How many beats do you make a day??

pawn wrote:i feel stupid, but im new, what do you mean by "mixing" your beats?

.... panning(a percentage to the left or right of the stereo field of sound) instruments and adjusting volume levels... basic mastering is accompanied with this also, such as compression, eq, limiting, etc....

well i'm glad i got this feedback, because i thought i was slow, lol, honestly i don't even go through the tracking out of a beat until i know its going to be used, i usually pass the beats on to cats and let them hear what hey like, then when they choose one, i go through the final mixing and mastering process...

I am sporadic in my beat making, and very un-prolific. My best beats usually start out with the melody or something, then I through in the hats for timing and the bass and snare do their own thing. When it comes together fresh and effortlessly, time does not matter for me. If Im feelin my own beat, I just work with it and work with it. But seriously I can do a couple/three beats in an evening, but just skeletons. I always come back to the ones I like later, and then beef em up.

Geez, Im terrible at answering questions [get to the point].

Like 2 or 3 on a good eve, but sometimes I get lost in my sampling and cant even get anything accomplished.

Prah_860_ wrote:even @ work...today for example i spent my lunch banging out beatz lunch table style......

Yeah dawg, **** i do that shit all the time *****! I beat box at work too, but i try and keep it quiet an shit so no one else can hear {i'm not all loud and blatant until i get home or 2 da streets} but i think sometimes the tradesmen hear me and they're all old cunts so they're probably wondering wat da **** i'm on, but i dont give a shit yo 'sall good. Tap heaps at work on tables, beams, walls, my legs, **** anything i can - i find that shit helps with pad work HEAPS, having good hand/eye/finger co ordination is vital for the MPC pads, also helps me figure out some different feels too
churr y'all keep doin this shit !
ess.

i have heard that the chems have spent days over a hihat line before....

greg

ess kode NZ wrote:

Prah_860_ wrote:even @ work...today for example i spent my lunch banging out beatz lunch table style......

Yeah dawg, **** i do that **** all the time *****! I beat box at work too, but i try and keep it quiet an **** so no one else can hear {i'm not all loud and blatant until i get home or 2 da streets} but i think sometimes the tradesmen hear me and they're all old cunts so they're probably wondering wat da **** i'm on, but i dont give a **** yo 'sall good. Tap heaps at work on tables, beams, walls, my legs, **** anything i can - i find that **** helps with pad work HEAPS, having good hand/eye/finger co ordination is vital for the MPC pads, also helps me figure out some different feels too
churr y'all keep doin this **** !
ess.

glad to see i am not alone!

It takes me about 30-40 hours per beat, depending on how intricate I make them. I'll finish a beat just to fix it over 40 times (over the course of like, a month or so). It takes a long time before I consider a beat actually completed. I could bump out 30 different drum tracks a day, but when it comes to sampling and sequencing the other sounds, slow and steady wins the race. Besides, everytime I listen to a beat I made after not hearing it for a while, I get new ideas and tweak it out, so until a beat is released into to marketplace, it is never really finished. I guess I'm just slow...

Peace 1

M.ic P.ro C.rusher wrote:It takes me about 30-40 hours per beat, depending on how intricate I make them. I'll finish a beat just to fix it over 40 times (over the course of like, a month or so). It takes a long time before I consider a beat actually completed. I could bump out 30 different drum tracks a day, but when it comes to sampling and sequencing the other sounds, slow and steady wins the race. Besides, everytime I listen to a beat I made after not hearing it for a while, I get new ideas and tweak it out, so until a beat is released into to marketplace, it is never really finished. I guess I'm just slow...

Peace 1

i can feel that.....perfection

I try and make as many beats as I can before my wifey gets home from work and starts buggin' about me not doing the dishes!!!!
If I'm not near my drum machines (TR808,TR909) or MPC2k, I'm recording myself beat boxing on my cell phone for play back later.





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depends on how i feel , records , food , weed , money , stress . a lot of factors come into play. but most of the time i get a few out a week. i always go back and phatten shyt up. time is of the essence always in this .

Yo, OceanStateKillah, guessing by the name, you from Rhode Island right? (or are you planning on destroying the state? ) Who do you produce for locally? I know a few cats from the Prov/Pawtucket area, and was wonderin if we knew some of the same peoples. Holla back.

Peace1

unfortunetly, I cant work on beats everyday as I have a lot of other things on, on average I guess I can push a beat once every 7 days (fully complete), to just to a rough draft would take about a couple hrs or so (including spending time finding the right sounds etc etc...

Often I can spend about an hr or so at a time simple listening.

even when I have a beat complete, I often end up tweaking when I come back and listen to it, and really the beat is never really 'fully complete' until the actual vocals are laid down

Quality over qantity most definitely. 1 thoroughfied banger a week will outshine anything else. Makin beats is not hard. Making them perfect is a different story.

Lampdog wrote:Quality over qantity most definitely. 1 thoroughfied banger a week will outshine anything else. Makin beats is not hard. Making them perfect is a different story.

i hear that.........thaz how i feel

It's like this,

Madlib knocks out an album a week of 'Yesterday's New Quintet' beats and Dj Shadow spent 10 hour days working on 'MonoSylabic' only making 8 seconds of the track per day!

Don't know about you but I've got a lot of respect for both those guys' beats.

'Horses for courses' (what ever works for you)