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I usually don't get SHIT done after the initial high. About 20 minutes (to one hour) afterwords then it's no different than normal for me (no better or worse).

Now, drinking is a different story.. unlike mixing records (i can drink 12 new castles and still mix records good as new). After 5-6 drinks, my production starts slowly going downhill .. but like weed, it's decreasing at a fast rate.

guess i'm getting old...

dannyk wrote:

ishimaru wrote:
Or Martin Hannett .. the only bonified genius in this story.

yes, yes he is. i think if any one person defined what it is to 'produce' as opposed to just 'record' then its him. certainly as regards contemporary electronic music. My hero. Apart from the massive heroin use, huge weight gain and untimely death obviously...

He lost control again. heh.

That is sad. The drum sounds he was responsible for making happen had a huge influence on me in my teen years. Imagine what he would be doing now.

so, when do you graduate from "high" school?

pretty juvenile thread and sig, mate.
guess that's why i'm posting, huh?
yes i like marijuana
but it doesn't make creating music better

d

Quit drugs many years ago. Strange thing happens to me though, after a few drinks I'll come home and put on a track I've made and it sounds faster or too fast - maybe the achohol slows your hearing too.

dm wrote:sober making tracks, not so sober listening to them once theyre made.

This is the magic formula.

I'm a total pothead , but when Ableton's running , I'm to occupied to light my joint so it lies by my side for hours while I stay sober.

What's worse is that I also forget to eat or drink while Ableton's running.

DJ-Kaya wrote:I was wonder if you get hign before you produce

Produce? Too many folks these days calling themselves 'producers' for my liking...a brilliant engineer I once worked with defined producers, the highly paid kind I might add, as 'those who would piss in your work and tell you it tastes better'

In answer to your ganja related query - tho' it might help the 'creative' impetus during songwriting, due to the massively increased 'boredom threshold', it does not help during serious tracking and mixing as it does mess with your hearing. Then again it isn't nearly as bad as nitrous - which turns pretty much every sound into an almost perfect emulation of a Electric Mistress pedal

Never smoked anything in my whole 32-year old life. I'll have a Newcastle or a Bacardi and soda every now and then, though. But what really gets my creativity going is when my studio has just been cleaned. When all the mess is gone and it feels airy and light. Then I can sit for hours twiddling away...

Cheers,
Mikael

forge wrote:"the thing about hashish is it makes you very creative but it also makes it nearly impossible to profit from your art."

The thing about smoking weed is, its an exclusive club.

Buddy Rich was one of the biggest supportters of legalization, so I dont think it prevents profit, or talent...

but apparently this generations drug is meth...

good riddance to a bad generation.

Weed smokers shall inherit the earth.

mr-e wrote:I'm a total pothead , but when Ableton's running , I'm to occupied to light my joint so it lies by my side for hours while I stay sober.

What's worse is that I also forget to eat or drink while Ableton's running.

I know this too.
Even roll them is distracting from the music, so I'll roll one later.

Sometimes stoned, sometimes not. Often, when I get back from work on a weekday, after some food i'll sit in my studio till about 11 or something and then maybe roll a lil zoogy, both to lose myself in the music and to calm the nerves after work-related stress ... then stay up till 1 or 2 messing with sounds or a track before I pass out. I try and do the boring stuff when sober, or fine detailed eq'ing etc. Being stoned can help the imagination, like hearing possibilities. The danger is that you might hear what could be there over what is actually there, and not actually manifest it. On the weekends I like to spend a good sober day working on stuff, these are often my most productive times.

kennerb wrote: If your sound is wack when your head is in it's default state what makes you think your going to create gems when your blunted?

what about the situation when blunted is your default state?

robin wrote:

kennerb wrote: If your sound is wack when your head is in it's default state what makes you think your going to create gems when your blunted?

what about the situation when blunted is your default state?

Who told you that about me?

They were making it all up a say

Good point though. I guess I'd probably say that they weren't doing it to be creative as it was no different than any other waking moment.

kennerb wrote:

robin wrote:

kennerb wrote: If your sound is wack when your head is in it's default state what makes you think your going to create gems when your blunted?

what about the situation when blunted is your default state?

Who told you that about me?

They were making it all up a say

Good point though. I guess I'd probably say that they weren't doing it to be creative as it was no different than any other waking moment.

yeah i guess it can get like that.

for improvising on the keys, stoned is nice. but when composing on the computer everything seems like too much effort after a smoke - thats when i normally turn to this forum.