I am having a go at making a site i started it a while back i only get 45 days or so free unless i start paying for it which i want to when i get my first breaks tune finished,ignore them tunes on there i made them in the late nineties just to fill that page up a little as i am still learning how to make a website.
djmonty.tk
I am trying to figure a way how to put a tune on my site with a soundclip if someone wants to buy it they click on a Pay Pal box to pay then they have access to download the tune wav or 320mp3,then eventually get on Beatport with Beatport on my site,i am also going to get a high quality webcam on my ceiling facing down on my mixer & decks doing 1 hour mixes & scratching (You Tube videos) to make my site more interesting & to help me get DJ bookings at breakbeat gigs,also get break Producers on my label,remix compitions,merchandise,make my own sample packs,1 on 1 teaching would love to get a tune on TV adverti have a lot work ahead of me.
On Friday night i play online gaming with my online gaming team so i will listen to all your tunes as i am playing online,i forgot to ask you what program do you use i use Logic Pro 9.
Here is one of my tunes i am working on i just did a ruff arrangement of it just for now:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1474260/Discarded From The Past.mp3
I'll start at the end for a change. That track you're working on that you linked sounds really nice. I like your big beat arrangement. I find the track is stronger at the the beginning (0-1.30) and the end (3.26 onwards) as it has a more potent and slightly darker feel to it which seems to sit on your drum arrangement very nicely. The middle chunk is not bad either but sounds a little too uplifting and light hearted. Not that there's anything wrong with uplifting and light hearted but with such a meaty beat I feel it clashes a little. In fact the last section is really really tasty (I am just listening again). I'd be very tempted to rearrange the track a little by squeezing out the light "electro trance" elements in the middle section and adding a few darker sounds. I hope you don't mind the feedback and of course it's only an opinion.
I use a few different programs but for the last 18 months or so I have been making nearly everything in Reason then exporting to Sony Acid Pro where I add a few fx loops if needed but mainly I do so to use the Izotope Ozone VST plugin. Reason is wonderful but lacks 3rd party plugin (VST) support. So I master in Acid. I also have Floops, Pro Tools (the M Audio Lite version), Logic, Presonus Studio 1 and Cakewalk installed but mostly for when I am working with others on remixes of their projects etc. Whatever I am using I do so via a simple but nice M Audio midi controller and a quality mic for live sampling and vocals. I have no other musical hardware (except a very good PC setup).
As for the website, it sounds like you have some good ideas. Embedding an mp3 player with a download option is easy enough. Especially if you have a Beatport account, they'll provide you with the tools/apps you need to do that. I believe Soundcloud have a purchase via Paypal option on their pro accounts, but don't hold me to that as I only have a lite account.
For all the other stuff that doesn't make it onto Beatport or iTunes you can always have a "donate via paypal" option on site and give away the tracks freely. I know a few people who have done this and it serves well in generating traffic for the site and more potential audience for future works. You not get rich from donations but often people can be quite generous. I had a zipped "LP" (8 tracks in high quality) on my previous site which I allowed to be downloaded freely but accepted donations on. Now and again people would drop a $1 in there (occasionally a little more). Think I managed to get about $600 from it in donations over the period of about a year with some 8000 downloads. So it's not going to make you rich, but as I said, it get's traffic and audience, which is important to start with.
