Beats/Mixing/Tracking????

[CcytzO_Loc]

Jus interested in seeing how some of you guys go about mixing your beats and traccin them out....and what you do different when its for you (or a labelmate, homie, etc.) from what you do for someone your selling the beat to......

I know its important to tracc out cuz they want to mix the beat with their vocals and they can adjust the parts of the beat accordingly....but what happens when they fucc wit the beat so much (add effects to sounds, take sounds out, add sounds in) that its not even the same beat you gave them really.....what id really like to know about that is if anyone ever had one of their beats fucced wit to the point it dont sound as good as it should have and in the end made them look bad cuz the production credit said it was made by them?????

also....lets say you tracc your beats out on pro tools and the person your selling it to doesn't have pro tools or vice versa.....do you jus give them the wav files and let them worry about getting them loaded into their program properly????

When your mixing and traccin for yourself or an artist your doin full production for how do you go about adding effects and such??? Is it better to leave the beat raw and add effects same time your mixing and effecting the recorded vocals????

 

[Sick Wid It]

The purpose of mixing is to make the piece sound as good and unified as it can. It's a process and what sounded go in a beat might not sound as good in a song. When you record with effects already applied you're taking away your freedom during mixdown because you can't remove/change them without re-recording.

I record everything raw except vocals, which I always record with compression applied. Once you've got the vocals sounding right, that's it. You don't normally have to go screw with vocal compression in the mix (unless that's where you prefer to do it. boo.)