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Originally Posted by
Dopie
A better way to put it is "How many beats should you make before releasing to public?"
What the heck does that even mean? Beats? You mean selling samples? Or a complete song?
That depends on the style of the music, some styles are more complex than others. The best way is to:
- Learn to play an instrument.
- Analyze your favorite songs.
- Try to reproduce your favorite songs all from scratch.
- Try to figure out how others have done X (like an effect).
Like the other user said you need to be very confident especially if you're asking for feedback. Ignore all the positive feedback and focus on the negative feedback, don't get upset when someone doesn't like your track that will happen. If you act like a madman when someone doesn't like your track they will troll you but it will also make you foolish. You need HONEST feedback, many people will tell you that something is nice even when they don't like it, they said this because they don't want to hurt your feelings. But thats dangerous because many people will really believe that bullsh!t.
There isn't really a magical number but you should always try to compare your work with the work of a professional.
Many new guys fail with the mixing stage. If you get all the audio volumes of all the instruments at the right level from the beginning then the mixing stage will be very easy. The main lead should be near 0db (aka just touching the red hint hint), the bassline should be there but it shouldn't dominate, it shouldn't be louder than the leads. The rest should follow.
Focus more on the composition than effects. Seems like many kids nowadays think it's cool to use tons of effects and compression while the composition of their song is very bad. Effects won't improve the composition, even if the composition is great and the effects suck the song will still sound good.
Going to be honest with you. If you;re talking about selling beats as in selling them then I would suggest you to do something else with your time. Those professional producers produce their own beats.