Tracking your beats

Got some questions regarding tracking.

If I use a MPC 2000 and a DBX compressor how do I go to someone's studio and track my beat into protools?? Do I bring both the MPC and DBX and my mixer??

Do I even need a DBX compressor if I track into pro tools (digi 001, 002)??

How do you guys track your beats??

Any help will be appreciated

I record from 8 outs into Pro Tools via Digi 001. I use different plugins/rtas to add effects, compression, eq, etc... The compressor that comes with Pro Tools is decent. I use have the Waves compressor and it's all I use all the time. You can use an outboard compressor or you can use plugins on Pro Tools.
Most people who have studios have all the equipment you need. Before you go to the studio find out what they have.

If this is your first time recording your tracks, I wouldn't even go through the trouble of taking all your gear to the studio. You may be better of simply buying a used 8/12/16 track recorder and going from there. Even a rack cd-burner would be good enough if you don't plan on putting vocals on the beat right away. Pro-tools is nice, but there are much cheaper ways to get the same results, if not real close. In fact, my friend has the digi 002, and my newer tracks sound a lot better than his. I have another friend that used pro-tools in a straight up $200,000 + studio, and paid over a thousand bux for mastering. He didn't like the results as much as he thought, and now, his tracks sound a lot better.. he's using a roland 890. So it's not the gear, it's the engineer, ESPECIALLY when it comes to recording.
ps.. you can get roland 890's for less than $400 used! In fact, any digital recorder will sound good enough for underground production.

. ..roxstar. ..
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hat off to MrRoxstar:hey man i appreciate your post VERY MUCH...thanx for keepin' hope and faith to any "little" musician and creator...thanx very much.

Roxstar and CriTikal are right. Good software can rival most of the big boy studio equipment. Plugins are used in some big studios even though they will not say so in the magazines (I've know this for a while). It is the person behind the software/hardware who is aking it sound good. A v12 Diablo can go nowhere by itself but with a good driver it can do damage to the roadways... Same with your MPC and Digital/Hardware/Software Track machine..