Beat This! Beat This! Competition - June 26-27, 2024

Fade

The Beat Strangler
Administrator
illest o.g.
The next competition will be from June 26-27th! See the information below.

Signups

The signups will be on June 26th at 12pm ET/EST, and end around 8pm ET, or until we have enough contestants (whichever comes first - depending on the theme).
Voting will be for one day, on June 27th, where the results will be posted the same day.

Check out the Beat This! ranks: https://www.illmuzik.com/beat-battles/ranks/cat/bthis/

*Note: check out this site to find out the correct time difference for your timezone:

The Signup page is here (it will open up on the signup day)

Theme: LO-FI
Time Limit: 2 minutes
*Vocal Track Allowed?: NO
**Vocal Snippets Allowed?: YES


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* VOCAL TRACK ALLOWED? This means you can have a full vocal track with your beat (acapella, for example).
** VOCAL SNIPPETS ALLOWED? This means you can have vocal snippets in your beat (very short vocal parts, for example). This is where you can also have an intro with talking (like from a movie).
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Voting

If you are competing, you will be able to vote but not for yourself. DO NOT TRY TO CHEAT! I will be watching for cheaters. This means you cannot sign up under different names or get your friends and family to sign up either. If you are caught cheating you could be banned.

Voting Criteria

You can use whatever sounds you want, samples, synths, just remember to read the rules for the rest of the restrictions. What the judges will be looking for is originality, creativity, mixing skills and overall dopeness!

Beats

All the beats will now be displayed in a random order and without any names. All you will see is: Beat #001, Beat #002, etc. This is so that there is no favoritism when voting.

Rules

If you're not sure about the rules, read this thread.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the competition, please post them in here.

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Iron Keys

ILLIEN MBAPPÉ
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 567
The interesting thing about themes like this one, is you end up realising how far you can go.

You're going to really degrade your beats(channels) through distortion and crushers etc... then at the end go... oh wait, it doesn't even sound that distorted. That happened to me in a different theme. You can really fuck shit it up before it sounds properly fucked up.
 

Dusty B

ILLIEN
Battle Points: 37
The interesting thing about themes like this one, is you end up realising how far you can go.

You're going to really degrade your beats(channels) through distortion and crushers etc... then at the end go... oh wait, it doesn't even sound that distorted. That happened to me in a different theme. You can really fuck shit it up before it sounds properly fucked up.
I have an idea for this one.

Freddie Mercury Mind Blown GIF by Queen
 
@SwayeeBoogie
It sounds a lot like TWU's winning beat in warzone. I think he has the old DITC SP1200 sound on lock.
Bitcrush things to 12bit or less. And a low pass filter on the master bus to cut the highest top end. Also pitching the drums down can help.
I invested in the RX1200 VST, I think Ive found a replacement for the drums Ive been using for 16 years
 

SwayeeBoogie

Torch Bearer for Authentic Hip-Hop
@SwayeeBoogie
It sounds a lot like TWU's winning beat in warzone. I think he has the old DITC SP1200 sound on lock.
Bitcrush things to 12bit or less. And a low pass filter on the master bus to cut the highest top end. Also pitching the drums down can help.
I invested in the RX1200 VST, I think Ive found a replacement for the drums Ive been using for 16 years
hmm interesting. okay. ill make an attempt
 

Iron Keys

ILLIEN MBAPPÉ
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 567
The thing that'll mess with you when entering such battle is that you'll degrade something, think yeah this is lofi'd /fucked/whatever. Then go... actually this doesn't sound that messed up.

Surprised you how far you can mash up a signal before it actually sounds mashed up.
 
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