i made SO many mistakes, but i think that was a good thing, cuz i was focusing purely on the creative part instead of thinking about rules

i didnt record to proper levels like someone said above, and i had no idea about compression and limiters, so practically all my beats were clipping horribly

i had no concept of tempo, i exported loops i made in fl studio and draged the wave files to acid music studio and just lined them up regardless of the default 120 tempo
i just decided the tempo by ear,

i would try to copy a lot of producers, but by the time i finished it sounded nothing like what producer i was goin for (which is was actually a good thing IMO)