How TO Get Signed To An Electronic Label?

[biru]

Wow, this is the most feedback I've ever seen for tracks. And nobody slammed him for the all bold post. Good job guys!!!!!

I don't think it's really the feedback for the tracks but more the audacity to complain about not having instant signings for the mediocrity he's produced in the extensive 5 months he's been doing this.

Luckily, as a professional wrangler of adolescents, I am understanding of the grotesque desire for instant gratification and incomprehensible sense of entitlement they all display nowadays.

[lethal_pizzle]

You're only 17 OP, plenty of time to hone your skills

[djspinnaspin]

Wow! It's been a while that I've checked this post!.....Thanks for the feedback everyone. At some point of time,someone has to speak up for what's right & wrong. And You've Guys done just THAT

I'm hoping to enhance my sound,and at the same time,keep it classic and ALL ME

[scamo]

I just listened to several of your tracks and I must admit, you are many steps further than I am in that you can even produce music.

I personally find your music to be missing the actual musical parts of songs like an intro/ outro, chorus, verses and bridges. The "story telling" is simply missing in your music. You only have bridges and transistions between different "beats". In my opinion, a good song has to take the listener to another place and bring them back again, like a journey. While listening to your tracks, I am staying in one place and to be honest, am bored. Sorry, I don't know how to describe what I feel is missing any better. Sorry I can't be more constructive.

scamo

[DJs Only]

Haven't listened to your tracks but 9 times out 10, if a label doesn't reply it doesn't like it.

If they think it's a bomb they'll be on to you in time to sign you up.

[AdamPollard55]

Do something different, and wait for a label to be into your vibe, or produce something generic better than the pros.

However, if you are that bothered about getting signed, you're doing it for the wrong reasons

[DJZILCH]

work harder on production skills - music theory / arrangement / mixdown / mastering

focus less on getting signed

dont worry dude, if you are good, you wont have much problems getting signed, until then keep trying, but dont spam the record labels until you are sure your stuff is good, otherwise by the time you do get good when they receive your stuff it goes straight to the bin "oh its this guy again", bad impression stays for a long time!

the EQ is really all over the place, and there's a lot of distortion everywhere

did you use proper reference monitors to do the mixdown?

[djspinnaspin]

The Mastering Part Is What's Killing Me At The Moment....I'd rather have someone else master my tracks, I don't have the FULL knowledge of how mastering is suppose to be done....And just to make sure I don't look or sound stupid when someone brings the word "mixdown" up again,What exactly do you mean? Do you mean that lil thing us producers do when were done with the track,and we tune the little parts that may be to HIGH or to LOW ?

The More Info The Better Artist Your Making Me

[Nephew]

Wait, you're trying to get signed and you don't even understand what a mixdown is, AND you're trying to master your tracks without knowing how to do a mixdown, and you don't even know how to master?

Get back to basics. Focus on writing music. Keep it simple, less is more. Focus on using less FX at the moments. Work on EQing stuff, balancing the levels and just making the best sounding mix you can. Once you get the fundamentals down then you can start experimenting with FX, developing builds, drops and breaks while still keeping it sounding clean.

Have to crawl before you can walk, much less run.

As an exercise, try writing a tune using only 8 tracks. 4 for your drums, 1 for you bass, and 3 for whatever else (samples, synths, vox and son on). And then only have 4 returns set up, 1 short verb, 1 long verb, 1 3/8 delay and 1 1/4 delay.

Just because you have all these options at your fingertips doesn't mean you should use them. Sometimes you can get far more from using less.

[amidoinitrite]

Anyone with a computer and internet can make a tune..
some people spend years until they are signed.. some just a matter of months..
some never get signed..


..and some couldn't care less about getting signed and make music because its fun.. and let the music do the talking.. if its good people will promote for you!
no need to push tunes!
that's just my opinion.. probably because I produce for fun and not to get signed!


Words of advice.. just keep doing what you love!