This is a follow-up to my previous post on finding the right beat making software.

Once you’ve established which software program you’re going to use as your sequencer, you’ll want to make sure you’ve got the necessary plugins to create a clean, hard-hitting, radio-friendly sound that hip-hop artists love.

Without the proper plugins and the knowledge of how to use them, your beats are in danger of sounding like every other wanna-be producer out there who thinks they can get away with using stock drum sounds and a lot of gain.

I’m going to recommend 3 mastering plugins that you can use with your beat making software or recording software, to get your tracks really smashin’ with the best of ‘em.

The challenge for producers in today’s hip-hop industry, is figuring out how to get each of your sounds to come through loud and dynamic, without clipping or distorting. A lot of amateur producers think it’s as simple as just turning up all of the instruments or the master track in your beat making software. They try to enhance their dynamics by boosting the gain, only to blow someone’s speakers out with clipping and distortion. Wrong move.

It’s not about volume…it’s about compression and limiting!

You’ve got to have a good mastering compressor or multi-band limiter to run your beat through, in order to give it the dynamic, hard hitting sound without distorting or clipping it. You may be thinking “I have a stock compressor that came with my beat making software or recording program,” but the type of compression I’m Read the rest of this entry »

One dilemma that all new hip-hop producers (and even some experienced one) find themselves faced with, is the one of wondering what the best beat making software programs are.

After all, there are so many different beat making programs to choose from that it can become very confusing very fast, and in many cases, people can be misled, either by spending unnecessary amounts of money or putting too much emphasis on the software rather than some of the more important components or plugins that go with the beat making software.

It’s important to understand that although some beat making software programs are more user-friendly than others, the more important components of your setup are those components used to alter the dynamics of your sounds and instruments.

Think of yourself as a chef. If you’re cooking a meal, it’s important that you have a pot or pan to cook the meal in. However, the taste of the finished meal will depend more upon what you do with the ingredients, than what kind of pot or pan you cook them all in. As long as you have a pot or pan, the taste or quality of the finished meal probably isn’t going to depend heavily on what type of pot or pan you use. It’s the garlic, Read the rest of this entry »

For the third video in this series, I demonstrate an amazing orchestra program.  This is literally a program of a live-recorded orchestra, and it is the only program I use for strings, woods, brass, live percussion, grand pianos, choirs, live guitar and more!

When making beats, whether for hip-hop, R&B, Pop or even commercial instrumentals, you must have REAL-SOUNDING instruments in your sequence.  Strings and other orchestral instruments bring an emotion to your beats that other instruments cannot.

If you have a cheap sounding string, flute, choir or trumpet, the listener will hear it and toss your beat aside.  At least the smart ones with money will.

This is a great program and I highly recommend it over any keyboard stock orchestra kit that I’ve ever heard. 

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Now, check it out and then leave a comment on this page (at the bottom) letting me know what you think of this video!

Ever wonder how the beats you hear on the radio have such clean, powerful, driving synth sounds that are so nicely stereo spread, and carry the chorus of the beat so well? 

Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret….their sounds are just BETTER than yours.  If you’re still using the stock synthesizers on your Triton or Motif, or you’re tempted to go out and buy a new synth or keyboard, in order to get new sounds…WATCH THIS VIDEO!! 

Yes, it is possible to spend $4000.00 on a new synth board and get cheap, crappy sounds in return.   Instead, take a look at this video and watch me demonstrate the synth program that I’ve used to create beats for guys like E-40, Bubba Sparxxx and some others.

It will blow your mind how little you have to spend in order to get a huge library of some of the cleanest, most original and customizeable synths available.  This video could save you TONS OF MONEY. 

 Now, just like I do with everything, I’ve spent several hours gathering this information and experimenting with the different programs  in order to find a great synth, so please leave a comment at the bottom of this post.

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As promised, I have completed “Million Dollar Drums.” This is the first free video tutorial of this ground-breaking new series entitled “Secrets of Super Producers”.

Do you unsuccessfully spend hours upon hours trying to get your drums to sound like those you hear on the radio? Are you frustrated with stock drum sounds that are weak and drum sampling programs that are glitchy or ineffective?

Are MPC’s and other machines too expensive for you?  Well, join the club!  You definitely need to watch this video

Now, I spent several hours gathering this information, experimenting with the different drum samplers and learning several different programs in order to determine what is the very best drum sampler available for beat-making, so please leave a comment at the bottom of the video letting me know how it helped.

In order to view the video, you can either click on the link to watch it online or you can “right click” on the link and select “save as” to download the video and view it on your computer.

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