The Eclipse - Random Beats Thread
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This is dope. Im listening through mediocre phones right now, i'll listen through the beats later, then hook them up to my monitors then the car test. The drums are good, the melody is good. I would cut the volume on the drums down, they overshadow the melody which sounds like a sample. You gotta get that sample/melody/ louder. It deserves to be heard. That all depends on the cuts those. The babadabbada part of the sample is loud enough those funky wah guitar sounds are comin in too low and since they are dope if the babdabbada and the funky wah are together in a sample you might have to chop that up and layer the funky wah noise so it comes in louder cause its dope. . You don't need that chorus ahh sound to come in at all. I would remove that from the entire track to be honest. Other than that you got one breh, the drums are on point just turn them down a lil, youve got the bar structure, shyts on time. You've come a long way but everyone starts from the same place.
Thanks so much, fam. I edited it and made the melody louder and the drums quieter. I also removed the choir vocal from the hook, but don't you think it would get repetitive if I don't switch up something for the hook?
Id have to hear it, somethings melody's are stale and you have to have some sort of change up other times it could pass. Depends if someone is spittin a freestyle over it or writing an entire song. Sometimes just dropping the beat (the drums) or even the melody) out for a beat, half a beat, bar or bassing it out (adding a filter which keeps the bass and the beat but filters out the melody but not 100%) is enough of a change up
This is good but having compared to two tracks im feeling the first one. At this point the beat is completed. Before the mixing and mastering process this is the point where you would finalize what you need to do with it before you turn it in. For instance if you were going to have someone spit on it, they might say, give me for more bars of...or like I said the first time, take the pad out here so it dont come in over my vocals..or put in some hats here. Since the basic part of the drums which is the rhythm and the melody is complete its just a matter of you finding out when/where you are comfortable leaving it.
I listen to beats that ive 'finished' and im always like "id do this here" or "id change this" and i think a lot of people do that you just have to quit when your comfortable.
Where can I learn to mix and master?
You can try to search on here we used to have a really good thread on mixing and mastering it had people straight up telling what they do or what to do, video clips and even had some recommended books on it because once you learn that aspect of the game you can network and talk to rappers and other producers and be like "i'll master your beats/song for you" I would search for it. if it aint on here anymore then you can search mastering fl studio on youtube and of course theres hours of tutorials.
Would you recommend I continue to make some beats or go straight to mixing and mastering? This beat I linked you is the first full beat I've ever made.
keep making beats. while you make beats you can learn how to mix and master because when you put the two together things are going to sound better for you and to you theres just little things you can do while your putting your beat together like eq'ing the snares and compressing the kicks then by the time your beat is all put together like your beat above theres just less things you have to do to finalize it.
OK so I started critiquing before I listened through different audio sources. The kick in this is dry as hell. It's an ashy kick. It's flat and dry. Through low quality speakers / headphones it sounds like you are using a snare drum as a kick.
You might have to start eq-ing/mixing as you make the beat but I'm notorious for choosing drums I like then once the beat is done I play it on other speakers and one or more of the elements hats / snares / or kicks is wack.
You definitely need some swing on the drums to livin them up. It's a dope sample. The entire sequence is great. Just work on the drums. Better drum sounds (mainly for the kick) and put some swing in their so the drum pattern isn't so robotic.
I changed the kick and messed around with the EQ. Before you make a beat for a rapper,, I've been told that you shouldn't mix/master. Isn't EQ'ing and putting effects part of the mixing, though? Thanks as always, fam.