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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Mobile phones dont seem to showcase the same sound as my studio monitors do
« on: April 25, 2016, 12:53:22 am »
awesome thank you, now is there a way to do this same thing in cool edit for vocals?
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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Mobile phones dont seem to showcase the same sound as my studio monitors do
« on: April 24, 2016, 06:06:11 pm »
how would i mix in mono on fl studio?
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Mixing/Mastering / Mobile phones dont seem to showcase the same sound as my studio monitors do
« on: April 23, 2016, 02:49:18 am »
Mobile phones dont seem to showcase the same sound as my studio monitors do, i make a song it sounds great on my scarlett pro with studio monitors and other sound systems as well like cars and whatnot. but with technology being mostly mobile anymore people mostly hear my songs through there phones. is there a certain conversion that needs to be done to compensate for the mobile phones mono output to have it sound the same as the rest? what is the process, i like to do stereo enhancing features to make the sounds wide and you cant even hear it on phones even when you have headphones on them. mind you these songs are on soundcloud for viewing. if you have any advice to counter this and fix the problems please let me know. thank you
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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: What style of music do you guys feel will be the next trend?
« on: April 23, 2016, 02:45:48 am »
well from what i see hiphop is here to stay, but ive noticed its getting a mix of techno/ dubstep mixed to it. so i think thats the new thing now. rappers on techno dubstep beats. just my opinion.
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Sound Design / Re: Tips To Help You Sell More Beats
« on: April 22, 2016, 10:35:48 pm »
Wasn't sure as to were to put it as the other topics don't seem to be in the same topic either. I figured id keep it in the same place as my other post hoping i could help someone somewhere at least
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Sound Design / Tips To Help You Sell More Beats
« on: April 22, 2016, 10:08:14 pm »
Selling Your Rap Instrumentals Online
Here we will give you tips that will help increase sales of your beats and rap instrumentals.
Marketing Your Instrumentals
Social Media is a main outlet to engage the right audience to help increase selling your beats. But there is a proper and improper way of doing this. Invasive strategies are a big no in the marketing industry. Nobody likes being tagged every single day on Facebook with 99 other people. Some get highly upset as they want there profile to remain private and not in plain view of other people whom they have no true connections with. Instead it is a better practice to post to your own personal timeline and allow the person to see it through there timeline. Although there are better strategies to marketing through social media than just this. On Facebook search bar you can search for relevant posts to help you find someone who is actually looking for beats. All you have to do is type on the top search bar "Posts about I need beats" Or "Posts about I'm looking for beats". This will show you people who have posted this term right on there wall! Talk about a dead giveaway to whose looking right? The same can be applied through twitter. But there is a program called Tweet Deck that can do this for you all the time and with LIVE FEED. That's right, no more refreshing the page to see new posts about the relevant term. This program will show new posts within seconds of them being posted. And anyone on twitter who says "I need beats" know they will be flooded with links from other producers. So it is essential to be the first one to get to it before the other producers do.
Search Engine Optimization For Your Instrumentals Website
This is #1 in line when it comes to a successful beat selling business for rap artists to flock to. But because of this being the number 1 thing to do, it is also not the easiest. It consists of keyword density percentages, backlinks from QUALITY sites, Indexing your website, Search engine submissions every single day. SEO alone is a job in itself and can most likely require a team of experts to get the job done properly as improper tactics and setup of the website can actually make your website penalized and you will never be found on google ever. Keyword stuffing along with massive amounts of low quality backlinks will get you into Google prison for life. If you are a tech savvy person and i mean that will all emphasis on savvy because you will need a lot of knowledge to know how to do this properly this can be done by yourself. But if you have no clue as to what you are doing We highly recommend hiring an SEO professional, This does not come cheap. And if it does come cheap expect these "experts" to be using blackhat practices that will get you banned very quick.
