How long to make a track ?

kujoma · Post by **kujoma** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:37 am

A Track is NEVER ready

Depends between sometimes 3-4 houres (without mixdown) just with soundcreating maybe 1-2 houre for the beats and the most time for the arangement. Most tracks are about 2-3 days. Some about months. Realy depends on my mood. I got (as all of you i guess) tons of unfinished ideas.

AVX23 · Post by **AVX23** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:48 am

I normally write an EP in one or 2 days, I like writing in bulk, and throwing things down live, then reworking them quickly into tracks.

Once all the tracks are structuraly correct and sounding the way I want - I edit them a little and do all the post production in one sitting.

Not always, but I like it when this happens - keeps things consistent, and gives the EP's a bit of a flow.

I like to keep it quick, anything which is a pain or not working gets binned - I'm quite brutal that way

The aim is to get it out instinctively and from the heart without any delay, sometimes when you think about things too much - it can be constrictive I find - I want to hear the music in my head, as undiluted as possible.

This is for techno/minimal - for soundrack stuff it tends to take longer.

According to the spraff on the Jeff Mills site - The Bells was produced in a matter of hours - probably banged it out when he got home from the pub

heh heh

William Tech · Post by **William Tech** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:33 am

That depends on a lot of circumstances. Some times it's 3 hours on one day, and then 1 our the other day (fresh ears

) to finish it up. The best is to do this in the morning i suppose, somehow i'm best when i'm just out of bed

but hey, somehow some others tracks take me weeks to finish, and most of the time i'm not even remotely satisfied with it. The longer i take to find the sound i like, the most likely it is i'm not going to find it

And when i find it afterall, i lost the inspiration in the process and can't do anything proper with it. Producing sucks

heheehe

Ronny Pries · Post by **Ronny Pries** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:39 am

something between 30 minutes like these http://www.thinner.cc/releases.php?r=thn035 and up to days for few of these http://www.realaudio.ch/tec/ratc009.html. unfortunately, most of the tracks i start don't go anywhere

steevio · Post by **steevio** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:48 pm

normally from one to three weeks, but i record live, so i may get 3 entirely different useable versions in that time. and i spend alot of time on production quality / mastering so that nothing needs to be done at the cut.

but the best stuff ive ever written, and the stuff which stands the test of time, was usually written and recorded in an afternoon.