How long do you like to work on your tracks ?

[BONES]

OK, I've always been like that, which is why nothing is ever finished. We've already started working on an album we won't release until late next year and that will be the fastest we've ever finished one. Even after we'd finished our last album once, and decided to do it over again in Cubase, that process still took 8 months or more. I don't feel you can be objective until you are sick to death of hearing a song, so I just keep listening over and over until I think I can be objective, then I get to work.

[LeVzi]

OK, I've always been like that, which is why nothing is ever finished. We've already started working on an album we won't release until late next year and that will be the fastest we've ever finished one. Even after we'd finished our last album once, and decided to do it over again in Cubase, that process still took 8 months or more. I don't feel you can be objective until you are sick to death of hearing a song, so I just keep listening over and over until I think I can be objective, then I get to work.

Its's also due to the fact I have a lot more mixing and mastering tools to use than I have done before. Spending a lot of time reading and watching YT videos about the various processes gives me more ideas etc.

My last lot of tracks took me a while to get finished, and if I really go in depth back I will find more problems to fix that really aren't there to the listener, only to a hyper critical ear, much like you said, nothing is ever finished really.

I can see why people pay a mix engineer and mastering engineer , it would be unreal to literally only have to concentrate on the whole creative process. But that's something I doubt i'll ever be in a position to do.

But then I ask myself this too, would I be happy to give that responsibility to someone else ? I've grown to enjoy the 2nd and 3rd processes in my chain a great deal.

I think thats why we do it, we are all a little OCD , which is a good thing, and lets face it, when you finished something to the point you say "its done" , thats your creation from start to finish. That's a nice buzz.

[BONES]

I can't really separate those processes, it's all on one continuum for me. The one time our label paid an engineer to master an album, he took the stems we sent him and did a terrible job. Since then the label has preferred that we do our own and I've been very happy with that.