whats everyones goals for 2012?

<joke>

• make money.
• fuck bitches.
• smoke trees.
  

</joke>

<life>

• Spend more quality time with my girlfriend.
• Spend more quality time with my close friends.
• Get a job that actually pays again (or start getting paid for my internship)
• Quit smoking cigarettes habitually.
• Start doing Krav Maga again.
• Set foot on GT's campus as little as possible.
• Take a motorcycle training course.
• Start saving up for a motorcycle (Monster or Thruxton would be top choices if I feel the least bit confident in my riding)

</life>

<computers>

• Sell my MBP
  • Buy an 11" MBA
    • Replace it's storage with a bigger card from OWC
  • Buy an iMac
    • Replace it's boot drive with an SSD from OWC
  • Note: this won't happen until Thunderbolt hard drive chasses or Thunderbolt to FW800 interfaces come out.
  
  

</computers>

<school>

• 4.0
• Figure out why I'm still in school.
  

</school>

<DJing>

• Be a gear whore.
  • Sell all of my existing DJ gear.
  • Buy a DVS setup (still debating TSP vs SSL essentially as MIDI clock vs. ATC + vinyl scroll, but I'm 90% sure vinyl scroll is going to win)
    • 3 1210s
    • Empath or an older Vestax
    • SL3 or Audio 6
  • Buy IEMs
• Spin on USB sticks or CDs out, because fuck it.
• Get back into clubs, but ones I actually like.
• Figure out a hardware sample-based groove box that I can beat-match to decks and buy one.
• Integrate Psy/Nu-Skool Breaks, Dubstep, and Hip Hop in a way that makes sense and shows off the music instead of the DJ.
  

</DJing>

<Guitar>

• Get my tube amp head fixed (or just replace it…it was cheap).
• Build a cabinet with an integrated, clean SS amp (already own a hot plate)
• Find my analog delay pedal.
• Buy a Wah pedal.
  

</Guitar>

<Production>

• Be a gear whore.
  • Studio Sub
  • Pair of NS-10ms
  • Some decent slightly over-powered amp to drive them
  • Basic sonic treatments in 2 rooms
  • Rack case
  • Patch Bay
  • Echo Audiofire 12
  • A few channels worth of decent but not ridiculous preamps.
  • A couple channels worth of decent but not ridiculous compressors.
  • A stereo analog delay of some kind.
  • An SM57
  • A decent, well-rounded condenser.
  • Some kind of DAW control surface, like an Avid Artist Control, but I'd settle for a Fader Port
  • A monitor controller like a Big Knob or Central Station
  • A VA synth rack module (Radias-R, MS2000BR, Virus A, B, or C, etc.)
  • A nice desk.
• Release something to some kind of positive reception.
• Collaborate with a vocalist.
• Collaborate with another guitarist.
• Collaborate with a percussionist.
  

</Production>

There's no way this is all going to happen in one year.

just to earn to live from hand to mouth.

shahab

I like that category style post Mostapha, i'm stealing your idea.



<life>
1 - Stay alive
2 - Enjoy life (alcohol, friends, bass, alcohol, sex and so on)
3 - Figure out what's going on with my "gf" (haven't seen her for like,what, 2 months ?) wtf

If step 3 fails, then :
- Get bitches (which leads to step 2)
</life>


<school>
Manage to do well at the "contest" I have to enter one of the country's best business school.
</school>

<DJing>
- Get a real mixer (A&H DB2 or maybe some Pioneer stuff since it's the standard)
- Get CDJs (probably 850k)
- Be able to pull a 2h+ super clinical banging mix with 3 decks involved most of the time.
</DJing>


<Production>
- Learn
- Find VST i like
- Learn
- Create some tracks (that will sound like shit but help me to get better).
- Create one some serious good sounding track (can this be achieved in 1year, since i'm a real beginner in production ?)
</Production>

For music, finish up(more like re do) the 76 tunes I just found on a HD I had sitting around.

For personal life, get a better job.

I wana meets some cool dj's in collaborations and try to get my own night somewhere








http://soundcloud.com/dj-em-ai

@dope, it is possible to create a track within a year of starting. It really seems to depend on how good you are at writing more than anything else, plus having some degree of a budget and being able to learn the tools or make friends with somebody who either has or can.

I think zhu has the right idea with his 52 to zhu challenge. By consistently putting out material your constantly figuring out what works and doesn't work. I think whatever goals you make this year find something that you can habitually do to work towards them. That's the way you'll get results

So how did everyone do? I managed to achieve all but 2 and 6. Still living in my dad's basement with dialup.:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by djfunke

So how did everyone do? I managed to achieve all but 2 and 6. Still living in my dad's basement with dialup.:rolleyes:

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No wonder it takes you so long to respond to posts. :)

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Originally Posted by djbigchamp

master my set-up, and effects.

master my swag.

quit my job so i can DJ full-time.

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one does not simply master their swag ;)