what kind of monitors? I might be interested. the audio interface too

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The monitors are M-Audio Studiophile SP-5Bs
The interface is a Steinberg UR-12

Its cheap gear, but it was good enough for when I was a beginner.

Then you have to pick a genre or sound and focus on that. It might suck but that's how the beat selling business works. You won't find much success if your beats are all over the place genre/soundwise because you won't be able to have a consistent customer base.

What's the ticket on it?

I was realistically trying to get $80 for the monitors and $50 for the interface. If you're interested, I'll list them on Reverb.com and DM you the link so you can be sure you're buying from a reliable service.

I'll buy em let me sell some d**** real quick and then I'll let you know your in us?

You're not wrong at all. Selling beats wasn't my initial plan but the thought of being watched constantly by fans is terrifying to me so I need to be more realistic with my music goals if I were to become successful. I create music based on my real emotions and once it gets to the point of music feeling insincere or shallow in exchange for money I lose interest. I understand, at the end of the day music is a business and it can't always be enjoyable. This might not be for me.

Yeah I'm the US

I'm all in my feelings man wtf

bet gimme some time sometimes things move fast other times its a lil slower but they sell and I do want em

no rush, its not like I'll starve to death if I can't sell these things lol

cool thank you border I appreciate it

You don't have to be in the business of selling beats to become successful as a producer. My advice to you is to find artists you like that are willing to use your production and work with them. That way you can utilize your sound and be as creative as you want. Instead of getting paid upfront or "selling" your beat just accept a 50/50 split on stream revenue. You can make a lot of money working with smaller/ independent artists because of music streaming.

For example lets say you find an artist you like and you guys make and publish 100 songs. If every month each one of those songs receives 5,000 streams it will total 500,000 streams a month and in one year will total 6,000,000 streams. Spotify pays around $3,000 for 1 million streams and if you and your artist have an even split of 50/50 you will earn $9000 in total and that's not even including streams from apple music or youtube etc. Now imagine if you have an even bigger catalog of songs you produced that are earning streams monthly, that's a huge bag.

I know someone who just works with small independent artists and has 1000s of songs he's credited on and gets paid royalties for and he's making 10k+ a month from just stream revenue. The crazy thing is that it is all passive income so you don't have to do anything else to get that money.

There's always a way my friend. I hope you find it and it all works out.

This the information we need to know. Shout out to you player!

No problem bro! I'm always down to help out a fellow producer if I can.

any advice on da mastering? trynna make it radio ready

Thanks man. I hope this is the right DAW for me.

What are you currently trying to do?

gonna strip all the elements from 'Famous', keep the 'Nina Chop' flow and make this reference the greatest song ever

voca.ro/16g1jFGqW9yz

bass way higher in the 808 maybe the vocals themselves too on the hook

im trying to take over the world and put the crew on the map,im plotting I started a collective, I got producers on deck at least four of em, I got a indie guy who does his own s*** he plays guitar and sings, I got a photographer, a graphic designer and a graffiti writer whose helping with fonts, I got a guy that sceen prints too he's actually a great producer too. as for myself I just want to produce my own s*** because I like certain sounds. I mostly been sampling stuff for my producers to work on im terrible add drums and all that s***

you'll ike it one you get use to it for sure