Also if you turn up the whole beat, you’ll likely drown out the vocals. I know this because these songs have very well defined kicks, snares, bass and melody tracks which is very difficult to get if the artist just recorded over the one track beat.įor example, if you need to turn the kick up on a one track beat you only have the option of turning up the low frequencies which isn’t going to be as clean and defined as just turning up the kick track.

The overwhelming majority of songs released by major labels and for mass consumption are mixed where the audio engineer has full control of the individual tracks. It’s important to keep in mind that most producers have limited audio engineering experience and so there will likely be mixing issues with their beats which can usually be corrected by an audio engineer. This is because it’ll allow your audio engineer full control over the sound of your song and allow them to fix any mixing issues related to the beat.įor example, it’ll allow them to make your vocals sit better in the mix as they can carve out certain frequencies while boosting or keeping others. The Audio Engineer PerspectiveĪs a rule of thumb it’s a good idea to provide all the beat stems for your song. The reason producers charge less for an MP3 and more for the WAV version, is because the quality of a compressed MP3 is much less than the uncompressed WAV version and the difference is fairly noticeable when the song is mixed and mastered (for instance you’ll notice the MP3 has a crunchy over saturated sound).įor rappers looking to buy the beat steams as well, online producers usually charge $100 or more for the individual stems (or track outs) and I will now explain from two perspectives, the audio engineer perspective and the artist perspective, whether you should buy them or not. We get this question from time to time usually from rappers wondering if they have to shell out the extra cash to buy the stems from the producer or if they can just use the one track instrumental.įor most rappers buying beats online, the price for an instrumental is usually between $20 and lower if they’re just buying the MP3 of the beat and $50 and up if they’re buying the beat in WAV format.

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