Good sound = more listeners. If you are serious about your music then you should be mixing and mastering your beats. You can find some really good plug-ins out there to help you do this. I try to always use a variety of plugins mainly from the Waves bundle. You should be tracking out your beats to a DAW such as Pro-Tools or Logic and mixing the tracks down with your vocals to get a better sound. You need to be mixing your music on studio quality monitors and in a sound treated room. You don’t want to put out a final mix of vocals on just a 2-tracks mixed on headphones. Set a standard of quality for your music and always move forward, not backward. Sometimes that’s all you have to work with, but if you can then you should try and get the beat tracked out and then mix the vocals in the same session that you mix your beat with. You might need a Pro-Tools HD rig if the track count is extremely high. If you mix your beats then more people will buy them, just like if you mix your music more people will listen to it. My friend made a mixing services website if you need someone to mix your music. He has mixed for some huge names in the industry. I built the website as well, so if you need someone to do a website then hit me up! I will be uploading some mixing tutorials soon to help you get started on mixing your own music. Hope this helps! – Peace

If you would like a professional audio engineer to listen to your music and give you honest feedback, then send me an email to gm3beats@gmail.com with your song, and I will listen to it and give you my honest opinion. You got nothing to loose, and I like to help the next guy out as much as I can. I am not saying I know it all by all means, and don’t get upset if I give you the honest truth. If you send me something looking for honest feedback, i will give you constructive criticism. The best thing I can tell you to do is get as much constructive criticism as possible, and show your peers your music. Absorb technique from everybody, and then mold it into your original own. No 2 people are alike, so at the end of the day if you go 1 step further then the norm/standard, you will stick out. So listen to peoples advise when you get it, not just mine. Remain humble, and keep your ego at bay when asking people to listen to your music. Learn from what people say, and run with it. Keep listening to all kinds of music, and over all keep an open mind to your music evolving. I learn new things everyday and it’s because I keep an open mind to all feedback and criticism. There really are no rules to making music the “right” way. But there are a few techniques to make it sound better. Some people call these tip “industry secrets”, but I don’t keep knowledge from the people, I think it should be spread for the sake of good music. Hit me up. I’m looking forward to hearing your song.

Here are 5 Tips on making your music sound better.

Tip 1:

Use a condenser microphone with a pop filter with your digital audio workstation. You can get one of these at your local music store, or you can look online and shop around. There are tons and tons of mics out there. The c414 is a very good mic I would recommend for vocals. I recommenced spending at least 300-2000 on your mic, and don’t be cheap. Get a decent mic, and ask around and find out who uses what, and what kind of deals you an get.

Tip 2:

Look for the tone in the song, sometimes referred to as the “key” of the song. Just hum and find the overall tone of the music, and then put your vocals on the track in that tone, like they were an instrument. It will make the over all song sound better because now you are an instrument instead of just words on a beat.

Tip 3:

Project your voice. Stop mumbling(unless that’s your thing) If you are speaking really low, you might be not be putting enough energy into the song and it is lack-luster. Make your listeners feel you music by rapping/singing from the diaphragm. Put some soul into it and make people really feel your words by pronouncing them, and putting emphasis in certain words.

Tip 4:

You have to invest into yourself and your career. Get an engineer to mix your records. Find a local studio, and pay for studio time so a trained engineer can critically listen to your music. Do an overall blend of all the different sounds in a beat, tracked out, mixed with your vocals to make a final mix.

Tip 5:

Get your songs mastered by a professional. These days mastering is cheap and you can find someone online to do it. This makes sure the song is as loud as possible and radio ready. Its the next step after a final mix. The mastering engineer makes the song playable and loud across all different systems. Most if not all commercial CD’s and radio songs you hear are mastered. That’s why the bass has a punch and all the sound is loud and vivid.

I hope these tips were helpful for you! Not go and make some great music!

Best,
Gm3