Throw Beats Sales For Rap Artists
I mean that goes without saying. Most artists don't want to pay an arm and a leg just for one beat. And whatever you do, Don't listen to those other producers who say your beats suck just because you sell them for cheap. This is there way of telling you they don't like you for selling cheaper than they are. In the music industry it is dog eat dog. You have to be on the top no matter what and thats the bottom line. And selling your beats cheaper will help increase your sales hands down. The guy who has top notch beats for $25 might only sell 1 beat a month if hes extremely lucky, but the guy with equivalent quality or mediocre beats who is selling them for $5 may sell 30 a month. It truly is all on how you reach out to your fans needs and demands. Expect artists to be struggling and expect that is the reason why they chose to be an artist because they want to make it big and not have to struggle anymore. So take this tip of advice and don't over price your Rap Instrumentals
Kill them with kindness
Share other artists work without you having to ask them. Give your honest opinion (or don't) its really up to you on that one. But one thing is for sure, no artist wants to hear negative feedback. Positive feedback and sharing of there music lets them know you support them. They may not even know who you are at the time. But be sure they will see your act of kindness and be curious as to who you are and check out your beats and be much more willing to buy from you and share your website for you as well all because you took the first initial step into creating a relation with your possible future clients.
I hope this post helps you sell more rap instrumentals and if you enjoyed this read please feel free to share it with your friends. Thank you
~Eclipse The Producer~
Here we will give you tips that will help increase sales of your beats and rap instrumentals.
Marketing Your Instrumentals
Social Media is a main outlet to engage the right audience to help increase selling your beats. But there is a proper and improper way of doing this. Invasive strategies are a big no in the marketing industry. Nobody likes being tagged every single day on Facebook with 99 other people. Some get highly upset as they want there profile to remain private and not in plain view of other people whom they have no true connections with. Instead it is a better practice to post to your own personal timeline and allow the person to see it through there timeline. Although there are better strategies to marketing through social media than just this. On Facebook search bar you can search for relevant posts to help you find someone who is actually looking for beats. All you have to do is type on the top search bar "Posts about I need beats" Or "Posts about I'm looking for beats". This will show you people who have posted this term right on there wall! Talk about a dead giveaway to whose looking right? The same can be applied through twitter. But there is a program called Tweet Deck that can do this for you all the time and with LIVE FEED. That's right, no more refreshing the page to see new posts about the relevant term. This program will show new posts within seconds of them being posted. And anyone on twitter who says "I need beats" know they will be flooded with links from other producers. So it is essential to be the first one to get to it before the other producers do.
Search Engine Optimization For Your Instrumentals Website
This is #1 in line when it comes to a successful beat selling business for rap artists to flock to. But because of this being the number 1 thing to do, it is also not the easiest. It consists of keyword density percentages, backlinks from QUALITY sites, Indexing your website, Search engine submissions every single day. SEO alone is a job in itself and can most likely require a team of experts to get the job done properly as improper tactics and setup of the website can actually make your website penalized and you will never be found on google ever. Keyword stuffing along with massive amounts of low quality backlinks will get you into Google prison for life. If you are a tech savvy person and i mean that will all emphasis on savvy because you will need a lot of knowledge to know how to do this properly this can be done by yourself. But if you have no clue as to what you are doing We highly recommend hiring an SEO professional, This does not come cheap. And if it does come cheap expect these "experts" to be using blackhat practices that will get you banned very quick.
Throw Beats Sales For Rap Artists
I mean that goes without saying. Most artists don't want to pay an arm and a leg just for one beat. And whatever you do, Don't listen to those other producers who say your beats suck just because you sell them for cheap. This is there way of telling you they don't like you for selling cheaper than they are. In the music industry it is dog eat dog. You have to be on the top no matter what and thats the bottom line. And selling your beats cheaper will help increase your sales hands down. The guy who has top notch beats for $25 might only sell 1 beat a month if hes extremely lucky, but the guy with equivalent quality or mediocre beats who is selling them for $5 may sell 30 a month. It truly is all on how you reach out to your fans needs and demands. Expect artists to be struggling and expect that is the reason why they chose to be an artist because they want to make it big and not have to struggle anymore. So take this tip of advice and don't over price your Rap Instrumentals
Kill them with kindness
Share other artists work without you having to ask them. Give your honest opinion (or don't) its really up to you on that one. But one thing is for sure, no artist wants to hear negative feedback. Positive feedback and sharing of there music lets them know you support them. They may not even know who you are at the time. But be sure they will see your act of kindness and be curious as to who you are and check out your beats and be much more willing to buy from you and share your website for you as well all because you took the first initial step into creating a relation with your possible future clients.
