THE NEXT LEVEL.....HELP ME!!!!

I have the mpc 4000 and the yamaha aw4416 in my home, my music is straight but I want to take it to the next level, meaning taking my music to the studio and putting the magic touch on it there........... Can I do this with the equipment I have at home or do I have to upgrade to protools for this.....?

That magic goes two ways my friend. Either you shell out some cash to a mixer engineer or take the time and search for good book on Mixing and Mastering from your local book store and master that book. In my opinon if you got the equipment and you paid for it. Use it to it's ablity. Some of my favorite producers do everything from composing to mixing but not the mastering. Come on man have faith in your self this is the decade of the bedroom producers take over! BTW I friend of mine told me his boy at Guitar Center said ProTools is starting to become even out with Logic, but the damn software is only for MAC now.

I got faith in myself but my question is do you have to have a computer setup in your home to be able to transfer your music to the studio to work on it there? (Example-- I have a song thats on my aw4416 its has a total of sixteen tracks. is there a way for me to take that song to the studio and tweak each track individually??????

Have you considered recording a single track to CDR? example; CDR track 1: kick drum, CDR track 2: snares, CDR track 3: sample and so on. . . Just an idea.

If I sync my MPC, my sound modules and keyboards to a digital recorder through midi will the tracks still be mdi once there recorded on to the digital recorder if not how could i burn on them on the onboard cd burner on the digital recorder. Also if the tracks are midi still would the sound play through my speakers connected my equipment.

what??

aright, sorry,

killatracks-
if you got your tracks laced up in your yamaha all split out and everything, you can take it to the studio and pump those into there system. you dont need protools unless you really want to. the yamaha is a good box. trust me, if youre paying someone for studio time, they better be able to sync up your machine to theirs and pull those tracks off individually or youre gettin screwed.

killatracks wrote:I have the mpc 4000 and the yamaha aw4416 in my home, my music is straight but I want to take it to the next level, meaning taking my music to the studio and putting the magic touch on it there........... Can I do this with the equipment I have at home or do I have to upgrade to protools for this.....?

Pro Tools has nothing to do with it, just find a good mastering place, theres this place where im at called TrackWorx, cool ass rock ***** workin there, he hooks it up for like $200-$400 depending on the amount of tracks you got.

AND hes does it cheaper for rap casue he says its easy as hell to match and boost different sounding tracks.

Real deal shit, runs the files or dats through some REAL DEAL compression (dude has 1000s of dollars worth of gear, Drawmers for days), back on to ProTools through an SSL board, hooks up some crazy 3D looking TDM only plug in on the final mix, everything. Plus he lets you drink and smoke while hes working.

thats the next level.

On the AW I think you can export tracks to CD as .wav-files. That should be the easiest way to go. Since you (probably) don´t have 16 outputs on the AW you would have to sync it up and even thou the engineer would probably know how to it could take a while = cost a lot of dough just for transferring the sound

protools is just another DAW, nothing exciting.


if you want to get your stuff MIXED at a studio thats cool, cause you can get your tracks on a big classic desk such as a neve or an SSL. these are top of the line desks and have amazing sound. but thats expensive...

MASTERING is good to get done by a pro. you may THINK youre good at mastering, but i bet yure just using a plugin or two, using bad eq and overcompressing.

people like me get paid week in week out to fix other peoples "mastering" mistakes, and im just a shitkicker engineer.

REAL mastering engineers have amazing ears. rap/hiphop is pretty easy to master cause it doesnt need any dynamics and is pretty average stuff usually... just some vocal exciter and a big ass limiter applied and thats it.

all good mastering engineers have decades of experience and a tonne of great gear (including valve and tube gear... but thats a lesson on harmonics and too much for you hiphop kids) and is worth every cent.

then again, you cant polish a turd as they say. but from the sounds of it you have no problem gear wise with a 4k and the yammy.

if you want to hear your stuff mastered send it to me. i'll put my money where my mouth is and see what we can do... im on holidays soon.

ps, buy yourself a good compressor. even a Penta will do, but the RNC is great and cheap.