Introduction
This system is designed for beat makers to get some feedback on their beats that goes beyond the normal "it's wack" or "it's dope" responses that you might get in forums.
Instead, each beat is rated on several important areas (Mix/Master, Sound Quality, Composition and Personal) to give the beat maker some better insight into areas that might need improvement.
Additionally, each reviewer is asked to enter some words on how the track could have been improved to provide an extra level of detail for the beat maker to use in his or her own development.
The beat feedback system relies on peer review. This means that anyone can listen and rate your beats and your are expected to do the same for others.
By default all reviews are anonymous unless the reviewer chooses not to be. This is to help make sure that negative reviews are not retaliated on and the reviewer doesn't worry that they might need to hold back a critisicm on a well respected fellow beat maker.
How it works
The system is very easy to use. You upload a beat and wait for people to review it.
You cannot upload without an upload credit. You must review two beats to earn one upload credit.
You can only upload one beat a day.
Once you have uploaded at least one beat, you can see your stats from your Track Manager page. On this page you can also remove beats that you no longer want to be available for review.
If you delete a beat, you do not recover upload credits and it gets removed from all charts.
Most beat feedback functions can be accessed from the side bar section labelled "Beat Feedback System"
Once your beats are rated by others, they become eligible to appear in the chart rankings.
Making the most from the system
In order to maximize the potential benefits from the beat feedback system, you should follow these guidelines:
1) Rate beats regularly. It only takes a few minutes to knock out a couple of reviews everyday. You will build up credits and karma.
2) Be honest in your reviews. If you don't like a certain genre but realize the mixing is excellent, make sure you score that part of the ratings well. Read this: How To Give Constructive Feedback.
3) Leave meaningful criticism as much as you are able. Telling someone that the bassline sounds out of key is more useful than telling them that it sounds like garbage. One or two meaningful comments can do a lot for the beat maker and boost your karma as well. If you really know your stuff, give specific directions teh beat maker can take to improve a track - something like "filter off that snare below 240hz to clean up the low end".
4) Tell your friends about the system to get more people participating.
5) Always vote on the beats suggested by the Beat Feedback System sidebar. These are tracks that have the fewest ratings and could use them.
6) Feel free to discuss what you like or don't like about the system and suggest ways to improve it.
7) If you want more discussion about your beats, including asking more people to comment on it, start a thread in the Beat Show forum and post your player code (available from Track Manager).
8) Finally, don't take negative comments personally. If you are not ready to hear bad things, then don't upload a beat. Yes there may be haters, but you need to look at the overall opinions and use that. Do not focus on individual comments.
Have fun!