I hope this post helps you sell more rap instrumentals and if you enjoyed this read please feel free to share it with your friends. Thank you
~Eclipse The Producer~
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Sound Design / Tips For Making Your Own Beats
« on: April 22, 2016, 09:59:13 pm »
Tips For Making Your Own Rap Instrumentals
Tips For Making Your Own Beats
There are many tips that can be covered in making rap instrumentals, making it hard for us to cover every aspect of it. But here are a few tips that should help get your beats started in the right direction. After all you are trying to make sales on your instrumentals and the only way to do that is make something that anyone can rap on.
Mastering Programs
It is always a good idea to have a mastering plugin on your Master Mixer track. These plugins add a vital roll to amping the beats up and creating a fuller effect over all that makes your beats shine. We recommend Izotope Ozone, but you are not limited to only that. Its a good idea to find a preset that you like within the plugin and tweak it some more to fit your liking. Make sure to pay attention to the monitors on the right; if your hitting in the red you need to turn the input or output down to compensate the tweaks that you've made as peaking can occur and nobody like a beat that is peaking.
High quality sound plugins
It is always a good idea to have high quality VST plugins to make your Rap instrumentals. One rule of thumb, Premade loops can be spotted a mile away. While there are no rules against the use of them unless its stated within the binding legal terms that came with them (make sure to check those as some of the loop packs you get are an absolute trap to sue happy producers who sell them claiming they are "royalty free.") It is still frowned upon as other artists and producer will know were it came from as these loops are rampant all over the internet. You don't want to be known as a producer who can't his own beats. We recommend
1. East West/ Quantum leaps plugins. These are a bit pricey to purchase outright but they have a new producer cloud now that is only $30 a month and give you access to the entire database of sounds.
2. Sylinth plugin. This is one of the top notch synthesizer plugins in todays market and have been for some time now. If you look hard enough you can even find data banks that add to the content of sounds within the plugins.
3. Blu Cats Audio Suite. This is a must have and contains over 90 different plugins from equalizing to limiters, Gate effects and Compressors; Basically everything you'll ever need to help improve the quality of each sound you will have it in this plugin suite (Highly Recommended)
Rap Drum kits
The name says it all here. You cant ever have enough drum kits. As versatility is a key factor in this industry, once artists start finding out about you they may have requests for a certain style rap instrumental and want it custom just for them. So having a wide array of drum kits is never a bad thing to have.
Audio Interface
These are an absolute must have. For those of you who don't know what these help you with. Let me walk you through a scenario I'm sure you've already been through or are still struggling with. You start using high quality sounds and you end up hearing a chaotic crackling sounds and the program stutters, You go to do live record with your keyboard and you hit the keys and it comes out severely delayed. and you ask yourself how do i fix this. Well the audio interface is exactly what you need to fix these problems and keep your workflow as consistent as possible. Audio interface allows you to lower the Latency ( the time delay between your midi device and the time it actually plays the sound) higher latency means less crackling but much longer delay causing a pain for beat makers out there. But then again Lower latency make midi devices more on point but increases chances of getting the annoying stutters and crackling sounds coming from the program. This is all due to the fact that the processor in your computer and almost all computers out there are not able to full handle music creation so the audio interface in a nutshell in your secondary processors that is specifically designed to withstand all that.
Learn to play the piano
Not hard to explain this one. Its an absolute must. Producers who play with there clicker finger don't ever make it that far.
Studio Monitors
You cant just use any kind of speakers to make beats. A common mistake for first timers. Not all speakers are created the same. Some are made to make things sound loud and bassy. This is not what you want. You need ones that are made for mixing your sounds properly, and studio monitors are the way to go. they keep the tweeters and the woofer close by without giving one or the other any EQ umph. You need that null signal so you know what the true sound is. And you need your basses right next to your tweeters because you need to see just how your bass matches up with your highs. Too much bass will drown all your highs out and you'll be left with a bass test instead of a beat. It takes time to learn to mix properly. Don't always trust input monitors but also never ignore them either. Avoid peaking by using the input monitors to keep any REDS out of the picture. After that the rest is up to your ears and each studio monitor is created differently so you will have to train for each different pair you get.
