Fruity Limiter on master channel?

[fataltone]

A lot..? how many is a lot? I think you'll find that the term producer goes far beyond people who make beats to sell on-line, and the definition of 'artist' includes a huge number of people who don't buy beats on-line. There's a difference between explaining why something happens and it being something good.



I know exactly why people do it. Making beats (whatever that means...) louder mean that they demand more attention and therefore are more likely to sell. That's perfectly valid reasoning. But, it has nothing to do with making good music. What's even worse is that the impression that it should be the case reinforces the impression that it should be the case. I think you'll find your man Bob sides with me on this one.

Further the loudness war is mostly inspired by things like MP3 players and car stereos being crap and running in crap conditions, not because of venue sounds systems. Venue sound systems will often pay money for better systems that can make things louder by linear amplification. So if these beats are aimed at artists that intend to use them in a venue setting, or to be used in a live/non-live production they should want uncompromised sounds, not brick wall squashed crap. If they just want to play stuff out in a venue then they should get a better sound system if they want louder. Even if all they want to do is put vocals on top, they should demand uncompressed sounds with enough dynamic range to play with. So really, who are the people who need to seek advice about dynamics? Some random producer or someone who just wants to play sounds they've bought on-line?

NB: Soon this will all be moot as the industry seems to be moving towards standardising levels of average volume, so pretty soon all those beats (whatever they are) will sound like garbage compared to tracks from decades ago.

of course louder music doesn't mean better music

we can't stay in the decades ago with have to complete with what standards we have now(for online customers)
at home you can just crank up your studio monitors for a client
but most clients at their place will have basic and mostly inferior music speakers
and wouldn't be able to crank it as loud as "we" in our studio would

as my whole post is based on the online producer

online has changed alot when it comes to being a producer

many don't even mold artists or deal with artists at any level
and like I tell everyone on this forum
those LOUD beats should only be for display(for artists/anyone listening)
the same beats(the actual wav files you sell) that are in your beatstore shouldn't have a limiter on it
it should be again only the beat in the beatplayer(not the beats files that are locked and loaded in your beatstore to be sent out automatically)

-Coach Antonio

 

[MarcDHall]

as my whole post is based on the online producer

I'm an online producer and I have no idea what a beat is. I thought it was an interference pattern between two sound sources.