I've been talking to a lot of independent artists recently, and one thing I kept hearing was that buying single beats gets expensive fast.

So I put together curated beat packs instead.

These are full-quality, unreleased beats in the Travis Scott / Don Toliver / Drake lane. You can preview everything first before deciding if it's your sound.

If you're working on a project and need multiple records instead of just one beat, shoot me a DM.

Hey everyone,

I'm a musician/singer from Rotterdam (the Netherlands). I'm looking for a producer to collaborate with on a long term (growing together). Not for one beat or a quick project I want someone to grow with, experiment, and develop our sound together over time.

The goal:

Start by making dark R&B tracks.

No money involved from either side no paying for beats, no splitting costs, no charging for vocals. Just pure creative collaboration.

Experiment freely, try things, fail, learn, improve.

Eventually, when we're happy with the results, we release music together (Spotify, SoundCloud, etc.) as equal partners.

About me:

Based in Rotterdam, open to meeting up if you're local

Focused on vocals and lyrics

What I'm looking for in a producer:

Wants to build a real partnership, not just send files back and forth

Open-minded

Based anywhere in the Netherlands (close to Rotterdam)

I don’t know if this shit is lost media at this point but does anyone have any knowledge, videos, pictures of old shawty redd/beatbangerz? I’ve seen small clips of old videos of them in the studio but never anything fully but I know it’s out there. Thanks again to anyone that can find anything.

I dont know if this is the right place to ask but im new to producing and tryna figure out how to do this on Fl. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Don’t get me started on the song 😂😂😂 but the 808 just floats on the beat perfectly does anyone have a link

Most videos talk about DMing artists as if you're already kind of famous. However I don't have even a hundred followers on my accounts. Should I just move forward and make more content or is there something else? I'm really passionate and I do see progress, but I don't have experience in moneymaking here

Hey everyone,
I’m having trouble with mix translation. I do most of my mixing on Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro headphones with Sonarworks SoundID Reference enabled. Everything sounds pretty balanced while mixing, but once I listen in my car (or on other systems), the mix often falls apart.
Is this just a limitation of mixing on headphones, or could I be missing something else? Any tips for improving translation or getting more reliable headphone mixes would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

It’s so hard does anyone know or have a link

After years of having little effect plugins, I downloaded Shaperbox. It’s the best plugin I’ve ever used.

Any other plugins that are on that level?

I just noticed this weird waveform in some of my beats, looking at them in Google Drive, anybody knows what this could posibly mean?

I'm still relatively new to producing, but I still haven't even been able to start with anything for a couple weeks now. I just keep trying to make songs similar to the ones I listen to, and it either sounds too similar to the song or just doesn't sound good at all. Someone please help I'm about to lose it

Hi Everyone,

Hope everyone is having a good Friday. Currently I am sitting in my chair, at my desk, with an SM7B in front of me. To be exact, I am recording vocals. As I am recording vocals, my laptop is in front of me with a Youtube page opened. I am going through Dro Kenji type beats until one thing struck me. Before I get to it, let me tell you that I occasionally started producing for myself. I have always liked playing the rapper though lol But to get to the point, right now I am burnt out from my personal life and managing to produce and at the same time record myself and write. It is just too much for me at this time in my life. So with that said, I have defaulted to leasing beats, and my way of finding them has always been through Youtube. Despite me being a producer myself of mainly Trap Beats and owning a BeatStars, I have always hated looking for beats there. So the feedback to my producers is, please post the key and bpm to your beats. This is no hidden secret. It honestly just makes me skip over your beat. You may say, "just go find it bro". But in all honesty, and thinking as an artist and with my wanna be rapper hat on, by that time I just lost my thoughts on your beat and the interest. I am used to having Youtube opened while I record to the beat and see if I am feeling it. So being able to put the key and bpm on the fly is my workflow as an artist.

Please take this as positive feedback.

I use spin 808s and it just sounds dead af

1. skip to last paragraph to pass ranting and venting. 2. if this is too low quality please take down mods. Also I know you guys are pretty chill around here so fingers crossed. 3. I'm sorry if this is a little scattered, I kinda just wanna vent to people who can understand

I'm in my early 20s and have been writing music since around middle school. I've never been in the studio and have had spurts of trying to record at home. Now, not to be a dickhead but there are alot of people who think there music is good when in reality it is not so great(imo). I would like to believe I'm self aware enough to know if I can write and rap/sing well. Although I still feel like I'm proving my skills to myself, I've actually gotten to a place where I'm fairly confident in writing and recording a song. In essence my shit aint too bad.