~Eclipse The Producer~
Buy High Quality Beats And Rap Instrumentals Online At http://www.eclipsetheproducer.com
Tips For Making Your Own Beats
There are many tips that can be covered in making rap instrumentals, making it hard for us to cover every aspect of it. But here are a few tips that should help get your beats started in the right direction. After all you are trying to make sales on your instrumentals and the only way to do that is make something that anyone can rap on.
Mastering Programs
It is always a good idea to have a mastering plugin on your Master Mixer track. These plugins add a vital roll to amping the beats up and creating a fuller effect over all that makes your beats shine. We recommend Izotope Ozone, but you are not limited to only that. Its a good idea to find a preset that you like within the plugin and tweak it some more to fit your liking. Make sure to pay attention to the monitors on the right; if your hitting in the red you need to turn the input or output down to compensate the tweaks that you've made as peaking can occur and nobody like a beat that is peaking.
High quality sound plugins
It is always a good idea to have high quality VST plugins to make your Rap instrumentals. One rule of thumb, Premade loops can be spotted a mile away. While there are no rules against the use of them unless its stated within the binding legal terms that came with them (make sure to check those as some of the loop packs you get are an absolute trap to sue happy producers who sell them claiming they are "royalty free.") It is still frowned upon as other artists and producer will know were it came from as these loops are rampant all over the internet. You don't want to be known as a producer who can't his own beats. We recommend
1. East West/ Quantum leaps plugins. These are a bit pricey to purchase outright but they have a new producer cloud now that is only $30 a month and give you access to the entire database of sounds.
2. Sylinth plugin. This is one of the top notch synthesizer plugins in todays market and have been for some time now. If you look hard enough you can even find data banks that add to the content of sounds within the plugins.
3. Blu Cats Audio Suite. This is a must have and contains over 90 different plugins from equalizing to limiters, Gate effects and Compressors; Basically everything you'll ever need to help improve the quality of each sound you will have it in this plugin suite (Highly Recommended)
Rap Drum kits
The name says it all here. You cant ever have enough drum kits. As versatility is a key factor in this industry, once artists start finding out about you they may have requests for a certain style rap instrumental and want it custom just for them. So having a wide array of drum kits is never a bad thing to have.
Audio Interface
These are an absolute must have. For those of you who don't know what these help you with. Let me walk you through a scenario I'm sure you've already been through or are still struggling with. You start using high quality sounds and you end up hearing a chaotic crackling sounds and the program stutters, You go to do live record with your keyboard and you hit the keys and it comes out severely delayed. and you ask yourself how do i fix this. Well the audio interface is exactly what you need to fix these problems and keep your workflow as consistent as possible. Audio interface allows you to lower the Latency ( the time delay between your midi device and the time it actually plays the sound) higher latency means less crackling but much longer delay causing a pain for beat makers out there. But then again Lower latency make midi devices more on point but increases chances of getting the annoying stutters and crackling sounds coming from the program. This is all due to the fact that the processor in your computer and almost all computers out there are not able to full handle music creation so the audio interface in a nutshell in your secondary processors that is specifically designed to withstand all that.
Learn to play the piano
Not hard to explain this one. Its an absolute must. Producers who play with there clicker finger don't ever make it that far.
Studio Monitors
You cant just use any kind of speakers to make beats. A common mistake for first timers. Not all speakers are created the same. Some are made to make things sound loud and bassy. This is not what you want. You need ones that are made for mixing your sounds properly, and studio monitors are the way to go. they keep the tweeters and the woofer close by without giving one or the other any EQ umph. You need that null signal so you know what the true sound is. And you need your basses right next to your tweeters because you need to see just how your bass matches up with your highs. Too much bass will drown all your highs out and you'll be left with a bass test instead of a beat. It takes time to learn to mix properly. Don't always trust input monitors but also never ignore them either. Avoid peaking by using the input monitors to keep any REDS out of the picture. After that the rest is up to your ears and each studio monitor is created differently so you will have to train for each different pair you get.
~Eclipse The Producer~
Buy High Quality Beats And Rap Instrumentals Online At http://www.eclipsetheproducer.com
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