It's been a year now since I started to learn how to produce electronic music. Not a long time, I know, but the struggle is real all the same. I've acquired so much knowledge but much less experience, because I don't handle incompetence well and so I've occupied myself primarily with learning how things work.
An ongoing thorn in my side has been settling on a synthesizer. I have nothing against presets, but my personal preference is to be the creator of my own sounds. Unfortunately, I always find reasons to conclude, "this synth isn't the right one for me". I've learned how to use 7 different synthesizers, but once I get to the point where I know my way around a synth and now it's on me to make something happen, I lose faith and start thinking that the synthesizer is too limited, too complex, too clunky to use, too demanding on the CPU, the UI doesn't scale big enough... blah blah blah.
This "not good enough" attitude permeates all aspects of my music production. I'm always bombarded by concerns like:
- My monitors are too hissy
- My sample library is crap
- I have too many samples
- I don't have enough samples
- My samples are too disorganized
- My room needs acoustic treatment
- When I get those $1,000 headphones things will improve
How do you overcome this attitude and just get on with it? How do you accept that what you're making sounds like trash to your ear, but finish making it nonetheless? How do you just make do with what you have and actually enjoy what you're doing?
Submitted January 01, 2018 at 11:17PM by Peter_RF https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7njfmp/ive_been_at_it_for_a_year_now_need_some_wisdom/?utm_source=ifttt