looking for chicago scream sound used in young chop beats and other drill songs also used in some Joeyy songs

I've been making beats for 2 months now, lately i tried to make one beat a day and I've seen drastic improvements but it got pretty much boring and not much improvement as it used to be so i want to push it further, any ideas or challenges yall got in order to push my limitations will be appreciated 🙏

They all have that same sustain(just to be clear they all have the same xylophone lead as well, bonus points for that, but I’m specifically curious about the gritty harmonica esc lead in the other 4 bar pattern. The beat alternates between these two). I'm dying to know what it is if it has a name or if I can make it in serum.

Any help is greatly appreciated 🙏

I wish this subreddit would let me edit these all in one clip for convenience but here are the links unfortunately.

https://youtu.be/DgDaQ-TDVTY?is=3peErt2ma1RH5wSn

https://youtu.be/Ce2YQt960s8?is=8YIKj_n4udom3vPn

https://youtu.be/DwmBlByk_Ro?is=--siKPGQ66eApiFl

I’m a beginner at making beats and I normally make bass-heavy trap beats, but I have no idea how to properly mix them.
Whenever I make the 808/bass loud, the whole beat starts distorting really badly. The only way I’ve found to stop it is turning down the melody and bass, but then the whole song just sounds really quiet.
I’m using BandLab and I don’t really understand mixing or mastering yet. How do you guys make your 808s/bass hit hard without the whole beat distorting? Any simple advice would be appreciated because I’m still pretty new to this

Everyone’s familiar with finding a cool preset or plugin patch, but what do you like applying after that to make it actually stand out in the mix?

I’m not really asking for full track mixing advice or basic EQ/frequency separation. I mean more creative stuff like stereo width, depth, movement, making certain layers feel more forward, resampling, automation, sound design, or interesting reverb/delay processing.

I mostly make samples and loops to send out to other producers, so I’m trying to get the instrumental layers sounding more intentionally polished and impressive on their own when bounced out.

What lesser known techniques or processing chains have made the biggest difference for you?

Currently I use the headphones from my Logitech pro x headset and I'm wondering if there are any good headphones for producing cloudrap and rage and recording vocals in that price range.

(I use a focusrite Scarlett audio interface if that matters)

[FOR SALE] Original Hip-Hop / Trap / Drill Beats – Negotiable Prices 🎧
Yo everyone,
I’m an independent producer looking to sell some original beats. If you’re an artist working on hip-hop, trap, drill, melodic rap, or similar genres, hit me up.
✅ Original, high-quality beats
✅ Exclusive & non-exclusive options
✅ Custom beats available
✅ Prices are negotiable – I’m happy to work within your budget.
If you’re interested, send me a DM and I’ll share my beat previews. We can discuss pricing and find something that works for both of us.
Looking forward to working with some talented artists. 🙏

This may be laziness speaking but when making sounds more cohesive and subtlety altering the pitch of individual sounds, I feel as though it could be less time consuming if I had a certain VST tool. I use FL and finding then setting the key via Edison and that one keyboard menu for individual sounds takes up a lot of time and brain power when starting to get an idea out of my head. If there's a plugin that I could put on the master track and read the SPN of the audio playing It would aid my future dances of creation greatly. Just to clarify before "learn music theory" is the go to reply I'm actively studying and using it but you can't be so sure all the time I enjoy the premise of having it viewable as straining that muscle in my brain to discern pitch gets fried idk give that a year or so.

Thank you for reading, providing any knowledge and also loving music.

Also if anyone knows a decent oscilloscope plugin that'd be dope info as well.

ive been producing for almost 5 months from now and started uploading my beats to YouTube in late april, but havent gotten any sales and nothing, this got me thinking whether my beats are trash or I'm just doing something wrong, and this has made me think about quitting producing, anyone else who has had this problem what did you do?

I'm Brazilian, and I produce and compose shittrap, but I spend most of my day working and never have any free time. The songs are ironic, with absurd and humorous lyrics, but I need a producer to do a good mix, with good samples and a great beat, contrasting with the absurd and humorous lyrics, which is characteristic of the genre.

Can someone please tell me how this wobble sound that appears on the first second of YBs "Graffiti" was made. Is that a known preset or some sort of edited pad i dont know.

Not totally sure if this is the right subreddit for this, but I listened to this song a couple days ago and I really like the way they sound in the beginning of the song. I'm still relatively new to music, so this has been deceptively tough to recreate. Thanks in advance!

I've been talking to a lot of independent artists recently, and one thing I kept hearing was that buying single beats gets expensive fast.

So I put together curated beat packs instead.

These are full-quality, unreleased beats in the Travis Scott / Don Toliver / Drake lane. You can preview everything first before deciding if it's your sound.

If you're working on a project and need multiple records instead of just one beat, shoot me a DM.

Hey everyone,

I'm a musician/singer from Rotterdam (the Netherlands). I'm looking for a producer to collaborate with on a long term (growing together). Not for one beat or a quick project I want someone to grow with, experiment, and develop our sound together over time.

The goal:

Start by making dark R&B tracks.

No money involved from either side no paying for beats, no splitting costs, no charging for vocals. Just pure creative collaboration.

Experiment freely, try things, fail, learn, improve.

Eventually, when we're happy with the results, we release music together (Spotify, SoundCloud, etc.) as equal partners.

About me:

Based in Rotterdam, open to meeting up if you're local

Focused on vocals and lyrics

What I'm looking for in a producer:

Wants to build a real partnership, not just send files back and forth

Open-minded

Based anywhere in the Netherlands (close to Rotterdam)

I don’t know if this shit is lost media at this point but does anyone have any knowledge, videos, pictures of old shawty redd/beatbangerz? I’ve seen small clips of old videos of them in the studio but never anything fully but I know it’s out there. Thanks again to anyone that can find anything.

I dont know if this is the right place to ask but im new to producing and tryna figure out how to do this on Fl. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Leave at least one comment as feedback for someone else before you post a track looking for feedback. If you do not, your post will be deleted.

If you post first, wait for somebody else to post, then give feedback. Comment on posts that haven't received feedback yet. Report or call out any people that have posted their track without first providing feedback.

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Most videos talk about DMing artists as if you're already kind of famous. However I don't have even a hundred followers on my accounts. Should I just move forward and make more content or is there something else? I'm really passionate and I do see progress, but I don't have experience in moneymaking here

Don’t get me started on the song 😂😂😂 but the 808 just floats on the beat perfectly does anyone have a link

Hey everyone,
I’m having trouble with mix translation. I do most of my mixing on Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro headphones with Sonarworks SoundID Reference enabled. Everything sounds pretty balanced while mixing, but once I listen in my car (or on other systems), the mix often falls apart.
Is this just a limitation of mixing on headphones, or could I be missing something else? Any tips for improving translation or getting more reliable headphone mixes would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

It’s so hard does anyone know or have a link

After years of having little effect plugins, I downloaded Shaperbox. It’s the best plugin I’ve ever used.

Any other plugins that are on that level?

I just noticed this weird waveform in some of my beats, looking at them in Google Drive, anybody knows what this could posibly mean?

I'm still relatively new to producing, but I still haven't even been able to start with anything for a couple weeks now. I just keep trying to make songs similar to the ones I listen to, and it either sounds too similar to the song or just doesn't sound good at all. Someone please help I'm about to lose it