Yall ever do this?

alright so i have zero money right now for digging, as i havent worked for a while and i just spent a bunch building myslef a booth and a new desk (fun project...)

anyway, so i have no money for digging, at all. so what ive started doing is going back through my records and re-listening. of course im finding stuff i never heardbefore.

waht i started doing, as like a drill, is to pick out a record at randonm, a song at random, and the forcing myself to make a beat out of that song, just to see how different i can flip stuff... real challenging sometimes.

ive been doing a couple of these everyday....

all i can say is i hope i get some money to go digging again soon...

I love picking records at random. Sometimes I'll tell my friends pick any record and I'll flip a beat off of it. I think it does help your beatmaking skills. it forces to work with what you have, and tests your ear for makin beats.

waht i started doing, as like a drill, is to pick out a record at randonm, a song at random, and the forcing myself to make a beat out of that song, just to see how different i can flip stuff... real challenging sometimes.

I try not to force the beat because you settle with something that you would normally pass on. How did the desk and both turn out?

this is a great method.

start small and then once you've proven to yourself you can work under pressure, remove the pressure. the beat, bottled up in your head, will explode with the added headroom in which to grow.

I think it helps, because some of those little things that i would of normally not heard, or even use i start to use I find myself using now. So now when i'm going through new records, or even old records to see what there is to use I'm hearing things that before i wouldn't of thought of using. I thinks its fun. But right Trend you really shouldn't force anything. My saying is "if it doesn't flow just let go".

lol-- i made a beat with an elvis cosstello thing theotherday -- heheh -- it was silly -- but ya

I agree, this is a very good technic, to improve your skill.
Sadly, the 1k as standalone is not really useful for that, since missing reverse, timestrech, etc...
Without a computer, this is in my opinion impossible...

its called chopping man, i do everything on the 1k, never use my laptop till its time to mix

sure u can chop, but chopping won't bring you so far, that you can kick a beat out of every random song...imho...

wrong, ive been chopping everything, WITHOUT timestretch or anything for years

I've used Acid pro, and Pro tools, and have never used timestretching once. This of course is just my way of doing things. I personally rather slow it down, or speed it up, and chop it from there. Because with chopping you can come up with so many different variations that normally just timestretching, and looping it you wouldn't of found. To each their own.

I try not to force the beat because you settle with something that you would normally pass on. How did the desk and both turn out?

yea i see that you could come out with beats that you wouldnt use, but i figure the ultimate goal would be to have the ability to make something dope out of any sound... the end justifies the means.. eventually i hope...


the stuff turned out real good. no sound proofing or treatment in yet, just the skeleton. but considering i built it in a day and it cost me under 100 total so far, im real happy.

i put this sick little window in the booth. some reason thats the part of the studio that im most proud. ran some coaping (?) along the outside...


@ shukone: i agree wit capshun... so far the 1k has exceeded my exectations. its all about simplification, mindset, and process. (my mantra lol)

i'm currently not talking bout timestreching at all....
sure you can do a lot of things with the 1k. but u can't make a really new sound of a sample - this is the point i was talking about...

I would agree with you on that Shuk. Hence now I own a ASR as my main my sampler, but using the 2 together is a great combination for me.

i agree somewhat about not 'making a new sound', i know what u mean, the f/x on computer these days r much crazier...

but you can definitely make a whole track with no timestrech.

i think most of the old school stuff never used timestretch, earlier samplers never had it anyway... back then it was called 'pitch up or down'. And you can get all kinds of crazy sounds for sure just by sampling yourself scratching the record.

and imho stuff sounds funkier that way anyway

(ok im not saying never timestretch or anything, but good to keep in mind how they did it 'back in the day' .)