Make your beats hotter... a set of words that you may have heard from people when learning how to make beats on your own. If you are a new beat maker or producer to the scene who wants to spice your beats up, read further for these tips that can help improve your beats and make them sound hotter in moments!
Panning: What is panning exactly? You may have heard this as well from people who tell you that you need to pan your sounds in the mix. In layman's terms, panning is the shifting of an audio channel either more to the left, or more to the right. So now that we know the simple explanation of it, when you're told that you should pan the sounds in your mix, you'll want to make some of the audio channels balance more to the left side and others to the right. My tip for panning is to keep your kick drum dead center, and usually your bass instrument as well. You can pan your hats more to one side, and the snare more to the opposite side, but don't overdo it. Try to visualize a drummer playing a drum set. Usually, the kick drum is the drum dead center, while other hats and snares and other percussion instruments are usually set up around the drummer, some more to the left side, and others to the right. However, they are still close to the drummer, so panning a snare all the way to the left for example, wouldn't sound too realistic. Panning helps to eliminate clutter directly in the center of your mix.
Compression: This is another term that you may have heard of also. Compression acts as a tightening up of audio on an audio channel to amplify it more. Compression is an effect that can be used sparingly in your hip hop beats on certain channels. Some people use way too much compression and cause their instrumentals to sound distorted. My tip for compression is that you use it on your kick drums, your bass instrument, although this can vary with the type of bass used, and lightly on your final mix. Using compression on these channels will bring out the thump of your kicks further, and on the master channel, when used lightly and correctly, will bring out the overall mix as well without overkill.
Equalizing: Another quality effect that can bring great results (or horrible results when overly used) is the EQ, or equalizer. Equalizing is simply the elevating or decreasing of certain parts, of an audio channel so that you bring out more of the desired area in that channel. On an equalizer, regardless of the type you use, the parts, or bands as they're referred to, on the left side are your deeper bassy bands, and more so to the right are your treble bands. So if you had a bass instrument, but had slight hiss, you could use EQ to decrease the higher bands of your audio to eliminate the hissing some. In comparison, you could use EQ to decrease the lower bands of an audio channel so as not to hear slight bassy sounds that may be present. This can be effective for string instruments, or especially brass ensembles if you are wanting to create a nice, crisp sound for them. My tip when using EQ is to use them to decrease undesired areas of your audio more so than to use them to elevate desired areas. By this I mean, if you're using an EQ on bass for example, decrease the higher bands further, rather than to elevate the lower bands, as this can sometimes cause problems on a mix also.
In short, these three effect plugins are always of great use in creating hip hop beats, and can bring your hip hop beats from sounding weak and lacking, to sounding more powerful and impacting! The tips I provided above should get your beats sounding hotter in no time. Of course, another tip I advise is always to experiment to see what sounds best to you. Happy beat making!
Panning: What is panning exactly? You may have heard this as well from people who tell you that you need to pan your sounds in the mix. In layman's terms, panning is the shifting of an audio channel either more to the left, or more to the right. So now that we know the simple explanation of it, when you're told that you should pan the sounds in your mix, you'll want to make some of the audio channels balance more to the left side and others to the right. My tip for panning is to keep your kick drum dead center, and usually your bass instrument as well. You can pan your hats more to one side, and the snare more to the opposite side, but don't overdo it. Try to visualize a drummer playing a drum set. Usually, the kick drum is the drum dead center, while other hats and snares and other percussion instruments are usually set up around the drummer, some more to the left side, and others to the right. However, they are still close to the drummer, so panning a snare all the way to the left for example, wouldn't sound too realistic. Panning helps to eliminate clutter directly in the center of your mix.
Compression: This is another term that you may have heard of also. Compression acts as a tightening up of audio on an audio channel to amplify it more. Compression is an effect that can be used sparingly in your hip hop beats on certain channels. Some people use way too much compression and cause their instrumentals to sound distorted. My tip for compression is that you use it on your kick drums, your bass instrument, although this can vary with the type of bass used, and lightly on your final mix. Using compression on these channels will bring out the thump of your kicks further, and on the master channel, when used lightly and correctly, will bring out the overall mix as well without overkill.
Equalizing: Another quality effect that can bring great results (or horrible results when overly used) is the EQ, or equalizer. Equalizing is simply the elevating or decreasing of certain parts, of an audio channel so that you bring out more of the desired area in that channel. On an equalizer, regardless of the type you use, the parts, or bands as they're referred to, on the left side are your deeper bassy bands, and more so to the right are your treble bands. So if you had a bass instrument, but had slight hiss, you could use EQ to decrease the higher bands of your audio to eliminate the hissing some. In comparison, you could use EQ to decrease the lower bands of an audio channel so as not to hear slight bassy sounds that may be present. This can be effective for string instruments, or especially brass ensembles if you are wanting to create a nice, crisp sound for them. My tip when using EQ is to use them to decrease undesired areas of your audio more so than to use them to elevate desired areas. By this I mean, if you're using an EQ on bass for example, decrease the higher bands further, rather than to elevate the lower bands, as this can sometimes cause problems on a mix also.
In short, these three effect plugins are always of great use in creating hip hop beats, and can bring your hip hop beats from sounding weak and lacking, to sounding more powerful and impacting! The tips I provided above should get your beats sounding hotter in no time. Of course, another tip I advise is always to experiment to see what sounds best to you. Happy beat making!
German Lopez, mainly known in the hip hop community as Genycis, is a beat maker / producer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He has been creating hip hop beats and r&B instrumentals, among other types of music, for over 10 years, and has used FL Studio for over 7 years in creating his instrumentals.
He is the owner and creator of his official website of over 300 hip hop instrumentals that he created from scratch in FL Studio, at Genycis.com, where he also provides a variety of free instrumentals for download. You can check out Genycis.com to listen to his works.
He is also a sound designer and creator of music production soundkits, soundfonts, and drum kits that he showcases (and uses on his own instrumentals) on his other website at SoundsForBeats.com, a website designed for music producers in need of more hip hop samples and musical instrument sounds.
He is the owner and creator of his official website of over 300 hip hop instrumentals that he created from scratch in FL Studio, at Genycis.com, where he also provides a variety of free instrumentals for download. You can check out Genycis.com to listen to his works.
He is also a sound designer and creator of music production soundkits, soundfonts, and drum kits that he showcases (and uses on his own instrumentals) on his other website at SoundsForBeats.com, a website designed for music producers in need of more hip hop samples and musical instrument sounds.
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