How To Make Your 808 Sound Like Mike Will's

What's Up Fellow Producers & Beatmakers?

I know you probably asked yourself how Mike Will gets his 808's to sound so crunchy! I was trying to figure it out myself. The 808 sound before Mike Will made it came to the big industry scene, always seemed to sound the same way. But Mike made it sound so nice and crunchy (that's the best way I can explain it). After trying out all sorts of plugins and effects on the 808 I was almost at my whits end, and was going to give up trying to replicate that sound. Now I know what your gonna say "Replicate that sound? Only a fake producer would do that..." But in all honesty, all producers try to make something sound like another producer, that's how we learn from eachother, and become better than the next guy. There is no innovation without replication, let that one simmer in...

Now, lets get to the goodies. The plugin I found which can give you that crunchy clean sound on your 808 is called Decapitator from soundtoys.com, it can deliver that sound you want on your 808! Play around with it to see if you can come up with a new sound!


YOU CAN ALSO SIMPLY DOWNLOAD MIKE WILL 808 HERE > PRE-MIXED 808 WITH NICE CRUNCHY SOUND BY CJ BEATZ PRODUCTIONS.
I would suggest using E on the style presets at the bottom, then using the mix lever on 3. This gave me that sound I was looking for.

Good luck with this! Hope I was able to help you guys out a little. Happy beat-making!

Today's Mixtape Review : Gad-g - Couture Visions: The Collection Vol. 1

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The track "VSOP" was a perfect fit for the introduction to the tape. Gad-g initially shows off his relaxed flow, and flows the beat rather nicely. The female vocalist at the end of the track really topped it off for me and immediately had me hooked, i wanted to hear more...

I liked the fact that Gad-g threw in a nice old school beat on the track "Bridge is Over Freestyle", but I think this track should have been further back in the play list in my opinion. I wanted to hear something more like the first track I heard.

From a production standpoint, it seems that Street Scott was the predominant choice for Gad-g. The track "Just a man" which was also produced by Scott was the best on the mixtape in my opinion.

Overall I feel that Gad-g really gave it his all on this tape, even though its the first time I hear of him, I can tell that he put in that work!

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Free CJ Beatz Productions Drum Kits!

Here are 2 Free Drum Kits I assembled myself. These are some of my favorite, Kicks, 808's, Snares, Hi Hats, Crashes, Claps, and more I use in my production. I have sold over 2000 beats online using these high quality drums and I'm sure you can do the same!


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1. New School Drum Kit 1

2. Dirty South Drum Kit 1

Jay Z vs. Kanye West

2013 so far has been a really big year for both Jay Z & Kanye, both releasing their brand new albums. On a creative level, with Kanye's Yeezus, he definitely explored very deep regions of his dark side in my opinion, he came over quite egocentric. But hey, Artists should have the chance to be themselves. My favorite track of the album would have to be "Blood on the leaves", I guess 808 & Heartbreaks stuck with me after all, this track sort of reminds me of that album.





Jay Z's Magna Carta to me was quite refreshing. He isn't acting as cocky as Kanye and his delivery is on point as always. My favorite track is definitely "Picasso Baby". It really has that nostalgic hip hop feeling that I grew up with. It hit home for me for real. From a producer's perspective I was surprised to find out that this track wasn't produced by Rick Rubin, but rather by Timbaland and J-Roc





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Beatstars.com Remix Competition | Crooked I - YODO

What's up fellow producers? Did you know Beatstars.com is having a remix competition of Crooked I's hit "YODO". It's free to join the beat remix competition. All you need is a youtube account to upload your beat to. Find out more about the Remix Contest.



Here is the original video:



Here is my personal remix: