Hip Hop Production Thread Part Deux

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Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Chwoka posted:

little late on this, but can I rap on this track? seems like it'd be dope, i dunno. wormwoodcontact@gmail.com - send it to me if you like.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2012 02:28

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 16:41

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

The Doo Do Chasers posted:

Here is a new thing I did. https://soundcloud.com/grungerdude91/teddy-pederast-white-cliffs

Every beat I make moves further and further away from sounding like hip hop. Oh well. In a month I wont even be able to pot in this thread :/

I think this is great and would definitely put a really long verse on the first part, at least.

SHOPPA 4 LYFE posted:

I made a couple things that I recently posted to: https://www.soundcloud.com/majinjuu

Feedback appreciated cause I suck.

The biggest thing I can think of to say for Ice Water is the snares need to be done with something harder than claps for this, in my opinion. Also the main synth pattern needs to do some other variance of what it's playing, I like the softer sound put in around 2:55 though definitely.

Ladle Lady fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jan 6, 2013

# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 22:22

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

So great producer and cool dude Chwoka and I have been working together for a little bit on some songs.

https://soundcloud.com/wormwood-1/gray-test-beat-by-will

https://soundcloud.com/wormwood-1/new-prometheus-beat-by-will

Have a listen and let us know what you think, please.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2013 19:22

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

The Doo Do Chasers posted:

Send me your verse(s)!

I have a show this evening so my voice will be pretty blown out, otherwise I'd do it tonight. I'll get it to you tomorrow after I'm done with work, promise!

# ¿ Feb 4, 2013 23:26

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Thoogsby posted:

I'd love some critique on this. I like the kick but some of the other elements I'm not too hot on.

https://soundcloud.com/heyitsben/2-9-13

The snare could be snappier I guess. and the hi-hat noise stands out in the mix a bit. other than that I love the samples you're using, very cool song.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2013 04:47

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Hey guys, it's me again. I just put a mixtape out last night featuring production from Chwoka and Ayatollah Hermione. I'd really appreciate it if I could get some analysis on what I can improve about my mixing process, writing, presentation...anything really. Thanks in advance for taking a look

Ladle Lady fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Apr 23, 2013

# ¿ Apr 23, 2013 02:25

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

The Rubberbandit posted:

You've gotten better at rapping, the confidence comes through on the track.

I am interested in your recording setup. Did you just do the vocal mixing or more of the track(s)? The first thing I noticed on most of the songs was a lot of reverb on the vocals. Used as an effect on some songs, sure, but the reverb seemed similar from song to song, and not interesting in any case. Are you setting up a separate track as a vocal reverb bus, or just adding it to an existing vocal track? Consider using delay plugins in place of reverb, or in combination.

I also noticed lots of doubled vocals that were not properly lined up. It sounds sloppy and in some cases diminishes the impact of the lyrics. Some songs didn't have this problem though.

I think all of your vocals could use another 3+ dB of compression on a master vocal bus. It would make the vocals more intimate and present, and really blend/polish those hooks where you have two or more takes at once.

Overall the mixtape is cohesive, but the vocals don't jump out at all. In some cases the beat almost drowns them out.

If you're alright with it I would love to try my hand at mixing a song off the mixtape, for your reference only (well, mine too!)

thanks for your insight, i'm glad to hear things are improving, haha.
i'm just adding the reverb to the vocals directly, yeah. I'll try the delay thing. the doubled vocals not exactly lining up was a conscious choice but yeah, I can see how it wouldn't work for someone hearing the songs initially. I'll definitely try putting the vocals more forward in future songs and yeah, please take a crack at a mix on any tracks you want to. I'd love to hear it.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2013 01:45

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Who Gotch Ya posted:

I'm curious if the overly frequent punch-ins is a stylistic choice or a crutch to avoid having to know your verse well enough to spit it straight through.
I only played the first track. I'm just very turned off by punch-ins unless it's clearly done for style purposes and not every bar.

