Marijuana with music?

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C0REZ wrote:techno 2014 = fascism
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Reminds me...

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I smoked a fair bit when I was younger and loved it when it as an aid to creativity (more dj'ing with vinyl than production).
I hadn't smoked for about four years but started smoking again over the last few weeks.

In terms of making music, I find it very easy to 'access' sound and it definitely helps me with eq and balancing tracks.
Not sure what it is but I think it makes it easier to listen to one element in the context of other sounds.

I also find that I slow down when it comes to tweaking dials.
Instead of geting sounds dialled in roughly and quickly and then moving on, I find myself working slowly and being very specific about filtering, resonance, amplitude, etc of each sound in sequence.
Just basics but, imo, valuable processes/decision-makingwhen it comes to the early days of making a track.

My short term memory goes to fuck though.
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You Fuckin hippies

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I try to balance my inherent hippy-ness by smoking crack and worshipping satan on alternate weekends.


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Haha it's all about balance steve!!

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Mslwte wrote:if I smoke gear im doing fuck all apart from either smoking more gear or going to bed. besides I gave it up years ago because I got all paranoid and couldn't think straight lol.
Same here. I used to be a huge pothead up until about 2 years ago when I decided to put it behind me for the same reasons. I used to be really paranoid about really trivial stuff. I could never really think clearly and it just generally gave me really bad anxiety.

I do miss it though. Not the negative things about it, but the way it just made everything seem so much more intense. Everything just seemed more immersive when I was high. Video games, movies, fishing, driving, listening to music... everything. But I feel like the trade-off was that I could never really truly remember and absorb information. I couldn't hold my train of thought for any longer than a couple of sentences... haha (might still be the case actually but probably not as bad).

If it works for you, great. I personally have no use for it anymore.

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It's all about moderation.
If you are getting paranoid you are doing to much.
No different to getting the DTs from drinking.
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What's a DT? Detox?
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Delerium tremens
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I used to be a big smoker.
I only started doing drugs when I was already at univ,
and even though I'm grateful I wasn't a stoner in high school,
I sure as hell catched up afterwards for any time lost.
At my peek I smoked about 50gr a month.

I gradually stopped smoking when I moved to the smalltown I live in now,
and when I had my 1st kid, it completely died out, with the occasional exception if a friend was over and he had something with him and the kids weren't at home.

But yeah, when I stopped smoking I just started drinking more beer... :lol:
Which one is best ?

I can definitely do a lot more on beer than when I was stoned,
but alcohol is such a dangerous drug, and so socially accepted and just everywhere...

so I recently started smoking weed again, cause I want to cut down on the drinking a bit more,
and when I'm stoned I simply never feel like drinking. I switch to coke or ice tea or so,
which is funny cause I never drink that stuff when I'm sober.

I gotta say I was amazed at how well it went producing stoned.
I was really into a "zone", everything felt very natural.
But I do suspect that I would have never been able to make music that way if I had tried this a few years back. I mean, it's important that you know how everything works in the studio, or otherwise you're just gonna be scratching your head far too often.

So yeah, I definitely believe what others have said here :
if you know your limits, weed can be helpful in getting creative.
But I also believe you gotta know your shit first or you're just gonna get lost into technical problems

That arizer solo was a good tip as well, guys, thx for that ! ;)
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It helps to be very settled in yourself as well, you are less likely to get the heebie jeebies.
And yeah, the arizer solo is perfect. You can be very precise with it.
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Lost to the Void wrote:And yeah, the arizer solo is perfect. You can be very precise with it.
^^I'm still learning that though.
But that's probably cause I hadn't smoked for so long...
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Lost to the Void wrote:Delerium tremens
Okay, thanks. I didn't know the clinical term for this. I have only ever heard of this called "the shakes".
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Always enjoyed making music and DJing when stoned, but mostly knocked it on the head because I cannot write when high. For fiction, it's great for coming up with ideas but I find it virtually impossible to get through an paragraph of writing. For non fiction, it's just no go. I can't get my head to be precise enough.

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When I'm making music is the only time I get stoned these days. I can't afford a vaporizer though, and the boyfriend doesn't like smoking so I tend to cook it in butter and make cakes that I can grab from the freezer when I know I've got a good chunk of free time.

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jacksonick wrote:When I'm making music is the only time I get stoned these days. I can't afford a vaporizer though, and the boyfriend doesn't like smoking so I tend to cook it in butter and make cakes that I can grab from the freezer when I know I've got a good chunk of free time.
When I was a student at univ I used to make spacecakes once in a while...
One year, after my exams, I had made a fresh cake, and a friend of mine was coming over.
She asked what it was that smelled so good. I told her it was a cake with fresh herbs.
She knew I was a big pot smoker, so I figured she would be able to put 2 and 2 together.
She didn't, and ate a big piece of cake.
Man was she ever stoned... :lol:
She left for erasmus the next day, and I only told her when she got back half a year later.

The girl eventually ended up being my wife several years later...
Can't wait to tell that story to our kids some day when they're older... :D

I never liked how hard it was to control your input with spacecake though.
Once you ate too much, you were just far out for many many hours...
Or you could get sick...
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i always trap myself with space cakes, like "it's not that strong let's eat more" and immediatly after i eat more the effect push x10!!
happenned with lsd few times too haha

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Ah eating it is so dangerous, in terms of predicting effect.
It can be up to 5-6 times stronger, you can halucinate etc.
That`s the equivalent of drinking a bottle of bourbon rather than just a couple of shots to loosen up.

No good for making music, great for psychonauts though.

Making cannabutter is great, as you need to bond the THC to fat to make it digestible. Then you can use it anywhere.
But yeah, festivals and quiet days in the country, not trying to get anything worth while done.
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We used to make pot yogurts. Melt resin down in a sauce pan, mix a bit of butter so the whole thing would caramelise and mix it in to your favourite müller and giggle away
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