Thanks for the offer marques, but i had someone come over last night and help out. Basically we re-recorded the vocals, panned hard rt, panned the double hard lft, compressed the entire beat, compressed the shit out of the vocals, added the slightest bit of reverb and very short delay on the double and then EQed the beat. With a little wishing and just a touch of magic, this seemed to work out. I dont know if this made a difference but when we re-recorded we let it peak just ever so slightly. So, thanks everyone for the advice and don't worry, i learned from this one. I'll post the audio when it's ready to be heard.
Now about the sampling, yes, i definately agree that if someone takes 4 measures, loops them and then talks about his ill beats....thats just asinine, but if a drum beat is taken and separated out, the drum beat is made from the sounds, a bass line is added, some micellaneous keyboard is added, a vocal sample or two pitched up, or even reversed along with the t-rex from jurassic park and a gong, there is nothing wrong with that. If anything, it can take longer than live instruments and takes a good ear and creativity to put those sounds together. I think we pretty much agree with this, but also, it is the garbage that truly makes the genius shine!!!!!!
Now about the sampling, yes, i definately agree that if someone takes 4 measures, loops them and then talks about his ill beats....thats just asinine, but if a drum beat is taken and separated out, the drum beat is made from the sounds, a bass line is added, some micellaneous keyboard is added, a vocal sample or two pitched up, or even reversed along with the t-rex from jurassic park and a gong, there is nothing wrong with that. If anything, it can take longer than live instruments and takes a good ear and creativity to put those sounds together. I think we pretty much agree with this, but also, it is the garbage that truly makes the genius shine!!!!!!