Yesterday was extremely productive. I actually sat down and wrote an EP that I will be releasing next Sunday. This is not the one that I spoke about in my last post. When I set down to write after I made that post, I just felt differently. I'm going to start recording today and mixing tomorrow. This is going to be pretty awesome. I can't let myself get discouraged. I gotta keep pushing from there. I easily sit down in the mixing process and feel like my music isn't good enough.
Someone recently asked me how does it feel to listen to my music knowing that I did everything: Wrote, recorded, mixed, masted, and sometimes even produced. I told her that it was one of the most nerve-wracking things I can ever experience. I never know if it's going to sound hot when I sit down and listen to it. It usually takes a few listens and then someone going crazy in the background over the track to make me realize how dope it is. I think everything gets lost in the mixing process. The delivery of my records are fine. The mixing is what's killing me because I don't have all of the equipment that I need. The gear doesn't make the engineer, but the gear does limit the engineer. For starters, I need a better mic and to rebuild my vocal booth.
"The Vacation" is the title for this EP. It was actually conceptualized sometime last summer as a pre-EP to my project "Welcome Home, Mr. Adams" but that flopped. Most of my projects flop because I don't have any constant producers who grind the way I do, aside from Mic G. Him and I have fallen out, to an extent, so I'm really out here by myself when it comes to production. I need to find some versatile producers who can handle the load of at least a beat a week. They don't need to be mixed, because I mix everything in Pro Tools myself. With a record a week, I can put out a full length project every few months and keep my name buzzing, as well as the producers names buzzing. It's hard because everyone has lives. This was so much easier when we were younger.
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