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  1. shadeed

    Pro tools

    young keyz is on point, listen to this dude! My suggestion to the dude who started this thread is find a guy at the Guitar Center who at least sounds like he knows what he's talkin about and build a rapport (be cool) with him. If you are a repeat consistent customer, you get good deals and...
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    What kind of Instruments do you use?

    Yoooooooooo, I play the guitar but strangely enough I NEVER incorporate it into my hip hop PRO-duction. When I add a guitar effect to my beats, it usually a chopped samples or I play it off my sound module. I also fiddle with that piano too, I was 100% sound module driven at first but now...
  3. shadeed

    16's

    Weeeeellll, the way I learned how to write down my raps was that I listened to instrumentals and formatted them to the first verse. Your industry-standard hiphop album is gonna have sixteen bars dude, so the most effective way to format your stuff is to rap YOUR written lyrics over some other...
  4. shadeed

    Producing,Contracts,Royalties,Copyright,ect.

    This should clear things up please read. 1. I believe that the artist clears the samples using the money advanced to him by the company. Most of time, you call up the sampled artist or his management, and work it out. In some instances, it can take forever, other times its easy. The...
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    Food for thought.

    Dr Dre Eminem Ludacris Nas Biggie Kool Moe Dee (College Grad) LL David Banner (College Grad) Outkast The Fugees Will Smith (the biggest example, I don't even think he cuss in his old records) None of the above mentioned , made it big without selling drugs . A lotta peeps think...
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    do you frequent other producer forums?

    Yeah, I noticed that on producer/music forums in general, a lot of the b.s. is kept outside and I actually learn more from sites such as this -than I do from any other source. I like mpc-forums.com and tweakheadz.com as well as illmuzik. Can't go wrong as far as technical knowledge and...
  7. shadeed

    Help the rookie cop a mixer.

    I'm in the process of buying a hardware mixer to connect up my MPC 2000 and guitar. I will then run the mixer into the Audiophile soundcard and maybe work w/ Fruity or something user friendly to get me started. Gimme some inputs and opinions on the hardware mixer that you're working with...
  8. shadeed

    new to the game

    Bro, buy a MPC 2000xl, and a Roland JV 2080. The Roland JV 2080 has so many sounds on it, you'll never get to use them all (trust me). Continue to learn Fruity and you'll be straight!
  9. shadeed

    some shit about friends and shit

    Well, let it be known that you CAN be successful and still find the time to chill with your friends. I think that the worst feeling in the world is to have success and then have nobody to share it with. Just because you make beats, doesn't mean that you don't have time to chill with your mates...
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    some shit about friends and shit

    Well, let it be known that you CAN be successful and still find the time to chill with your friends. I think that the worst feeling in the world is to have success and then have nobody to share it with. Just because you make beats, doesn't mean that you don't have time to chill with your mates...
  11. shadeed

    Need the lowdown on Logic

    I want to record vocals on top of my MPC tracks, and mix them down, do my own mastering job and then burn them onto a CD that I'm gonna market. Any advice???
  12. shadeed

    Need the lowdown on Logic

    Yeah, sounds good how you use your setup, you mentioned that you use Reason to make beats, is it possible to use my MPC 2000 to make beats and then run it into Logic???
  13. shadeed

    Need the lowdown on Logic

    I own a Apple computer, and what I've been hearing that the Logic Platinum series is for mac users only. But I think the 5.0 series is for PC users. I work primarily with MPC 2000 as my sequencer, so if Logic is a sequencer too, why would I need it? Somebody PLEASE set the facts straight for me...
  14. shadeed

    Bringing in some $$$

    Australia's hip hop scene is alive and well. I been to Sydney a few times and even Perth W.A. so its all good over there. Don't know exactly where you live at in the land down under, BUT I live by the motto : Bloom where you are planted. Get some business cards printed with a valid email...
  15. shadeed

    Bringing in some $$$

    Australia's hip hop scene is alive and well. I been to Sydney a few times and even Perth W.A. so its all good over there. Don't know exactly where you live at in the land down under, BUT I live by the motto : Bloom where you are planted. Get some business cards printed with a valid email...
  16. shadeed

    Techniques you noticed in songs...

    The Neptunes are good because they are 1) consistent and 2) the industry follows trends. Those are the only reasons. As a producer I've noticed that you'll get far if you can write a decent hook. But to answer the question, I noticed that Timbaland is the only producer that is original, the...
  17. shadeed

    how do you rate yourself

    I feel that way when I'm playing guitar, I think maaaaan, I'm not gonna get as good as Hendrix, but then again, how many people will ever get that close, its the same way, there won't be another Illmatic so relax and create YOUR style-- not Premier's.
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    how do you rate yourself

    It don't matter if I'm ill or not on the beats, as long as I'm the one gettin a check for producing them. My greatest asset is that I know how to market myself very well, when I was "just" an MC, I had a pretty good buzz goin for myself over in Japan and had Def Jam Japan and a few indie labels...
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    which artists do u dream of workin wit?

    I don't really dream of working with anybody else. But I would imagine that if you were producin a big name artist, anybody would be starstruck at first. I'd rather work with somebody who was unknown with big time potential and then we blow up together like Nore did for the Neptunes on...
  20. shadeed

    producer-DJ

    Well, if you wanna stay in line with the true origins of hip hop, it was built off of samples. Nowadays computerized producing is making the DJ extinct. To answer your question, I think that being a DJ will definitely help your musical ear as far as what beats to choose and lining up vocals...
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