6.10.2015

How To Make Top Quality MP3 WAV Beats

By Elaine Guthrie


Modern music relies heavily on technology, not only to record and master tracks but also in its composition and production. It is not unusual these days for musicians, even the most famous ones, to make use of synthetic techniques and devices to produce or edit their music. Understanding how they do this is part of making your own top quality mp3 WAV beats.

In making synthetic music, there are two steps. The first is the recording or production of the actual sound. Some musicians use live instruments, while others produce the sound entirely using technology. A backtrack is merely used as backing for live performance, while a track is the entire piece or song. The next step is to master or mix the track so that it can be released in its finished form. Some music involves these two steps simultaneously, or alternating all the time.

Mixing beats usually involves the use of software, mostly or exclusively. The software has been on the market for decades, and is not limited to one specific manufacturer. It is important to experiment with different programs so that you can decide which one you want to use.

The standard format of these programs is for the user to arrange samples (recordings of instruments or other desired sounds) to form the track, much like construction units. At the same time, the user can edit or tweak different aspects of the sound.

Inexperienced people sometimes do not understand how to mix a track using such software. They then mix tracks which are not usable for their intended purpose, such as public performance or as backtracks for live musicians. There are several reasons why this happens.

One of the most significant is the way that not all speakers are the same. People who mix their tracks on a PC might be using ordinary PC speakers, which are typically smaller and low in their bass output. The user cannot determine the true bass power of the track on these speakers and so they try to compensate for what they perceive as low output by amplifying the bass component of the track. They find out how wrong they are when the track is played on a much larger, more powerful public speaker system - the track is incomprehensible, the speakers distort, or they are destroyed by the excessive power of the track. This is known as "blowing" the speakers.

You should always try to maintain awareness of the relative power of the speakers that you are using to mix your tracks. Sometimes, a track might sound weak on the speakers at home, but on a professional PA system it is perfect. Tactics such as part doubling (mixing a double channel for a specific sample or instrument) or "amping" should be used sparingly, since they are seldom necessary.

Nelly Furtado, the legendary pop singer, once stated that she managed to make the speakers smoke during a practice session, literally. Despite assumptions otherwise, speakers can indeed destroy themselves. They are not made with any restriction on the power of their output, so you should not mix your tracks to compensate for the relatively smaller speakers that you are using at the time.




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