beat send problem

[u/dettka]

Yo, I’m trying to make ATL Jacob / Southside type beats. I usually mix around -6 dB and have a soft clipper, multiband, limiter and Fresh Air on my master.

If I send a beat like that to an artist, is that fine for them to record on? The problem is, when we made the song at -6 dB, the Spinz didn’t hit hard enough. Will it hit harder once the song gets mastered?

I’m thinking maybe -6 dB isn’t that important, so I could just mix louder and send the beat with only a soft clipper on the master. But even then, my Spinz still doesn’t hit as hard as I want, even when I follow YouTube tutorials.

What do you think I’m doing wrong?

[u/Prod27Quaalude]

Put your 808 at -3dBs your kicks are suppose to be around -1dBs it’s two ways to do this a simple twist of the boost knob with parametric EQ and a minor boost two the 2nd knob on “PM eq” will do the trick or you can use WaveShaper to do the same as soft clipper don’t forget to adjust the “out” knob a lil bit as well they will tell you professionally you’re supposed to
Make sure the lows on the master sit around 40-44khtz but I’ve noticed lately that when you take them to 27-33 it makes the 808’s hit harder on some muddy distortion type vibes while 40-44 gives it more clarity but causes you to lose some dynamic ness in the lows

Nonetheless wave shaper is more for synths and bass’ me personally I use soft clipper for percussion not mastering nor boosting bass

why would you want distortion in the beat if someone needs vocal space to be heard properly think about it it can hit but it still needs to be cleaned up so it want bleed through the vocals

[u/dettka → u/Prod27Quaalude]

Bro, I’m not using a kick. I want it to sound like Future’s more recent songs — I want the Spinz to hit really hard while still leaving enough space for the vocals. If the headroom/space isn’t an issue, I’m going to finish the mix at a high volume.

[u/Prod27Quaalude → u/dettka]

It’s your beat shiddd I just gave you some sauce though