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woodink
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Hi i'm a rapper and I really need to get my stuff mixed and mastered, but don't have the big money, is there anyone willing to help or give me some really REALLY good tips
Massive Master
www.massivemastering.com
Practice? A lot?
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woodink
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I mean I know nothing about it, all I know how to do is write music....my lil brother messes with all that, and im not getting the results I want, my vocals don't seem to mash with the beat it sounds a lil off
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stealth_prod
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Yeah definetly practice alot. I dont think to many people are going to be willing to mix your tracks for free or even cheap because it doesnt sound like they would be recorded very well to begin with. Google "mixing hip hop vocals" and you may come up with some answers. Please know that you are not going to get that radio sound in project studio and as most on this site will tell you, there is NO quick template for mixing. Mixing is skill that is learned by practicing and experimenting. My advice is research and save up some money to get some studio time.
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woodink
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thanks for the help both of you, yeah saving up for that studio time is sounding like the best option once agin thanx
Massive Master
www.massivemastering.com
I know this is a generalization and not a popular one - And note that I'm not trying to be discouraging - just realistic.
Out of every 100 (1000? 10,000?) people out there trying to be a recording engineer, maybe 1 will actually ever be truly proficient at it. Many more will eventually get decent at it. Most will not, as they won't be willing to put in the work, or they just don't have the raw skills.
The bummer is that the best potential engineers, probably almost exclusively women (as they inherently have far more sensitive hearing than their male counterparts throughout their lives), couldn't give a rat's ass how the home stereo sounds - Much less actually taking up recording.
But that's not the point -
It's not a bad thing for a home studio to be a "hobby" thing or a pre-prod thing. That's what the whole "home studio" thing was from the start. Work on your performing technique. Work on songwriting and get your ideas down without necessarily worrying about sheer sound quality.
Doing that -
A) You'll naturally get better at it over time. It could easily take years, it could take a decade - It might not ever get "wonderful" - But you'll get better at it nonetheless.
B) If you get your ideas and performance down pat, you can go to a studio with an experienced engineer and a nice gear selection and bang stuff out in no time at all. Preproduction is everything. I've worked sessions where we were fussing over drum tuning for three days or finding out that the bass player was always playing one note wrong (poor pre-prod) and I've worked sessions where entire albums were recorded *and mixed* in less than a day. It's all in the preparation.
Maybe you'll be a great engineer - Maybe you won't. But there's nothing wrong with concentrating on being a great performer and letting a great engineer eventually capture that well-prepared performance.
Out of every 100 (1000? 10,000?) people out there trying to be a recording engineer, maybe 1 will actually ever be truly proficient at it. Many more will eventually get decent at it. Most will not, as they won't be willing to put in the work, or they just don't have the raw skills.
The bummer is that the best potential engineers, probably almost exclusively women (as they inherently have far more sensitive hearing than their male counterparts throughout their lives), couldn't give a rat's ass how the home stereo sounds - Much less actually taking up recording.
But that's not the point -
It's not a bad thing for a home studio to be a "hobby" thing or a pre-prod thing. That's what the whole "home studio" thing was from the start. Work on your performing technique. Work on songwriting and get your ideas down without necessarily worrying about sheer sound quality.
Doing that -
A) You'll naturally get better at it over time. It could easily take years, it could take a decade - It might not ever get "wonderful" - But you'll get better at it nonetheless.
B) If you get your ideas and performance down pat, you can go to a studio with an experienced engineer and a nice gear selection and bang stuff out in no time at all. Preproduction is everything. I've worked sessions where we were fussing over drum tuning for three days or finding out that the bass player was always playing one note wrong (poor pre-prod) and I've worked sessions where entire albums were recorded *and mixed* in less than a day. It's all in the preparation.
Maybe you'll be a great engineer - Maybe you won't. But there's nothing wrong with concentrating on being a great performer and letting a great engineer eventually capture that well-prepared performance.
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gethypedmusic
You Have No Idea.....
That was wonderfully put. I don't think anyone could have said it better.
-HyPe