I second the above. Especially if you produce any kind of very specific genre (like Kung-Fu lo-fi wu beats lol).

Man, the thing that I hate most about this shit isn't really the act of making music...it's getting OCD on how I present the stuff and publish the music. I have a hard time with the thoughts I have about past work.... I've been doing stuff for 20+ years, and I am constantly thinking that I need to turn my back on my older work and just have the new stuff online for people to (hopefully) dig. Does this all make sense? I need to just shut the fuck up and just have everything in a central soundcloud / website and concentrate on what matters...keeping active and constantly working.
Anyone feelin me?

I know I'm repeating some already here but anyway:

-Main one now: No time. Full time job and preg GF just moved in.

-Listening to a beat you thought was great a month back and hearing mistakes/poor mixing/etc that are hard to fix

-Sampling something that has a indeterminate key or is slightly out of tune making it very hard to layer other stuff

-When a goddamn pad stops working on an SP

-Having lots of ideas/motivation/energy to work on music when you are stuck at work/doing other life crap then losing it later

- Got some solid patterns started, project not saved....and the MV8800 does a total freeze up and I have to turn it off and lose everything.

-Digging complaints:
A. Scanning around old movies for hours and only finding 1 or 2 decent samples, or samples that later don't fit with anything
B. Buying some "mystery" records that you are sure are gems that end up being ultra corny or having no good "open" sections to sample from

this. i could probably have filled up a room by now if i actually kept all the "mystery" records that didn't end up having shit on em. it's the small handfull of actual scores i've made that keeps me buying the unknowns.

I end up using the covers as packing material and throw the lp away.

Packing material?

Like to pad a record that I mail out

This +1000.

finding new chord progressions that dont sound like shit.

Yes

This as well as, sampling some chords/melody then realizing you only grabbed enough (or there only was enough) for 1-2 changes and you've cornered yourself again into making a 1 minute beat, or a 3 minute one that is repetitive as fuck

haha, so many of my beats are one minute beats for exactly that reason. not always a bad thing, though. ten one minute beats add up to something strong if the samples and arrangements are tight. though i do admire how dudes like shadow and j rocc can stretch a few samples into a seven minute epic.

When you find a killer sample that is ruined because the singer won't shut the fuck up!!!

I feel you guys on buying trash records ,just something we gotta deal with as diggers.I always have a spot in a corner of the room I work in I call "the graveyard" where I angrilly toss unuseable records. "U'r going to the graveyard bitch!"...as far as digging though,I really hate the feeling of thinking that I might possibly be passing over the dopest shit ever. This always enters my thinking at some point when digging like "the best record I've ever heard might be somewhere in this bin.." u can't buy everything. That and making several sequences for change ups,mutes,drum pattern changes,etc,and having to resample several times for different efx.that stuffs mad time consuming,and really not too enjoyable for me.

My least favorite part of beat making with my 303 is deleting my chops to have space to make a new beat. I wish that I could have a million smart media cards. With a guitar, when you write a song you can always play it again, on any guitar, whenever you want to hear it.

FOREEL

agreed. i might start bouncing my chops and drums to tape, so i can revisit unfinshed beats.