jaylib

yo i copped this the other day there is some heat on it, and there is a pic on the inlay card of what i think is a micro korg, i bet madlibs using that too.

so madlib is rocking an sp-303 and a micro korg and making bangers like the ones on the album wow thats hella inspiring cause im rocking the 505 and am soon to get a k-station.

It dont mean ima be on madlibs level but at least i know its possible

i still hear a lot of sp-1200 in his beats..

? if ya'll don't know, jaylib is 2 people, and I'm sure just having those 2 pieces of equipment isn't gonna make you sound like Madlib or Jay Dee instantly. They mixed both of their experience and vibe to make this album and their sound just comes from endless practice and getting influenced by certain stuff, thats what makes an individual.

This year, Madlib picks up speed with a spate of new joints on fellow DJ and producer Peanut Butter Wolf's Stones Throw imprint. The latest is a team-up with Detroit producer and MC Jay Dee, who is best known for his work with The Pharcyde; Busta Rhymes; and his own group, Slum Village. Recorded under the name Jaylib, Official (Stones Throw, 2003) is a chopped-up, fractal, freestyle swingfest with both artists building loops for the other to rhyme over. It's the perfect vehicle for what Madlib jokingly refers to as his “caveman method,” in which the main ingredients are a Roland/Boss SP-303 Dr. Sample and a Roland VS-880 digital 8-track.

“I think Madlib pretty much just invents his own rules,” Peanut Butter Wolf muses. Studio engineer Dave Cooley claims that holds true even when a different setup is needed. For “React,” Jay Dee's beat and 'lib's turntable cuts were flown into Digidesign Pro Tools from separate stereo and 4-track masters. Madlib then tracked his vocals on an Audio-Technica 4033A and a Shure SM7, from there going into a Neve 1099 preamp, a GML 8200 EQ, a Universal Audio 1176LN limiting amplifier and finally a dbx 902 De-Esser. “We usually de-ess maybe 4 dB off of the vocals and then compress with a ratio of 8 to 1, which is pretty high,” Cooley explains. “But Madlib likes his shit loud, and it's mixed loud to begin with. He has a really cool ‘angular’ mixing style: Something is always sticking out.”

In the end, what remains most important for Madlib is that the soul within the sound is preserved. “Even though we elevate to do other types of music, we still have what we've done in the past: the raw stuff, the essence of how we started,” he says. “Some people might think you go to the next level and leave the other stuff behind, but it's always right there.”

Jay Dee uses the 3000.

i dont think madlib using that 303 heavily,i think he pushing it for boss...
besides you can actually hear it in a beat if a certain sampler was used

well madlib is comming to london in a week or two so ima ask him flat do u make beats from scratch on the sp-303.

as for the jaylib album u can hear the sound quality difference between some of jay dee'd beats and madlibs beats so i think it is entirely possible he does make beats on the 303.

i dont know why everyone acts like its impossible to make good hip hop in low tech equipment, i mean the sp1200 is hella low tech yeah it got that crunchy sound but on 10 sec of sample time! so u can do more with a 303 than a 1200