Hip Hop Producer's Tips and Tricks

Who has not this happened to before? You're making a beat, feeling good about the track that coming along and all of the sudden your bass add to the track and it just does not work. There's either some kind of a distortion or it just sounds weird and measure up the whole song. Well, luckily, there is a couple things you can do to bypass this little problem. You can record the bass so it does not hit at precisely the same time the kick does. Try putting a faster release on the kick and a slower attack on the bass so they really will not be teeing off on eachother every time they hit. Or you can just go the old hard workin 'RETUNE way and the two sounds so they fit together.

Try matching the root note of the bass you are using to the same root note is that the kick in. This should help cut down considerably on the distortion, as well as make the kick and bass sound much better.

Little simple things like that really make a difference on tracks and go a long way when trying to market your music. So try this little trick out next time you are throwing a beat together and see how it works.

On to another note (no pun intended). PLEASE remember to leave a place in the track for an EMCE who may want to use your track. You MUST have dynamics in your beats. We call this "Sandbagging" if you beat your overstuff with unnecessary sounds and it leaves no room for the artists to be heard. If you're working with a writer, you're not leaving them much room to invent their own melody over your track.

If you are working with an artist, you may want to consider leaving some of the melodies out prior to him / her recording. Then after the recording is done, you may want to go over it and try and create a marriage between the melody and the artist so everything sort of just FITS. Scott Storch would agree with me when I say "noisy" tracks are not radio friendly.

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