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September 17, 2002
aight.
so i finally get around to updating this shit. i'm gonna stop giving projected entry topics, i think that jinxes my ability to follow through. the mos/thought/nas jawn was hard enough.
so like, i want to produce. bad. i mentioned ninthwonder the other day. dude is fucking dope, and it's like- it's just further validation of the little guy as being able to do big things.
so... ((wavy dream sequence lines))
i was thinking on what i'd like to have in my production set up. i want lots of old shit. old beat machines, old samplers, just that shit that made 1990-1996 so dope.
yes. i'm going to list it all.
1. (2)E-Mu SP1200 drum machine/samplers.
this workhorse has been used by everybody from the beatminerz to pete rock to dj premier to prince paul to madlib... the list obviously goes on, and i'm sure you can see the similarities in the sound quality, that crispy crunchy sound that is so painfully absent from today's hip hop tracks. it was actually a weakness of the SP that gave it that sound, it had very little sampling memory, therefore giving the sounds a more gritty sound. it was a 12 bit machine, as opposed to the mpc2000xl's 16 bit sampling power (44.1khz, the same sampling frequency as you would find on a cd) or the mpc4000's 32 bit sampling/96khz. all my drums and shit, and even loops would get run through this thing. runs about $900-1200 used.
i'd still cop this though.
(1)mpc3000.
jaydee did most of the slum village shit on this- it's not just a sampler/drum machine, but also a midi sequencer. dj hi-tek also used this heavily for his exploits- think "respiration". it uses the engine of the akai s3000, very expandable and all that other good shit. it's out of production now, but still serviceable, and capable of dope music. runs about $1800-2200 used.
i want these as well.
(2) akai s950 samplers.
this has basically all the good gritty sound quality of the sp1200, more sample time, another staple in some of my favorite producers' studio set ups. 12 bit, all the good shit. out of production as well, i've seen them run for about $3-500.
i'd also like this.
(2) numark TTX-1 turntables.
um. the shit is ill.
what else?
a good mixing board and some ADATS would suffice for recording purposes. um, lots of keyboards, electric pianos (rhodes/wurlitzer/seq. circuits prophet5/hammondb6/ARP synths. all that good shit, on some herbie hancock/stevie wonder shit.
oh yeah, a shitload of records. 1000's.
*sigh*
eventuals, people. eventuals.
but yeah, 9th is nice, and one hell of an inspiration. thanks man.
