guess what. My mental health has improved so much since these last two weeks that I've started producing again. I even bought Reason 9.5 (had R8 before) and the program is just so fucking amazing.
TL:DR: Don't take this hobby for granted guys, we're a special breed of people and we are extremely lucky to have fallen into this hobby either by chance or on purpose. And most of us probably don't realize that making music is what is keeping us sane.
Submitted March 08, 2018 at 03:05PM by willdill https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/82zjbn/i_think_music_saved_my_life/?utm_source=ifttt