Comments on: How To Finish Tracks: 10 Music Production Workflow Secrets

By: PeterC

PeterC — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 22:00:16 +0000

Thoughtful article - thanks. I really liked your track, nicely put together - it sounds like you followed your own rules

By: Disappointed Procrastinator

Disappointed Procrastinator — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 06:12:36 +0000

In reply to Poofox.

Well, that was disappointing. All seemed well until someone noticed that one of the posters/artist’s YouTube channel logo alluded to addictive drugs and decided that freedom of artistic expression should only be free up until the point that they specifically get offended. Then they wouldn’t let it go. Then the thread was abruptly closed.

By: Division One

Division One — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 06:17:25 +0000

In reply to Nwabe. Poland but you might know me from DI.FM progressive channel :)

By: Pacmusik

Pacmusik — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 15:52:51 +0000

Thanks Rutger, very good article and very useful for those of us who are in the same situation. In my case I find it difficult to put together the structure of the complete song. I have thousands of projects with several tracks but no more than 16 bars … But the big problem is as you say, not stopping to install new plugins! impossible to fully understand the operation of one of them in particular!
Thanos!

By: Rutger Steenbergen

Rutger Steenbergen — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:36:45 +0000

In reply to Nick. My pleasure. And there will be a new article on BPB soon, this time about mixing.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:31:20 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to share your insight and experience. Inspirational

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:06:13 +0000

For me it is the publishing process.
After 17K on student loan on Nusic Production program I still dont know how to mange publishing rights and all that :O

By: Rutger Steenbergen

Rutger Steenbergen — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:20:18 +0000

In reply to HPN. Thank for your response. And I agree with you, also in the Netherlands it's more and more about being the best. And then what? Fortunately I'm only judging myself. So that's why I decided to be a little less hard for myself. It doesn't have to be perfect and it never will be. Since then, I finish great (and almost perfect ) tracks.

By: Rutger Steenbergen

Rutger Steenbergen — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:15:35 +0000

In reply to PureFire. I made some nice tracks with just a Roland MC-303. If that's all you have, you force yourself to be creative. And I didn't have internet on my pc back then. That was also a blessing

By: Nwabe

Nwabe — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 04:07:23 +0000

In reply to Division One. Interesting! Where you are from Division One?

By: PureFire

PureFire — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:37:43 +0000

In reply to Rutger Steenbergen. Your welcome Rutger, It's so true what you say though. I used to use two tape decks at home, before i could afford a 4 track recorder . I would record my music onto tape 1, then afterwards play it back while recording more music over the top of the original music using tape deck 2. Then after this, i would use a new tape & use the pause button to record sections from tape 2 onto the new tape. I used the sections which i needed from the second tape to build the length & eventually create a little song from it all The sound quality was not that good after more than two layers, but it was something from nothing, just using my DJ mixer (PHONIC MRT 60), to route the tapes through. Those were the days lol. a really good example of what you said though, would be the man who plays the drums using buckets on the streets, which sounds awesome, instead of a rich kid trying to play on an expensive drum kit Kind regards

By: HPN

HPN — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:53:29 +0000

Those words are definitely the most heartfelt advice you will ever find on the internet. When the modern trend is highly filled with judge-mentalists/haters, your subconscious always has that high expectation for yourself.

More than gears or plug-ins, the main road blocks are actually within us. Not knowingly we tend to live under the fear of failing due to our schooling systems. We always learn to judge and ace too much until we forgot how to enjoy the process or the result. This is what we really need to improve on more than anything. The struggle is real and we are all in this together more or less.

Thank you so much for writing this despite your vulnerability.