I’ve been thinking a lot about how valuable feedback is in improving music, especially when it comes from outside your usual genre.
I’m currently working on something called Beat Critique (beatcritique dot co), a platform to connect producers with pros across genres for detailed critiques. It’s in pre-launch right now—full access starts January 15th, but I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Do you actively seek out feedback from different genres, or do you focus on sticking to your niche? What do you think makes feedback truly actionable?
Looking forward to hearing your ideas and experiences. Thanks!
So is it to get musicians with producers, or is it a site to get feedback on your music?
I assume you want it to be for more professional type of stuff, kind if like how Artstation is for visual art, but instead of portfolios its critique.
If so Its a cool idea but I wonder how you’ll be able to get enough of those type of people in one place thats not discord or reddit.
And I’m not fully understanding your questions on feedback.
The problem with building a site specifically for producers or other musicians to get feedback on their music is that due to the sheer overwhelming number of people sharing music and wanting feedback, it would become a dumping ground very quickly.
Kind of like Reddit…and SoundCloud for that matter.
The advantage of a place like idmforums.com, is that we moderate who can post music. This creates community of trust and value. So people looking for feedback will get a more respectful, comprehensive and honest opinion.
Because 70% of my tracks are unreleased, I hardly get any feedback other than “it’s too fast,” or “it sounds like an old computer crashing.” In general, I just compare what’s different to mainstream or popular songs and then try to copy some of the important parts. Thing is, (especially in hardcore) you can’t ask other genres for specific feedback because the music is too different.
The thing about the idea you’ve got is that a lot of people will want to ask for feedback but’ll never want to give any.
I went to your site, and clicked around. Was trying to read the content to find out exactly what the site does and after the 7th popup of a window trying to sell me something I just closed the site. Very annoying. My recommendation is that if a visitor of your site closes your popup, then for the love of god, do not keep forcing it on them.
For real though give people some constructive feedback…on their tracks and they will do the same…
Also Whatever you do dont shitpost
Keep in mind that even though music is very subjective, still everyone must have the basic skillset of synthesis, sound design, music theory, and mixing…
