Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.
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By Lou-One Sun Feb 15, 2004 5:13 am
Tree, these dudes are right. Start digging! If your new to digging, just find your favourite songs, look in the credits section of the CD see if they list the samples for the song. Find those.

Pretty soon you'll start noticing which artists to check for, what labels, what producers, studio musicians, etc. to look for. It's a good journey, don't cheat yourself!

If your at a record store and you see a record with a dude with a big 'fro and looks like a pimp and it's from 1973...cop it! Chances are it has something dope on it...or it may not...but that's the thrill of the hunt. And a lot of the time your only spending a buck or two so it's cheap thrills, too.

With digging you have the potential to spend what it costs to rent a DVD, Buy a pack of smokes (or Fags if your in the UK hahaha), or whatever, and find something that you could sample that will make anyones jaw drop.

dig

By roxstar Sun Feb 15, 2004 9:45 pm
Somedays, you may not have the creative juices flowin.. simply sample some drums from lp's, cd's, even the radio. You gotta figure, they bought the same keyboard/sound module you wanna buy, and used it to create the same music you like.. just sample the drums... in addition, they used all the expensive compression that you and I can't afford. You already paid for the music, grab all them kicks, snares, shakers, whatever. When you buy a sample cd, you not gonna like everything you hear, but when your grabbin samples, your only taking what you want. Total additional cost: $0.00 . . and you can't beat free.. I love that word! :)

. ..roxstar. ..
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