[Tibbon]

I'm no longer working in a professional studio, but when I was (still need to update my sig) we had about 50% of our Hip-Hop clients bringing in beats that were obviously just sampled from 50 Cent or Eminem songs. They'd even admit to it.

I'd say about 45% of the clients brought in really bad beats that some 'Producer' that they knew made on their PC in Fruitloops or Reason. They'd often bring in this stuff on a really nasty sounding 2-track recording that was distorted to hell, and then they'd want the whole thing relooped to their lengths. Thank god for Beat Detective.

The other 5% actually made their own beats and recorded a good bit of it in the studio. Decent sounding stuff most of the time.

What do you guys do when the beats that you get in that these guys (or girls) will be using are simply horrible? Many of these guys were coming in to this studio simply because they didn't have the money to go elsewhere, and they certainly didn't have the money for decent beats. Quite a few of the guys loved the way i mixed their vocals to them as well, but I couldn't stand for them to put my name on any of it. I don't think i've EVER had a hip-hop project that I was actually proud of from an engineering standpoint because i was building a house on a foundation of ice in florida.

I guess on the Rock and Roll side you've got the guys that can't play. On the hip hop side you've got people with bad beats.