With the ability to make "professional" beats in your bedroom...

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You're a professional if you manage to make a profession out of it :hello:

What makes a good producer is someone who's good. Like someone else said, professional doesn't always equate to good.
 
i wish i had that ability to just have the right timing and right location and relationships to be the professional i plan to be in the next years.... in some cases the real professional is the guy behind the one u see on tv...
 
Does the ability to make "professional" beats make you a producer?

I believe the "professional producer" title now includes management and songwriting skills.

Everyone makes beats..
 
j.troup said:
But there was clearly some catalyst that propelled him from "bedroom" producer to "professional".


What did he acquire that was different? How did he develop to take him to that next level?


What skill set does a PROFESSIONAL PRODUCER have?



What sets apart "maker of hot beats in the bedroom" from Timbaland (aside from the hit records and money)??
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After reading this all that pops in my head is relationships. Lex Luger sent an email to Waka on mMySpace. He didn't learn anything new.

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Ali'i said:
Everyone makes beats..
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But only a small percentage of them can make consistent hits.

I know I can make a good beat, but I don't know if I could make 4 great beats in a row.
 
IMHO Can you make me a hit (from an artist perspective).
there are certain producers that can damn near turn crap into gold.
that takes a skill that equipment cant get you.
 
what seperates? good records. hits.

Just the fact that it IS possible to make pro (well, semi-pro) sounding stuff in your bedroom, doesn't mean YOU can do it. People always instantly think about themselves when they read something like it.

Just because companies pay producers and artists to make them say "yeah I use reason" and "FL is the beast", you shouldn't think that most hit records isn't going through expensive equipment. You also shouldn't think that if you download, or buy a Waves plugin pack, you'll mix like Dave Pensado or Tony Maserati.

it was never the bedroom or studio was that made a pro producer or mixer, it was years of practicing, talent and determination.

the millions of bedroom producers are like if tomorrow everybody'd have a Red Bull Formula-1 car in their garage. You still won't be Sebastian Vettel, you just have the choice to start working on it. Not that much, if you don't put in work.
 
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IMO professional producer know the rules of the music industry and have good business ethics.
 
Thats a super loaded question Troup... Theres probably a right sounding answer but theres tons of dope producers with catalogs that are huge and no market to serve to. Get an artist to rock your beats and then it's ON. Very few producers venture out of a clique situation first. Swizz Beatz started with Ruff Riders, Pete Rock started with CL Smooth, Kanye started with Jay Z, etc.

FIND A HOT ARTIST AND MARKET YOUR BRAND AS A BRAND AND STOP WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO FEEL YOUR BEATS....

If thats not correct then I'm missing the point over all.
 
YOUNG TEX said:
Track record/established artist whom you have worked with(having name/brand) +sound quality that is up to par with commercial releases= professional. If you already have the sound quality then you need the track record to build your name/brand to go from amateur (bedroom producer) to professional ie Lex Luger
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I would go for that. The ability to bring a musical project (or should I say, product) to completion, the end-result being overall success. (as in widely spread music and some kind of return on investment).

If not, it's just playing around and hoping to get drafted into the pool of the successful, the actual "producers".

That also means that you have some more control over your product. No one is going to tell you, add a bassline here or there.
 
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JayLip said:
I consider someone with experience to be professional.
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I professional is someone that can take you from through the idea stage and actually give you a finished product in a given period of time. They don't have to actually do all of the work themself, but a professional has a system that can get the job completed.

Even on their worst day, when their not feeling it or have personal problems on their mind, a professional producer can get you a commercially viable song while providing a smooth and headache-free transaction; you pay them and they get the job done.

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One thing that I have definitely noticed that is different between professionals and amateurs/journeymen is that fact that professional almost always exchange money for their services as opposed to those who ALWAYS want to barter, exchange, or flat out get something for free or favor for a favor.
 
What sets a PROFESSIONAL producer from the rest is, the sound of his music.

There's bedroom producers that make music that sound like it came out of a bedroom, and other bedroom producers that make music that sounds like it came from a decent studio. I believe that this is the first and most important thing.
 
~X~ said:
What sets a PROFESSIONAL producer from the rest is, the sound of his music.

There's bedroom producers that make music that sound like it came out of a bedroom, and other bedroom producers that make music that sounds like it came from a decent studio. I believe that this is the first and most important thing.
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Having a professional sound would be only one aspect of it. It would also be also how you conduct business which may even out weight having that quality sound. If you say its gonna take 24 hours to track out a beat that an artist already paid for but you end up sending it month later without notifying the artist why lol I dont think that artist will be hitting you up to much anymore no matter how good your beats may sound. Even if you don't have the most professional sound if you conduct business in professional manner artist will cone back to you.
 
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