the OFFICIAL when you sell or give a beat to somebody what format do you use?

[djswivel]

Weel my personal opionion depends on if your gonna be working closely with the artist. If the artist just wants the beat, and he's just up and coming and is doing some sort of underground freestyle thing, most likely he or she isnt gonna care much about re-arranging the beat because for the most part, its not gonna be on a commercial album and when your doin the freestyle thing, it's more about the lyrics then the beat.....If on the other hand the artist is paying for studio time or puttin a serious project together, the artist is prolly ognna know what he or she wants. How they want it arranged, how they want it to sounds etc. In that case give them as much of the raw beat as possible. All the different wav's, reason files, etc etc. It totally depends on the artist

 

[CooGi_dice]

Originally posted by N.U.G.
what do y'all playas actually mean by keeping the masters?

well the term masters has a bunch of meanings in the industry...

but in my case and i think the other person who mentioned keeping there masters, masters means master recordings, sound recordings (the 2 track, as well as the multi track, and the split mix with the vocals).

for me its what i stated above but i aslo like to keep the sequences saved on disks in case i gotta go back and do something or remix, it makes it alot easyer.

i save my stuff on dat's as well as cd's.