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MattiMattMatt · 19th October 2004

One of the lessons learned from my Def Jam days was that the fancy shmancy stuff didn't neccessarily sound better than the cheapo stuff. Often, the cheapo stuff was the real deal, and produced the sounds that made you want to move your butt.

But maybe a bigger lesson was that it all boiled down to the person using the equipment. A top drum programmer I was working with, for example, even made my Alesis HR-16 sound good. His beats were just way better than mine. And to give it a satisfying cheap snappiness, I boosted the high end to 11 at the board.

19th October 2004	#11
MattiMattMatt Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 950	One of the lessons learned from my Def Jam days was that the fancy shmancy stuff didn't neccessarily sound better than the cheapo stuff. Often, the cheapo stuff was the real deal, and produced the sounds that made you want to move your butt. But maybe a bigger lesson was that it all boiled down to the person using the equipment. A top drum programmer I was working with, for example, even made my Alesis HR-16 sound good. His beats were just way better than mine. And to give it a satisfying cheap snappiness, I boosted the high end to 11 at the board.