Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.
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I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.
I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.
It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.
I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.
I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.
Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.