Making professional quality beats online is a fast, easy and smartest way to create backing tracks for your music project these days. To get that professional quality, though, you have to produce well mixed material. Here are some things to keep in mind when creating your beat tracks for DJing or adding to your next album.
Mixing tracks is more than just turning up the volume on certain parts, although it obviously includes that a well. Making sure that the sounds in your track are well balanced does not necessarily mean raising volume, nor does it mean exclusively all sounds are the same level or stay that way over time. The way to approach your track is listening to it as a process that changes its strengths over time. It is a miniature composition. It has an opening, an ending, and a series of melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic elements in between that carry the listener/dancer through the work. There are cadences and accents at work within the beat and mixing properly can bring those forward, strengthening your music.
Adjusting a support sound level can be very effective. Try bringing a bass drum or bass guitar sound from a zero or low level volume to the most prominent element of a track and see how that works. You can also try the opposite, bringing complimentary sounds in and out with the strongest element as a staple of the beat. The same applies to the ending of a beat or piece. Fading elements out or cutting them out cold can be extremely catchy and can highlight the melodic or rhythmic accents.
Bringing samples up and down over time in the mix can also supply the tension and relief needed to increase the entertainment value of a beat. Paying attention to factors like the stereo pan or the EQ of a sound is important and can give you an entire range of creative outlets for your track. Some DJs utilize the EQ heavily during a set; mixing with this in mind can be a great advantage if you balance sections severely towards or away from certain groups of frequencies. This allows the DJ to drop the bass or the high end and maintain the integrity of the track.
Try some of these ideas when mixing your beats and hear how it assists in producing professional quality tracks! Use an online service to generate your beats, burn a copy, and hit the club!
Now all you need to do is pick an online service, sign up, and get started. There are a few online beat making services out there currently. I personally like using Sonic Producer. They offer professional and concise tutorials and lessons. If you want to find out more about it, check out this review by going here: Sonic Producer Review
Good luck!
William Connor, Percussionist and Ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate,
London, England and Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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