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Hey everyone I am an artist but frequent this page alot cause I feel its important to understand all aspects of the industry. Anyway, I have been doing hip hop and freestyle music for about 5 years. Close to a 1 1/2 ago I came across the Acid program and completely fell in love with it. It made a tremendous difference in my music. Any artist can tell you if you can't play like 7 instruments(which I Can't) then you have to hire people to do it. Anyway lets get to the point.


I have these beats, about 400 of them, and I have lyrics to 20 of them which I am looking to go into a studio and record with. My question is I see alot of stuff in here about mixing down and mastering. I pretty much just create the beats then burn them onto a CD. Will this be good enough to give to the producer. Should I be doing anything else?


Thanks alot
 
I think that as long as your mixed version is mixed fairly well (and half the job there is done since the loops are usually all pre-mixed in a sense), that is, your poarts are all distinct and there's little or no noise and the track volume is loud enough, then mastering for your purposes is probably excessive. Mastering is the finalizing process prior to final production of CDs and, if the mix is good to begin with, you're home free.

In a word, if your songs are good and they are put together well, mastering is really just icing on the cake; if you spend money on it, I doubt it will do much if anything to improve your chances catching the ear of the AR talent scouts.
 
What's up gec. :)

I am not sure I'm understanding your question.

You are saying that you have 400 different songs, and you have vocals for 20 of them.

Now you want to go to the big studio and lay the vocals over the tracks.

Is that correct?

If that is the case, I would take the computer to the studio, then send each "track of the song" seperately to the studios equipment.

Or burn a copy of each track of the song seperately, then load it into the main studios equipment (computer or board).

Because once you put the vocals on the song you will need to adjust the different tracks to make sure that they all "sit" in the song properly.

I hope that that made sense.

spin
 
Hey Spin,

Let me clarify that. I have 400 beats cataloged and twenty of them I have put vocals to.

I thought burning each individual track would be the way to go. I did record some of the songs on an 8 track that I have and it sounded good as one track, but I'm sure the producer would bring out some other parts of the background if I split the sounds up.

Thanks alot for your input spin, I'll make sure you get a copy of the best hip/hop freestyle you've ever heard
 
That's what I meant :).

You had 400 beats and 20 of them had vocals.

That's the best way to go into the studio. By spliting up the tracks, the engineer will be able to add to them and enhance them.

Make sure you send me that music. :D

spin
 
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