.......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