J Dilla Donuts LOUDNESS.....

Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.
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By pk1 Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:16 pm
rick your being ignorant!
to the point of the question... The sound needs to be at its best from the start. your e.q. from the source to the mpc should be at its best.

And its mic pre's that help boost your sound when you record into any digital format. try running a mic pre before your mpc. specially a tube pre amp.
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By rickrock305 Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:01 pm
pk1 wrote:rick your being ignorant!
to the point of the question... The sound needs to be at its best from the start. your e.q. from the source to the mpc should be at its best.

And its mic pre's that help boost your sound when you record into any digital format. try running a mic pre before your mpc. specially a tube pre amp.



i'm not being ignorant, i'm telling you facts.

no mic pre and no matter what the sound you use, your stuff is not going to be that loud without proper mixing and mastering.
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By jnorth Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:37 pm
rickrock305 wrote:no mic pre and no matter what the sound you use, your stuff is not going to be that loud without proper mixing and mastering.
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By pk1 Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:38 pm
yes mastering is what made the finished product so nice. but he is asking about how to get his base track to sound as loud as it can with the construction of his project.

we should all be aware that its the mastering that make the final product so nice, but if your sounds are all cloudy from the start no master is going to bring it to its fullest.

By transformermonkey Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:43 pm
remember donuts was made on a sp-303!not a mpc except for 2 tracks!If you ever used a sp-303 or 404 you can hear the efx dilla uses.that has alot to do with the sound and compresion hes gettin.ofcourse mastering helps alot but you can hear all kinds of sp-303 efx on that album!

By cooocooo1 Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:26 pm
i was waitin for the "deathbed, only one working finger and an sp" post....
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By cluster Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:01 am
yawn...

i wish people who stop thinking loud is the way to go...

Volume knobs exist for a reason. But yeah, go loud, kill the dynamics.
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By 7 1 4 Beats Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:21 am
wordsofwizdom wrote:i would put it down to dills knowledge and practice of sampling onto the mp...

but yes of course it was mastered.
dilla has his own studio for fvcks sake hes no ameture beat maker


just check out the videos of his crib

hes got expansive mixing desks

he worked hard and thats how he got to the level where he is

his music reaked of experimentation and time


Dilla did not have his studio when he made DOnuts. He was living with Common the whole time he was living out here. If you look at the pics from Behind the Beat that is all the equipment he had when he was living with Common. His whole studio that you saw in the video is from the when he had his last crib in Detroit. But now Illa J has all of it in his studio now.
DOnuts was definitely crazy how the drums were done it's kind of crazy to listen to certain songs cause it sounds like they used some gating on the snares and the drums to open up every time it gets to them. Like the same shit that Madlib does to his samples that are loops he says he jsut gates them so snares open up in the original sample.
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By gunmetal Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:34 pm
pre amp... and a damn good engineer...


and also what was sampled BEFORE the pre amp... It has a lot to do with it too.

:D
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By rickrock305 Sun Sep 23, 2007 5:28 pm
gunmetal wrote:pre amp


and also what was sampled BEFORE the pre amp... It has a lot to do with it too.

:D



actually, not really. you could fart on a snare drum and with a proper mastering engineer he can make it as loud as anything on the radio

By barznbeats Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:35 pm
Yo, I am no hater or anything but I would really like to know.. what was the big deal with J-Dilla? What is it thats so magical about him to y'all?
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By gunmetal Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:55 am
rickrock305 wrote:
gunmetal wrote:pre amp


and also what was sampled BEFORE the pre amp... It has a lot to do with it too.

:D



actually, not really. you could fart on a snare drum and with a proper mastering engineer he can make it as loud as anything on the radio



:lol:

got it... mastering engineer. Ill put that on my list of things to purchase to make my studio more professional.


:lol:
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By djobserv Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:03 am
Credits:

Artwork By - Jeff Jank
Executive Producer - Peanut Butter Wolf
Mastered By - Dave Cooley
Producer - J Dilla
Notes: Mastered at Bionic, LA
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By rickrock305 Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:39 pm
gunmetal wrote: :lol:

got it... mastering engineer. Ill put that on my list of things to purchase to make my studio more professional.


:lol:




i imagine something like that isn't going to be cheap! :lol:
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imaginitive cosign.

By Lampdog Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:50 pm
jnorth wrote:
rickrock305 wrote:no mic pre and no matter what the sound you use, your stuff is not going to be that loud without proper mixing and mastering.
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