What Makes Beats Commercial?
- Thread starter KnowNoGood
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half of the commercial sound, is who produced it. I think manny fresh is the best producer that can give you a gritty sound, or a commercial sound. There are tracks that just sound too dark, but usually the bouncy sound is a commercial one, but since lil jon has been dippin his sound out there, there is a fine line now
?!?!?!?!?!?! HUH?!?!?!?! I'm not following you. What does mixing have to do with a "commercial" beat/track? If you mix for a commercial release (BY COMMERCIAL RELEASE I MEAN AN ALBUM THAT WILL BE SOLD IN STORES) you want to mix it the best way you can. You want smooth fades, crops, no sibelence, balanced EQ, properly compressed takes (vox,kick,snare,bassline etc) and properly panned instruments (no summing issues or phase cancellation, you want it to sound proper when played mono). These are just examples and limited to what I listed.
Yes different styles of music call for different mixing techniques and settings. With jazz the kick drums aren't "in your face" like rap/hip hop. In *certain* types of rock the vox are buried in the mix instead of being loud and up front like pop, r&b and rap. The mix depends on the style of music (rap hip hop has A LOT more low end than country music) and at the end of the day ALL music will adhere to certain rules. Do commercial releases have tracks panned differently? NOPE! Snares are STILL in the middle, kick drums are STILL in the middle, basslines are STILL in the middle, bass cleff is STILL panned to the right, treble cleff is STILL panned to the left, toms STILL get spread.
I believe the original poster had beat/music content in mind when the question was asked. Listen to the instrumentation of your average "commercial" track. You WONT count 20 different sounds in the song. Listen to the notes being played. You won't hear diminished fifths or leggato playing. You'll hear a beat that repeats over and over and over.......as cheesy and gay as it may sound it will catch you.
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ps a MIXING *ENGINEER* is a person who specilized in mixing. Sometimes the tracking engineer and mix engineer are the same person. I see no problem with this if he or she knows how to achieve the desired sound.
Yes different styles of music call for different mixing techniques and settings. With jazz the kick drums aren't "in your face" like rap/hip hop. In *certain* types of rock the vox are buried in the mix instead of being loud and up front like pop, r&b and rap. The mix depends on the style of music (rap hip hop has A LOT more low end than country music) and at the end of the day ALL music will adhere to certain rules. Do commercial releases have tracks panned differently? NOPE! Snares are STILL in the middle, kick drums are STILL in the middle, basslines are STILL in the middle, bass cleff is STILL panned to the right, treble cleff is STILL panned to the left, toms STILL get spread.
I believe the original poster had beat/music content in mind when the question was asked. Listen to the instrumentation of your average "commercial" track. You WONT count 20 different sounds in the song. Listen to the notes being played. You won't hear diminished fifths or leggato playing. You'll hear a beat that repeats over and over and over.......as cheesy and gay as it may sound it will catch you.
:hgk:
ps a MIXING *ENGINEER* is a person who specilized in mixing. Sometimes the tracking engineer and mix engineer are the same person. I see no problem with this if he or she knows how to achieve the desired sound.
