Description : This is the latest trap beat I've produced, which I tried to master for the first time with the help of chat gpt. I think I'm creating my own style, thanks to this site and the producers who upload loops daily that I use and mostly modify, but they're still beautiful loops, useful to me, obviously the ones I like. I'm kindly asking for advice on the mastering of this track, as it's 100% my first master of one of my own beats.
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In the master, the only things I usually do are add some saturation to make everything clearer and to add some 'color' depending on the type of song, insert a soft clipper for the transient peaks, and finally, the limiter. As for LUFS, it varies depending on the song's genre, but for urban music, I like to reach something between -8.5 and -9.5 LUFS, depending on the song, without reaching -1dB/0dB to avoid distortion, although sometimes I do a little, depending on the type of song and what my ear tells me.
After all that, I then work on the mix bus, although I usually do the production using the top-down mixing technique, which is essentially producing with the mix bus already configured. On the mix bus, I usually apply some parallel compression and EQ to re-balance everything generally. I also add a reverb to give everything even more cohesion. Additionally, I try to leave plenty of headroom (-3dB or -6dB) to have enough space for working on the master later.
Once I have everything well-balanced, I listen track by track to see if they need some EQ, compression, saturation, etc. But if you use good sounds (already processed sounds), you actually won't need much of that. Where I work this part more is on the buses. Here, I almost always add EQ, compression, and saturation so that everything sounds more integrated and cohesive.
What I've learned so far is that a good mix is much more important than a good master because if the mix isn't good, the master won't be good either. For mixing, I would say that 50% of the work is focused on balancing the volume of all your channels. As you know, we use EQ, compressors, limiters, etc., for this, and all of that affects the volume of different frequencies. But before using all of that, I focus solely and exclusively on raising and lowering the volume faders of each channel until everything is balanced according to my personal ear/taste. And I do it at a low overall volume because if I can hear all the tracks at a low volume, I have a better guarantee that everything will sound good when I turn up the overall volume.
Bro, I'm almost twice your age, but you've been making beats three times longer than me haha, so I'm not the best person to give opinions on mixing and mastering. There are people here on LM with much more experience in this. Even so, I'm going to briefly summarize what I do in case it helps you or if you want to delve deeper and/or check it against what more professional people do, since, as I said, I'm new to this and I'm still making mistakes, and what I tell you now I might be doing differently next week.
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Description : This song is my first attempt at trap(?) and was made ENTIRELY with Looperman loops in honor of this awesome site and also to demonstrate what you can do with Looperman loops :P. Compiled, edited/processed, mixed and roughly mastered in about 16 hours. I am collaborating with a Looperman rapper right now who will lay some verses on this and I will do the hook. In other words this is not a finished product just yet, but wanted y'alls opinions on it.
Description : MY IMPACTS DIDNT WORK >:C
anyway: hey guys c:
Some new Stuff from me.
I didn't know wich genre I should pick, because I tried to do this Dubstep Part but it still sounds pretty trappy, so I chose Trap.
Feedback would be absolutely cool and if you want any of these Sounds, I'll load them up. (Just tell me in the comments).
Description : hello here is the mix and mastering that I did for an artist who despite the quality of my work she refuse to validate this project so I ask for your opinion on the quality of my mix and my mastering
I'm open to any suggestion.
here is her version
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Description : (Prod. Xeos Beats x Who's wyler) - 135BPM
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trap beat 2020 instrumental guitar flute drums bass chill rap sad beats love hip hop
Description : so me and Aaron finally collabed, as i do with all producers on close collabs, i do the vocal and processing then its up to the producer, i give them carte blanche, i don't tell them their job, they do as they wish edit drop lyrics etc
my first attempt at trap, the vocal layout was down to me, and all the bells and whistles Pnnywse, im extremely proud to promote this and show whats possible when you make good links here on the loop, we have an abundance of talent, thanks for your hard work Bro
Description : Step 1) Make a really repetitive beat (No Distortion).
Step 2) Make sure there's a long segment at the end of the beat of JUST THE BEAT because the actual song will only be like a min and 40 secs.
Step 3) For the "distortion", don't actually distort the beat. Most people think you distort the 808 to get the the XXXTENTACION sound, but that's wrong. Make sure the beat is PROPERLY mixed/mastered and THEN boost the bass frequencies until you reach your desired amount of distortion.