That's the only song that kind of thing is done on. I was attempting to do that cliche thing where 'it sounds like two dudes but it's actually one!!!' and clearly it didn't work this time. I definitely, definitively memorize each verse in and out before I record.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2013 00:53

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

I'll do as much as y'all will allow me. I've got some pretty quick turnaround when it comes to getting songs done.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2013 02:40

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

I put a beat in there. 'Sayre - gigawhat'. hopefully i'll have something for it soon but i wanted to throw it in there to see if it jumped out at anyone.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 09:23

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Tokit posted:

http://tindeck.com/listen/ajdq

i dont rap because im white

Not like that's stopped anybody in the thread yet

I had a quick thing to clarify. Are we doing our own mixing on this? I just ask since thief said to put stems in the folder. Either way is cool, I'm just curious

# ¿ Jun 12, 2013 23:52

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

I've got something for Third Eyebrow. It's on PostPre's beat 'splee club', i'll mix it tomorrow and throw it in the drive

# ¿ Jun 18, 2013 07:30

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

alright i put my first contribution to 3EB to the drive. Just the wav file, i'll upload all the stems and poo poo after i get off work/if anyone wants them for whatever reason. hope you like it,

# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 04:05

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

who did cr33p3r droiMA00? I thought it was third world but i guess not. I've got a thing recorded for it and I really want to credit where its due etc. etc. that and I wanna get more beats from you, whoever it is.

I threw the song into the drive, as well. check it

# ¿ Jul 29, 2013 21:08

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

THNDRTHF posted:

That's my beat lol

I wanna hear ur poo poo brah

Ohhhh, I should've figured that. I put it on the third eyebrow account, its called Ceep Creepin. Its got another rapper from Montana on it name of JJ Jones. I hope you dig it cause I'd really like to put it on this EP I'm putting out tomorrow. But I guess that's a conversation we can have through email or soundcloud or w/e. Let's see if you even like the song first.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2013 22:44

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

swamp teen 1990 posted:

Some new tracks, sampling 80s deep cuts:

https://soundcloud.com/spacecampbeats/03-my-name
https://soundcloud.com/spacecampbeats/05-summer-flu

These are high power! can I spit over some of your stuff?

# ¿ Aug 16, 2013 22:00

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Alright fellas, I put this up at the start of the month and I've been getting a lot of good feedback about it. Bearing that in mind, I decided I wanted to show it to y'all in the hopes that I'll get some real, in-depth critique on it. That, and it features production from our very own THNDRTHF, lanzy and ashgromnies. The gist of what I was going for lyrically was just trying to find different niches to fill with each track.

Anyway, please take a listen to F O R M S

https://wormwoodmt.bandcamp.com

# ¿ Aug 31, 2013 23:27

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Formal Bad posted:

Got off my rear end and started producing tracks again. Here's some stuff I've cooked up in the last few months:

https://soundcloud.com/formalbad/no-talk

Slowly trying to move away from samples and use more synth in my songs.

I just wanted to link the song I did off this one: https://soundcloud.com/wormwood-1/armed-locust-beat-by-formal

I'm pretty proud of the mix on this one/actually switching up my flow a little bit. Also FB, I was the guy who directed that J. Dub fella to your page, did he end up following through with buying a beat?

# ¿ Sep 16, 2013 03:19

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

is my mixing getting better
https://copy.com/X2hGdmCEXSOc

this is the first mix, no effects on it. just compression/some EQ

# ¿ Oct 6, 2013 03:40

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Thoogsby posted:

nother'
https://soundcloud.com/goobers_yo/u-i-g-5-7

I really really like this one and ah�ye, if you're into it I'd definitely put something over those and anything you sent me, given time.

i mean, check me out first to see if you'd be into it but yeah

https://soundcloud.com/wormwood-1/wormsoap-lets-eat-zoo -- the last song I did, i'm the first dude rapping, get at me on SC if you wanna do some stuff, I think that'd be cool as poo poo.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2014 04:06

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

The Doo Do Chasers posted:

yo wormwood i was going through some ~personal life~ poo poo when we were supposed to collab! Did you end up using my beats on anythiing?

