Music Producers Thread v 3.0

lol damn, why is the producer’s thread poppin right now?

If I didn’t have to go to work/school in a few, I’d be really excited right now…

-Fritz

some irish hip hop www.myspace.com/mcvba

LOL don’t worry homey it won’t get deleted.

I need some new headphones. Not for at home, but I’m trying to work on music on the sly at work now that I have my own office. I keep headphones on, but the bass response SUCKS, so my drums are just OFF :wasted:. Any recommendations? FYI - no noise-canceling type and nothing with big ear muff syndrome going on…got to keep a low profile while doing this despite having my own office.

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I dunno, i couldn’t imagine working on music with earbuds… but i do have some of those sony ones that go in your ear and they sound pretty crazy. There is like a weird rubber tube thing that goes in your ear and turns your whole ear into a subwoofer pretty much. crazy bass response, sometimes if i listen to it too loud it kinda makes me feel weird since it’s so close to my equilibrium. my friend borrowed them or else i’d tell you the exact model.

the only bad thing about them is if you wanna eat something crunchy while having them in…

for real i think this comes from people mastering on shitty speakers with low bass response.

i try to keep my bass at a normal level and never try to force it on people.

oh and to the irish hip hop… it might be the blunt talking but i kind zoned out and it sounded like some old sammy deluxe to me, just not in german :rofl::rofl:

I feel you on having your own equipment, went to a club where I am DJing my friends fam reunion, they had everything (besides Serato) hooked up. Had a choice between CDJ’s and 1200’s. Makes my life WAY easier, seeing that I am traveling from VA to NC for the gig.

pretty much every single dj i know uses serato and a lot of the venues i spin in philly have serato all ready to go if they do DJs every night. i do a lot of gigs where i bring it myself but if i know they are pre set up ready to go then i will just go early and make sure everything works (cuz other DJs fuck shit up a lot)

My boys club in Charlotte is like that, has serato already setup and ready to run. I just need to get off my ass and get my crates together in Serato:rolleyes:

ill come down and rock a party for ya!!

just cuz.

as long as i have a place to crash and play SF at haha.

I dont think its overrated, I just think that people tend to think that mastering is the part that requires your attention the most. Thats not true, if everything before the mastering process is done carefully, the mastering process is really smooth. Thats why sometimes the producer gives his work to a mastering engineer, and that basically means “Just finish it, Im too tired already :rofl:

I know, Ive been there :rofl: , I just let somebody else finish the little details cause Im already too boomed out to do it myself.
Anyway, here’s something Ive been doing, I was hired to make music for a short movie that a friend of mine is making, and this is a demo for it, I’ll record it on a bigger studio on sep, thats why I recorded it on one take, so thats why I didnt correct the mistake I made on the ending.

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(Oh yeah, you guessed right, this song is for a sex scene :rofl: not porn though)

So I just got an MPD24 and I’m looking for some drum kits. Any help would be appreciated!

Some truth in there, the better the work before mastering…the easier and quicker the actual mastering process is. It helps tremondously if you are the mastereer or do mastering thus you know whats what, otherwise you end up overcompensating for it.

FYI if anyone is looking for a record player - woot.com has the ION table again. I was going to scoop it since I just soldm y MPC last nyte and still have the money in my pocket, but I’m not feeling the reviews too much. I’m now sitting on about 30 somethign records…with no player lol.

Ace what kind of drum kits? Just to start out…or for something in particular? I usually start off with ‘the Roland series’ - mostly 303/808, then I look at my Korg X5 pack. After that its sorta whatever catches my ear or I stumble upon (I got tons of drums…my drum sounds alone fill a CD)

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Need a recommendation for software to use for recording. I am moving from Cool Edit Pro 2 to more than likely Sonar. Any other legit options? ProTools wont work on my system…

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Get a mac, cant get better than that when it comes to recording haha
anyway, If I couldnt use ProTools Id go for Cubase but that depends on the gear you have.

So yea, a bit of a predicament I want to some hip hop/rap with my friend who’ll be doing the lyrics. I usually do trance, breakbeat and house (with trance influences) I know I couldn’t be so much further on the musical genre spectrum but I’ve always wanted to dabble into the genre… so I’ll need some help.

But I’m looking for a way to record vocals… so far I have the mic from Rockband (fail?). Should I approach hip-hop/rap the same way I approach breaks? More emphasis on a slower BPM, groovey bassline, and a sick beat? I don’t have an isolation booth in my house (the best thing I have is the closet in my room.) should I even bother with it?

I’ll probably have more questions to come but right now those are my main conserns.

if you got a nice shower record in there.

i use protools for vocals… i dunno what other cheap or free programs are out there

Closet’s better than nothing. Or you can make some ghetto gobos out of pvc pipe and moving blankets like I did. :cool: I recommend Reaper for recording - unexpiring trialware, $60 to register, and very powerful.

To this day I still hate MACs…even the friggin layout of the OS kills me (its part of why I can’t stand Vista and am nervous about Windows 7)

I’m also not willing to shell out that kind of money. At that point I’d just build a new system specifically for music. And even doing that I already got everything for windoze.

shrug

The apple hype is sooooooooooo overdone.

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Pretty cool, I’m going to have to try this :slight_smile: once I get my set up going, btw when I say closet, it’s a walk-in one, so there is plenty of room.

FL Studio 9 is out!!