diggy_dude
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I am a man of taste, if not wealth.
I usually skip the introductory threads when I visit a new forum and jump right in a-postin'. However, I've been lurking here for a few days (primarily in the Mastering forum) and am so impressed with the level of expertise available to the novice producer on that board that I decided to take a moment to provide a context for my inane utterances that will surely follow.
First off, I am a total music whore. It would be pointless to name specific genres that I like because I like pretty much anything that has a beat. I even hear music in everyday environmental noises. So, for the sake of brevity, let me just say that I'm mainly interested in producing funk. I loves me some old school funk (e.g., EW&F, Johnny Pate, Mandrill), 80s electrofunk (Midnight Star, Kool & the Gang), funk dance (Paula Abdul), Snoop Dogg's funky-ass G funk... you name it. Me and funk is like Patty Duke and a hotdog, dig?
That said, I have next to no musical talent myself. My background is in IT and electronics. I know how a compressor and a parametric equalizer work and what they do to a signal, but I'm about as tone deaf as they come. I can tell a well-balanced production from a shitty "loudness war" production and strongly prefer the former over the latter, although I know almost nothing about how to produce it. All I know is, writing XML feed parsers is not giving me the creative outlet that I crave. I've therefore spent the last year rounding up gear that I think will help me get the kind of sound I want.
Possibly irrelevant, but to hopefully give you an idea of where I'm coming from, is the fact that I fucking LOVE vintage analog electronics. My "iPod blaster" consists of a Technics New Class A integrated DC amp (ca. 1981) and two pairs of KEF C20s (ca. 1987) found dirt cheap on Ebay. To my ears, this is a damned near perfect low-budget stereo. I can play it loud for hours on end with no listening fatigue whatsoever. You don't even hear the system - the music just seems to float in the air. It's a beautiful thing, baby!
And - you're gonna laugh when you read this - the vast majority of my instruments were made by Casio. These include professional-grade models (e.g., CZ-3000, HT-6000, FZ-1, VZ-8M) as well as a shitload of "toy" models (e.g., SK-200, CT-410V, and almost every MT series keyboard you can name).
Well, this is getting long-winded, so I will save my complete gear list, books I've read, and other background information for a later post.
Regards,
Jim
I usually skip the introductory threads when I visit a new forum and jump right in a-postin'. However, I've been lurking here for a few days (primarily in the Mastering forum) and am so impressed with the level of expertise available to the novice producer on that board that I decided to take a moment to provide a context for my inane utterances that will surely follow.
First off, I am a total music whore. It would be pointless to name specific genres that I like because I like pretty much anything that has a beat. I even hear music in everyday environmental noises. So, for the sake of brevity, let me just say that I'm mainly interested in producing funk. I loves me some old school funk (e.g., EW&F, Johnny Pate, Mandrill), 80s electrofunk (Midnight Star, Kool & the Gang), funk dance (Paula Abdul), Snoop Dogg's funky-ass G funk... you name it. Me and funk is like Patty Duke and a hotdog, dig?
That said, I have next to no musical talent myself. My background is in IT and electronics. I know how a compressor and a parametric equalizer work and what they do to a signal, but I'm about as tone deaf as they come. I can tell a well-balanced production from a shitty "loudness war" production and strongly prefer the former over the latter, although I know almost nothing about how to produce it. All I know is, writing XML feed parsers is not giving me the creative outlet that I crave. I've therefore spent the last year rounding up gear that I think will help me get the kind of sound I want.
Possibly irrelevant, but to hopefully give you an idea of where I'm coming from, is the fact that I fucking LOVE vintage analog electronics. My "iPod blaster" consists of a Technics New Class A integrated DC amp (ca. 1981) and two pairs of KEF C20s (ca. 1987) found dirt cheap on Ebay. To my ears, this is a damned near perfect low-budget stereo. I can play it loud for hours on end with no listening fatigue whatsoever. You don't even hear the system - the music just seems to float in the air. It's a beautiful thing, baby!
And - you're gonna laugh when you read this - the vast majority of my instruments were made by Casio. These include professional-grade models (e.g., CZ-3000, HT-6000, FZ-1, VZ-8M) as well as a shitload of "toy" models (e.g., SK-200, CT-410V, and almost every MT series keyboard you can name).
Well, this is getting long-winded, so I will save my complete gear list, books I've read, and other background information for a later post.
Regards,
Jim