My biggest hurdle now is the mixing. It's a whole nother skill than writing and recording. I've spent years on and off evolving my writing and recording. I went through being laughed at in highschool bc my music was bad and garbo. The mixing though is not a skill I've mastered and is lagging way behind my skills as an artist. I sent the last song I made to an engineer on fiverr. It was pretty fucking good and It really fucking hurts bro. After hearing it, one of my beloved family members is telling me I basically need to "get off the porch and go make some money, go make a name for myself." That I'm "sitting on gold." Honestly If I would of got in the studio long ago I would maybe be someone. Knowing this hurts and and it hurts knowing that I have something that could potentially(with much luck) change the lives of the people around me and I've just been fumbling the fucking ball for years. I know I can't view music as my "ticket" out. But seriously at a certain point it starts to feel just like any other marketable skill. You wanna be a plumber you get good at plumbing. You wanna do music you get good at music(still a gamble though I know).

I don't have the money to pay for my shit to be mixed or to be in the studio honestly. I mix in reaper. I have some plugins I've bought, some I've gotten for free over the years, and ofcourse the stock ones. I guess I'm just looking for someone to tell that, yes, it is possible to make a good fucking track with minimalistic tools in a daw. It is starting to feel like when I'm mixing I'm building a statue but I have no fucking clue what the statue is supposed to look like. Hearing the fivver mix did help and it gave me a goal for what I can sound like semi well mixed. I don't want to write and record these songs that have potential and then drop the ball with the mixing and mastering. It is pretty frustrating knowing that fundamentally I have good tracks out but they fall short because of the mixing and mastering.

Of all the things involved in making a beat, the part I find most tedious is creating hi-hats—does anyone else feel the same way?

Hey guys, bit more of a personal post, but wanted to get a temperature check.

I started making beats on FL Studio when I was 17 (~6 years ago now) and soon, it was all I could think about. My friends would bump trap music all the time in high school, and being able to replicate that sound was so satisfying. I was constantly trying to improve, and spending my paychecks on plugins. One of my friends has been trying to make it as a rapper, and I started recording my own vocals too. We became something of a 'dynamic duo,' and at my peak, I could make a beat in 15 minutes and turn it into a finished song in just a few hours. I even learned mixing/mastering at a pretty high level (though I'm by no means a professional) and I look at the songs that we made together when we were 19-20 and I'm still surprised by how decent they sound.

But since then, I went to university. I actually began taking my studies pretty seriously, so there was less and less time for music. My musical horizons have expanded, and with more responsibilities, I've also been finding it hard to connect with the lyrics of rappers. Money, clothes, drugs, women... I sometimes get a little bit annoyed if I listen to it for too long.

I've just graduated, though, and I've been trying to get back into this hobby, but it's been really tricky. I can't even come up with basic melodies, and every 'song' is a 4-bar loop. Making music in other genres has been hard, too, because my workflow and plugin library are still pretty geared towards "experimental trap."

Has anybody else (especially people 25+) experienced a mindset shift like this, and if so, what did you do? I'm 23 now, so still quite young, but my dreams of becoming even a locally-known artist are... basically non-existent. My boy still wants to make it, and I can tell he's disappointed that my ambitions have changed. Wondering if I was ever even doing this "for myself," or if a lot of my passion was caused by fantasies of fame.

Much love, guys. <3

I make around 1000USD per month from type beats. In the Mac Miller / Frank Ocean tags.

Pretty good but not life changing.

I'm curious anyone out there with information / experience in this space, what are the best ROI type beat niches?

Would it be "Drake Type Beat" for example? "Bad Bunny"?

Any way to find out?

Suggest me Trap Beats to remake for practice. I’ve done Love Sosa in GarageBand iOS

Main DAW‘s I produce with are MPC Beats/MPC 2

I know this is a pretty weird example but I'm loosing sleep on finding a female "i" chant thats used in the first second of this song

https://youtu.be/6OdmM1W09R8?is=hH-p8s80KUq_tqLY

Btw, it's not that silent "hi" thats layered over a hihat.

Thanks in advance, I'm sure this effect is used in more songs.

When I send out my beat pack, I just send out my beats with a soft clipper. Kick hits 0. lots of sidechain. and without anything on my my master it easily hits 1 to 2 db normal. Am I supposed to gain stage my beats to a certain level?, for example -3. and after I do this I'm not sure how to bring it back to 0 in the master.

This sounds very complicated but trust me it's not. I just don't know how to explain it

Thank you!

commission a mixed. producer sent it back and it is absolute dogshit. like almost intentional or something. She had great reviews and alot of them. It's so bad I don't really even know how to tell her to fix it. My autotune is so fucked.

What do I say because i obviously cant just be like yo this is dogshit please fix it.

I feel like i've been scammed. My vocals were good too and i spent a lot of time recording.

obviously respect to her and i want to be professional but she literally butchered my vocals like. I think she just closed her eyes and randomly turned knobs in melodyne

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ive tried the soft clipper from fl and it doesnt sound like i want