How Do You Record?

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Lets see...

My boy takes care of all our production.

He uses FL studio and Nuendo2.0..

I believe he just grabs records of that shelves, samples them into Nuendo..chops it and arranges in FL Studio..

That done he mixes down in FL Studio and back over to nuendo.

He then sends it to me and I record the vox and dubs with Nuendo

Basically we got a mic booth made out of a walk in closet and just wired it up. Clothes dampen a bit, the walls are irregular so it gets the job done. After the raw tracks are recorded I pass them thru some waves plugs. De-esser, de-poppin, compression, any kinda effect. Mix it all together in Nuendo, export and off to wavelab or Sound Forge for eqin and limiting.

Thats our process. then we basically press it to cd. the last part is changin as we have found some people to master our shiz now sooooo I don't have to do it the home way.

PEace

Geoff
 
wassup fellas

1) start with a nice phrase loop/sample(a lick,riff,melodic sound,chord whatever)

2)drop snares on the 2 and 4 (for tempo purposes)

3)loop it over and over sometimes for hours if I gotta

and then I just build off of that,everything just comes,you can just kinda "hear" what to add next,if that makes any sense(real simple ,but it works)



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why don't you guys learn how to play an instrument for christ's sakes. You are musicians right?
 
hhhmmmm?

Hey Nubs don't sleep on what it takes to put together hip hop music. You may be able to play that instrument but can you write an 8 bar chorus and 3 16 bar verses within an hour of first hearing a beat? I bet not.
 
do you know majority oy the hottestroducers never played an instrument in their life..some people do ..some dont..its all about whats in your head..
 
every sample I grab goes through my RS7000.Ill chop it down and rearrange it my way its sequencer is top notch.as for vocals its with the sm58-beta going through a compressor.
hiphop´s greatest instrument are the turntables.what can be done on almost any instrument the DJ can do it in his own way if not better. you just need the right record for it etc...look at qbert,babu,swamp.craze.
 
production technique

Peace-

I start with laying down the basic melody on the Triton. I just bought a Boss DR770 drum machine that I'll be working into the circuit, but up to this point I've been using the Triton's stock drums, then tweaking them to fatten them up. So after the basic riff/ melody is laid, I'll drop in the kick and snare(s). Usually I'll work out the bass line next, then finish off with the hihats/ percussion. Again, all this is on the triton. Lately I've been upping my sampling skills. When I do use a sample, it usually is the basis for the melody, with me accenting it by playing behind it. Once the basic loop is laid, I'll create the breakdown/choruses, then sequence the whole joint...typically it's 8 measure intro, 16 measure verse, 8 measure hook, 16 measure verse, 8/16 measure outro. This changes according to the structure of the verse. When the piece is sequenced out I record it to my AW16G recorder. I'll usually just dump it in stereo, but if it's a joint that is ready for vocals to be added, then mixed, I'll send each track to the recorder individually via MIDI so I can tweak the levels later. Next I'll add the vocals in...this usually takes 3 tracks for my own stuff-- the basic vocal track, the back up, then any adlibs. Once vocals are laid, all the levels are capped off and panning is applied/ effects, etc. Sometimes I'll use some of the mastering applications that came with the AW16G.
Since I just bought the drum machine, I'll probably use it's drums in future productions, in addition to occasionally sampling breaks or using the Tritons stock sounds in a pinch.


-LEF
 
everyone has their own technique that works..thats what makes us different and that whats makes us shine..this is a good topic and im glad i started it..it shows how everyone is differeent with their styles...
 
had to bump this for old time sakes...and let some of the new folks put their info in
 
wow, ya'll got me lost. I'm a Emcee slash producer, more of an emcee doe..... I use Magix maker, the cheap shit, but I still make ill shit wit it. First I make my own drum loop, let it play and play wit melodies till I get a full idea of what the drums are telling me. Then once I get an idea of the drums, I blend the melody perfect wit the drums, snare here, bass line there. My beats are aight. Now for the rhyme, I just right to the type of beat there is or I just freestyle to it. Ummm.... Lookin for more producing equipment, I'm on a budget ya'll, what do ya'll recommend????
 
i usually start off by writin a hook sometimez even a verse and once i do that i load up my samplez on fruity loops and start workin on the drumz once i finish that i try to make a melody on fruity loops and if that fails i use a usb cord a hook it up 2 my boss br 864 multitrack and start playin around wit my casio keyboard and find a melody and lay a couple of flutes, strings,keys, and hits and whateva else i need after that i sequence evrythin up using the multitrack and the cheap audacity program after that i wirte my verses and do my hooks and any vocal samples to my beats if i need em and lay down my vocals afterwards and then i master the track and see how good it sounds
 
I dont just do beats i complete songs...

So il start off by writing the song usually on guitar or sometimes on the keys. Il be thinking who would record this... Slick R n B is my style at the moment so theres alot of minors chords and lyrical flow in there and when the songs done il adapt it to the style i want at the time.

When complete i'll fool around with beats (kick, snares, hi hats, percussive effects etc...) on my Korg ES1 mkII sampler/sequencer and sample the type of beats i want then make up to 20 or 30 4-bar beats (enough to cover the whole song) then sequence them together in the order i want them to be played until i have my 3 mins of backing track (all the time playing back and singing over the top to make sure the beats fit and the pattern compliments the song).

Then when im happy il record the backing beats in stereo on my 8 track recorder. Then do a rough dub of me singing over the top for reference for the next step - filling in the blanks. Ive come up with riffs and bits and bobs by this point and il record the bass,keys, guitar if needed, fx if needed and leave myself 2 or 3 vocal tracks.

Then il do the singing (hardest part for me!) and re-record it until ive got it down right and then backing vox or more percussive sprinkles or whatever.

Then il spend a couple of weeks mixing the whole lot in different ways with reverb/delay,EQ, Compression, panning etc... until im happy its finished. Then il mix down to my Masterlink and normalise it and add a touch ore compression on there if needed.

Hey presto, saved on my Masterlink and i can burn off CD's at lesuire.More demo's for Sony to reject!
 
let's see the way i do it

first i decide in what direction i want the beat to go then i load up my default settings with basic sounds and all. then i stare at the screen usually 5-30 minutes, drinking my coffee, softdrink or alcoholic beverage. then i put in a drum beat at a random bpm. and loop it till i figure out how the bass is going to be after that i slowly add different synths to it.

for recording

after a couple of days i'll load up the beat in cubase and take any finished lyrics i have and record them over the music.
 
Fail proof process...

Smoke a dub, power up the LEM, assemble the drum track, go from there.
 
I'll tell you what..............
I just came from a dudes spot last night, we have been talking about hooking up for a while, because I had heard some of his shit.
He has been banging out bangers, (Songs) with a Fostex 8 track, Sonar software, and Reason 2.5...........He's making loot doing a lot of demos and other Projects. And like he said "All for under $1,500......" If that!!!
 
was lookin for something else and found this..bump back up for more input..

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Good thing you bumped it, because times have changed a bit. I now have the Zoom1266cd, Reason 2.5, Sonar 4 Prod, FL 4, and other plugins too looong to name.
What I got works for what I need to do, when I get into deeper things I might take another route, or maybe not. But right now, I love banging out joints in Reason, transporting to Sonar, adding vocals and effects and editing, then I transfer to the Zoom to mix becuase I like the onboard mastering, compression, and algorithms on it.
 
bknot1 said:
true..it has changed alot..cause now all my beats are made on an EMU XL-7 Command station..
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Nice!
When & Where did you cop that?
My partners been looking for one, I guess it's kinda hard to come by. How do you rank it compared to the Akai's?
 
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