Is there any profitable future for these tracks?

[dark13]

I want to be the next Tiesto; tell it to me straight guys - what are my chances?

Here are some songs I've made with LMMS

http://soundcloud.com/darkthirteen/intro

http://soundcloud.com/darkthirteen/crackwhore

http://soundcloud.com/darkthirteen/new-sound

http://soundcloud.com/darkthirteen/flip-a-knife

[lazerblade]

Hide intro away where none will ever find it. Crackwhore was a joy to listen to. New sound was also good, but I think the speed bass should be a bit louder or at least more pronounced. If you're EQing it, just fix the EQ. If not, start EQing your tracks. Flip a Knife was good, but somehow felt less awesome than your newer uploaded tracks.

[lazerblade]

Oh yea, commercial viability. I say you're a good artist, but I can't say what the music industry is going to want next.

[dark13]

..guilty. How should i go about EQing? Should I add an EQ effect to the whole song? or each track? Which EQ effect is best? Right now my EQ is playing the song in Winamp and looking at the mini-EQ on there.

On a related note, is there any way to know what different effects do? I feel like I basically use the same 3 FX over and over again, and if I knew what any of the others did I'd probably use them. Some kind of cheat sheet?

[lazerblade]

..guilty

Don't be. A lot of producers go for years before they learn about it. I am one of them. EQ is exactly the same as in winamp, boosting or lowering certain frequencies to change the sound. I usually apply "C* EQ 2x2" to most of my instruments or FX channels(if they're grouped) depending on the track. You can also add spectrum analyzers to see what the frequency range looks like. Sometimes an instrument will sound perfect and fit in the frequency range perfectly out of the box, but it's rare.

If you want a good graphic EQ(and you can run VST's effectively, I hear it's a bit unstable for some) I've been using BlueCat Triple EQ 4 recently, and I like it a lot.

As for FX manuals, I don't know beyond the short description you get when you highlight a plugin. My goto method for something like "a simple, parametric, single pole lowpass filter" is to go to Google and look it up. Come to think of it, I would like to have a cheat sheet myself.