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Originally Posted by Mils  Greetings peoples,
I've been making beats and performing since last century, 19 hundred and 98, but I've came to a place where I want my instrumentals are bangin, the albums get a lot of praise that I produce for quality and stayin true to making my own sound and stickin with it.
BUT! ! !
It always seems like the headliners have sound quality from another dimension that you feel the bass and the sounds pushing air into the audience...thats the one thing that makes hip hop so NICE! Sometimes if the sub is tuned just right it can effect an audience members nether ummm...regions. haha....But even whe we headline I've still had 1 opening group come with the crispist most moist and tasty sound. Mine sounded like mush :( boo urns......
Anyway to make a short story a little longer, I've concluded that the best show beats are masters made of your instrumentals while you are getting your ish mastered....You simply ask the ME to make "T V Tracks" of your instrumentals while they are running the full songs and while the settings are collaborated they just slide the instrumental thru it and its BLAM!
Fortunately, I got this advide just recently form one of my mentors, a member who rolls with Murs, The Grouch, Eligh in the supergroup known as the LIVING LEGENDS of LOS ANGELES. They told me that yes TV tracks were the shit! Confirming what Stic.Man of Dead Prez hipped me too. He calles em TV tracks.....But I've only done that once for our lates album and it did turn out fabulo and with our shows this summer although there is a huge differencet bettween older gems that peoople wanna hear that dont compare the the ones we had done to provide that physicall interaction at shows.
So if anybody has any DIY, step by step, plug ins and technuiqe for achieving this stellar sound, drop some knowledge. |
A couple guys that have done sound have told me that they make sure that the head liner always sounds the loudest. Otherwise there is crowd fatigue, with the usual 10 opening groups. SOUNDCHECK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT IF YOUR AN OPENER!
I do Black Pegasus show mixes and they always bump just as hard as the headliner. He goes off of Minidisc (still!), but all I can say is most instrumentals are RMS at -11 to -10, I just usually bump that up to -8 rms. There is a really good plugin called Loudness Maximizer that I used to use and that killed it on at the pepsi center on Snoop's system! I got some video that I'll upload with that sound.
Basically it helps if you have some mastering skills when you do show mixes.