4 New Beats Up

[Goodfellow]

Well my studio wasn't setup for a long time during school n' stuff, but I'm finally rollin again

got all new shit up

MySpace.com - JGFella - Vancouver, CA - Hip Hop / R&B - www.myspace.com/mcgoodfella14

I sorta gave up on vocals, but I'm startin a group with 4 pretty sick cats in Vic so I'll have some good tracks up soon enough.

[Jack Mehoff]

sap... I checked out your page. They're alright, Rest in Peace was probably the best one out of the bunch. Just a tip: you need better drums and claps though! The ones you're using sound cheap.

[Goodfellow]

thanks for the heads up. hard to say if i'd agree or not, maybe. It's hard when you've made 100+ beats, you tend to always want to use something different to get a new sound.

[Jack Mehoff]

what DAW are you usin? where do you get your sounds?

[Goodfellow]

what do you mean by DAW? I use cubase to sequence and I mostly get my sounds from audionews.ru , I have like 10+ gigs of sample cds from there. I need to get a needle for my rekkid player so I can sample all my vinyl.

I don't bother with VSTs too much anymore.

[Jack Mehoff]

DAW = Digital Audio Workstation.

Cubase... what controller are you using? and you got 1200s?

[Goodfellow]

nah I just have an old rekkid player. the girl i'm movin in with has a full 1200 setup so I'll probably just use hers and maybe get serato. oh and i just use some miditech board, nothin amazin but it does the trick. i started gettin piano lessons a while back, now I really wish I had a piano.

put another new one up there

this is kinda bad, i was approached by some guys that want like gangster shit and have lots of $ so i'm tryin to do more "rap" beats for them. hopefully that's not sellin out, i figure its just broadening skills.

[Jack Mehoff]

^ Cool cool,

That rest in peace track some potential to be crazy good

(just my opinion, doesn't mean shit don't do it if you don't want to)

-Replace those "strings" in the beginning with realer sounding samples
-don't change those keys that drop in @ 10 seconds, those are money
-realer sounding drums and claps
-realer "bongo" sample (i dont know what to call that instrument, but the one has the rapid taps in succession)
-change the bassline: make it stronger and add some variation, play around with it, add some funkiness.

With those changes that track could be serious, you could sell it to a big artist. Feel free to add change ups mid-song, add variation in the drums, etc...

I hope i don't sound like a dick, just my honest opinion in that track

[Goodfellow]

no man you don't sound like a dick, it's nice to hear some feedback and listening to people is how you sharpen your skills.

one thing I will say though is myspace makes the drums in particular sound really weak in comparison to the real version. i do agree about the other stuff though. if i can get it soundin better ill post up the edit

[Jack Mehoff]

Originally Posted by Goodfellow

no man you don't sound like a dick, it's nice to hear some feedback and listening to people is how you sharpen your skills.

one thing I will say though is myspace makes the drums in particular sound really weak in comparison to the real version. i do agree about the other stuff though. if i can get it soundin better ill post up the edit

yeah that's cool, but you know how artists are you just gotta assume they are sensitive until you know them :)