Producers,what are things you wish artist's would understand about being a producer and vice versa..

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Saw this on beatstars earlier, would like to get some answers from both artists and producers of the coli.

Artists, what are things you wish producers would understand about being an artist?

alright...

- As a producer/engineer after we record your vocals, cleaning your vocals and finding the right compression settings, EQ settings etc., varies from artist to artists and it's very time consuming
- When we make beats, we have an idea behind them. The drum kits we choose, the samples, breaks etc. Structure ( i record hooks on beats, as a blueprints for the artists... And i can't rap or sing worth shxt.)
- The studio is not a hangout spot. It's cool to bring one or two homies but not the entire crew for an IG or Twitter photo shoot. WORK!
- We invest alot in our gears and DAW's, of course we're gonna charge to get an ROI.


We'll add more later. Forgive me, only artists i know on the coli so far are @LauderdaleBoss @observe ... Please feel free to call out more.

 

[observe]

Saw this on beatstars earlier, would like to get some answers from both artists and producers of the coli.

Artists, what are things you wish producers would understand about being an artist?

alright...

- As a producer/engineer after we record your vocals, cleaning your vocals and finding the right compression settings, EQ settings etc., varies from artist to artists and it's very time consuming
- When we make beats, we have an idea behind them. The drum kits we choose, the samples, breaks etc. Structure ( i record hooks on beats, as a blueprints for the artists... And i can't rap or sing worth shxt.)
- The studio is not a hangout spot. It's cool to bring one or two homies but not the entire crew for an IG or Twitter photo shoot. WORK!
- We invest alot in our gears and DAW's, of course we're gonna charge to get an ROI.


We'll add more later. Forgive me, only artists i know on the coli so far are @LauderdaleBoss @observe ... Please feel free to call out more.

I don't get this thread..just send me a beat I can rap on and it's cool..nothing more to it..

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Saw this on beatstars earlier, would like to get some answers from both artists and producers of the coli.

Artists, what are things you wish producers would understand about being an artist?

alright...

- As a producer/engineer after we record your vocals, cleaning your vocals and finding the right compression settings, EQ settings etc., varies from artist to artists and it's very time consuming
- When we make beats, we have an idea behind them. The drum kits we choose, the samples, breaks etc. Structure ( i record hooks on beats, as a blueprints for the artists... And i can't rap or sing worth shxt.)
- The studio is not a hangout spot. It's cool to bring one or two homies but not the entire crew for an IG or Twitter photo shoot. WORK!
- We invest alot in our gears and DAW's, of course we're gonna charge to get an ROI.


We'll add more later. Forgive me, only artists i know on the coli so far are @LauderdaleBoss @observe ... Please feel free to call out more.

This is actually a dope thread.

I actually feel where you coming from when the artist bring they whole extended crew from their hype man all the way to their weed carrier to a recording session. nikkas will barely get any work done and just basically take up space. I can see how that could piss a producer/engineer off, but that's why ya'll charge nikkas that bread. Usually that separates the serious from the flaky cats.

As far as being an artist and what I'd wish some producers would understand....

- it's cool to spit over random dope beats, but a true collaboration to me is when a song is built up from scratch between both parties. Sometimes I feel that producers underestimate the creativity of certain artists by not taking this approach every now and then because some nikkas have really dope ideas, but can't produce the beat themselves or make it sound as polished as it could be.

- having beats that aren't structured well makes the writing process more time consuming. Having smooth innovative transitions and a bunch of different sounds are good, but if the emcee can't tell when the beat drops or when the chorus come in, you'll just a get a nikka randomly spazzing out with bars and riding the beat instead of an actual song. Basically we can only work with what you give us.

- If you have a song vision in mind for the beat you made let the artist know beforehand that way we can try and do it justice/meet you half way on the concept or something. Don't wait until after the nikka done recorded the track to nit pick it to death because they did something completely different than what you first envisioned. Communication is the key and sometimes the difference between a record you're proud of or one you wish you never had a nikka jump on.

 

[ryshy]

what a good beat sounds like, tired of people saying this shyt is ehh or whatever when its fire. artists tend to be more critical of certain things than casual listeners because every casual listener ive had listen to my shyt was impressed, artists will point out random shyt but people will say this shyt bangzzzzz

 

[Why-Fi]

im both so...as an artist, i want to tell producers, make and present many beats at a time. dont put your heart and soul into one beat then get mad because i dont like it

as a producer, no i cant do this like mike will or that like primo. either choose a beat or dont choose. go find mike will or primo

 

[Myrical Lyfe]

One side note for this thread...

Beatmaker

what a good beat sounds like, tired of people saying this shyt is ehh or whatever when its fire. artists tend to be more critical of certain things than casual listeners because every casual listener ive had listen to my shyt was impressed, artists will point out random shyt but people will say this shyt bangzzzzz

That's good, so when artist tell you it bangs, it really does bang. And you should take that critic more then the average casual Joe.

 

[Vandelay]

Stop trying to rap to my beat before it's 85% complete.


Stop tryna fix it in an adlib or punch it in...do it right the first time.

 

[RhymesWell]

I'm an artist so I gotta attack from that end. I hate when producers don't have a real sound of their own and just try to sound like the latest hot thing and expect me to really invest in them. I'd rather try my hand and cash on something that I can truly build my own type of sound over instead of being lost in what's hot at the moment.

 

[Why-Fi]

i want some artists to understand too - you can always do your own beats. id rather see a kid bootleg FL and get busy than to settle on joints because lack of options...

 

[Willie]

Don't touch my setup!

You want a beat that sounds like another producer made it then go to that producer.