Beat Type Beat
By XYON on February 13, 2022 11:53 pm
Back with another hip hop beat for Week 6. I had a little issue with being able to get the sub bass to cut through on my phone speakers but I just ended up boosting the mids/mid highs and carving out the same frequencies on my bus tracks. The bass is only a sub, no layered basses on top (maybe that was my issue?) Anyways, I wrote some chords in midi, printed to audio, chopped, and played MPC style. I messed around a little bit with resampling some synths for some effects, Shaperbox 2 on some vocal samples for faux scratching, and a few different Serum instances for all the actual instruments. I processed a few different samples for the drums as well as the layered foley sounds.
I've been putting heavy emphasis on creating templates and saving presets to help speed up my workflow so I can eventually incorporate my rhymes into these weekly beats. I personally think that a lot of my beats feel like they would sound better with me rapping on top of them, but maybe that's just what all rapper/producer combos think haha. Thanks for checking it out and feel free to leave any critiques.
***I ended up hating where the mix was sitting and reverting back to an older version of the project from 3 days ago and starting over a bit lol. I'm a lot happier with how the drums sound in the mix, I think I ended up over-compressing them before.
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