Search results

  • beat this! voting starts in...
  1. L

    Favorite Unique Beat

    Wuts your favorite unique or funky beat? mine would be: "It's Hot (Some Like It Hot)" That Timbaland did for Jay-Z on Vol.III(The Life and Times...) Thats a hot beat. And kind of like Eminem uses the hat in-between the kick and the snare, timb did. But instead of using a hat, he...
  2. L

    Built-In Sounds?

    Im only thinkin about it, but i was lookin at keyboards. I saw the Korg microKorg and the M-Audio Oxygen-8. And i dont work with keyboards much so i dont have a clue if this a stupid question (i dont care either). Do those two that i named have built-in sounds? Or do you have to buy a sound...
  3. L

    8 - 16 - 8 - 16 - 8 - 16...

    I got people who come down to my house, you know, to get some freestyles on tape, i just do it messin around with THEM most of the time because there my buddys friends, but nobody follows the 8/16/8/16 thing, you know. And they all "What the Fuck you talkin about 16-8""Fuck-It". I do a lot of...
  4. L

    Whos used Magix Audio Studio?

    Ive used this program for a while and its pretty cheap, and theres not a lot of things that can hold you back. So whos used it?
  5. L

    Tape Samples (Quick Question)

    Do any of you sample from tapes? (I do that sometimes, but not cuz i want analog sound but because i dont have it on vinyl or a cd)
  6. L

    Fan of Cleverwon's BattleThis! Beat?

    Ive been listening to Cleverwon's 2nd Place BattleThis! Beat over and over. I love the sample and everything, but i was scanning the radio today. I heard something that sounded like it was worth sampling, and it reminded me more and more of Cleverwon's beat until it got to the chorus:"I would be...
  7. L

    Unequal Samples

    Ive been able to work around it when it happens but most of the time when you take samples from vinyl (in stereo). You might only get part of the guitar on the left channel, and the rest of the guitar and drums on the right. Kinda Unbalanced or Unequal if you know wut i mean. I usually use...
  8. L

    When buying Records to sample...

    When you go to buy records your gonna sample. And you preview them (on the stores turntable or your vestax). Do you listen to the whole thing? or you listen to a couple tracks? I dont always preview records (i know its stupid) before i buy them, but sometimes you find the best stuff that way...
  9. L

    Reason???

    Could somebody give me a kind of overview of Reason? I try to stay away from computers but its hard. And i hear everybody saying how easy and good Reason is, so help me out. (i tried acid, f-loops, etc. but i prefer hardware)
  10. L

    Beat Machines

    *(Skip to the bottom if you dont like stories) One of my friends taught me how to beatbox. He taught me how to bang out beats on the lunch table. And he stole me my first CD. He moved away after that. He just moved back. I been hangin wit him a lot and i told him about my studio and all...
  11. L

    You ever used the Akai S20?

    Anybody ever used this thing? Ive seen them on Ebay a lot and was planning on coppin one but i thought id ask my homies at IllMuzik first. o yea, i just got the specs kinda: Everything you need for building your own groove library! Gives you extreme tools to easily loop, edit, and...
  12. L

    What do you think of the Vestax Handytrax for traveling diggers?

    Does anybody own it? I know what it is and does, but do you think its just a waste of money? Or is it really kind of "Handy"?
  13. L

    Producer- (definition goes here)

    When you lookin through the credits of somebodies album and it says produced by: Dr. Dre, for example. Does this mean Dr. Dre made the beat? Or does this just mean he organized everything and got everybody needed for the track (bckgrnd singers or whatever)? Or both? Im not sure but i think...
  14. L

    Reel To Reel?

    Ive seen the reel to reel recorders or something in all these clips of wu-tang in the studio (a bunch of other places ive seen them too). Do any of you own and/or use one right now? Also, How do these work? Is it just a BIG tape recorder? I heard something about a needle. Are these used on...
  15. L

    Monitoring In Tha Lab

    When I'm recording, The person on the mic (on the other side of the room) has headphones on to monitor the beat and there vocals. Yea, I'm pretty sure almost everybody does that. But is the person at the Mixer/Computer supposed to have there Monitors playing? I used to have it that way...
  16. L

    Does anybody use the E-MU MP-7????

    I want to get one of those but I never met anybody who owned one. If anybody who ever owned an MP-7 reads this, could you compare-it to an MPC for me? THANKS
Top