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| quote: | Originally posted by jahnlay
Best advice I can offer if you really want to go all out with a tune. Produce and go as far as you can. Then book the best studio and engineer you can afford for a day and get the track mixed down in a high quality pro studio. It should give you that extra 10 to 20%. Then book a top mastering engineer and get it mastered properly.
Armand van Helden created Professional Widow on a little sampler sequencer. Found some loops off vinyl, lifted the bassline which was buried in the original. Added the vox and arranged it. Then took it into an SSL 9000 room and had it mixed down. 6 million copies later! |
This is the sad but true truth in a lot of styles of music, not just EDM. You take a mediocre pop/rock band or EDM project, give them the best studios and professional production, promotion, and bang, you got a hit on your hands. Happens every day.
Very few of us will ever be able to get our tracks to sound 100% up to professional standards on our own. At some point, if you want to be a real pro, most of us need some professional help and consultation. Even if just for the mastering process. If you network, maybe you'll even meet other producers along the way who can help you out.
Sometimes a really good song with mediocre production can take off and become a minor hit, but that doesn't happen a lot. Production quality is everything. Great songs without top notch production will fall by the wayside a lot of times. It's a shame it happens, but that's the cold hard facts. There are certain genres of music where production quality isn't such a big issue, like punk/hardcore, death/speed metal, and some of the underground Indie rock bands, ect.
You have to start somewhere though, so yep, just keep knocking those tracks out and do the best you can for the time being. I don't want to discourage anyone, including myself :P
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