Help A Very Real Qusetion ....

I was wondering what do everybody put there final mastered tracks on . CDr's , Files etc; . After im done with a track i finalize it on a CDR , i put like 25 tracks on one CDR . I have a library of beats like this is this the way to do it , or am i doing this wrong ? If a music company ask for one of my beats and i give the a CD with the copy of the song to use , would this be alright . All replies welcome

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been wondering exactly the same thing! ive still got all my beats on zip disks and would love to free the space off them! anyone help us at all!?!?

I assume that they would want the individual tracks too so they can mix it more or master it, plus you never know what kinda tweeking you need to do when you add vocals to the mix.

I just archive one song per cd, on it is each track, the mixdown I made, and the necessary files for whatever program I used. If I use efx at ALL I incude the dry track too.

cdr's r cheap now so you can afford to do this, its easiest, that way the person you sell it too has control over the final product, which is what they are paying for anyway right?

Good question. I think the only way you can achieve quality transfering of those grooves is by recording them onto a DAT cassette tape. This way then can be mastered. You'll still have to do tweaking and all that at a later date but it gives you a solid stable for your beats.

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I use CDR/CDRW. I also archive m whole zip disk to a folder so I can free up space on my disk. If something should happen to that disk then I can just get another zip and reload my stuff and be right back where I left off. I archive the updated songs on that zip everytime I make changes so I always ahve the latest backups. BACKUPS save you from future heartache really. All my sounds/samples/beats/songs everything is backed up. I learned the hard way. Losing stuff is not fun at all.

This is how it's done:

When archiving tracks, depending on what you are using to record your beats, you'll definitely want to put 'em down on disc one way or the other.

If you are goin str8 from the MP/mixer to CDR just load your beats up (one at a time, obviously), get a cool mix (enuff to represent your track), get the hottest possible signal going into the CDR (without hittin red) and drop them each. It takes forever to do this if you have a gang of beats. You'll probably mess up the CDR, too somewhere along the way.

It's better and easier if you are using a DAW. You could record your tracks in the computer, pull up the tracks and work on them over and over without losing your eq/dynamics/efx (as close to perfection as you can make it!), bounce the mixes internally, then use Toast or something like that to arrange the order of your beats to your taste. You can change it as you like and/or burn fewer or more tracks to the CDR.

For your own personal use and archiving, get as many tracks as you can on a CD. It's gonna be 74 -80 mins long max. If you're submitting to a label, 25 beats is waaaaaaayyy too much. If you know for sure that they are gonna use your stuff, then it's ok to send a lot (probably 10-15). In most situations, you'll want to give them about 3-5 of your hottest cuts. Also, you WILL NOT give them the separated (individual) tracks. If they use your music, you will be there when the actual session(s) takes place. You are the PRODUCER, right?

DAT is dead. Nobody uses that anymore. Mastering houses get hard drives or CD's of audio files and Pro Tools files now.

Hope this helps!