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What You Should Know Before You Buy A Beat

There are some rappers out there who may buy a beat or backing track, take that to the studio, and want to record vocals over it.

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What You Should Know Before You Buy A Beat

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  1. What You Should Know Before You Buy A Beat

  2. There are some rappers out there who may buy a beat or backing track, take that to the studio, and want to record vocals over it.  • They find producers or composers who have built a library of different beats that can be purchased, and select a number of tracks they want to write raps for. • If you are going to a studio and mix engineer to record your vocals, and mix your tracks you will want to give them the best quality audio to work with. • Here are a few simple things you can look out for as an artist when you buy a beat

  3. Always, get WAV (or .wav)  audio files not Mp3’s Mp3’s are considered a “compressed” data, or “lossy” format where a lot of the frequency information of the original recording has been thrown away in order to make a smaller file size.  • The .wav format is most likely the original format that the music was recorded in, and includes the full range of frequency information.

  4. Ask for the sample rate and bit depth of the file Minimum file quality you should get is 44.1 kHz  sample rate, and 16 bit depth.   • It would be much better to get a 24 bit depth file or above, and if you can get a sample rate of 48 kbps or above, all the better.  • The higher your sample rate, and bit depth, the higher the quality of the file.

  5. If at all possible ask to purchase the “stems” of the track from the producer.  This means an individual track for each instrument, or a single track for each group of instruments. • For example, separate kick and snare tracks, and then the rest of the drums in stereo, individual tracks for synths, guitars, and bass, ect.  • This will give your mix engineer the most flexibility to make your final mix sound the way you want it to, and place your vocals well in the overall mix.

  6.  If you cannot get stems of all the individual instruments and you are forced to buy a stereo track, at least get an unmastered version of the music.  • What this means is that the overall volume of the track will be quieter than a commercially released song, and it will not have gone through the massive amount of compression that is applied to a finished master.  • Don’t be fooled by a loud mix.  If the song has already been mastered, has a max peak of 0.0db and is already super compressed, it will be really difficult to fit your new vocal tracks in, and make them sound natural.  

  7. www.mubzbeats.com • www.soundcloud.com/MubzBeats • London, United Kingdom

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