drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » Production ratings Production ratings Author Post peet Steppa Registration Date: 31-01-2004 Posts: 264 Helpfulness rating:  How should I intrepret the production ratings on the tracks? I first thought you could just change it to a 1/10 mark, like a 1 is extremely bad, 2 is verry bad, 3 is bad, 4 pretty bad, 5 is unsufficient, 6 is sufficient, 7 is good, 8 is very good, 9 is extremely good, 10 is the top. But lots of people are giving of 3/5, when they think a track is good, but that would mean it'd be a 6/10, and that'd be pretty odd. So what is the rating where you should be happy? __ 15-12-2004 11:47 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  Lol, I've explained this a few times before What I wrote then: quote: 1/5=-5.5/10 2/5=6/10-7/10 3/5=7.5/10-8/10 4/5=9/10 5/5=10/10 It's not rocket science, but it's more something like that... It comes from the fact that most tracks are good enough to get at least a 5/10 score. That would mean that you'd hardly have any tracks with a score between 2.5/5. That would also mean that you have only a difference from 2.5/5 to 5/5 for a rating from just good enough to exelent... which isn't very acurate. So that's why a score on 5 is done differently, to allow raters to give more acurate scores for at least 90% of the tracks. __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 15-12-2004 11:57 spudleyq Master Producer Registration Date: 23-09-2004 Posts: 838 Helpfulness rating:  hehe.......surya grades on an exponential curve!!! __ Click on the pic above to visit my music profile on Myspace. 15-12-2004 14:02 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  You see, it's kinda similar, those two scales __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 15-12-2004 16:36 peet Steppa Registration Date: 31-01-2004 Posts: 264 Helpfulness rating:  quote: 4/5: excellent track, very professionally done, could go straight on vinyl hehe okay then im happy with my four stars. wheheh. __ 16-12-2004 15:28 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by peet quote: 4/5: excellent track, very professionally done, could go straight on vinyl hehe okay then im happy with my four stars. wheheh. The problem is that some people on this site rate wrong and give too high scores often __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 16-12-2004 16:05 marine289 Wicked Producer Registration Date: 05-10-2004 Posts: 311 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by Surya quote: Originally posted by peet quote: 4/5: excellent track, very professionally done, could go straight on vinyl hehe okay then im happy with my four stars. wheheh. The problem is that some people on this site rate wrong and give too high scores often So true... 16-12-2004 16:08 spudleyq Master Producer Registration Date: 23-09-2004 Posts: 838 Helpfulness rating:  that's why i don't like rating songs........just telling them if it's good......or what's wrong with it......or my opinion on the snare.......stuff like that.....people get big heads if they get 4 star ratings on a song that needs a lot more work __ Click on the pic above to visit my music profile on Myspace. 16-12-2004 17:06 Emblem-X Master Producer Registration Date: 10-11-2002 Posts: 2,135 Helpfulness rating:  idd ratings tell me nothing either.. cheers __ 16-12-2004 18:33 Surora23 Agressive Melodic Disorder Registration Date: 05-07-2004 Posts: 2,127 Helpfulness rating:  i still think we need a better rating scale? is pieter still working on the experiment one? __ Rinse it OUT!!!! 16-12-2004 18:40 peet Steppa Registration Date: 31-01-2004 Posts: 264 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by Surya quote: Originally posted by peet quote: 4/5: excellent track, very professionally done, could go straight on vinyl hehe okay then im happy with my four stars. wheheh. The problem is that some people on this site rate wrong and give too high scores often hehe youre insinuating something with that surya? i already got the point that you don't like my track for a while now, don't push your luck __ 16-12-2004 19:55 Glim Stuck In The Late Nineties Registration Date: 16-10-2004 Posts: 1,848 Helpfulness rating:  yeah people do tend to overmark tracks i'll even hold my hands up to that one i keep forgetting that we should be giving critical sometimes negative reviews, as it is these that may help or prompt the producer to take note and apply it on their next project. we're here to get help more than applause. i think we should still use the current rating system, but everyone have another look at it and use it properly anyone agree or anything??? __ My Sounds 16-12-2004 23:06 charleskoncept Wicked Producer Registration Date: 29-09-2004 Posts: 318 Helpfulness rating:  I tend to only star a trac out if i like it and that has been rare as of late... no offense to anyone... peace... __ charleskoncept 16-12-2004 23:20 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by peet i already got the point that you don't like my track for a while now, don't push your luck Dunno, don't remember very well, but I think it wasn't too bad But the fact is that people do rate tracks higher than they should quite often. They say: not very good, 2.5/5. __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 17-12-2004 01:29 B-complex Wicked Producer Registration Date: 07-04-2004 Posts: 374 Helpfulness rating:  I agree that there are higher ratings sometimes then they should be. __ 17-12-2004 01:49 peet Steppa Registration Date: 31-01-2004 Posts: 264 Helpfulness rating:  i think it should just be changed to a 1/10 score. and then on things like vinyl potential technical rating sound rating mixdown+mastering rating musical rating then get the final score out of those scores __ 19-12-2004 18:57 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by peet i think it should just be changed to a 1/10 score. and then on things like vinyl potential technical rating sound rating mixdown+mastering rating musical rating then get the final score out of those scores Lol, something like that is in the works man, I don't know when it'll be ready though. __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 19-12-2004 18:58 drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » Production ratings