Not yet! I was trying to have some of the other cats around here on em but for one reason or another they all dropped off. So I'm re-approaching the beats I have cause I still really like them/want to use them for something. sooo soon hopefully! I am actually going through some life stuff myself that's interrupting my schedule hard but it'll be over by the end of the month.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2014 17:59

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

JCW posted:

update!! https://soundcloud.com/thejcw/dreamyhook3/s-j8u7X cmon yall someone gotta have something 2 say about this

also here some one other thing https://soundcloud.com/thejcw/gravey-teaser-trailer

Dreamy is creamy dude, way fuckin smooth. I love the echoy sounds on just about everything but the snare, and the breakdown :58 in is charged. this is a hot one!
I would rap over any JCW beat no question. I just followed you on SC (Wormwoodrapper), I realize its kinda egocentric to just be like 'yo I can rap over your stuff and make better' but i'd honestly be beyond stoked to get some stuff from you.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2014 18:48

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

GbrushTwood posted:

https://soundcloud.com/capn-cook/loose-ends

A dreamy Washed Out type of beat I cooked up last week

Off one listen I'm super into it. the Clams Casino tag is very apropos haha...very cool beat though, lots going on in there. I can hear a lot of different potential types of flows.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2014 01:15

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Hey guys, been a minute! I wanted to come by and plug my latest thing. It's got some goon-produced joints (Bookkeeper and You're Number One, what's up Space Camp! Armed Locust and Take It Easy are Formal Bad's beats) but yet again I'm coming to y'all looking for some fresh, sharp and most importantly knowledgeable eyes on the project. I handled almost all the mixing and I think I may have even started to figure out mastering. Any thoughts/critiques in that area would be most welcome. Here's the link: http://wormwoodmt.bandcamp.com/

I really appreciate the things I've learned both from observing and interacting with you guys, I really hope it sounds like I'm learning something!

# ¿ May 28, 2014 15:20

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

Sin Dios posted:

Some chill/trap poo poo

https://soundcloud.com/lucifear666/heartstopbeating

that bass line is freaking on point. Everything sounds pretty good, especially the hollow-sounding snare that comes in around a minute. definitely digging this!

# ¿ May 31, 2014 09:14

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

hey guys, i cut a grip of tracks over Graves 33 beats. he's a seattle dude, fucks with grayskul, anyway I think they're pretty good and dear god I hope that's not just the delusion talking.

https://soundcloud.com/wormwood-1/goldenwool-graves-33 here's one! As always i'm looking for notes, critiques, that type of poo poo. I'm glad y'all are keeping the fire here

# ¿ Oct 2, 2014 00:24

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

klopfenpop posted:

Hey, that guy is friends with a lot of my friends. He and I got into some poo poo because he thinks vaccines are government mind control, lol.

Diggin' your track. I was in Missoula for work for a while, but couldn't find much of a scene other than my buddy Matt Cassel who produces and raps under his own name.

https://wormwoodmt.bandcamp.com/album/personable <-- I put the whole thing up here, funny to hear that about graves though definitely not out the realm of my expectations of him
hey! matt and I cut a pretty embarrassingly dumb record last year he did all the production and mixing for. the group is called beige note but there's no way i'm posting it here. anyway this is now better suited to PMs so bye!

# ¿ Oct 2, 2014 20:09

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

64bit_Dophins posted:

There is a freestyle club at my uni that wants me to make a 'group joint' for everyone in the group the group to put a verse on similar to 1 train or oldie by odd future.

I've put down a couple of ideas but nothing that I think could be listenable for 6-8 minutes. I'm thinking that I should keep it as simple as possible but with an interesting enough sample to hold people's attention.

So yeah, what are some of your favorite 'squad' tracks?

imo you could just Five Fingers of Death em and they'd go ape for it

# ¿ Apr 27, 2015 01:40

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

THNDRTHF posted:

For a large number of MCs sometimes this is the best way to keep it interesting - set up 32 bar / 16 bar / 8 bar breaks for people to jump in and out of the cyper.

my only question about that is should the mcs be aware that there's gonna be different bar structures so they don't get all stumbley when it switches on them? I've been experimenting with cypher style sessions at the end of my shows and they go alright...trying to find ways to improve them though. I was thinking a little flash card style 'here's the deal' type thing but that seems weird

# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 23:20

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 16:41

Ladle Lady: Apr 28, 2006; ♫Videogames Are Great!♫

JCW posted:

https://thejcw.bandcamp.com/album/cassiar

how do you keep getting better at finding and flipping samples with each release. really digging the effects you put on stuff like in KnowMyName and Peashooter

I think I should definitely post this here since this thread was a big push in the right direction for me in my fledgling stages. anyway blahblah, here's my first music video please enjoy how gross my hair and beard are in it. I got a haircut and shave shortly after seeing the first cut of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=808S7uMmOHM

# ¿ Aug 3, 2015 01:11

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