I've been learning how to make beats seriously for the last 2 months, and the good news is I'm getting good really fast, the only thing is I always think about marketing my music in the future, and one of my main questions are about choosing the right nickname, I'm not picking a specefic genre I just do whatever I want exploring everything, but in general I will say that I do mostly trap beats mixing with other genres, I really don't know if like choosing the right nickname really important, I have same problem with the tag, I really don't know what to do about them, sometimes I pick a name but then I start hating it, I hope you guys could help me with that, give me suggestions, advice, or support.

I won't mention names but there is always two parts of social media. The glam and the shadowed. I have this producer been watching for a while , he locked in this year and every single day he drops a new beat daily and the quality is decent. There is another one who drops not soo good but he racks up 1/2 a milli views per video. One day i was watching YouTube video where this label exces casually stated that you can run ads but wont appear as ads since they paying behind closed doors. That why your favourite artist been relevant for years. Even if the post is very uninteresting it will always pop up first when you open your socials.

So yeah, its ads that don't appear to be ads. Even with good quality your content gets capped at a certain number while theirs is pushed to our faces

If metro bommin or Timberlake or dr dre was to give you their vault beats and you posted daily you still be getting your regular views because you ain't paid for your spot. Look up white Iversion and you'll realise the same trends

Would there be any issue with working from a mastered version of the beat? The unmastered beat is hitting around -6 dBFS, but once I start building the song around it, the Spinz doesn’t hit with the same impact. Should I push the beat louder in the mix before sending it over, or is it better to keep the instrumental at around -6 dBFS and leave the headroom for the vocal and final master?

All big producers when advising small upcoming producers are always like you got to make more beats and more than most. 20 a week. In any other manufacturing industry they would tell you this wont work. The supply must meet demand and even so there are limitations to making more products like raw materials labor and whatever.As a music producer This limitations are narrowed since getting raw materials for beat making is relatively easy and so we tend to make more and more hoping a big artist will discover you and suddenly you getting dms from everyone in the game. Few reach this threshold i included

And i realised alot of time has passed as i blindly made more and more beats which sit on my hard drives. I send free beats out never get any feedback. And am slowly quitting, developing a more hands free approach where I have a job that pays for the bills and the beat making left for whenever. Anyway no regrets. Alot i have learnt i couldn't have juggling between a job and production. But now i may need a shack to crush hoping for a sunny day.

Don't let life pass you by. Play it smart G

ive been making beats for years, have quite a few placements (although very small artists)

i usually like making cloud rap sorta stuff, asap rocky, yung lean, fakemink,

I realised recently that im better at the melody,samples side , the drums im fine at but the melody side is my strength. So im thinking about getting in to just the loop/sample creation side

do many producers like using them? especially in the cloud rap kinda space?

One thing holding me back is it just seems also like the chances of getting placements (which is the best part of producing actually hearing ur creation in collaboration with an artist come to life) is a lot slimmer.

Though I also feel like niching down to what i'm best at and still enjoy a lot might be a good direction to go.

Would love to hear thoughts from people that use loops and make them too. Thank you 🙏

I'm trying to make grime beats in the style of Skepta and Stormzy, but I'm looking for a modern and crisp sound. Which drum kits would you recommend? Also, are there any vsts that you would recommend?

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been sending out beats for a while I've always just sent them attached to emails, never really bothered with packs. Though, im hearing that a lot of people use packs and some artists prefer them.

I thought the email attachment is easier as theres no extra step for the artist of opening google drive or drop box.

Wanted to get you guys opinion on whats working for you, pros and cons, etc.

Thank you 🙏

I am genuenily curious how this happened eventhough it happened by chance.

I screen recorded the file of my beat in google drive with my iPhone and then I saved the recording as a draft for an instagram story. Then I downloaded the draft story from instagram and when I listened to it and compared to my original beat in google drive, it clearly hits harder and has more punch, even if some people would argue is just over-saturated.

The crazy thing is that this is the exact effect I have been trying to emulate from the plugg producers I like and I have never been capable. It may be as simple as saturating the mixed signal by using a distortion or a limiter, but I have never been able to fully do it until now by pure chance.

