They'll generally want something that's ready to go off to mastering, or at the very least something that just needs a tweak if it's a really amazing track.

There's already plenty of people out there sending rough mixes to labels so my guess is it won't get past 10 seconds in the player before they move onto the other 20 demos they need to listen to.

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i would not bother unless they approach you, Work on dj connections, get around, and have them come to you. There really is no point finding a label that will most likely do nothing for you,

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From my (limited) experience in contributing to a label A&R I tend to think that a ready-to-go track is preferred. However, if I hear demos that are good, but have terrible mastering, I voice that and try to get the producer to undo it.

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I think back in the day (like a decade ago when not everyone had a professional recording studio in their bedroom) if a label saw potential in your track they would set you up with an engineer to get it release ready... but now I doubt they would go through the trouble


btw if you can tell it's muddy you should be able to fix it

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney i would not bother unless they approach you, Work on dj connections, get around, and have them come to you. There really is no point finding a label that will most likely do nothing for you,

+1, network yourself well.

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Originally posted by meriter Your primary focus should be making good music. That's all. No one gives a shit how you do it. And the people that do are fags.

i fail at networking.

All of the answers you've got in this thread are correct, but bear in mind it's never been easier to get a great sounding finished product, and labels are kind of used to that standard now. Unless you wrote something that is just going to set the world on fire and makes liquid gold pour out of speakers, labels are not going to pay for an engineer/producer to finish your track.

It doesn't need to be perfect but just think about it:

if I were an A&R guy at a small label,and this dude I didn't know sent me a track and it sounded badly mixed and muddy, I'd probably think he's an amateur and there's not much distance in this guy. With the singles market being a complete deadpool, you want artists that can deliver consistently and labels being as lazy as they are, they just want to take a product, slap it on beatport and hope some sales trickle in. Back and forth over production quality and helping you finish it? Not oing to happen.

....but then that's why people on here will help you

in my opinion they receive 100 tracks weekly, 10 out of this 100 might be releasable but they will prefer a finished product over yours, unless you created a real 10/10 hit that with little fixes can bright by itself. In the best scenario you probably made a 9/10 track, interesting, original, good sounds... bad news is that they got another 2 9/10 tracks that week that are better mixed/mastered and obviously yours get discarded.

Never send anything that you won't be comfortable if it is released, surely crap labels would release something that is clipping, not loud enough, is irritating... but you don't want your name asociated to amateur productions.

Above and Beyond did a "respray" of a Adam Nickey track which probably meant they liked the original enough to feel inclined to tweak it for a release

http://forum.anjunabeats.com/topic/...rding-resprays/

Do other labels do this? who knows..probably rare.

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos in my opinion they receive 100 tracks weekly, 10 out of this 100 might be releasable but they will prefer a finished product over yours, unless you created a real 10/10 hit that with little fixes can bright by itself. In the best scenario you probably made a 9/10 track, interesting, original, good sounds... bad news is that they got another 2 9/10 tracks that week that are better mixed/mastered and obviously yours get discarded. Never send anything that you won't be comfortable if it is released, surely crap labels would release something that is clipping, not loud enough, is irritating... but you don't want your name asociated to amateur productions.

Howd it go when you released ur track on a top ten minimal label?

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Originally posted by LoveHate Howd it go when you released ur track on a top ten minimal label?

release is still pending, contract says within 180 days, i guess it won't take long, when i actually see it i can tell you how it went.