Yeah, absolutely. Its a question of balance and self observation, i mean if you make a track and get so excited about it to the point of jacking off over it in the studio, something somewhere is seriously wrong. But its ok to be self critical and to be on a constant road of improvement whilst allowing yourself a sense of pride and achievement when you get it right.eggnchips wrote:I have a couple of buddies whom I ask for technical opinion and sometimes I feel that they looking for negative points from the word go as they feel they obliged to. Hence my question.
Maybe it's a question of personality and how much one believes in oneself.
I'm often quite self critical so when somebody starts to disect my beloved track with negative points, I feel pretty down about it.
On the other hand, to be maiking music for years thinking it's the dog's doodahs without actually asking anybody's honest opinion is rather silly right?
Being self critical involves a fair amount of discipline and taking critique from others requires a bit of experience to know whats useful and whats not. Not everything will be. It will happen anyway as theres no point making music that nobody hears so there will always be good and bad things said. Ultimately, its down to you as to whether you find anything useful in it all.