New song summed and tracked on the mpc 5000.

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Let me know what you think this is my first hip hop type production




Everything including guitars was summed through the MPC 5000 A/D in to samplitude 10 did it in about an hour..I find it adds a sweet sound to the guitar. The beats and synth is all 5000 also. We also did the vocal track to the MPC HD recorder then transfered all the tracks to Samplitude 10 via adat through a rme PCI interface..

Well... it was ok, since it was your first hip hop production(thats cause im being nice, some other cats from here might get at ya hard). The Drums could have been sequenced a lil more on timing(thats just my opinion), the mix of the guitars really blew it apart for me(but you say you did it in a hour, so ill bypass that). It almost sounded like you got a lil crunk, and started rockin that mug like a rock concert at times.

But, thats some construction criticism siince no one else has said anything yet... im sure people will have other ideas, but your music is your music(in the end, its how you feel about it that counts most)

what do you all think????? be honest

I will behonest since you are asking for honesty.... the tracks needs ALOT of work. the beat sounds off amd the kick and the snare are way too thin... also at the beginning there is this huge change of levels, I had to jump to my mixer and lower the volume.


all in all keep trying......... and when you mix it use a similar song that has been released as a reference, don't stop mixing and improving yours until it sounds just as good as your reference track in terms of quality.

Thanks guys like i said it was done in an hour its- basically a demo...keep the honesty commin!

honestly i thought to mix it like a rock mix (more experience in) which most MPC cats dont do ..But yes i know the Guitars are too loud but I also want to keep as many dynamics as I can... But hip hop is a genre i have no familiarity with i'm mostly in to classical.

czarmusik wrote:honestly i thought to mix it like a rock mix (more experience in) which most MPC cats dont do ..But yes i know the Guitars are too loud but I also want to keep as many dynamics as I can... But hip hop is a genre i have no familiarity with i'm mostly in to classical.

Bro, as a hip hop track, you're way off the mark, BUT as a scoring piece for a movie-like a coming of age melodrama-you have something there, from a musical standpoint. The mix needs work but the intro moves into a nice buildup arrangement that I can definitely see (hear, rather) in a movie scene.

Take it as a compliment man, and know that I don't give many of those lol!

its bad, but if you put more than an hour into it it could be a lot better, I can see where you are trying to go, but its just very rough and sounds like not much time was put into perfecting it.

Again thanks everyone for the comments I'd like to hear some of your guys stuff post some links!!!

My first instinct was just to tell that it sounds like a hot mess. But that's not really constructive.

Basically here it is... hip hop is all about the drums, more so than almost any style of music. That song IS NOT about the drums.

All I hear is a cheesy kick and soft snare, repeating the same sloppy programmed 2 bars over and over again. The second snare in the second bar of that loop is SO FAR OFF, and for no good reason. The lack of solid drums is dragging down THE WHOLE SONG. Either get a drummer, or get someone to help completely redo the drums.