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Beat This!The next Beat This! Competition is from November 27-28th!
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THE SKY IS FALLING
For real. Music was a form of entertainment. You would buy an album and listen to the whole fucking thing for an hour. You'd look at the album art and all that shit. Now it's not even close to that. It's all about the next hit single on iTunes. Plus the "album" should be reconfigured to be a... -
A-Rod suspension
A-Rod's sucks. He was good with the Rangers and then became popular because of that bloated contract. I think it's a double standard in MLB. Let them do steroids. Most baseball is boring to watch anyway. The McGwire/Sosa/Bonds competition during the heyday of the steroid era was awesome. Plus...- God
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IS KOBE MICHAEL?
When Kobe gets seven rings with shitty teams around him, then we can start talking about how he's Michael Jordan. Kobe had a lot of fucking help winning his championships. Who did Jordan have... Luc Longley. Scottie Pippen was his best partner in crime and he even sucked after Jordan retired...- God
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- Forum: The Basement
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PRISM, NSA and Crimes against the American people.
I thought people knew that the minute they enter information into the digital domain, whatever it may be, that you're basically calling into question any form of privacy. I simply assumed my email and any form of communication I was using was being surveilled. During the Cold War with the USSR...- God
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- Forum: The Basement
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Liberia is a fucked up place
You know what I mean. They're not fucked up there. And they actually had countries whose borders were placed along tribal boundaries.- God
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Liberia is a fucked up place
That's what happens when colonial powers fuck up an entire continent. No regard made to dividing borders on the basis of tribal locations. No understanding that the borders drawn in the 19th century would continue to fuck up one of the world's most naturally resource-rich continents. I mean...- God
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- Forum: The Basement
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Arranging a whole album in ableton
You know people who release a professional, record company funded album where the album's Red Book is created in Ableton? I believe we may be thinking along separate lines here. -
What happens when you release an "artistic" album from a great rapper?
You sell 40,000 units. That's it. Sucks because I love it. Great creativity and artistic expression. I guess the kids like the EDM beat instead of real hip-hop. -
What's your biggest issue in the studio?
1) Not being able to do shit quick enough. 2) Not being able to find shit. 3) Dumbasses I let in to the studio who bring shit like beer and then spill it on shit. 4) Being in the studio too long. It's called "studio psychosis." 5) Trying to make a motherfucker sound better than they really are... -
I recorded the teacher KRS ONE at the club here in Orlando
KRS rules. He had real balls to flip from the hardcore shit on Criminal Minded to new stuff that focused more on positivity, which alienated him from a lot of the growing "gangsta rap" audience. A definite living legend. -
My Opinion On Hip-Hop's Current Sate
Actually, I can find great acts on the internet. They may not be commercially viable to a mass audience, but I still like it. Better than paying $15 for a CD and finding out the underground act you bought had only one good song. As far as mass consumption of hip-hop... we live in an... -
I am getting really bored with hip-hop
Truth. The "golden era" of hip-hop was a "golden era" because the industry didn't see hip-hop as anything other than a fad. So creativity and freedom was allowed. When Puffy, Damon Dash and Russell Simmons began commoditizin hip-hop and the labels took the genre seriously as the new form of...- God
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- Forum: The Basement
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Production Tip: Mixing 101
Don't try to use more than 5 instruments and vocal at one time. -
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Mixing. Get me started
1) Have a treated room, or at least a room where the acoustics are pretty balanced. 2) Spend quality money on a set of studio monitors. Some like the high-end Mackies, whatever. If you ain't spending $500 or over per monitor, you're likely getting substandard shit. 3) DO NOT MIX USING... -
Bob Katz - "The Loudness War"
It's been proven that people gravitate towards songs that are louder when played on the radio or on a playlist, because the "louder" a song sounds, the "better" the average listener thinks it is. Things are going to get more and more fucked up. All those dumb party girls in NYC, Hollywood or... -
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Is it overkill?
Sounds like overkill to me. I use one sequencer, whatever it is-- Cubase, Ableton, etc. to "create" the music. I have all the soft-synths slaved to the sequencer and build my shit in there. If I need to do sound-design, then I go into the synth itself and work on stuff, but everything is slaved... -
Arranging a whole album in ableton
No offense, but why the fuck would you use Ableton to arrange an entire album? Have your plugins done in Ableton and make to mix that shit down to a stereo song track and export the .wav file. Export all your songs and arrange your album in something like WaveLab or SoundForge and make a... -
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1) Yes, one of the funnest parts of production is sound design and creating your own sounds with your synths. It gives you an edge over others in defining your sound. 2) For the average listener, they have no clue. For people who produce for a living, hell yeah. You can probably even name the...