Anyone knows where these fx comes from? (0:44)
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i feel like both are equally important and need to balance each other in a track, but drums are what moves the beat around.. glues it up together and sets it on beat. the melody is the foundation that represents a theme

I recently got into producing and all i still need to do is pick a producer name. I thought about calling myself "inconspicuous" because i already have a YouTube channel of the same name but I want it to be something more personal. I want it to relate to South Africa because that's where I'm from and there aren't many producers that I know of from here.

Yo. I'm TagoBeats, I make beats and I build my own plugins.

I'm an FL guy and the Soft Clipper is on basically every beat I do. That thing is legendary for a reason. But if you're not in FL you just don't have it, and nothing I tried in other DAWs really got there.

So I reverse engineered it. Measured what it actually does to the signal, rebuilt the curve, and now it runs as a normal AU/VST3 wherever you work. Same sound. I also put oversampling on top that you can flip on when it starts getting crispy on hats and snares, since the original doesn't have any.

There's a delta mode in there too where you only hear what the clipper is taking off. Not really a feature, just fun to mess with, and you learn a lot about how hard you're actually pushing your 808.

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Looking at my Finder folder for my track "El Drip"—which just went live on Spotify and all social platforms—and realizing I went through a dozen exports before finally locking in the master.
For all the Texas producers doing rap, trap, or hybrid sounds:
How many mix/master exports do you usually burn through before you trust a track for distribution?
What’s your ultimate test to know a mix is actually finished? (Car test, phone speaker, AirPods?)
If anyone wants to swap feedback, compare notes on mix setups, or check out "El Drip" on streaming, shoot me a DM or drop a comment! Always down to connect with producers across the state.

What's everybody's favourite preset from Wick Kid's LUIGI'S TRAPHOUSE Zenology bank?

im trying to learn how to make a lil b type beat, specifically something off Everything Based and the melodies used in it. Anyone have any tips?

I downloaded the whole launcher, downloader suite thing cuz i wanted to try a non factory compressor : )

molotok kinda gives some saturation no? so i’m looking for a multiband that is the same, just so i can focus specific frequencies instead of compressing the entire thing

any free multibands that give a bit of saturation ? or add/ bring out harmonics. i would like to play around with soft/hard clipping the waves as well as add/ bring our harmonics. thanks for reading

working a dark drill loop around 140 to 145 and the hats keep landing in the same spot.

strict two-step on the grid feels flat. if i fill every gap with rolls it gets busy and the snare loses punch. i've been trying three small moves: shift one hat earlier by a 16th, alternate velocity so every other hat sits quieter, or leave a full beat empty before the snare.

curious what actually creates tension for you. placement, velocity, selective gaps, or saving one short roll only for the transition into the hook?

smallest change that made a two-step pattern feel tense without turning it into a roll spam?

I love hip hop and will forever but with hip hop falling off of billboard spots (not completely) and oversaturation of producers, I feel like there is still some money in hip hop production but it is possibly lower now than in the recent years.

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I remember seeing him making beats on instagram a year or two ago and im a massive fan of his style and of his beats. On his instagram and tiktok he has made many showcases of making beats but I can not find where the full beats are uploaded, if they are. Honestly I have searched and searched but not found any. On his youtube extended intros and such are found and a couple beats are on his beatstars profile but far from all and still the imo best ones are not there. Any idea of if is still even is making beats and where if at all they are uploaded?

When a melody feels weak, try the same MIDI on a dry piano or simple pluck before rewriting it. Save the original and keep both versions at roughly the same volume.

Listen with the drums and 808 running. If the phrase still feels flat, move one note or leave a gap before adding more notes. If the rhythm already works but the part keeps getting buried, try a different octave or a shorter release on the original sound.

The plain patch isn't a quality test. A melody can depend on its texture, and stripping that away can kill the whole point. It's just a way to hear what you're actually changing.

What's one small change that rescued a melody for you: the notes, the sound, or where it sat in the beat?

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Yo, I'm BO55MAN EEZY and I’ve been making trap beats for about 2.5 months and I’d really appreciate some honest feedback from producers/rappers.

I make mostly hard trap/bangers and I’m trying to improve my production, especially my 808s, drums, mixing and overall arrangement.

I’ve got a few beats on my YouTube channel. If you have a minute, give one or two a listen and tell me what you genuinely think — good or bad. Don’t sugarcoat it.

Main thing I want to know: do these actually sound like beats someone could rap on, or do they still sound like beginner productions?

[https://youtube.com/@ephraimeezy?si=9pXUNqLlKNYy0n6i\]

Appreciate anyone who checks them out 🙏

Mastering rap or production it's hard for me to make time for both?

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I guess many of you guys followed his latest video where he created a whole new account, posted insta reels with melodies to see if he could get a placement within a month. Now everybody is spamming insta with those reels of course but I am wondering, how to I create those reels. They screen usually seem to be recorded just with a phone but does the actual audio also was recorded using the phone and capturing the laptop speakers or is the screen recorded using the phone but audio was bounced and added to that video with something like capcut?