.......point of inspiration

in this day and time a weekend get away is more than a quick vacation.. Every now and then I get up and go no matter of what it is that I feel.... my brain is jumbled and thought become tangled by the minute... so I said fuck it.. no rhyme books, no beats, no ipod..... nothing but time to sort thoughts and ideas....... now when I get home I have a lot of samples to chop up.......ya digg

.......music is therapy

not too may songs these days touches ones soul like the music of the past.... is it the blame of song writers lacking soul or did the music itself lose its soul... listen to your average line-up and tell me what songs touches you.... don't get me wrong everyone has different tastes but when it comes to being force fed soulless music the only thing touched is the wrong chord.. In comparison to music of now creativity is the key to success.. today much of that creativity is used only to build an image, neglecting the real purpose.... good music.... support real music and help breathe soul in a lifeless form of music....... ya digg

.......oh no

one think that fuck with my head is mc's who wanna be mc's but they mc.. everybody can pick up a mic but in the end we realize it's not meant for everybody.... ok kids, it may seem cool to rap and do your thing but do some fuckin homework.... im going to call that type of rapper millenium kids and these millenium kids need to know where this thing called hip hop came from and where it's going.... still there are those who think they go it when they don't... this shit isn't for everybody so if you fit into the category take 10 steps back and wake the fuck up....... ya digg

.......stop spending and start saving

when it comes to recording software and sound files, who actually pays?? not me!!!
I'm not beat to pay prices for software, especially when I can get them for free.... welcome to the information age where everything can be found within a click of a mouse... digg this, certain companies offer free trial downloads or demo versions of their product... 5 out of 10 are suckers and purchase the full programs, spending hundreds to thousands of dollars in total... hell no not me!!! if you surf the net I suggest that you find a site dedicated to serial cracks and registration codes... the odds are you'll find a site containing malware, spyware and more trojans than your average playa, but on the flip side there's actually sites that's safe... I'm not listing them in the blog... can't give out too many secrets....lol
the next best place to find sounds and recording software are blogs, forums and message boards... suprisingly, you'll find hundreds of users who frequent hip-hop, general talk, & porn message boards posting rapidshare links to the newest versions of recording programs currently on the market... again, I'm not sharing links so I advise you to start Cyber Diggin.. here you can access so many sound files as well as recording programs...... so before you decide to drop cash on the latest protools package, read this blog... that money can be spent on the mBox and the rest goes to pocket....... ya digg

.......the un-orthodox producer

every producer has a certain way they go about their pre-production set up. there are those who keep it rather uniform and by the books, as well as ones who keep it totally unorthodox. I am one of those..... peep this.. my home recodring set up is not the best or the worst, but it provides me, by any means, an outlet to bang out whatever the fuck I want to.. alot of yall deal with firewire and connections of the likes but i dont fuck with it right now.. I'll give you a view of what i work with presently.......

majority of the sound I fuck with thru midi comes from E-MU's Planet Phatt, Orbit, Mo'Phatt, & Korg's TR-Rack... I had these for a while and I find myself not using them much other than for weird sounds and different FX.... to me sound modules got played out between 2001-2003. with different recording and mixing programs on the rise, I slowly gravitated towoards the recording software... shit doesnt compare to the hardware, but I took everything I knew from the hardware era and applied that to this digital software era.. so right now lets have a moment of silence in rememberance of my MPC... lol

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this thing right here is what i call a "multi-tasking, mutha fucka".... digg, the sounds alone can add any type of style to any basic drum pattern.. along with hip-hop beats, i can fuck with this keyboard heavy on an R&B track or some experimental shit... the only thing connected via midi are the sound modules & keyboard only...... i play keys accuratly so I end up recodring them into the computer and chop it... I'll explain more about that shit later

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this shit is self explanitory... the thing is, I usuaslly record riffs and basslines into the computer and chop them..... along with the guitars I find many ways to creat sounds.... for instance, empty liquor bottles filled with beans and 2 dimes, or pennies can make a nice rattle sound as well as a shaker.... once recorded into the computer Im good.. all I have to do is tweek each recorded sound.......

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the mixer and 12 channel digital recorder arent really used for its original purpose... digg this, every sound is recorded by analogue.... the channels on the mixer are assigned fot the sound moduals, bass & electric guitars, drum machine, mic/pre-amp, and microKorg........... heres the tricky part.. the mixers output is connected directly into the computers line-in and the computers line-out goes to the digital recorder which is connected to the cd burner.. all sounds are recorded directly into the computer using Cool Edit Pro 2.0... I've learded to turn Cool Edit into my own sampler... not only sampling from MP3's, but sampling whatever I decide to play myself... no matter if it's keys, the bass or just beat boxing every tweek made sounds better when originally recorded analogue.......

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no pre-production spot is complete with out a few crates to digg thru... Im a Cyber Digga, but I'll always be a crate digga.. if you dont know what I mean peep the earlier blogs about diggin..... this shit is serious!!!! support vinyl and keep the heaters in the collection

at the end of the day Im satisfied with what I have... at some points Im not, but I know this: it's not what you're fuckin with that counts, but how you fuck with it....... ya digg

insomnia pt. 2

Months past and still haven't slept right. the more I they to rest, the more ideas flow.. ok, here's the update: computer caught a virus leading me to stop pre-production for a hott minute. fucked up part about it was the fact I couldn't get a chance to send out the new shit for copyrights. when shit get poppin there's always something set out to fuck it up. so I humble myself and ask the question once more.. "Is it worth it?"

I say YES INDEED