im thinking of making my own music but idk how to upload on spotify... :sob:

[narrow saffron]

i wanna make my own music but:

• I dont have a mic
• I dont know how to upload music
• my computers laggy
• idk how to upload spotify music

SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASEEE

[tawdry harbor]

If you're thinking of singing in your music and uploading that to Spotify. Well, you'll definitely need a microphone haha. It's quite hard recording without one. Uploading music to Spotify needs to be done through a publisher. There are a few free ones out there and it's not that hard to figure out

If you want to make your own music I'd recommend finding a producer like myself that makes music in the same style as you do. They will take care of all the instruments and stuff around your singing. The only thing you will have to take care of then is the singing, songwriting and recording!

Hope this helps, lmk if you have any questions!

[rose wren]

which free ones are there

[tawdry harbor]

There are a lot of different ones. Search up the ones that most people recommend. I haven't looked into it that much

[narrow saffron]

i mean like- i have a LAPTOP mic thats built in..
does that work?

[ivory hawk]

Yeah

You don’t need anything fancy

Just mix your vocals

[tawdry harbor]

No amount of mixing can fix a microphone that sounds like it's being recorded inside of a washing machine

Good microphone quality is crucial if you want it to sound good

If you are just doing it for fun without caring for the quality much then yeah you can absolutely use anything you got on hands

[ivory hawk]

Gang they never said how bad their mic was

Only that it’s a built in mic

[tawdry harbor]

Macbook inbuilt mics are decent. Though that's an exception. I've never stumbled upon a single other laptop mic that even comes close to being considered usable quality

[narrow saffron]

And tbf if they’re on a Mac likely their budget isn’t really an issue

[terse zenith]

you need a music distributor as a middle man that handles the royalty revenue and legal stuff. Music on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music need ISRC codes to track them, etc

[fathom anvil]

DAYUMNN i thought independent artists produced their own music at the start. finding your own producer sounds like a nightmare ToT

[narrow saffron]

I mean you also can do that but learning production isn’t easy and it gets very expensive quickly

[tawdry harbor]

unless you... yk, which everybody already does

[narrow saffron]

Still you can’t pirate hardware

And arguably hardware prices makes the software seem like a bargain

Doesn’t help it mostly holds its value as well

[narrow saffron]

Gotta remember as well that you can have unlimited resources but that won’t fix lackluster skills or talent

Unless you hire other people to do it for you then take credit for it

[fathom anvil]

Man I'm broke, the only choice I got is either produce my own beats/music or use others'. (Like those free beats you see on YouTube 😭). I only got a decent laptop and a mic. I think that's enough for me to get started. Or no?

[tawdry harbor]

I men that depends a lot on your definition of ''enough to get me started''. There are free producers out there, but most of them are beginners that need to practice making beats. More experienced producers like myself and Chris won't do it for free since we're been doing it for so long and don't need that practice, but you'll obviously get someone who actually knows their stuff, how to mix, etc.

But yeah if you think you'd rather learn how to make your own beats, it will require a LOT of effort, and your first ones won't turn out that good (no ones first beats are good) but you'll slowly get better and better and in the end you will also have even more creative control since you're the one actually making it beat

Though getting the right audio hardware is a different story, like Chris mentioned, getting the gear you'll need to produce will require a lot of time and cost a lot. So it's definitely a tradeoff

[fathom anvil]

@tawdry harbor what kind of beats do you produce? I mean, like, what's your genre/niche?