how do you quality control your tracks?

my problem is that i just constantly think the stuff I produce is shite.

Im listening right now to the ideas that I busted out last night and it sounds terrible.

BUT

The good thing is that I think I know how I can make it sound better. Patience and a bit more tweaking, before I get sick of the thing and it goes back on the pile....

^See, I'm just the opposite. I tend to like most of my own tracks quite a bit. I can still tell when I've done something terribly bad, but for the most part the kind of music I write is the kind of music I want to listen to.

my sister has never liked a single one of my tracks, i've probably shown her hundreds. shes just like "i don't understand how this makes any sense?".

lol

  On 2/10/2010 at 5:07 AM, Bubba69 said:

my sister has never liked a single one of my tracks, i've probably shown her hundreds. shes just like "i don't understand how this makes any sense?".

I like that.

  On 2/10/2010 at 10:35 PM, Otto Krat said:

  On 2/10/2010 at 5:07 AM, Bubba69 said:

my sister has never liked a single one of my tracks, i've probably shown her hundreds. shes just like "i don't understand how this makes any sense?".

 

I like that.

I've given up ever trying to play any of my music to any of my family. My brother and my mother are totally tone deaf, and my father, although he's a musician, too, has an utterly irrational hatred of square waves, and given that most of my music contains synthesised square waves, well, we're never going to see eye to eye.

Play stuff for friends. Do not play it for family.

I like playing tracks for my family, just because they're some of the only people I know who don't really know electronic music that well, so their insight is interesting.

Another good way of quality controlling your tracks is to play them when you're DJing, or if you work at some store play it for the customers. Random people that like/dislike a track will be a lot more inclined to say so when they have no clue that you made the track...

I play it on my car stereo until the bass shakes the windows

  On 2/10/2010 at 10:40 PM, Masonic Boom said:

I've given up ever trying to play any of my music to any of my family. My brother and my mother are totally tone deaf, and my father, although he's a musician, too, has an utterly irrational hatred of square waves, and given that most of my music contains synthesised square waves, well, we're never going to see eye to eye.

 

Play stuff for friends. Do not play it for family.

my dad grew up listening to electronic music, stuff like jarre and kraftwerk. i showed him one of my tracks once and he said it sounded like tangerine dream

Haha, actually one of the few nice things my dad ever said about my music - I sent him an orchestral piece I'd been working on, and he said it reminded me of Yes.

I'm not sure who I'd play my stuff for in real life for criticism. Some people would go on about how great it is, the rest about how weird it is. With the former, I usually suspect they're being polite, with the latter, they don't offer any opinion besides "weird".

i sent my dad some tracks and really didn't get a comment. when i first got into making music my dad was like, "are you doing this to get girls, there's easier ways to do that....

  On 2/15/2010 at 6:16 PM, yek said:

i sent my dad some tracks and really didn't get a comment. when i first got into making music my dad was like, "are you doing this to get girls, there's easier ways to do that....

Haha I burst out laughing at that.

I was surprised, my dad overheard me making one and said he liked it.