What's up, RMers?
10-08-2022, 05:09 AM
Burn out? WORD! Balance, balance, balance. I've never found the right 'balance' for this kind of stuff and my personal life is nonstop busy. I don't have any problems with any of my projects other than time itself. Bugs? Minimal. Unfinished loose ends, mostly. I have a checklist of planned resources a mile long and am the only one working on it.
I used to hate checklists but they keep me in check. I still hate them, but couldn't live without them.
If you're ever not "burnt out" but find yourself in a very low productivity sludge, I either create, update or tackle a list of simple (but sometimes JUST as important) tasks that could probably be done in ten minutes or less. In even lower productivity slumps, I probe the hell out of the project to see if I can trigger some kind of problem (and subsequently fix it). I've been short on problems lately, as far as "finished" portions of the project go. There is always the sections in the project that are "waiting on parts and labor" but those are usually portions that require more time, energy and concentration.
That's simplifying it a bit. I don't just randomly probe the project, I consciously build a QA checklist and scenario test the hell out of it. Most problems are handled on the spot, some are documented and conquered during what would otherwise be "low productivity sludge" sessions. LPS are always redirected to the QA bug hunt if time is against my pre-planned task, so minimal available time never goes to waste.
In some cases, I'm very much ahead of schedule as I have finished work that I thought wouldn't be done until 2024! In this regard, I couldn't believe how smooth it went. Most months were 100%, a couple were 120% (finished more than planned), and April was 12% (too busy.) Then I have old tasks that have carried over since 2020 which I'm still trying to conquer (fucking battle system.)
Tonight is chill mode. I can't work on the music, I'm purposely not listening to the music, I have to let it settle a couple days and get some fresh ears. I can't even make an opinion on if I think the recording went well or not, I have to purge it from the system and check in tomorrow. If I listen to it tomorrow and my ears vomit, then I'll be reassessing my effects chain settings, the EQ, the automations (panning, volume), etc and re-recording any/all of it if needed. I'm hoping I don't have to re-record anything but we'll see.
If anything is critical, such as the overdrive sounding bad, or the solos not having the right tone, it might mean I have to redo all 19 tracks because they all use a very consistent configuration from track 1 to 19. I won't know until tomorrow if it's something good or not.
There was damn near minimal post-production magic going on, other than a little balancing of things, so it's as close to the raw live sound as I can possibly present it.
I used to hate checklists but they keep me in check. I still hate them, but couldn't live without them.
If you're ever not "burnt out" but find yourself in a very low productivity sludge, I either create, update or tackle a list of simple (but sometimes JUST as important) tasks that could probably be done in ten minutes or less. In even lower productivity slumps, I probe the hell out of the project to see if I can trigger some kind of problem (and subsequently fix it). I've been short on problems lately, as far as "finished" portions of the project go. There is always the sections in the project that are "waiting on parts and labor" but those are usually portions that require more time, energy and concentration.
That's simplifying it a bit. I don't just randomly probe the project, I consciously build a QA checklist and scenario test the hell out of it. Most problems are handled on the spot, some are documented and conquered during what would otherwise be "low productivity sludge" sessions. LPS are always redirected to the QA bug hunt if time is against my pre-planned task, so minimal available time never goes to waste.
In some cases, I'm very much ahead of schedule as I have finished work that I thought wouldn't be done until 2024! In this regard, I couldn't believe how smooth it went. Most months were 100%, a couple were 120% (finished more than planned), and April was 12% (too busy.) Then I have old tasks that have carried over since 2020 which I'm still trying to conquer (fucking battle system.)
Tonight is chill mode. I can't work on the music, I'm purposely not listening to the music, I have to let it settle a couple days and get some fresh ears. I can't even make an opinion on if I think the recording went well or not, I have to purge it from the system and check in tomorrow. If I listen to it tomorrow and my ears vomit, then I'll be reassessing my effects chain settings, the EQ, the automations (panning, volume), etc and re-recording any/all of it if needed. I'm hoping I don't have to re-record anything but we'll see.
If anything is critical, such as the overdrive sounding bad, or the solos not having the right tone, it might mean I have to redo all 19 tracks because they all use a very consistent configuration from track 1 to 19. I won't know until tomorrow if it's something good or not.
There was damn near minimal post-production magic going on, other than a little balancing of things, so it's as close to the raw live sound as I can possibly present it.
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