DJ Vadim hits up the 1000

i'd hit that chick

robthebank2morrow wrote:

animalcub wrote:http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan00/articles/djvadim.htm

Nice 1. SOS they always come up with the goods don't they...

Good interview.

peezie wrote:i'd hit that chick

wtf

with what!!

whatdya think? If you guys dont like girls, that aint my prob

animalcub wrote:with what!!

peezie wrote:i'd hit that chick

i was thinking the same thing....i'd hit it twice even.

cynic wrote:

peezie wrote:i'd hit that chick

i was thinking the same thing....i'd hit it twice even.

i was thinking the same thing too

AMG wrote:

cynic wrote:

peezie wrote:i'd hit that chick

i was thinking the same thing....i'd hit it twice even.

i was thinking the same thing too

Be all that foreign talk, that ....

i'm all for hitting that also. i'm sick of all all these tall model types lately.... lol

Just for the record the girl is Yarah Bravo and she's a great MC/Singer.

this constellation is just fabulous (blurum,yahra and vadim)

the song in the video was very cool. she has a great sound

vadim is an okay producer, i feel he's not fully ninja worthy. He also dosen't look like he's doing much live in those pictures.

yahra is hot and has a good voice. Her lyrics are pretty wak for the most part, but, yes, i would also have sexual intercourse with her.

blurum looks like the 7up commercial guy, i always forget that actors name.

The selection of gear in Vadim's studio reflects the extent to which his tracks are dependent on sampling from vinyl. Perhaps the most unusual feature of the setup is the absence of a master keyboard or any synth modules: Vadim programs entirely using his Akai MPC3000 and computer, and his sounds are obtained almost entirely by sampling from records. The only keyboards are a Clavia Nord Lead and a Fender Rhodes electric piano, both of which are used merely as occasional sound sources - each appears only on one track on Life From The Other Side.
His array of processing and effects gear is also rather specialised, and is perhaps summarised as 'compressors, compressors, and more compressors': "The thing that I need the most is compression - and now, parametric EQ. Because I'm working from a mixed-down form already, I don't effect things that much. Having strange effects is the most useful. There is some reverb on the snare, but it's very minimal; I'm not a big reverb lover. I hate reverb on vocals. Because I use so many samples, and a variety of samples, I try to keep those as dry as possible, becaues they've already been effected in whatever way.

"Depending on how much compression I want to use, sometimes I will put kick, snare and hi-hat all through the Joemeek SC2. The Joemeek is great for drums: it's not very subtle, but it's a really good workhorse compressor, especially for hip-hop, it's really great for drums. For that kind of hard hip-hop beat, I put the whole beat through it. Sometimes I put the kick in the Focusrite, the snare in the Drawmer, and then put them both back through the Joemeek, and then compress the whole mix back through the TL Audio.

"After I've got all my music up and running on the board, I go through the TL Audio, into the Finalizer, record it down to DAT, then I go from there, record it on to Sound Designer in the computer, go into Peak SFX, boost it up there, go into Cubase and there's another couple of things where you can peak it in there, really make it thump. So I normalise it two or three times, and also sequence up the 12-inch and the album versions."

Akai S3000 and MPC3000 samplers, fully upgraded.
Alesis ADAT digital multitracker.
Alesis Quadraverb multi-effects.
Apple Mac with Digidesign Audiomedia III card, running Cubase.
Atari ST.

"I never thought of getting a Mac until about a year ago, but it's amazing the power it gives me - all the hard disk recording, editing, stuff like that. You can have a whole album, 80 minutes of music, and chop it up and do all kinds of things to it. But in terms of sync'ing and crashing and locking it's terrible compared to the Atari. I've kept the Atari just as a sync for when I need to run the ADAT."

BBE Sonic Maximiser.
Drawmer DS241 compressor.
Drawmer DS401 gate.
Ensoniq DP2 multi-effects.
Eventide H3000 Ultra Harmonizer.

"All my vocals go through there, though I don't always use it for vocals; sometimes I put scratches through it, and I've tried putting a whole track through it. On some songs I just put the whole mix through the Eventide and did loads of different passes, put it on the computer, used a dry pass, and added in lots of different chopped-up effected passes."

Focusrite Green channel strip.
Joemeek SC2 compressor.
LA 4G gate.

"Sometimes I put drums in and they're so crusty and I want to get away from the original sound as much as possible, so I compress it to fk then stick it through a gate, so you just get the tiniest bit through."

Mackie desk.
Rode NT2 microphone.
Tascam DA20 DAT recorder.
TC Electronic Finalizer Plus mastering processor.

"I like the fact that it has the soft clipping, you can take it to the maximum level on DAT, and some of the compression and limiting is very valuable. That's probably one of my most valuable pieces of equipment."

TL Audio C1 dual valve compressor.

"That's the last thing I come out of the mixing desk through."

Urei 1176 compressor.
Zoom Studio 1201 multi-effects.

"That's wicked - I mean, it's a cheap old thing, it's only 100 quid, but for that it's amazing."

oh yeah and blurum is dope