Let's Hear Something

[Lawrence]

There seems to be a lot of experience here among some good hip-hop producers and aspiring producers and artists. Although I don't really do rap anymore I still use a lot of the techniques in urban R&B and hip-hop songs with vocals.

It would be great to put a sound behind some of this gear and these techniques on this board. Can you guys link up some beats or vocals or something that demonstrates some of the gear, techniques and/or methods you've been describing?

For example: Lemme hear a drum beat raw from an MPC or whatever and then give me that same beat after compression, supplementing, and eq. Then give me a short note in the thread telling what you did and with what gear and why. 30 second mp3 maybe with 15 seconds of each.

One of the things I don't like about these kinds of boards is that there is no real reference (mostly just subjective theory) even though the Net (and broadband) easily affords that capability. I'd even go so far as to ask one of the kind moderators to start a "Live Beat Production" thread where it progresses along for a number of days and people can download short loops of audio, participate and apply some of the techniques being described in their own studios. Day 1 ... Drums. Day 2 ... Bass. Day ... 3 Grouping and compresson ... etc.

I'll be glad to lend FTP space for this kind of activity. Can we do that kind of thing here? Thanks.

Lawrence

[k2m]

i love your idea and i am sure lotta people would love to hear that too.

[Quigley]

OK, this is my 1st time posting attachments so I hope it works. Lemme get this straight first - I'm not a hip hop producer and I'm not a pro. I am a synthesizer player though, which means that I'm crazy and I waste hours picking at little things.

RECIPE FOR 8 BARS OF LOUD MUSIC - by Quigley

1. Take 4 bars of Roxy Music's 'Bogus Man' and export it to Acid.
2. Take 4 bars of Outkast's 'Bombs Over Baghdad' and export it to Acid.
3. Pitch shift Bombs by a few degrees and re-export it back to Cubase.
4. Take the Bombs file and process it with D Sound NoiseGate and AutoWah, Voxengo Warmifier, and B4 FX.
5. Take the bass beat and snare beat of Bombs and export them to Reason, use them as Redrum files and boost their bass quite a bit.
6. Play the bass and the chord line of Bombs on Trilogy and Maelstrom.
7. Bake at 127 bpm for f*cking forever.

[NeoVXR]

I love the idea, but I think the pro's would not give away a HQ reference of creativity too easily.

but I think a reference of basic devices, softsynths, and some typical technology can be created. not everyone has a minimoog or a linn or even reason..
and all these sound libraries, with typical application, but I think it would need a gentleman agreement with the creators.

there must be a big YMMV disclaimer, also..