00:00
00:00
C211
I'm a musician who makes low-quality music (but that's not accurate).
----------
I make songs in different genres, but mostly it's about EDM and experimental.
----------
Have question? - Write me on PM here or Ask.fm

Age 20, Male

Joined on 1/31/18

Level:
9
Exp Points:
875 / 900
Exp Rank:
78,178
Vote Power:
5.16 votes
Audio Scouts
1
Rank:
Civilian
Global Rank:
> 100,000
Blams:
0
Saves:
0
B/P Bonus:
0%
Whistle:
Normal
Medals:
19

Reasons for my long absence

Posted by C211 - October 11th, 2023


Hello!


It's been quite a while since I posted my first track this year. Yes, many people liked it, which makes me a little happy. However, nowadays my skills in creating music are simply not enough to compete with other equally famous musicians. But, I’m not talking about that now.


Let me start with the fact that at the moment my condition has changed extremely from what it was before 2020-2021. Then I really felt an interest in creating music, each time I tried to diversify my tracks and released new ones. You evaluated them, commented on them, and I was undoubtedly happy about this, because my works are really interesting to someone. But as I got more involved, my mental state began to decline. I began to think more and more about the future of my activity, namely: will I make money from my music or will I make it free for use anywhere until the end? But at first I did it for free and without restrictions on use...


And so it happened. Towards the end of 2021, my mental state failed and I postponed my activity for some indefinite period. And throughout 2022, I was exclusively busy with my studies and personal affairs, as well as the problems that I had to face. But creating music still did not let me go and I often thought about it, afraid in the future to get a regular job and become an ordinary worker and a person suffering from this (I really didn’t want to work at a regular job all the time and get up for it in the morning, I wanted freedom of action in this life)...


Therefore, starting this year, I began to study music distribution, namely how to distribute it, get money from it, be heard and protect it from theft. Also improve the skills of its creation, namely: the use of effects, proper mastering, equalization, automation and writing patterns that combine with each other. Along the way, I also thought about purchasing professional equipment for music: studio monitors, studio headphones, an external professional audio interface, a powerful computer, and the overall design of my future studio. At least I was able to purchase only a computer and more or less normal headphones from this list (alas, not studio ones, but they sound better than the previous ones) and I’m glad that I was able to get a more powerful tool for creating music that will hold up well when playing a large number of VSTs, and not drown, producing continuous crackling and brakes in the sound.


Let's summarize. At the moment, I am still in one place with my studies, personal affairs and, accordingly, it is quite difficult for me to combine music with studies, since it makes itself felt all the time and I have to devote more time to it than to everything else. Also, as I studied distribution mechanisms, I became interested in other genres, such as House, Synthwave, Techno and Trance. Lately I've been mainly listening to the Trance genre exclusively, as I was very surprised by its unusual and uplifting sound, so in the future I may have to start a second pseudonym where I will focus exclusively on one of these genres (or maybe two if I’m very interested). You will find out about all this... someday.

While I can't draw any conclusions, I'd better sort out my studies by finishing them, and then I'll start my main activity - music...


Feel free to ask me anything by writing it here in the comments, or on my Ask.fm.

I will try to answer your questions, but I cannot guarantee that I will answer all of them.

In any case, thank you for supporting and possibly supporting me all this time!


See you! (some day...)


Tags:

1

Comments

I'm a week late, but I really wish you the best out there man! Glad you've stepped out of the mud for the most part, proud of you.

Thanks, dude! I'm glad that at least someone responded to my long post :)

And I wouldn't say that I don't have time for music at all yet. Sometimes, when I have time to rest, I can invest it in working on projects in FL or learning some new techniques in writing music.

I really hope that by the summer of 2024 I will certainly start my activities...

@C211 Totally agree, its been similar on my side too really. Schools been more demanding, sports in the mix too, etc. I recently got a guitar and hope I have enough time to practice enough and get a solid foundation on it before I get to college, currently a junior.

I wish you good luck in your endeavors! And I, in turn, will go through all my projects and, perhaps, someday release them as an album...
I have 2-3 completed tracks, but I still haven't gotten around to releasing them, because due to distribution there is a problem with the cover for the track, which I will have to do or draw...

@C211 Thank you! I wish the best on your side too.

halihó :P
I really feel with you
However the main thing I felt from your words if I should give a name for it would be that you're uncertain at all especially with the case of making music or with the future anyways
As you can see I don't really make music continuosly either and I can really feel with you in uncertainity
When I could finally got started to make music and could improve a bit slowly I got blind and I thought that I lost all of my motivations to get start the whole thing again from the very beginning
and I've begun pretty unsure that if I would begin to make music again it wouldn't worth it because no one would ever listen to it or even know about it
but finally I made a decision that I start to play the guitar even if it will never have any success I mean it won't earn any money or I could never be able to play in a band or something like that
now I bought an electric guitar december last year and I don't really care if my music won't be famous or known that widely but I really feel it and have joy making music again
and finally I started to get know Reaper a bit deeper and I uploaded a new track :P
And if I lost motivation again I'll find an other way to get joy and setisfaction
you musn't have only one way to engage yourself and your creativity
maybe you feellike making music maybe not and maybe some periods take for years but this is a normal thing
everybody's changing
I hope you'll get my point (my english isn't that good anyways)
and I hope I could help a bit

Thank you for such a long and worthwhile answer!

I'm really glad to see that my post is being commented on and trying to help me in some way, I appreciate it =)

Actually, I'm still doing music right now, but it won't be exactly what I'm doing and posting here. This will be my second pseudonym, which will focus exclusively on the Trance genre (Uplifting, Progressive, etc.), that is: own tracks, remixes, etc. All of this will be released directly on labels (i'll tell you about it sometime in the future).

However, in addition to creativity, I have to devote more of my time to studying at an educational institution, alas. It seems to absorb all my thoughts and making music becomes much more difficult...

And yes, I apologize for not responding to your comment for a long time, since during this time I lost access to my NG account (I corny forgot the password from it :/)...