Tha secret to making tha absolute best trax u can.....

I saw this on FP and that dude saw it from another site he said, but it makes good sense to me. Maybe to some guys/girls here as well.

No, it's not goin' out and buying tha most expensive MPC u can get ur hands on. . . It's not, goin' tha cheap way and buyin FL Studios 13 (exaggerating). . . You don't have to go even cheaper and download FL Studios. . . You don't HAVE to go out and buy an ASR-10 off of eBay to make tha sickest trax u can conjure up either. . . You don't NEED a MIDI board. . .

Tha secret to making tha absolute best trax u can possibly make is. . . being comfortable with tha equipment/software/hardware u have. . .

You can put a producer behind a MIDI board, an MPC 2000, Pro Tools, and a Mac and he will curl up and suck his thumb at tha far corner of tha studio. . .

Now, take that SAME producer and sit him in front of FL Studios and a Dell PC, and in 15 mins he will make u piss ur pants. . .

Alot of upcoming producers get caught up in tha hype thinkin' that they HAVE to have "this" or they NEED "that" in order to bang out properly. . . That is not tha case. . .

Who gives a crap what tha next producer has? It's "who bangs harder." Not "who bangs with tha most commercialized equipment."

nice

I'm about to put that in my sig

yessir. that is good ish. good post.

TheFirstJimBo wrote:nice

I'm about to put that in my sig

That WHOLE blog, your twisted, lmbao.

Damn sig will b bigger than all your typical posts, lmbao!!

Good advice. There's always too much emphasis on gearlust and sometimes thinking that if you get that one more piece of gear, it will be the answer to all your production problems.

Learning what you have in front of you is the most important thing.

I started making music in the '80s. When I started I had a computer (an Amiga 500) and some crappy 8-bit sampler box (about 6 seconds of sampling) that sat on top. I bought a $10 4-channel microphone mixer that I wired to give me 8 channels. But I learned how to sample on that setup and still managed to knock out stuff that kept my friends entertained, even if it was a bit crappy.

thats bullsh*t

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlnjb0xuuGQ

merrick wrote: When I started I had a computer (an Amiga 500) and some crappy 8-bit sampler box (about 6 seconds of sampling) that sat on top. I bought a $10 4-channel microphone mixer that I wired to give me 8 channels.

old skool.
i started out with 2 tape recorders and bounced between the two, recording a live track each time. i still have some of the tapes and its like listening to a headache, but i was only 8, so thats ok...

i'm all for working with what you got, D.I.Y. ethic, but nice gear is nice, lets not fetishise lo-fi for its own sake (and i love lo-fi), you've also got to be able to have faith in your gear, be able to stand by it and trust it.

Interface>features as far as I'm concerned
if I can get around the machine I can usually figure out how to do what I need it to do
but if I have a filter that can get rid of all hi hats from a bossa nova record and I have to push buttons for 2o minutes to get to it in a submenu then it's no good to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlnjb0xuuGQ[/quote]

sadly enough, 80% of the people dont understand this..