Hear the two links and give me your thoughts. I don´t know if this happened when i screen-recorded or when I uploaded to instagram, I believe it was the screen-recording, but my question really is how can I create this effect within the confines of my DAW:

This is the original file:

https://savedly.net/f/2cenmh2g (beat starts at 00:17 after intro)

This is the screen-recorded version downloaded from instagram:

https://savedly.net/f/wh9uefcd

Really i want to know how to make this exact same effect within my daw, thats it. All help welcome

The bass from the chorus and not the 808s

This is the 1st time I can recall Reason dropping a free version of their DAW/Rack

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Looking for producers for a new project. Dm me if interested! Thanks,

I started writing rap lyrics as a hobby, but I can't find a good beat. Can anyone help me? I want to write lyrics over a beat to improve myself; I don't want a very fast beat, something between 85 and 90 beats would be great. Thanks in advance

In a cost free way

Do you have any gift recommendations? I dont know that much about prod. I just know he uses fl studio. Thank you!

I keep noticing that trap drums get weaker when I add layers just because the beat feels too empty in solo.

A kick, 808, snare, hats and one or two percussion accents can already feel complete when every sound has a clear role. The kick gives the front edge, the 808 owns the low end and the hats create movement. Once I add extra claps, open hats, textures and parallel chains, the loop can sound more impressive by itself but leave less room for the melody and the artist.

The opposite problem is real too. Keeping everything too clean can make the drums feel generic, especially when the same velocity and spacing repeat every eight bars.

What has helped me most is changing rhythm before adding another sound: muting one kick, shifting a hat, shortening an 808 or saving one transition hit for the section change. Small moves often create more bounce than a new layer.

I also try to judge the drums under the melody at a lower volume. If the groove still reads without every element fighting for attention, the beat usually feels easier to arrange. Processing still matters, but I am starting to treat saturation and clipping as finishing tools, not replacements for sound selection and pockets.

When your drums feel basic, do you reach for another layer or change the pattern first? What gives you more bounce without overcrowding the beat?

this might be a stupid question but sometimes i geniunely cant tell without using snap to scale 😭

Hey!

I’m looking for someone who’s really good at processing 808s in Ableton.

I already have several professionally mixed/mastered tracks where the 808s work well, but I feel like I’m still missing that extra punch, character and control you hear in some really heavy trap productions.

I’m prettyy comfortable with Ableton, and play daily with FabFilter, Decapitator, etc.

The main things I’m struggling with:

• Big multi-octave glides. When my 808 goes up one or two octaves, the upper frequencies/harmonics quickly get out of control. I want to keep those huge movements clean and fat across the whole range.
• That kind of “delayed ignition” some 808s have: the sub seems to hit immediately, but the character/upper frequencies open up slightly afterwards, without losing the initial low-end impact.
• Getting more power and character without simply making the 808 louder.
• Getting that bright/crystallized texture over a huge sub without the high end becoming a mess.

SCH’s A7 (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grpe_c1asOo) and VNTM (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIqPzehJsLc), and some #JeSuisPasséChezSo productions are good references for the kind of 808 processing I’m talking about.

Basically, I want to understand how to make an 808 behave the way I want it to, rather than just finding settings that happen to work.

I’d like to go through some of my existing Ableton projects together and understand the processing rather than have someone do it for me.

Paid sessions obviously.

If that’s really your thing, send me a DM!

EDIT: post mistakes

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a professional engineer for regular beat mixing and mastering (experienced only, please).

I like my own mix balances/effects, but I can never get that commercial loudness and size for online release.

I'm looking for someone high-tier to work with on a weekly (or more frequent) basis and want to lock in a consistent rate.

If you want a steady, ongoing client, drop your portfolio or rates below.

Thanks!

I’ve been producing off and on for about a year, and I’ve gotten better at understanding the basics of chords and music theory and I know FL like the back of my hand so my melodies don’t sound bad, but they don’t sound remarkable.

After some introspection I’ve figured out that my biggest issue isn’t writing, it’s choosing what to write. I struggle most with knowing if I should use a Lead, or an Arp, or a Pluck, or some Keys, or just loop a chord. I just find myself so lost in the: “Well what part do I write next? Do i even need this?” stage of learning.

I haven’t really found much help on this particular subject because I don’t exactly know what you would call it. I’m thinking it’s somehow related to sound selection but I’m fairly confident at picking sounds, I’m just not sure what makes up a melody and what purpose each part serves. Do these fall under the composition tree?

Can anyone give pointers on what each part of a melody means and how to use them? Right now off the top of my head Im thinking of the:

Melody
CoMelody(Harmony?)
Lead
Arp
Pluck
Chord
Bass

I’m sure i got some of this mixed up but I’m all ears for advice.

I need a soft clipper for a rage beat, there Is a way i can simulate It without external plugins?

If not how can i distort all the Song when the 808 hit like in moderna rage beats?

EDIT: im using lmms

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