hard hitin drums

Thanks everybody for the tips... keep the em comin.

man the respons to this subject has been overwelming, yall cats gave some good tips, but........................... see, when i get in the mood to make a beat, my inspiration is gone by the time im done all the assigning and layering. its just the way i work. i just want to know where i can get some programs where the drums are already beefed up. lead me in the right direction.

set up one of your drums in a program. Then experiment using the tune speed & the filter(in params). I have made some dope hard hitting and bassy sounds using just that.

Science I used to be the same way. But once you start sampling, tweaking, engineering sounds you will start to possibly enjoy that
side of creating music as well.

If you really want to be a producer with hot shiznit, then you gotz to realize dat engineering sounds are just as much a part of a hot beat as the actual programming of the track.

But anyway, I feel where you coming from.

Check out www.mpc-tutor.com for some samples to get your creative juices flowing.

This is some of the better samples out there and for starting round $17 bucks for 192 samples, you can't be dat.

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Science wrote:man the respons to this subject has been overwelming, yall cats gave some good tips, but........................... see, when i get in the mood to make a beat, my inspiration is gone by the time im done all the assigning and layering. its just the way i work. i just want to know where i can get some programs where the drums are already beefed up. lead me in the right direction.

the solution for that is lay it out 1st and then save the seq. and then beef up your drums and assign them back

It doesn't matter where you sample your drums from, vinyl is cool, but cd's will give you that extra clarity. I sample from both, but it's not where you sample from, it's how you sample. You must watch the meter on the sample screen, you've gotta watch the meter on the mixer. If your sampling from cd, plug it into your mixer, and again watch the meter. If the meter is bouncing all the way to the right on the mpc, but on the mixing board, it's barely doing anything, your gonna get a poor signal. Watching the meter is a VERY important skill that is often overlooked. Look at every, and any meter that you have available. If your recording from the turntable, watch the turntable mixer's meter, if it's barely hitting the red (like it should) make sure the same levels are reaching your mixing board by looking at the boards meter. Then, when you sample into the mpc, you want the mpc's meter to hit the same level at the turntable/mixing boards meters (With the record gain on the mpc all the way down). Only adjust this if you really have to, more gain = more noise. If you can get nice clean signals into your mpc, then chances are, you will get good at recording also, but if you sample poor sounds, then even the best recorder will do very little to help you. The next lesson is stacking (drumz 102) and eqing and re-sampling (drumz 103) haha. Have fun with it.. running into problems is all a part of learning.

. ..roxstar. ..
http://www.soundclick.com/creamofbeats

roxstar wrote:It doesn't matter where you sample your drums from, vinyl is cool, but cd's will give you that extra clarity. I sample from both, but it's not where you sample from, it's how you sample. You must watch the meter on the sample screen, you've gotta watch the meter on the mixer. If your sampling from cd, plug it into your mixer, and again watch the meter. If the meter is bouncing all the way to the right on the mpc, but on the mixing board, it's barely doing anything, your gonna get a poor signal. Watching the meter is a VERY important skill that is often overlooked. Look at every, and any meter that you have available. If your recording from the turntable, watch the turntable mixer's meter, if it's barely hitting the red (like it should) make sure the same levels are reaching your mixing board by looking at the boards meter. Then, when you sample into the mpc, you want the mpc's meter to hit the same level at the turntable/mixing boards meters (With the record gain on the mpc all the way down). Only adjust this if you really have to, more gain = more noise. If you can get nice clean signals into your mpc, then chances are, you will get good at recording also, but if you sample poor sounds, then even the best recorder will do very little to help you. The next lesson is stacking (drumz 102) and eqing and re-sampling (drumz 103) haha. Have fun with it.. running into problems is all a part of learning.

. ..roxstar. ..
http://www.soundclick.com/creamofbeats

dropping jewelz...ha ha ha ha