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SP-1200 raw edit.

No other machines used. No EQ, No mixing, No FX. Raw SP-1200 output to Dell sound card. Recorded at 96khz 24 bits through Sound Forge. *FYI* I don't have a PC in my lab. I brought the SP into my office room just to record something for ya'll.

http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2N34 ... GIRG1O86GC

It's cool, not really much of anything there, only 22 sec.. Nice sample. The drums are good. This is super grimey.

Lo Pass Filter wrote:Recorded at 96khz 44.1 bits

You sure about that?

Lovely, I'd love to hear it fully developed. I can hear someone rhyme to it already.

Yeah this is hard man, real grimey like! I can dig it!

Come to think of it, I can hear DJames on this, hook it up D, spit something!!

One - Word. Givin the other thread about redundancy, I figured i'd contribute to my word. Thier is a serious break down or 2, and percussion additives on the full version.

TZ - Positive. Thats the SP-1200 unmixed for you kid.

Elm - No doubt. The full version has a chamber orchestra melody that comes over the same progression on the break down. Thiers drum step ups, crash cymbols with long sustain to heighten the dramatic element, and a fuzz guitar that chimes in ever 8-9 bars to break up the montoney. When I complete it, and actually mix it, i'll let you hear the results.

revise.

Damn, you know how to make a guy anticipate that shyt!!!

Illness.

Lo Pass Filter wrote:TZ - Positive. Thats the SP-1200 unmixed for you kid.

There are no soundcards/converters on the market that go above 24 bits. 44.1 is frequency (kHz), not bit rate (usually 16 or 24).

Nice beat, by the way....

TZ - Yo your right. I'm kinda tipsy right now. What I ment was, 96 Khz 24-bit through Soundforge when I recorded it off the Mic Input. Then when I converterd it, it was dumped down at 16-bit 44.1 khz (CD dither rate). Hope that clears up any confusion. I'm new to this PC recording sh*t anyhow. I'm all about 2".

Lo Pass Filter wrote:I'm all about 2".

Aaaaah, the Almighty ....

What kind of soundcard / converters did you use to record this beat?

TZ - Whatever comes stock with the Dell Dimension 2600? (2 Ghz Pent 4 Dell's). I just ran the mixout from a 1/4" Hosa I had laying around to an 1/8" adapter from Radioshack I found in a box. Went into the mic input, set the PC's mic recording level VERY low, opened SoundForge 7 (Curteousy Drumat!c.. I have barely an idea on how to use this software!), set the record mode for 96khz 24-bit, and the rest is history. Went to Download.com and downloaded a trail version of some Batch Wav to MP3 converter, converter at 128kbps at 44.1 KHZ. Thats it. The beat was processed in no way. The melody is on Channel 5 which is filtered to some degree, but not very much. Drums are all on dry channels.

Word up in regars to the 2". Otari MX80 is where it's at for us "not big enough budget to swing an A800mkIII" fellas. Butter smooth transport control. Now if I can bring myself to own one, and lug it up my stair case into my studio (On the 2nd floor of my spot)!! Good thing the designers hooked my house up with an extra wide stair case. I think that should be a development idea every home follows in. Extra wide stair cases are whats up. Definately gonna need 3-6 people to help me lug that MX upstairs when the time comes!

Yo lopass you can open the volume settings page in your computer from the control panel ans set the mic input as a line input, you'll get much better quality that way.

Elm - You'd think that. But that wasn't the case. It was killing frequencies badly that way. Line hum from the unbalanced cabling too. The mic input coupled with the SP's volume knob setting was optimum. I wanted to try and capture as much of the crunch/detail of the SP as possible without too much distortion. Cause you gotta think, theres no EQ, no dynamic control, no filtering, and I monitored out some headphones and the Dell speakers .. The sound quality was sufficent for it's purpose which was more or less referencing. Thanks for the tip though